Welcome to the ianVisits guide to alternative exhibitions opening soon in London.

Displayed in date order by how soon they open.

Free  Chelsea and Belgravia in Bloom
Opening Wednesday, 22nd May
During the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, loads of shops and streets around Chelsea and Belgravia become a free floral show all of their own.

2024-05-22

Free  Bella Hoare | A Different Green
Opening Wednesday, 22nd May
Bella Hoare’s solo exhibition 'A Different Green' showcases paintings that celebrate femininity and its relationship with the natural world.

2024-05-22

Free  Judy Chicago: Revelations
Opening Thursday, 23rd May
The first solo presentation in a London institution for the trailblazing artist, author, educator, and feminist icon Judy Chicago

2024-05-23

£16.50  Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre
Opening Friday, 24th May
Unravel the epic story of birds, discover the secrets to their success and learn some of their surprising and often shocking tactics for survival.

2024-05-24

Free  Shark Smiles and Sunflowers
Opening Friday, 24th May
Danish artist, Anders Scrmn Meisner, presents a playful new series of paintings that explore the emotional value of objects and the power of visual storytelling.

2024-05-24

The first-ever, walk-through photography exhibition that tells the untold story of how Princess Diana changed the world – through the lens of her official photographer.

2024-05-25

Free  METAMORPHOSIS
Opening Sunday, 26th May
This exhibition showcases four award-winning photographers and filmmakers undertaking ground-breaking work in their practices of eco-conscious photography and film.

2024-05-26

Free  Celebrating 150 years of Impressionism
Opening Thursday, 30th May
Stern Pissarro Gallery will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition.

2024-05-30

£12  Beyond Fashion
Opening Friday, 31st May
Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world.

2024-05-31

Free  A Book of Hours for Robin Hood Gardens
Opening Saturday, 1st Jun
This exhibition by Judit Ferencz comprises hand-made books and booklets which trace the lifecycle of the East London council estate Robin Hood Gardens (1972).

2024-06-01

Free  Jodie Carey: Beyond the Matrix
Opening Saturday, 1st Jun
Carey's monumental installations, including works from the series 'Stand' and 'Found', have been reimagined to resonate with the architectural features of 100 Bishopsgate.

2024-06-01

Free  Monster Mayhem at The Mall
Opening Monday, 3rd Jun
Watch in wonder as The Mall Wood Green comes alive with a series of giant inflatable sculptures.

2024-06-03
Free  Discover Degas & Miss La La
Opening Thursday, 6th Jun
Degas’s 'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando' takes centre stage in this exhibition that sheds light on this work with newly discovered information about the painting and its sitter.

2024-06-06

£18  Zanele Muholi
Opening Thursday, 6th Jun
Over 300 photographs will be brought together to present the breadth of Muholi’s career to date, from their very first body of work to their latest and on-going series.

2024-06-06

Free  M&S Marble Arch Reimagined
Opening Thursday, 6th Jun
An exhibition of Middlesex University MA Interiors work that reimagines the opportunities of existing buildings for sustainable redevelopment.

2024-06-06
Free  Christopher Hope-Fitch: Brutalism in Colour
Opening Friday, 7th Jun
Brutalism sheds its grey reputation and is given a polychromatic reimagining at Gareth Gardner Gallery during London Festival of Architecture.

2024-06-07

Free  Ceramics Summer Show in Peckham
Opening Friday, 7th Jun
Featuring 100 emerging artists and designers, offering a chance to witness their creations, meet the creators, and purchase pieces supporting their craft.

2024-06-07

£0  The Lore of LOVERBOY
Opening Saturday, 8th Jun
Somerset House presents the first exhibition on international fashion powerhouse Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, which celebrates 10 years of club to catwalk in 2024.

2024-06-08

Explore and be part of an ideas exhibition, for the redesign of the public realm outside the University of Westminster's Marylebone Campus.

2024-06-10
Christie’s has been entrusted with selling Vivienne Westwood's estate, and ahead of the sale, many of the items will be displayed in the auction house.

2024-06-14

£21  Six Lives The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
Opening Thursday, 20th Jun
Tudor paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and contemporary photography by Hiroshi Sugimoto meet in the National Portrait Gallery’s first exhibition of historic portraiture since reopening.

2024-06-20
Free  If You Pass Go
Opening Saturday, 22nd Jun
Showing projects from architects, photographers and artists; works will range from creative investigations and propositions to tangible projects which aim to benefit the area.

2024-06-22

This exhibition examines the lives, careers and artists exhibited by art dealers who were driven out of Continental Europe by Nazi rule to seek refuge in Britain.

2024-06-26

Coming to the market for the first time in more than 145 years, Titian’s early masterpiece "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" will be on display at Christie's auction house prior to being sold.

2024-06-28

Free  Summer Science Exhibition
Opening Tuesday, 2nd Jul
The Summer Science Exhibition is a free annual showcase of some of the cutting-edge science and technology in the UK.

2024-07-02

Free  The Witch Burns
Opening Wednesday, 3rd Jul
Works by some of the leading names in contemporary art are being displayed at Fitzrovia Chapel in an exploration of witchcraft, womanhood, feminism and satire.

2024-07-03

£18  Barbie: The Exhibition
Opening Friday, 5th Jul
Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.

2024-07-05

£11  A World of Care: Turner and the Environment
Opening Saturday, 6th Jul
This exhibition reveals how Turner grappled with the effects of the industrial revolution on the landscape and captured environmental and social developments that would go on to change Britain and the world‘s climates forever.

2024-07-06

Free  Ahmed Mater: Chronicles
Opening Wednesday, 17th Jul
The first mid-career retrospective of one of the most influential Arab contemporary artists of this century.

2024-07-17

£19  Drawing the Italian Renaissance
Opening Friday, 1st Nov
Bringing together around 160 of these works by more than 80 artists, this exhibition explores how drawing became central to every stage of the creative process.

2024-11-01

Free  Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome
Opening Thursday, 5th Dec
The National Gallery celebrates the first public display in a decade, following conservation, of a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Parmigianino’s Madonna and Child with Saints

2024-12-05