{"title": "Yoshitomo Nara", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of works by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, presenting new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by the artist. Nara's figures with big heads and wide eyes are understood by him as self-portraits, and his imagery draws on his solitary childhood in rural northern Japan, shaped by nature, folklore, children's fables, and popular music. The show brings together foundational works from the 1980s with paintings from 2026, alongside large-format monochrome drawings, marking his first solo presentation with the gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yoshitomo-nara-35547/", "official_url": "https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2026/yoshitomo-nara", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7f27e0d0a64f698ca2e7be94475be84aa7024e53211ed54bc3514dd2fc3037c6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Daichi Takagi", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Suchness\" is an exhibition of new paintings by Japanese artist Daichi Takagi, held in The Upper Room at the David Zwirner gallery in London. It is Takagi's first solo presentation in the United Kingdom and his first exhibition with the gallery. The title describes a state in which things simply are as they are; the 2026 paintings range from small canvases of rain or cloudy night skies to larger close-ups of stones, leaves and tree trunks emerging from velvety black backgrounds. Takagi, who collects stones and leaves on walks near Tokyo and further afield, seeks to give form to the presence of his subjects rather than interpret them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/daichi-takagi-35545/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbf1052833d20c7c9c790ec6776f1be9dbafbda0a5e85cb75b0cb19ba5499363-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Field of Asura", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Yu Hong presents 'Field of Asura', an exhibition of new and recent paintings. The monumental works, anchored by large-scale multi-panel compositions inspired by classical European altarpieces, depict figures bound by vulnerability, endurance and mutual dependence. Her touching, allegorical and apocalyptic approach to contemporary life brings together personal experience, collective history and painterly tradition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/field-of-asura-41640/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/yu-hong-lisson-new-york", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c3469bdb0578cb5965f58b2414b97a6ad7e6b03a80b6d70b64a9aaefea82833-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Studio", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Massimo De Carlo", "address": "South Audley Street 55, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Studio is a solo exhibition of paintings by the American painter Jonathan Gardner at a London gallery. He takes the artist's studio as his subject: rooms within rooms and paintings within paintings, built from memory, imagination and art history. The flat, clean rooms with colour laid down in blocks nod to Matisse and Magritte, while landscapes with rivers and desert scenes open spaces of solitude. Beneath the art-historical poise, the exhibition holds something like hope shadowed by unease at a deliberate, painterly distance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-studio-41680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e028b4fa2074ea7ca08e23bd838fd3d70465d1e7057b4ba7f18128d37392ecd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "R&F Mo: Woandering", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Oliver Projects", "address": "Grove Vale 49, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A solo exhibition by the South London-based artist R&F Mo, titled 'Woandering', held at Oliver Projects. Mo's practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, sewing and sculpture, with fantastical figures moving through imaginary landscapes while exploring identity. The exhibition shares its name with the artist's recently published book on drawing, which Mo says unites the physical and mental states of a person in motion and thinking. It is her first solo exhibition in London, and a closing talk with artist Ansel Krut takes place on 21 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rf-mo-woandering-37547/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/253daa08814cb13a59c8d7c8410050ae993055c2170c9f72cc7c88ac36185f85-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition: Does my head look BIG in this? The art of portrait caricature", "start": "2026-05-23T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Cartoon Museum", "address": "Wells Street 63, W1A 3AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at The Cartoon Museum celebrates the art of portrait caricature. It traces the form from its origins in Renaissance Italy to its outrageous Golden Age in 18th-century England and its popularity today. The museum presents the caricaturist as a provocative, insightful and rude figure who hilariously reflects the society we live in, who we vote for, and the personalities we celebrate. The exhibition is made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-does-my-head-look-big-in-this-the-art-of-portrait-39035/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9043cff2ca9ea72e1f35700a3f018788f8fbc83647705f0825c166fa3f1f6998-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NINAGAWA Mika: Captive Blooms", "start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A free outdoor exhibition showing works from NINAGAWA Mika's Captive Blooms in Soho Photography Quarter, just outside The Photographers' Gallery on Ramillies Street. The Japanese artist, also a maker of films, video and spatial installations, builds worlds bursting with colour and emotion: intensely coloured photographs of blooming flowers, shimmering goldfish, water, city nights and portraits that dissolve the boundary between the real and the imagined. Her images of domesticated aquatic life and of Japan's springtime cherry blossom, one of her most recognisable motifs, transform the quarter into a place of both spectacle and reflection, bridging art, fashion and pop culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ninagawa-mika-captive-blooms-39558/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/584c32309066ea576af41118bf07f3546c8b8c7853cd185d76f5d38bd7e12be5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jem Perucchini", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new works by painter Jem Perucchini, titled \"Sospiro\", with an opening reception on the evening of the first day. Perucchini, an Italian painter born in Ethiopia in 1995, draws on early Italian Renaissance painting, African wax print textiles, ancient Greek mythology and Ethiopian church frescoes. His figurative scenes place youthful, inscrutable characters in compositions dominated by jewellike hues and glowing moons or suns, evoking solitude, partnership, light and darkness outside any familiar historical chronology.