It will not surprised anyone who knows me well if I say I just LOVE exhibitions. As an art historian, I like to keep myself up to date on this subject. I love to learn about upcoming or already established artists, designers, writers, learn about lesser known aspects of a building, person or art collection. To that end, every year, I make a list of exhibitions I do want to see. For instance, “Troy: Myth or Reality” at the British Museum, “Titian: Love, Desire and Death” at the National Gallery or “Andy Warhol” at the Tate Modern. Just a few examples on my long, long list. Are you an exhibition aficionado like me? Are you coming to London for a few days and looking for an exhibitions or exhibitions to visit? Well, dear readers, I have compiled a few places and exhibitions that are currently or will be held in London from January to June 2020. Museums, art galleries, stately homes, for young audiences or not so young audiences, free or paid admissions, there is something for everyone.
With no further ado, scroll down and have a look…
| Location | Name of exhibition | Dates | Category |
| Victoria and Albert Museum (South Kensington). | Tim Walker: Wonderful Things. | 21 Sept. 2019 – 22 March 2020. | Photography |
| Ditto | Cars: Accelerating the Modern World. | 23 Nov. 2019 – 19 April 2020. | Transport |
| Ditto | Mary Quant. | 6 April 2019 – 6 Feb. 2020. | Fashion |
| Ditto | Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk. | 29 Feb. 2020 – 21 June 2020. | Fashion |
| Ditto | Bags: Inside Out | 25 April 2020 – 3 Jan. 2021. | Fashion |
| Ditto | Renaissance Watercolour: From Dürer to Van Dyck | 16 May 2020 – 20 Sept. 2020. | Painting |
| The British Museum (Bloomsbury). | Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art. | 10 Oct. 2019 – 26 Jan. 2020. | Fine and Decorative Arts / Fashion /Jewellery / Photography, etc. |
| Ditto | Troy: Myth and Reality | 21 Nov. 2019 – 8 March 2020. | Archeology / Sculpture / Ceramics / Contemporary art. |
| Ditto | Artic: Culture and Climate | 28 May – 23 Aug. 2020. | Anthropology / Ecology / Decorative arts / Transport, etc. |
| Ditto | Disposable: Rubbish and Us (free). | 19 Dec. 2019 – 23 Feb. 2020. | Ecology / Archeology. |
| Ditto | Currency in Crisis: German emergency money 1914-1924 (free). | 3 Oct. 2019 – 29 March 2020. | Currency / Numismatic |
| Ditto | Living with Art: Picasso to Celmins (free). | 14 Jan. – 5 March 2020. | Prints and Drawings. |
| Museum of London (City of London). | The Krios of Sierra Leone (free). | 27 Sept. 2019 – 27 Sept. 2020. | Cultural anthropology. |
| Ditto | Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery (free). | 3 April – 1 Nov. 2020. | Archeology. |
| Natural History Museum (South Kensington). | Wildlife Photographer of the Year. | 18 Oct. 2019 – 31 May 2020. | Nature / Fauna & Flora / Photography. |
| Ditto | Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature. | 22 May 2020 – 3 Jan. 2020. | Nature / Cinema |
| The Wallace Collection (Marylebone). | Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. | 4 December 2019 – 19 April 2020. | Painting/ Print and Drawing. |
| The National Gallery (Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster). | The Credit Suisse exhibition: Gauguin Portraits. | 7 October 2019 – 26 Jan. 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Leonardo: Experience a masterpiece. | Until 26 Jan. 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Young Bomberg and the Old Masters (free). | 27 Nov. 2019 – 1 March 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist. | 13 Feb. – 16 May 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age (free). | 22 Feb. – 31 May 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Titian: Love, Desire, Death. | 16 March – 14 June 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Artemisia. | 4 April – 26 July 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Sin (free). | 15 April – 5 July 2020. | Painting. |
| The National Portrait Gallery (Charing Cross, next to the NG). | Pre-Raphaelite Sisters | 17 Oct. 2019 – 26 Jan. 2020 | Painting. |
| Ditto | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019. | 7 Nov. 2019 – 16 Feb. 2020. | Photography. |
| Ditto | Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things. | 12 March – 7 June 2020 | Photography / Painting. |
| Ditto | David Hockney: Drawing from Life. | 27 Feb. – 28 June 2020. | Drawings. |
