Art in South East London

Arts Calendar lists 15 exhibitions, 7 workshops and classes and 2 drawing groups at 12 venues in South East London. Thursday is the busiest night, with 6 of the regular listings.

Tuesday 1 December to Thursday 31 December

Today

Happy birthday to Kerry James Marshall (71 today)

Exhibitions on these days

Opens Sat 5 Dec
Exhibition

Lost & Found

Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Woolwich, Greater London
Closes Sun 6 Dec
Exhibition

Wakaliga Uganda: Kibuuka Omumbaale

Chisenhale Gallery, Bow, Greater London
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, Greater London
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Royal Institute of Oil Painters: Annual Exhibition 2026

Mall Galleries, London, Greater London
- Members show
- Painting
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Pierre Soulages

Timothy Taylor, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Off The Wall

Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, Essex
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Rebecca Warren: There Will Be Another You

Maureen Paley, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Sculpture
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Episode 16: Katie Shannon, BACK/PRUNE/VIRGIN/RUIN

Goldsmiths CCA, New Cross, Greater London
Closes Sat 12 Dec
Exhibition

Dala Nasser: Cemetery of Martyrs

Peer, Hoxton, Greater London
Closes Sun 13 Dec
Exhibition

The Film London Jarman Award 2026

Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Film and video
Closes Sun 13 Dec
Exhibition

Listening to the earth

Drawing Room, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Drawing
Closes Sun 13 Dec
Exhibition

Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Being Poetic Ruins Life

Goldsmiths CCA, New Cross, Greater London
Closes Fri 18 Dec
Exhibition

Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965 to 66

Thaddaeus Ropac London, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Courtyard Arts Members’ Show 2026

Courtyard Arts Hertford, Hertford, Hertfordshire
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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No Plan at All: Prints from BORCH Editions

David Zwirner London, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Printmaking
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Bahar Noorizadeh: The Debtor’s Portal

The Showroom, London, Greater London
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Glenn Ligon: Prompts

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Greater London
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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Paul Pfeiffer: Pasodoble

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Greater London
Closes Sat 19 Dec
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A Socially Useful Production: The Participation Waltz

Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London
Closes Sun 20 Dec
Exhibition

Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-garde Photography in 20th-Century Italy

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Photography
Closes Sun 20 Dec
Exhibition

Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures

Garden Museum, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Closes Sun 20 Dec
Exhibition

Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials

Nunnery Gallery, Bow, Greater London
Closes Wed 23 Dec
Exhibition

Lorna Simpson

Hauser & Wirth London, London, Greater London
Closes Wed 23 Dec
Exhibition

Antony Gormley: Where

Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Printmaking
Until 2 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Bianca Raffaella: Between Heartbeats

Flowers Gallery Cork Street, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 2 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Small is Beautiful: 44th Edition

Flowers Gallery Cork Street, London, Greater London
Until 3 Jan 2027
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Frida: The Making of an Icon

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition

There are people who belong to the sea

The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
Until 3 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Creature Feature

Bushey Museum & Art Gallery, Bushey, Hertfordshire
Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Sky Glabush: If the wild bird could speak

Alison Jacques, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 9 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Swaying in the Wind: Frédérick Yvan Manuel Gay

The Fan Museum, Greenwich, Greater London
Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing

Serpentine South, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

The Courtauld Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 10 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Katherine Hubbard: The Great Room

Studio Voltaire, Clapham, Greater London
Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Louise Giovanelli: In the Light of False Suns

White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 16 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Jaki Irvine: Five lines of song-smoke

Frith Street Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Film and video
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Ana Mendieta

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Zineb Sedira: When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks

Tate Britain, London, Greater London
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists, Part 2

Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Film and video
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Michael Landy: Future Ruins

Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Greater London
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection

Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, Greater London
- Touring exhibition
- Printmaking
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2026

National Portrait Gallery, London, Greater London
- Open exhibition
- Photography
Until 17 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Liz Larner: A hard line to bend

Camden Art Centre, London, Greater London
Until 20 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Liberty Quinn: Data Melt

SPACE Ilford, Ilford, Greater London
Until 23 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Alchemies: May Cockcroft, Nour Malas, Sarah Martin-Nuss

Victoria Miro, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Mixed media
Until 23 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Conrad Shawcross: Shadows of the Mechanism

Victoria Miro, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Sculpture
Until 24 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Bharti Kher at the V&A

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Sculpture
Until 24 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Yuko Mohri: In Concert

