The best exhibitions in London for June 2025
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We are lucky enough to have some of the world’s best art exhibitions in London, with collections that span centuries housed in buildings that are often masterpieces in their own right – which in turn means London exhibitions are world-class. From classical to contemporary works by era-defining artists and movement-making revolutionaries to high-tech immersive experiences with visual effects and virtual realities, these are the exhibitions in London that are inspiring the next generation and helping London’s creative scene to flourish. We update this piece weekly so you can stay in the know about the best upcoming London exhibitions in 2025.
Best exhibitions in London for June
1. Siena: The Rise of Painting, The National Gallery
The National Gallery celebrates its bicentenary with Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 – a landmark exhibition uniting rare works by the Sienese masters of the early Italian Renaissance. For the first time in centuries, scattered panels from artist Duccio di Buoninsegna’s captivating Maestà and Simone Martini’s exquisite Orsini Polyptych are reunited, offering a once-in-a-generation chance to witness the masterpieces up close. More than 100 objects, including illuminated manuscripts, gilded glass, and devotional sculpture, show traces of the international reach of Sienese art across medieval Europe.
Address: The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
Website: nationalgallery.org.uk
Price: From £20
Dates: Until Sunday 22 June
2. Cartier, The V&A
For the first time in almost three decades, one of London’s most iconic museums twinkles with some of the world's most fabulous jewels. Cartier at the V&A sees the Maison’s resplendent creations encased in glass cabinets across a series of mood-lit spaces. Explore how Louis-François’s three grandsons set out on a mission to establish the most extraordinary jewellery house in the world, designing fantastical accessories for royalty and stars of stage and screen in the process. Highlights include the Williamson Diamond brooch commissioned by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 featuring a 23.6 carat diamond, and Grace Kelly’s engagement ring, loaned by the Monaco Princely Palace Collection. Elsewhere, see the glittering tiara donned by artist and style icon Rihanna on the 2016 cover of W Magazine as it appears to float on a bed of smoky cloud, before gawping at headwear never seen by the public before.
Address: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Website: vam.ac.uk
Price: Adults from £27 per person
Dates: Until Sunday 16 November
© Photography by Rob Jones for Khroma Collective (www.instagram.com/khromacollective)3. Radical Honesty, MOCO Museum
Following successful showcases in Amsterdam and Barcelona, Robbie Williams is showing London’s aesthetes his vision in Radical Honesty at the Moco Museum. The brand-new exhibition debuts his latest sculpture collection for the first time, from a marble depiction of anxiety and a seat designated for uninterrupted introversion. “Give your anxiety a silly name. Mine is called Blanche,” states one creation, atop a cartoonish elderly lady and, below, “This is Blanche.” This tongue-in-cheek tone carries through the whole exhibition, with Robbie’s trademark wit infused with – as the exhibition’s name suggests – honest outpourings about his anxieties, troubles and coping mechanisms.
Address: Moco Museum London, 1 - 4 Marble Arch, London W2 2UH
Website: london.mocomuseum.com; feverup.com
Price: Adults £16.90
Dates: Until Sunday 31 August
David Parry4. Edvard Munch Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
The works of celebrated Norwegian painter Edvard Munch line the walls of the National Portrait Gallery this spring as part of an exhibition curated by Alison Smith, director of collections and research at the Wallace Collection. The exhibition explores how Edvard painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or archetypes of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals. Embark on a four-part journey, made up of 40 key works, through his immediate family, interactions with bohemian radicals, patrons and collectors and finally his closest confidants, the so-called ‘Guardians’.
Address: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
Website: npg.org.uk
Price: £21 per person
Dates: Until Sunday 15 June
Cecil Beaton5. Cecil Beaton's Garden Party, The Garden Museum
This summer, the Garden Museum invites visitors into the lush, theatrical world of Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party. The fabulous exhibition unravels the floral thread running through the photographer’s illustrious career, presenting his dazzling fashion photography and royal portraits among other treasures. Cecil was enchanted by gardens, both as living backdrops and creative muses. Flowers shaped his vision, appearing in Vogue shoots, ballet costumes, and the opulent parties of Britain’s elite. Cast an eye over unseen photographs, original costume sketches and diary entries, curated by Emma House and styled by Luke Edward Hall.
