London Gallery Weekend x Henry Moore Foundation x Tia Collection Inaugural Museum Exhibition Fund
Announcing new funding initiatives for landmark 5th Edition of the world’s largest gallery weekend
London Gallery Weekend (LGW) brings together 126 galleries, welcoming 15 new participants – 11 of which are newly established – to its community, spotlighting the capital’s evolving arts landscape. LGW takes place from 6 to 8 June 2025.
Continuing to break the mould of traditional gallery weekends, two new initiatives launch in 2025:
- the £20,000 LGW x Henry Moore Foundation x Tia Collection Inaugural Museum Exhibition Fund
- the LGW x Paul Mellon Centre Grant Scheme, bringing up to 10 curators from across the globe to LGW
Returning for 2025:
- the LGW x Art Fund Bursary for UK Curators, bringing up to 20 curators from across the UK to LGW
- the Government Art Collection Acquisition Fund, for works on view during LGW
London Gallery Weekend’s fifth edition reaffirms the annual event as a key moment of local and international art world mobilisation, centring the capital’s unparalleled commercial gallery sector. Drawing increasing numbers of visitors each year from every continent worldwide, even more galleries are set to open ambitious exhibitions to coincide with the weekend, with over 100 gallery events programmed, providing seasoned and new audiences with opportunities for in-person engagement with artists and their work.
Highlighting the dynamism and diversity of the city’s continuously evolving gallery scene, London Gallery Weekend 2025 welcomes 15 new UK and international galleries as participants – 11 of which opened in London in the past two years alone. Reflecting a continually evolving ecosystem and an art market that remains Europe’s largest, the 126 participating galleries include 27 that are doubling down in the city, having opened second locations or expanded their spaces in the last two years, despite global challenges.
As a Community Interest Corporation, LGW continues its mission of augmenting local and international awareness of the city’s extensive gallery sector as the largest peer-led initiative of its kind in the art world. The event has proven itself a driving force in building resilience and interconnectivity in the UK arts sector, enhancing collaboration and mutual support across public and commercial realms.
Launching new partnerships
This year’s edition sees the launch of two new partnerships: a £20,000 exhibition commissioning fund for UK public institutions in partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation and Tia Collection, and a Paul Mellon Centre grant scheme supporting travel of up to 10 museum curators from across the globe to attend LGW.
“The Henry Moore Foundation is delighted to partner with London Gallery Weekend and the Tia Collection to launch this new exhibition commissioning fund for an institutional project emerging from an exhibition or artist’s work on view for London Gallery Weekend.
“Together, we are committed to supporting curators and institutions across the UK in bringing ambitious sculptural projects to life. This initiative continues our mission to champion artists, foster bold curatorial vision, and ensure that sculpture in its broadest sense remains at the heart of public engagement with the arts.”
Godfrey Worsdale OBE, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation
“As a singular moment that reframes London’s dynamic and continuously evolving gallery community, London Gallery Weekend has developed beyond a convening event; it is forging critical cross-sector initiatives to address the challenging climate we are faced with.
“London remains the locus for outstanding exhibition making, its contribution steers the global discourse on contemporary art, and markets are established and consolidated here. This is the exceptional context in which LGW serves the public, gallery and institutional sectors alike through its expanded programme and partnerships.”
Jeremy Epstein & Sarah Rustin, Co-Directors of London Gallery Weekend
Continued partnerships with Art Fund and Government Art Collection
Continuing the LGW x Art Fund bursary for the fourth consecutive year, the regional initiative provides trips for curators from across the UK to attend LGW. This partnership extends to convening a fourth-annual focus group, a forum for museum and commercial gallery professionals to establish better networks and support between the gallery and museum sectors.
“We’re delighted to partner with London Gallery Weekend once again, supporting curators from across the UK to connect with London’s vibrant contemporary art scene, build networks, and explore new ideas. Investing in the next generation of curators is crucial to ensuring our public collections continue to inspire and engage audiences now and in the future.”
Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund
For the second consecutive year, LGW’s partnership with the Government Art Collection (GAC) will facilitate the acquisition of works on view during the weekend that represent the diversity of the UK. This partnership demonstrates the GAC’s commitment to supporting contemporary artists and bringing their work to a wider audience through their display in government buildings around the world. In 2024, the inaugural artworks acquired for the Collection were Eternity Container by Fathi Hassan (Richard Saltoun Gallery) and Divali by Mohammed Z. Rahman (Phillida Reid).
New and expanded gallery participants
Of the 126 galleries confirmed for 2025, 15 are new participants. Five have been established in London since the last LGW, including Perrotin, Ames Yavuz, William Hine, SLQS Gallery and Upsilon Gallery.
Several galleries have recently announced future expansions in the city, including market leaders Sadie Coles HQ and Hauser & Wirth, which follows a suite of recent examples of galleries doubling down on London, with 27 participating galleries having opened in or relocated to larger spaces in the last two years. Counted in this number are mid-size and emerging spaces, including Ab-Anbar, Albion Jeune, Alice Amati, Alison Jacques, ALMA PEARL, Bernheim, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Bluerider ART, Cob, Emalin, Haricot Gallery, Ilenia, Larkin Durey, lbf contemporary, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Nicoletti Contemporary, Night Café, Niru Ratnam, Palmer Gallery, Pilar Corrias, Public Gallery and South Parade.
London Gallery Weekend Gallery Circle
This year, the LGW Gallery Circle has been established to support London Gallery Weekend’s operations and cross-sector initiatives. The Gallery Circle reflects the shared recognition across London’s diverse gallery community of LGW’s importance in strengthening the sector’s ecology. Contributions are separate to the fees the galleries in the Circle pay to participate in LGW and exclusively support LGW’s long-term development.
Early exhibition highlights
East London
Early highlights include:
- the first UK solo exhibition by painter Dotty Attie constituting a major retrospective at Public Gallery
- photographs, texts, and a single-screen video in a duo show by Brian Teeling and Dorje de Burgh at New Art Projects
- a solo exhibition by Stephen Wong Chun Hei at mother’s tankstation
- two sculptures alongside works on paper – related to ephemeral installations and unrealised projects – by Rosemary Mayer at Hollybush Gardens
- a solo show by Augustas Serapinas at Emalin on Holywell Lane, and new paintings by Kate Spencer Stewart and a set of 19th century lithographs by Odilon Redon at Emalin, Shoreditch High Street
- works delving into themes of memory, transformation, and the delicate boundary between presence and absence by Soyoung Hyun at IMT Gallery
- a double exhibition by painter Maureen Gallace at both Maureen Paley and Maureen Paley: Studio M
- new paintings by London based Korean artist Anna Jung Seo alongside new works by Sean Steadman at Project Native Informant
- new works on paper and a sound installation by Margarita Gluzberg at ALMA PEARL
South London
In South London, three galleries will present Glasgow-based artists:
- Studio/Chapple in Deptford will show mixed-media artist Kialy Tihngang
- Camberwell-based William Hine – a new participant for 2025 – will debut a show of new ceramic sculptures and works on paper by Rae-Yen Song
- Soup in Elephant & Castle – also a new participant – will invite guest curator Georgia Stephenson to present a solo show of moving image and tufted textile works by Tulani Hlalo
Elsewhere:
- a new body of work by Argentinian artist Claudia Alarcón, made in response to the textiles of Anni Albers and her collection of South American art, will be on view at Cecilia Brunson Projects
- an intergenerational group show of female artists, tracing the importance of women in the Surrealist movement, will take place at Sim Smith
- ceramic sculptures in dialogue with new drawings and paintings by C Lucy R Whitehead will be shown at Trafalgar Avenue
- a new series of paintings, sculptures and textile works by Shiraz Bayjoo will be displayed at Copperfield
Central London
In Central London, early highlights include:
- a solo exhibition of the late Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray at Pace Gallery in collaboration with D’Lan Contemporary, ahead of the artist’s major Tate retrospective opening in July
- a new body of performative tufted sculptures, watercolours and glass sculptures by Anna Perach at Richard Saltoun Gallery
