London art exhibitions to see in June

June brings a host of must-see London art exhibitions across the city. The warmer summer weather and longer evenings are a perfect invitation to peruse London’s art scene. From group shows to major career retrospectives, plan your next visit with our frequently updated guide to the month’s best offerings.

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London art exhibitions: what to see in June 2025

Hypha Studios 100th exhibition

Hypha Gallery Marble Arch until 19 July

UK arts charity Hypha Studios opens the 100th exhibition it has facilitated since achieving charity status in 2021. The organisation gives high-street and commercial space to artists and curators free of charge, to mount exhibitions and use as studios. Curators Alex Xiaonan Guo and Serena Xinran Gao were awarded Hypha Studios’ latest space in London’s Marble Arch, where they will present the group exhibition ‘1,2,3, Alt!’, a site-responsive presentation transforming the former café into ‘a liminal space oscillating between the present and speculative futures’. Further exhibitions will be led by Miranda Pissarides (30 May – 21 June) and John Angel Rodriguez (27 June – 19 July).

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Yoshitomo Nara

Hayward Gallery 10 June until 31 August

Japanese artist Yoshimoto Nara presents his first UK solo exhibition at Hayward Gallery. The travelling exhibiton was seen for the first time at Guggenheim Bliboa ( see the full review here). The retrospective looks at four decades of the artist’s work. Nara’s life experiences are intrinsically linked to his work, which takes the form of child-like figures and animals with large heads and wide eyes. Although primarily a painter, he also works with a variety of materials across collage, sculpture, drawing, and installation to explore ideas of home, isolation, nature, peace, resistance and freedom.

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Jennifer Bartlett ‘In the House’

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery from 6 June until 5 July 2025

The second in a trilogy of exhibitions exploring the work of American artist Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022) marks the first significant exhibition in London since her solo show at Tate in 1982. ‘In the House’ explores her central motifs within her practice. She worked with paint on square steel plates. The unique combination allowed for intriguing compositions which are intimate and abstract.

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Ugo Rondinone ‘the rainbow body’

Sadie Coles HQ until 2 August 2025

‘The rainbow is a bridge between everyone and everything,’ says Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone on his latest exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ. ‘the rainbow body’ features sculptures with a figurative form, set within a fluorescent context. The gallery space has been installed with rainbow shades that mirror the colour of the sculptures, creating a visually intriguing dynamic between the installation and the layout of the space, and nodding to the larger theme of suspended time.

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Do Ho Suh 'Walk the House'

Tate Modern until 19 October 2025

Do Ho Suh's exhibition, 'Walk the House' at Tate Modern, sees the South Korean artist recreate his homes from Seoul, New York, London and Berlin. Upon entering the exhibition the visitor is confronted with a closed door. But it is not one that blocks passage into the exhibition, or stops you immediately reading the range of works filling the wide open Blavatnik Building gallery. The door is part of the meticulously sewn and constructed Nest/s (2024), a series of 1:1 reproductions of thresholds of homes the South Korean artist has lived in

Read the full review here

Writer Will Jennings

Michaela Yearwood-Dan ‘No Time for Despair’

Hauser & Wirth London until 2 August 2025

The exhibition title, ‘No Time for Despair’ is taken from a 2015 Toni Morrison essay, in which the novelist and editor looks back to a conversation she had with a friend in 2004, the year George W Bush Jr was re-elected into office. In the year of Trump’s re-election and worldwide conflict, it is a prescient nod. For artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan it is a complicated emotional response that comes through in the works themselves. Large-scale and abstract, they are ultimately joyful in their bright colours, swirling patterns and embrace of non-traditional materials, such as glitter, sequins, crystal and gold leaf. Viewed up close, the paintings appear alive and gloriously textural, replete with thickly drawn waves of paint that make bold foils for glistening materials and snippets of song lyrics, poetry or her own writings, which undulate over the works.