| Sir John Soane Museum (Holborn). | The Architecture Drawing Prize (free). | 15 Jan. – 16 Feb. 2020. | Architectural drawing. |
| Ditto | All That Could Have Been: A Project by CAN and Harry Lawson (free). | 16 Jan. – 16 Feb. 2020. | Architecture / Objects. |
| Ditto | Langlands and Bell: Degrees of Truth. | 04 March – 31 May 2020. | Architecture / Digital / Video / Sculpture, etc. |
| The Imperial War Museum (Lambeth / Southwark). | The Holocaust Exhibition: A Guided Tour. | 15 &29 Jan. – 12 & 26 Feb. 2020. | History. |
| Tate Britain (Millbank). | Tate Britain Winter Commission: Anne Hardy (free). | 30 Nov. 2019 – 26 Jan. 2020. | Sculpture / Architecture. |
| Ditto | William Blake. | 11 Sept. 2019 – 2 Feb. 2020. | Painting / Watercolour / Print. |
| Ditto | Art Now: Sophia Al-Maria, Beast Type Song (free). | 20 Sept. 2019 – 23 Feb. 2020. | Film. |
| Ditto | British Baroque: Power and Illusion. | 4 Feb. – 19 April 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | Steve McQueen Year 3 (free). | 12 Nov. 2019 – 3 May 2020. | Film. |
| Ditto | Aubrey Beardsley | 4 March – 25 May 2020. | Drawings. |
| Ditto | Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (free). | 20 May – 31 August 2020. | Painting. |
| Ditto | After Empire: Photographing Britain and the World. | 30 June – 27 Sept. 2020. | Photography. |
| Ditto | Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson (free). | 16 June – 18 Oct. 2020. | Art Installation. |
| Freud Museum (Hampstead). | The Uncanny: A Centenary | 30 Oct. 2019 – 9 Feb. 2020. | Art / Literature / Film / Psychoanalisis writings. |
| Ditto | Ida Applebroog: Mercy Hospital. | 29 Feb. – 7 June 2020. | Drawings. |
| Tate Modern (Southwark). | Nam June Paik. | 17 Oct. 2019 – 9 Feb. 2020. | Video / Technology. |
| Ditto | Dora Maar. | 20 Nov. 2019 – 15 March 2020. | Photography / Video / Painting. |
| Ditto | BMW Tate Live Exhibition (free). | 20 – 29 March 2020. | Art Installation. |
| Ditto | Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker (free). | 2 Oct. 2019 – 5 April 2020. | Art installation (sculpture). |
| Ditto | Steve McQueen. | 13 Feb. – 11 May 2020. | Film / Photography / Sculpture. |
| Ditto | Dóra Maurer (free). | 5 Aug. 2019 – 5 July 2020. | Photography / Film / Painting. |
| Ditto | Andy Warhol. | 12 March – 6 Sept. 2020. | Visual arts. |
| Ditto | Magdalena Abakanowicz (free). | 17 June – 13 Sept. 2020. | Textile / Sculpture. |
| Ditto | Zanele Muholi. | 29 April – 18 Oct. 2020. | Photography. |
| Saatchi Gallery (Chelsea). | Tutankamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh. | 2 Nov. 2019 – 3 May 2020. | Archeology. |
| The Serpentine Galleries (Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park). | Albert Oehlen (free). | 2 Oct. 2019 – 2 Feb. 2020. | Contemporary painting. |
| Ditto | Patrick Staff: On Venus (free). | 8 Nov. 2019 – 9 Feb. 2020. | Architecture / Video / Print. |
| Ditto | Jakob Kudsk Steensten: Catharsis. | 14 Jan. – 15 March 2020. | Video / Film / Technology. |
| Osterley Park and House, National Trust (Middlesex). | Treasures of Osterley: Rise of a Banking Family. | 4 Nov. 2019 – 23 Feb. 2020. | Fine and Decorative Arts / History. |
| Ditto | The Tiger Who Came to Tea. | 11 Jan. – 1 March 2020. | Children’s Book / drawings. |
| Buckingham Palace, The Queen’s Gallery, Royal Collection Trust (Westminster). | George IV: Art and Spectacle. | 15 Nov. 2019 – 3 May 2020. | Fine and Decorative arts. |
| Ditto | Japan: Courts and Culture. | 12 June – 8 Nov. 2020. | Decorative arts / Arms and Armours / Textiles, etc. |
| Kensington Palace, Historic Royal Palaces (Kensington and Chelsea). | Victoria: A Royal Childhood. | No end date (for now). | Fine and Decorative arts / Textiles / Jewellery, etc. |
| Ditto. | Diana: Designing for a Princess. | No end date (for now). | Fashion / Sketches. |
| Rainham Hall (Havering) | The Denney Edition: Celebrating an icon of 20th century style. | 1 Feb. – 29 June 2020. | Fashion photography / Design. |
I hope you have found what you were looking and that you found this article interesting and useful. Please let me know in the comments below if there is an exhibition or exhibitions you would definitely like to see.
I will write similar articles for different regions in England as well as one for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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