What are the Top London Art Shows of 2026?

Come and join me as I count down the 20 most anticipated art shows in London in 2026!
00:00-03:25 Introduction
03:25-23:28 - The Countdown from 20-1
Find Out More About the Shows
Anish Kapoor - https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/wha...
Cecilia Vicuña //www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/press/whitechapel-gallery-forward-programme-2026-2027/
David Hockney - https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/w...
Veronica Ryan
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/ab...
Konrad Magi. https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org...
Richard Dadd. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhib...
Renoir - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ab...
Chiharu Shiota - https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/wha...
Ana Mendieta - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/... Beatriz Gonzalez
Whistler - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...
Lucian Freud - https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibi...
Zurbaran - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ex...
Seurat - https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-...
Frida Kahlo - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...
Tracey Emin - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate...
Van Eyck - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ex...
Bayeux Tapestry - https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-u...

Photo Credits taken from Press Releases and Publicity Material:
Anish Kapoor - Mount Moriah at the Gate of the Ghetto, 2022, Mixed media, 13.8x6.8x3.9 cm. Photograph: Attilio Maranzano. ©Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2025
Tsunami, 2018, Stainless steel, 365x410x340 cm. Photograph: Dave Morgan ©Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2025
David Hockney Image Credit A Year in Normandie (detail), 2020-2021, composite iPad painting © David Hockney (From Serpentine Press Release).
Konrad Magi – Credits from Dulwich Picture Gallery Press release
Image 1: Konrad Mägi, Lake Kasaritsa, 1915-17. Courtesy of the Art Museum of Estonia.
Image 2: Konrad Mägi, Norwegian Landscape, 1909.Courtesy of the Art Museum of Estonia.
Image 3: Konrad Mägi, Lake Kasaritsa, 1915-17. Courtesy of the Art Museum of Estonia.
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Richard Dadd Image Credit
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855-64. Oil on canvas. 54 x 39.4 cm. Tate. Presented by Siegfried Sassoon in memory of his friend and fellow officer Julian Dadd, a great-nephew of the artist, and of his two brothers who gave their lives in the First World War 1963. Photo: Tate.
Renoir picture Credit
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876. Gustave Caillebotte Bequest, 1896. © Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Image credit: Chiharu Shiota, The Locked Room, 2016. Installation: old keys, wooden doors, red wool. KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama, Japan. Photo by Masanobu Nishino and courtesy of the artist © DACS, London, 2025 and Chiharu Shiota.
Ana Mendieta – Image Credit
Ana Mendieta (Tate Modern) Ana Mendieta, Imágen de Yágul, Mexico 1973 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by DACS
James McNeill Whistler (Tate Britain) Image Credit
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 1871. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
National Portrait Gallery - Lucian Freud Image Credits
NPG 7195 Bella in her Pluto T-Shirt (etching), 1995 © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved [2025] / Bridgeman Images. Collection: National Portrait Gallery; Solicitor’s Head, 2003, Lucian Freud, Etching, © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2025 / Bridgeman Images. Photo © National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery, London. Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, from the estate of Lucian Freud, 2024
Frida: The Making of an Icon (Tate Modern) Photo Credit
Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird 1940 Nickolas Muray Collection of Mexican Art, 66.6 Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, Austin
Tracey Emin My Bed1998 ©Tracey Emin. Photo credit: CourtesyTheSaatchi Gallery, London / Photograph by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Tracey Emin (Tate Modern)
Tracey Emin, My Bed 1998
Tate. Lent by The Duerckheim Collection 2015, On long term loan
© Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage
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Bayeaux Tapestry images ©Bayeux Museum