Address: The Garden Museum, 5 Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB
Website: gardenmuseum.org.uk
Price: Adults £16
Dates: Sunday 21 September
6. Encounters: Giacometti, The Barbican
The first of three groundbreaking exhibitions positions Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures alongside new contemporary pieces in an intimate space at The Barbican. While Alberto’s career as an artist and sculptor started in the 1920s during his time in Paris, where his works were largely influenced by movements such as Cubism and Surrealism, it was after World War II that he created his most influential pieces. His distinctive sculptures experiment with the human form and respond to the devastation caused by conflict, offering a new perspective on humanity. Now, Pakistani-American sculptor Huma Bhabha presents her expressive work alongside the late Alberto’s – before Mona Hatoum and Lynda Benglis take turns to unite their work with the iconic figures.
Address: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
Website: barbican.org.uk
Price: £8 standard tickets
Dates: Until Sunday 10 August
José María Velasco7. José Maria Velasco: A View of Mexico at the National Gallery
This summer, the National Gallery opens its doors a little wider. As part of its 200th anniversary celebrations, art fanatics can pay whatever they like on Fridays to see José María Velasco: A View of Mexico, the first standalone show in the UK dedicated to the 19th-century Mexican landscape painter. Gaze upon the sweeping vistas of the Valley of Mexico that captured a nation in flux and decipher more than 30 works, mostly on loan from Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Arte, in a charming exhibition curated by Dexter Dalwood and Daniel Sobrino Ralston.
Address: The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
Website: nationalgallery.org.uk
Price: Standard entry from £12
Dates: Until Sunday 17 August
Rob Harris8. Nora Turato: pool7, Institute of Contemporary Arts
In pool7, Amsterdam-based Nora Turato transforms London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts with a vivid installation that’s equal parts performance, typography, and psychological study. Known for her razor-edged take on modern language, Turato samples media chatter, online noise, and personal reflections, stitching them into a text-driven landscape that speaks of contemporary life. From wall-spanning A4 sheets to echoing audio loops, she dismantles image-worship in favour of visceral, lived communication. As the exhibition builds to a final, unscripted performance, Turato taps into raw emotion, emitting cries, sobs, and gestures to provoke all-too-often suppressed reactions.
Address: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Website: ica.art
Price: £6 full price tickets
Dates: Until Sunday 8 June
Cassandra Parsons9. Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur, The Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection’s major new exhibition features more than 40 new works by English artist and ceramist Sir Grayson Perry. The largest exhibition ever hosted by the museum showcases an eclectic mix of Grayson’s ceramics, tapestries, furniture and collages alongside some of the Wallace Collection’s masterpieces, which inspired and shaped Perry’s vision. Each new work was created in direct response to the Collection, incorporating various mixed media and styles Perry has perfected throughout his long and acclaimed career.
Address: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
Website: wallacecollection.org
Price: Adults £15 per person
Dates: Until Sunday 26 October
10. The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House is a sweeping survey of the Korean artist’s deeply poetic practice – and his first major London solo show in over two decades. Known for his translucent, life-sized fabric replicas of the spaces he’s lived in, Seoul, New York, and London among them, Suh transforms architecture into memory and domestic objects into emblems of identity. Walk through ghost-like corridors, encounter embroidered drawings and graphite rubbings of vanished homes, and explore photogrammetry films that turn buildings into breathing witnesses of the past.
Address: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Website: tate.org.uk
Price: Adults £20
Dates: Until Sunday 19 October
11. Ed Atkins, Tate Britain
Tate Britain hosts the most expansive UK exhibition of Ed Atkins’ work this summer. Showcasing 15 years of work, Ed’s digitally rendered worlds blur the line between human intimacy and technological estrangement, assessing the emotional bandwidth of the digital age. The exhibition unfolds with deliberate disorientation: looping, splitting, and reformatting artworks to induce a sense of the familiar made strange. See the mass of drawings on Post-It notes, which Ed creates for his children, at the heart of the exhibition – Atkins describes them as “miniature images of seemingly infinite invention” and “tiny, laboured, inscrutable attempts to communicate feeling.”
Address: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Website: tate.org.uk
Price: General admission £18 per person
Dates: Until Monday 25 August
12. Martin Creed's Everything is Going to be Alright, Camden Arts Projects
North London’s new not-for-profit space, Camden Arts Projects, welcomes Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed for its first exhibition. At the heart of the showcase is Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space, a playful installation that fills the gallery with hundreds of balloons, inviting visitors to wade through air made visible and tangible. Outside, Creed’s glowing neon Everything is Going to be Alright illuminates the facade, offering reassurance with a playful wink.
