Exhibition
See Unseen Photos of The Rolling Stones at This Exhibition
100 never-before-seen photographs of The Rolling Stones, taken in 1963 (just a year after they first formed) when the band were on their first tour alongside The Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley, are being exhibited at Dockside Vaults. Taken by Gus Coral when the group was still unknown, the pictures going on display at Rolling Stones Unseen have remained in an archive for almost six decades, so the show is a must-visit for any Stones fans.
The Wellcome Collection Is Exploring Humanity's Connection With Freshwater
With Thirst: In Search of Freshwater, the Wellcome Collection is diving into humanity’s connection with freshwater as a source of life and key to good health. The exhibition will bring together art, science, technology, history and indigenous knowledge, and span ancient Mesopotamia to Victorian London to modern-day Nepal, in its exploration of our relationship with freshwater. Divided into five sections – Aridity, Rain, Glaciers, Surface Water and Groundwater – the show will feature over 125 objects that highlight the impact that access to freshwater has on the health of both individuals and ecosystems, the consequences that water mismanagement has around the world, and the innovative solutions being created to combat water crises.
This Is the Largest Major Museum Exhibition in the UK on Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting at the National Portrait Gallery is the largest major museum exhibition in the UK on the contemporary painter. Saville has been one of the leaders in figurative painting since the 1990s and has become known for her visceral portraits and her interpretation of female beauty. The show will feature 45 of Saville’s works made across her career, including charcoal drawings, large-scale oil paintings and new pieces on display for the first time, tracing the development of her practice and her connection to art history.
Look Back Over 25 Years of Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George are some of the most iconic artists working today. Having spent the last five decades being ‘living sculptures’, their work acts as a record of our changing society – by incorporating text and images from everyday life in their pieces, their art opens a dialogue about social norms and taboos, things that the pair aren’t afraid to challenge. Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES at the Hayward Gallery will look back over the past 25 years of their careers and explore the impact that technology and digital distortion has had on their reflections of today’s society. The exhibition will feature over 60 floor-to-ceiling installations; works from key series like NEW HORNY PICTURES, THE LONDON PICTURES, THE BEARD PICTURES, and CORPSING PICTURES; and two works from their new 2025 series THE SCREW PICTURES, featuring everyday objects sourced from around their home.
See Portraits of Cultural Icons by Dennis Morris at The Photographers' Gallery
Head to The Photographers’ Gallery to see Music + Life, an exhibition featuring images by British-Jamaican photographer Dennis Morris. The show features his work capturing Black British culture in the 1970s – he would photograph daily life in church, on the streets and at parties, documenting the vibrancy of these communities. Morris also took portraits of cultural icons, including Bob Marley, The Sex Pistols, Oasis, The Stone Roses, Patti Smith, Grace Jones, and The Prodigy, and these will be on display alongside records, merch and graphic design he also created.
The Hayward Gallery Is Hosting a Major Retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara
The Yoshimoto Nara exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is the first UK solo show at a public art gallery dedicated to the Japanese artist. The show will look back over four decades of his work to explore how his art has been inspired by his interest in humanity and themes like home, isolation, peace, resistance, nature and freedom. Nara is best known for his images of child-like figures and animals with large heads and wide eyes, and many of these depictions will be on display, with the show including paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages and installations.
Jealous Is Hosting a Summer Show in Shoreditch
This summer Jealous is leaving its gallery on Curtain Road and going up the road to St Michael’s Church for its Summer Show. Running across two days, the show will feature works from the likes of Blur, David Shrigley, Jake Chapman, Ben Kelly, Miss Bugs, Harry Hill, Charming Baker, Opake, Yinka Shonibare, Antony Micallef, Noel Fielding, and Lakwena. There’ll also be live printing, ‘Quick Shit Portraits’ by Dave Buonaguidi, and a Wheel of Fortune in aid of The Big Issue. Tickets are a tenner or you can get in free by bringing a donation for Tottenham and Hornsey foodbanks.
Discover the Unseen World of Gorillaz at This Immersive Exhibition
25 years together is a big milestone for a band to reach – even if that band is animated. Yes Gorillaz, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s virtual group made up of singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and guitarist Noodle, is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and it’s doing so in style. As well as a new Gorillaz album expected later this year, the band is opening an immersive exhibition called House of Kong at London’s Copper Box Arena in Stratford, which is promising a “peek behind the curtain into the unseen world of Gorillaz”. Expect sketches, storyboards, digital installations and more during the hour-long experience.
A Giant Sun Is Coming to Osterley Park and House This Summer
After bringing Helios, a seven-metre sculpture of the sun, to the Painted Hall in Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College at the start of the year, multidisciplinary artist Luke Jerram is taking it west. The piece will be on display at Osterley Park and House, outside the 18th century portico of the neo-classical mansion, across two stints this summer and will be free to view. Like Jerram’s other astronomical installations, Museum of the Moon, Mars and Gaia, Helios, named after the Greek and Roman sun god, is an incredibly detailed, internally lit model of the sun. At a scale of 1:200 million (that means every centimetre of the model represents 200km of the sun), it’s been made using photographs by NASA and Astrophotographer Dr Stuart Green and allows you to get up close to the surface of the star – yes this is one sun you can actually stare at. Accompanied by a surround sound composition created by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson, Helios is an immersive experience that allows you appreciate the power of the sun and the impact it has on human life and our mental wellbeing.