Read the full review here

Writer Hannah Silver

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats

Barbican until 3 August

‘In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats’ is a new immersive virtual reality experience that, with the aid of headphones, goggles and haptic vests, taking users, in groups of four, back to the future. To a time when 1000s of British youngsters were congregating weekly in fields, warehouses and industrial estates to dance till dawn to repetitive beats – a time when these 'illegal Acid House parties', and the authorities’ attempts to curb them, were the lead item on the Nine O’Clock News.

Read the full review here

Writer: Craig McLean

Ed Atkins

Tate Britain until 25 August 2025

In Ed Atkins’ new London exhibition, the artist prods at the limits of existence through digital and physical works, including a film starring Toby Jones. ‘It’s big, oppressive and slightly uncomfortable,’ Atkins says of the show, which surveys 15 years. Alongside the large-screen videos are drawings and text pieces, as well as a pair of eerie, undulating beds. One blood-red drawing features the artist’s head attached to a spider’s body.

Read the full review here

Writer Emily Steer

Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots

Serpentine South Gallery
Until 7 September 2025

Italian artist Giuseppe Penone’s latest exhibition is a retrospective looking at the expansive body of work he has created from 1969 to the present. ‘Thoughts in the Roots’ looks at his lifelong exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. The artist is known for his use of wood, iron, wax and terracotta which helps to create a synergy between artistic and natural process. Through a series of sculptures and installations, visitors can explore the way Penone uncovers nature’s intricate structures.

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Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha

The Barbican until 10 August 2025

Pakistani-American artist Huma Bhabha is known for her inventive sculptures, drawings, and photographs that reinvent the figure and its expressive possibilities. At The Barbican, her exhibition titled ‘Nothing is Behind Us’, is Bhabha’s first at a London public institution. The exhibition includes four sculptures on show in Europe for the first time. Bhabha’s works are shown alongside iconic pieces by Giacometti such as Walking Woman I (1932) and Walking Man I (1960). This marks the first in a year-long partnership, titled Encounters: Giacometti, between the Barbican and Fondation Giacometti in Paris, which pairs works by Giacometti with those of contemporary sculptors.

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Secret 7”

NOW Gallery
Until 1 June 2025

Secret 7”, the charitable initiative which invites creatives both established and up-and-coming to submit artwork for the sleeves of 700 vinyl records, is back for its ninth edition. The event is presented by War Child, the charity that will be the recipient of the proceeds, which provides protection, education and mental health support to children in conflict zones. The initiative selects seven tracks from global musicians, pressing each onto 100 limited-edition 7” vinyl records. Secret 7” then asks creatives to design a one-of-a-kind sleeve for each record, interpreting the track in any style or medium they want. The distinct records that blur the boundaries between music and collectible art, will be showcased at Greenwich Peninsula’s NOW Gallery.

Writer: Anna Solomon
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1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

Wellcome Collection
Until 16 November 2025

At the Wellcome Collection creative duo Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader have collaborated on their latest exhibition ‘1880 THAT’ which includes film, installation and drawings to explore the communication between signed and spoken languages, and challenge a medical perspective of deafness as something to be cured. The brick motif is a recurring theme in the exhibition symbolising the building blocks of language, as well as the act of throwing bricks as a gesture of protest. The exhibition is a mix of witty design, humour and word play to uncover the complexities of meaning and (mis)understanding.

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Leigh Bowery!

Tate Modern
Until 31 August 2025

Tate Modern celebrates the life and career of artist Leigh Bowery. Never limited to convention, Bowery adapted to many roles from artist to performer, model to fashion designer. He saw himself as the canvas and reimagined clothes and makeup as tools for sculpture, using his body as a shapeshifting tool to challenge sexuality and gender. The exhibition is a chance to see his different 'looks', and many collaborations.

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'Electric Dreams'

Tate Modern
Until 1 June 2025

Encompassing the period from the 1950s to the beginning of the internet era, and uniting over 70 artists, ‘Electric Dreams’ celebrates vintage tech art in all its mind-bending glory. From US artist Rebecca Allen’s experiments in motion capture and 3D modelling for a Krafwerk music video, to Eduardo Kac’s text poems created with Minitel machines, the exhibition delves into movements including kineticism, cybernetics and abstraction as they began to take shape.

Writer Hannah Silver

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