Barbican Art Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 24 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Anselm Kiefer

White Cube Bermondsey, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 24 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Soko Hwang: Flesh of Vessel

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Herne Hill, Greater London
Until 30 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Canny Valley

Turf Projects, Croydon, Greater London
Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Renoir and Love

National Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Painting the French Riviera

Royal Academy of Arts, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Painting
Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition

Amar Kanwar

Serpentine North, London, Greater London
Until 31 Jan 2027
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Monumental Botanical Art

Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew, Greater London
Until 31 Jan 2027
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Henry Moore: Monumental Nature

Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew, Greater London
Until 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition

People Watching

The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
Until 6 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Lisa Brice

Serpentine South, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation

National Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 7 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions

Wellcome Collection, London, Greater London
Until 7 Feb 2027
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Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care, Spaces of Grief and Possibility

Wellcome Collection, London, Greater London
Until 13 Feb 2027
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Christopher Le Brun: The Mind’s Weather

Lisson Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 13 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Dana Awartani

Lisson Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 14 Feb 2027
Exhibition

The 90s: Art and Fashion

Tate Britain, London, Greater London
Until 14 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads

Whitechapel Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Photography
Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition

British Wildlife Photography Awards

Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, Greater London
- Touring exhibition
- Photography
Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Sanlé Sory: Colour Years

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Photography
Until 21 Feb 2027
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William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Photography
Until 21 Feb 2027
Exhibition

Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Photography
Until 26 Feb 2027
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Trackie McLeod: MONEY. SUCCESS. FAME. GLAMOUR.

OOF Gallery, Tottenham, Greater London
- Solo show
Until 28 Feb 2027
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Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

Barbican Art Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 28 Feb 2027
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Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life

Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, Greater London
Until 6 Mar 2027
Exhibition

The 544

Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, Greater London
- Solo show
- Photography
Until 7 Mar 2027
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Gathering Ground

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
Until 7 Mar 2027
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Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong

Hayward Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 7 Mar 2027
Exhibition

The Genie and Other Stories

Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner, Greater London
Until 21 Mar 2027
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Multiplied wonders: Italian Renaissance woodcuts

British Museum, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Printmaking
Until 21 Mar 2027
Exhibition

Cosimo I de’ Medici: Art and Dynasty

The Wallace Collection, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Painting
Until 28 Mar 2027
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Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK

William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, Greater London
Until 4 Apr 2027
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Es Devlin: Other Worlds

Design Museum, London, Greater London
Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition

Still Lives

St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, Hertfordshire
Until 11 Apr 2027
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Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Installation
Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition

Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury

Tate Britain, London, Greater London
Until 11 Apr 2027
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Van Eyck: The Portraits

National Gallery, London, Greater London
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 11 Apr 2027
Exhibition

Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell

Fashion and Textile Museum, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Textiles
Until 17 Apr 2027
Exhibition

Picturing Eton

Eton College Collections, Eton, Berkshire
- Group show
- Photography
Until 18 Apr 2027
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Peter Blake: In the Studio

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing, Greater London
Until 25 Apr 2027
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Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone

The Wallace Collection, London, Greater London
Until 30 Apr 2027
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Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
Until 30 Apr 2027
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Bushey Artist: Anthony Wildig

Bushey Museum & Art Gallery, Bushey, Hertfordshire
- Solo show
- Painting
Until 3 May 2027
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Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.

Tate Modern, London, Greater London
Until 5 May 2027
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Beyond the Streets

Saatchi Gallery, London, Greater London
Until 16 May 2027
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American Photographs

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
- Group show
- Photography
Until 11 Jul 2027
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The Bayeux Tapestry

British Museum, London, Greater London
- Touring exhibition
- Textiles
Until 26 Sep 2027
Exhibition

Samuel Palmer and Modern Art

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London
Until 26 Sep 2027
Exhibition

Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts

V&A South Kensington, London, Greater London

Everything listed in South East London

Exhibitions 15

Workshops and classes 7

Acrylic Painting Thursday 19 November
Draw and Paint: Learn the Basics Wednesdays from 6 January, 11 weeks
Drawing with Inks Thursday 3 December
Large-scale Charcoal Drawing Thursday 5 November
Life Drawing and Painting Thursdays from 28 January, 8 weeks
Linocut Printing Thursday 26 November
Mixed Media Sculptural Flowers Thursday 10 December

Drawing groups 2

London Bridge Life Drawing Every Wednesday
London Drawing Waterloo Wednesday Studio Every Wednesday

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