Address: Camden Arts Projects, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3QB
Website: camdenartsprojects.com
Dates: Until Sunday 29 June
13. Claudio Parmiggiani, The Estorick Collection
Claudio Parmiggiani receives his long-overdue UK institutional debut at London’s Estorick Collection, showcasing five decades of work. The quietly powerful exhibition traces Parmiggiani’s journey through themes of memory, silence, and the metaphysical weight of absence. At its core are his Delocazioni – ghostly impressions made with smoke and soot, where books, bottles, and human forms linger as spectral traces. Poised between sculpture and image, these haunting works invite deep introspection, like relics of forgotten stories.
Address: Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39A Canonbury Square, London N1 2AN
Website: estorickcollection.com
Price: Adults £9.50
Dates: Until Sunday 31 August
Arpita Singh14. Arpita Singh: Remembering, Serpentine Galleries
Despite being one of India’s most prominent living artists, Remembering is Arpita Singh’s first solo exhibition overseas. Celebrating her work published over the past 60 years, the show takes viewers chronologically – from early surrealist oil paintings illustrating the female experience in both public and private spheres to later abstract watercolours and black-and-white drawings reflecting on political turmoil or local conflicts. One could spend hours gazing at My Lollipop City: Gemini Rising, a large-scale, not-to-scale map of Delhi, with allusions to constellations, mythology and other reference points dotted around the frame. This is the Serpentine’s first exhibition of 2025, so make the most of the first signs of spring with a stroll through Hyde Park afterwards. Olivia Morelli
Address: Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
Website: serpentinegalleries.org
Price: Free
Dates: Until Sunday 27 July.jpg)
Justin Sutcliffe15. Vogue: Inventing the Runway, Lightroom
From the couture salons of the early 20th century to the show-stopping spectacles that occur around the world today, Vogue: Inventing the Runway utilises the world’s most iconic fashion magazine’s archives to create an incredible immersive experience. The exhibition explores how the runway became the ultimate statement and a powerful platform for international designers over the centuries, and one that’s continuously reimagined thanks to emerging talent. Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett narrates the 360-degree spectacular, which projects the work of more than 60 designers, including Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Jacquemus.
Address: Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, London, N1C 4DY
Website: lightroom.uk
Price: From £25
Dates: Until Sunday 29 June.jpg)
Credit, Montana Lowery16. Frameless, Marble Arch
Experience art without boundaries at Frameless – a vibrant world of light, colour and sound in the heart of central London. Across a 30,000-square-foot venue, a series of galleries invite the curious to take on new understandings of iconic artworks as they are projected onto the walls. 40 interactive, digital interpretations of masterpieces by 28 iconic artists can be found, including iconic works from the likes of Van Gogh, Monet and Rembrandt.
Address: Frameless, 6 Marble Arch, London W1H 7AP
Website: frameless.com
Price: Adult tickets from £25
17. Van Gogh London Exhibit: The Immersive Experience, East London
Step inside a former 19th-century stable building beside Old Spitalfields Market and discover an immersive world created using Van Gogh’s most notable works. Now a staple in dozens of cities around the world, this exhibition has welcomed more than five million curious aesthetes since it began touring in 2017. Explore three rooms spanning 17,000 square feet, where gargantuan projections bring the Dutch Post-Impressionist’s works to life in a 360-degree spectacular.
Address: 106 Commercial Street, E1 6LZ
Website: feverup.com
Dates: Ongoing
Alvaro Castano and Yuuki Obata18. Hello Brain!, Francis Crick Institute
Have you ever paused to think about the complexity of the brain, with its trillions of connections between billions of cells? Do just that at The Francis Crick Institute’s latest exhibition, Hello Brain!, where leading scientists have joined forces to explain some of the organ’s fascinating workings. From how our thoughts and behaviours are shaped to how multiple species interact with each other, it’s a unique insight into human and animal behaviour.
Address: Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT
Website: crick.ac.uk
Dates: Until Friday 20 June
19. Tutankhamun: The Immersive Experience, ExCel Centre
Travel back to the land of the Ancient Egyptians at Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition, a 360-degree virtual reality experience combining cutting-edge technology with rich historical narratives. The 90-minute adventure features a world-premiere hologram showcasing the mummification process, artefacts dating back almost 6,000 years, and a digital metaverse walk-through of the Valley of the Kings.
Address: ExCel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL
Website: tutankhamunexperience.com
Price: Adults from £20, children from £15.50
Dates: Until Sunday 29 June