- new work emerging through a rhythmic conversation between materiality, colour and composition by Anna Higgins and Aimée Parrott at IONE & MANN
- expressive drawings developed from film stills that seek to delicately evoke the human condition by Marie Harnett at Cristea Roberts Gallery
- a new body of work exploring the beauty and wonder hidden in familiar objects by Nicky Hirst at domobaal
- the first solo exhibition by British painter William Farr at Berntson Bhattacharjee
- works by late British Pop Art pioneer Derek Boshier alongside contemporaries Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Peter Phillips, Richard Smith and Joe Tilson at Gazelli Art House
- an immersive selection of works including a striking three-dimensional floor-based crack by Andrea Francolino at Mazzoleni
- a wide selection of paintings, drawings and prints by David Hockney at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert;
- monumental watercolours depicting nature and its elements by Barbara Nicholls at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
- recent paintings contending with dispossession, Māori sovereignty and iconography by Robyn Kahukiwa at Phillida Reid
- a series of new paintings by Matthias Franz at GRIMM
Frieze’s No. 9 Cork Street hosts three shows from female-led galleries based in Mumbai and Delhi:
- works exploring the interplay between the tangible and the distant by Rashid Rana at Chemould Prescott Road
- a group show including Muhanned Cader, Lubna Chowdhary and Seher Shah at Jhaveri Contemporary
- an intergenerational two person show by Biraaj Dodiya and Gieve Patel at Vadehra Art Gallery
Several Central London exhibitions explore the porosity and peripheries of the cultural mainstream, including:
- paintings, sculptures and installations drawing on music, cinema and underground cultures by Gregor Hildebrandt at Almine Rech
- an immersive installation and performance exploring incarceration by Allen-Golder Carpenter and Emmanuel Massillon giving insight into the daily life of a black prison inmate at Harlesden High Street
- a group show examining the interplay between identity, authenticity, and the personas we adopt to navigate societal expectations including Juno Calypso, Mat Collishaw, Polly Morgan, Boo Saville, Julia Thompson and Bengt Tibert at Brooke Benington
- paintings drawing on the narratives of Uitoto mythology by Rember Yahuarcani at Josh Lilley
- new work exploring exile, loss, love and resistance by Massoud Hayoun at Larkin Durey
Several exhibitions examine authorship or authenticity, including:
- a debut solo show by Manchester-based painter Rachel Clancy at Pipeline
- a new body of paintings by David Salle, developed from his recent use of artificial intelligence as a tool to create more spatially dynamic and conceptually rich compositions than ever before, and a group of new paintings by American artist Jordan Casteel at Thaddaeus Ropac
- vintage photographs and unique early collage pieces blending documentary-style photography with poetic and dreamlike compositions by Joanne Leonard at HackelBury Fine Art
- lucid paintings that play with perspective, orientation, framing, and authorship by Judith Dean at South Parade
- paintings centred around the stories of past lives by Shyama Golden at PM/AM
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Notes to editors
About the Henry Moore Foundation
The Henry Moore Foundation was founded by the artist and his family in 1977 to encourage public appreciation of the visual arts.
Today we support innovative sculpture projects, devise an imaginative programme of exhibitions and research worldwide, and preserve the legacy of Moore himself: one of the great sculptors of the 20th century, who did so much to bring the art form to a wider audience.
We run two venues, in Leeds and Hertfordshire, showing a mix of Moore’s own work and other sculpture.
We also fund a variety of sculpture projects through our Henry Moore Grants and Research programmes and we have a world-class collection of artworks which regularly tour both nationally and internationally.
A registered charity, we award grants to arts organisations around the world, with a mission to bring great sculpture to as many people as possible.
About London Gallery Weekend
Each of London Gallery Weekend’s three days focuses on one area: starting with Central London on Friday 6 June, followed by South London on Saturday and culminating on Sunday in the East End. Participating galleries are open across all three days, 11:00–18:00 on Friday & Saturday and 12:00–17:00 on Sunday.
Visit Londongalleryweekend.art to learn more.