Autumn Knight: I Can’t Complain
A solo exhibition by New York-based performance artist Autumn Knight, featuring a new commission alongside recent work — her first major UK presentation.
Imogen Stidworthy: In a thread of air
Matt’s Gallery’s next exhibition: a solo show by Imogen Stidworthy, whose practice centres on voice and language. Private view 27 September.
Yuko Mohri at the Barbican
A free exhibition inviting visitors to tune into their surroundings through Mohri’s kinetic ecosystems of everyday objects.
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
A major retrospective of the American painter whose near-white canvases invite close looking, in the Barbican Art Gallery.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Renoir and Love
Group exhibition: The 90s: Art and Fashion
Korean art and artefacts: Korea at the British Museum
A major special exhibition on Korea, with highlights including the vividly coloured Sun, Moon and Five Peaks folding-screen painting.
Salman Toor: Someone Like You
The first European solo exhibition of the celebrated New York-based painter — 19 of his most iconic, thought-provoking, and at times humorous paintings.
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends
A major exhibition by one of Britain’s foremost fashion photographers, exploring queer identity, community, and love through fantastical imagery.
Design and decorative arts fair: PAD London 2026
The design and decorative arts fair in its Berkeley Square pavilion, coinciding with Frieze week.
Rosalind Nashashibi at GRIMM
An autumn solo exhibition by the London-based painter and filmmaker, timed around Frieze week.
Firenze Lai at White Cube
New paintings made in Lai’s London studio — her first UK exhibition and inaugural show since joining the gallery — coinciding with Frieze London.
Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui
Sound artist Tarek Atoui creates a new large-scale work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Free.
International art fair — 160+ galleries: Frieze London 2026
The contemporary art fair anchoring London’s October Art Week, in The Regent’s Park alongside Frieze Sculpture. Public and preview day breakdown to be announced.
International art fair — six millennia of art: Frieze Masters 2026
Frieze’s sister fair spanning ancient to late-20th-century art, at the north end of The Regent’s Park during Frieze week.
Terence Woodgate X John Barnard Lightness of Form
Woodgate and Barnard explore the intersection of furniture, sculpture, and engineering through carbon fibre works that balance precision with fluidity. The *Chaise Longue* follows the contours of the…
Material Intent Color and Form
This group exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery explores contemporary design that balances function with playfulness, emotion, and experimentation. Featuring lighting, furniture, and sculptural…
Lightness of Form
This exhibition showcases the collaborative furniture designs of John Barnard and Marc Newson, exploring the intersection of sculpture, engineering, and function. Featuring carbon fibre works…
Contemporary African art fair: 1-54 London 2026
The leading fair for contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora returns to Somerset House during Frieze week. VIP and press preview October 15; public days October 16–18.
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery
A major exhibition of the internationally celebrated sculptor: awe-inspiring large-scale works including monumental red sculptural installations and void pieces.
Del LaGrace Volcano: Sensual / Mutual
The first major UK institutional solo by Del LaGrace Volcano, surfacing unseen 1970s–80s photographic work from San Francisco and Santa Fe tracing queer, feminist, leather dyke, and gender-variant…