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jem-perucchini-35549/", "official_url": "https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2026/jem-perucchini", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cccbc3cae8d2532b3becd57fc5bc045d091e13908646ff65e38140b40d2f64f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Daido Moriyama: Ink", "start": "2026-09-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hamiltons Gallery", "address": "W1K 2EU London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "Daido Moriyama: Ink is a gallery exhibition of photographs by the Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. It shows his large-format silkscreens, made in deep black ink, alongside other aspects of his work. Influenced by Andy Warhol's silkscreens, Moriyama explored duplication, repetition and mass production in images of Tokyo's streets, motion and American advertising. The works span his career from projects in 1960s Tokyo to later pieces, and include colour pictures, Polaroids and films.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/daido-moriyama-ink-41471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bb3512a8a047143f3145794f7e4825ced5495b4132d640bf8e8a16ce37cee23-1200.webp"}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e27d2f903af4f6b46d48a95361c04a29a009319bbc0137b1c2f1d1d870e5d02b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/khalif-tahir-thompson-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson, presented at Victoria Miro's London gallery and the gallery's first solo presentation of his work since announcing his representation. Thompson, who was born and is based in Brooklyn, paints vibrant domestic scenes full of texture and pattern that portray the everyday lives of his subjects, both individually and collectively. The show takes its title from the 1973 Stephen Sondheim ballad famously sung by Sarah Vaughan, and reflects, in the artist's words, the ways we use humour to mask vulnerability and respond to tragedy. He describes the exhibition as a love letter to his younger self, his journey as an artist and Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns-40107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf7af2288c136f106537822d4180a7b34725428da2aa653b5deda418fc5d05d9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope\" is a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings on canvas at Gazelli Art House. The artist behind it is Dominic Myatt, born in 1993 in Leicester, a multidisciplinary artist inspired by visual fragments of everyday life and the energy of the city. His works show recognisable objects such as lamps, horses, hands and spoons as dark line drawings hovering over gestural patches of colour, riffing on the idea of animated cartoons. Full of playful humour alongside unease and threat, the paintings invite the viewer into a game of looking and deciphering.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dominic-myatt-scree-slope-41427/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e4f1f7ef8d261e49f91df70fad329a9f2a11d411a6249c3f082c21b33ec9ec-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Form Follows Feeling", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of works by the painter, sculptor, and printmaker Oliver Lee Jackson, spanning several decades of his practice. His compositions are built around the human figure, a recurring presence that underpins their structure. The show brings together paintings alongside a group of marble and mixed media sculptures, some of which are being presented publicly for the first time. The sculptures are complex constructions of juxtaposed materials such as draped cloth, graphite marks, and gold leaf, each medium seeking out the figure contained within.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/form-follows-feeling-41636/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6b6370432f7777d2830843706039670a955ec563d73cbad190a352b7a3ec7be9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "River Claure", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by the photographer and visual artist River Claure, who makes constructed portraits and magical landscapes. He is from Bolivia, and his work reflects on landscape, Christian iconography, his family's history and his Indigenous roots, often creating with communities and using play to rearrange cultural codes, identities and social expectations. During the residency he plans to develop a series of self-portraits exploring the intersections between biblical iconography and the Latin American colonial photographic archive, visiting archives and museums in London to study the history of portraiture and self-representation. The residency is supported by the Contemporary Bolivian Arts Trust (CBAT).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/river-claure-41422/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5777c80e20f1ca70654c40cef73a1928090f0b1d2aaaf29d05865f61c8ece1d8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Niovi Kafantari, The Necessary Other", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "'The Necessary Other' is a contemporary art exhibition of new paintings by Niovi Kafantari, her first solo exhibition in London, running into early November. It explores how identity is shaped through encounter, taking its title from Adriana Cavarero's philosophy of relational identity: the self comes into being through the presence, memory and gaze of another. Trained as a sculptor, Kafantari builds her paintings through mass, with figures that lean, embrace, support or resist one another, drawing upon archaeology, cinema, theatre, literature and art history. Works such as 'Just Met', 'A Pastoral Fragment', 'Last Tango' and 'Married, a second time' leave intimacy, vulnerability and ambiguity deliberately unresolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/niovi-kafantari-the-necessary-other-41790/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e254166bad64bbaa960c78304d03e6a7a0689ac3d70479663647526710d6f038-2000.webp"}]}