Summer Shows 2025

In London

Royal Academy of Arts (RA)

Kiefer / Van Gogh
A landmark exhibition pairing Anselm Kiefer with Vincent van Gogh, exploring how Van Gogh influenced Kiefer’s work. Expect large-scale paintings, sculptures, and key Van Gogh pieces from Amsterdam, all of which focus on themes such as landscape, literature, and texture.
Dates: June 2025
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/kiefer-van-gogh

RA Summer Exhibition 2025
The Royal Academy’s famous annual open-submission show returns, featuring around 1,200 works in all media by emerging and established artists.
Dates: 17 June – 17 August 2025

National Portrait Gallery

Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
The first major museum exhibition of Jenny Saville, a leading contemporary British painter, focuses on her exploration of the human body and painting process.
Dates: 20 June – 7 September 2025
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2025/jenny-saville/

Tate Britain

Edward Burra / Ithell Colquhoun
Two solo exhibitions of British modernists. Burra’s work moves from urban scenes to brooding landscapes, while Colquhoun explores surrealism and the occult.
Dates: 13 June – 19 October 2025
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/burra-and-colquhoun

Tate Modern

Visit the permanent collection

https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern

Serpentine North

Arpita Singh
A career-spanning show for the Indian artist, featuring vibrant watercolours, ink drawings, and oil paintings exploring memory, gender, and identity.
Dates: 13 March – 27 July 2025
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/arpita-singh-remembering/

National Gallery

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions

Millet: Life on the Land
A major exhibition on Jean-François Millet, focusing on rural life and landscape.
Dates: 7 August – 19 October 2025
José María Velasco - A View of Mexico
Visit the permanent collection for free!

Other Notable Shows

Group Exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid at ICA, celebrating 40 years since a ground-breaking show of Black and Asian women artists.
Dates: 24 June – 7 September 2025

https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/connecting-thin-black-lines-1985-2025

In Sussex and the South Coast

Towner Eastbourne (Eastbourne)

https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on

Sussex Modernism
23 May – 28 September 2025
A major exhibition exploring how artists responded to the crises of their day through their relationships with Sussex and the many movements of modernism. It features painting, sculpture, film, textiles, literature, and music, including artists not usually associated with the story of modernism

Paule Vézelay: Living Lines
14 May – 31 August 2025
The first major exhibition of Paule Vézelay’s work in over 40 years, touring to Towner after its debut at the Royal West of England Academy. Vézelay was an influential British abstract artist

Points of View
Ongoing (dates not specified)
A free ground floor exhibition including works by Nathan Coley, Anne Hardy, Marine Hugonnier, Alicja Kwade, and Emma Stibbon

Public Art & Commissions

Verity-Jane Keefe: The Findings (permanent public art in Shinewater and Langney)
The Four Directions: Four new benches at Warren Hill dew pond, by Will Spankie and Alinah Azadeh