The Imperial War Museum Is Hosting the UK's First Major Exhibition on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Six years in the making, the Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict exhibition at the Imperial War Museum is the first major show in the UK dedicated to a topic that is still under-discussed. The show will feature case studies from WWI to the present day as well as objects, testimonies and interviews with experts, exploring how and why sexual violence is perpetrated, the impact it has on victims, and the battles for justice and reconciliation. The show will also spotlight the work of four NGOs – Women for Women International, All Survivors Project, Free Yezidi Foundation and Waging Peace – that are leading the fight against sexual violence in conflict.
Feast on the World's Best Food Photography at This Exhibition
See all 185 finalist images from the 2025 edition of the World Food Photography Awards at this free exhibition at Mall Galleries. The selection of images span growing and harvesting to cooking and eating from across the globe, showing that food truly is a universal language. Speaking about the Awards, founder Caroline Kenyon, said: “These images bring global food stories to life: whether the beauty or the drama of food, feast or famine, weddings or food aid. Food is the great leveller, the great unifier and the photography captures this so powerfully. We hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy the very best food photography in the world in London.”
The World Press Photo Exhibition Is Back in London
After a successful return in 2024 following a seven-year hiatus, The World Press Photo Exhibition is back in London with a show at the MPB Gallery at Here East in Hackney Wick. The photos displayed in the exhibition are all entrants in this year’s World Press Photo Contest, a competition that showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world. Over 61,000 entries from photographers from 130 countries were submitted for the 2024 contest and the images on display at the exhibition will give people a chance to think about social, environmental, political and cultural topics outside of the news cycle and explore how visual stories help to tackle important global issues.
Discover the Role of Gardens and Flowers in the Work of Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party at the Garden Museum is the first exhibition to dive into the passion that the photographer and artist had for gardens and flowers, and the inspiration they provided for his work. Looking at his gardens at both Ashcombe House and Reddish House, the exhibition will showcase the role that flowers had in his creative practice, including floral installations for parties; painted and fresh flowers used as backdrops for fashion photography and royal portraits; and floral costumes created for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and in designs made for the Royal Ballet. A range of paintings, photographs, letters, drawings, costume sketches, and diaries will be on show, many of which have never been publicly displayed before.
See Whether Life Could Exist Beyond Earth at the Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is going interplanetary with its next major exhibition, Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? Experience some of the Museum’s latest scientific research with this multi-sensory show that explores the search for life beyond our planet. You’ll be able to explore different extraterrestrial environments, like the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter; snap a selfie with a piece of Mars; touch a fragment of the Moon; check out a meteorite collection, including the Allende meteorite (which at 4.567 billion years old is older than Earth) and Ivuna (which is made from the same material as the Sun); guide a rover over rocky Martian terrain; and listen to the sounds of the Red Planet.
Explore the Life and Work of Hiroshige at the British Museum
The British Museum is celebrating the life and work of one of Japan’s most popular and prolific artists with the Hiroshige: artist of the open road exhibition, the first-ever one on the artist at the Museum and the first in London for 25 years. Working during the last decades of the Edo period, a time of rapid change in Japan amidst the encroachment of the outside world, Hiroshige’s vision of Japanese daily life provided calm for the nation. A range of prints, drawings, paintings and illustrated books, featuring his depictions of landscapes, nature, city views, birds and flowers will be on display, showcasing his skills as a colourist and draftsman, and exploring his legacy and the impact he had on both European masters and contemporary artists around the world.
See Early Works by David Hockney at This Exhibition
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert is bringing together a number of early works by David Hockney, some of which have not been shown together since the 1960s, with the In the Mood for Love: Hockney in London, 1960–1963 exhibition. The show is the first in-depth exploration of this pivotal period in Hockney’s career, following his breakthroughs at the Royal College of Art. The paintings and related works on paper on display, which include ‘The First Love Painting’, ‘Love Painting – Shame’, ‘The Cha Cha that was Danced in the Early Hours of 24th March 1961’, ‘Life Painting for Myself’ and ‘The Salesman’, show the development of Hockney’s visual language and his exploration of his sexuality, at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised in Britain.
The British Museum Is Exploring the Ancient Art of India
With the Ancient India: living traditions exhibition, the British Museum is exploring the artistic and spiritual legacy of one of the world’s most influential civilisations. As well as bringing together thousands of years of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain religious imagery, the exhibition will feature over 180 objects including sculptures, paintings, drawings and manuscripts. The display will showcase how these ancient religions have shaped the country’s spiritual and artistic traditions, and how they continue to impact the daily lives of billions of people today.
