Across London and beyond, artists are turning inward, using intimate spaces and personal rituals as powerful tools of resistance. Exhibitions like Clutching at Ornaments and Bernice Mulenga’s photographic archives celebrate closeness as a counterpoint to digital dispossession. In a world of relentless spectacle, these quiet gestures remind us that vulnerability can be both radical and transformative.

This summer, London’s galleries present three unmissable exhibitions. Alien Shores at White Cube reimagines landscape through surreal, speculative visions. As the earth trembles at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery showcases abstraction as a vessel of resilience. At Beaconsfield, Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation celebrates 30 years of radical art-making. Together, these shows reveal a city alive with creative inquiry.

Museums and galleries are stepping outdoors, rewilding art in landscapes that dissolve the boundaries between culture and nature. From Hauser & Wirth’s rural installations to Henry Moore’s sculptures planned for Kew Gardens, these experiments invite audiences to experience art as part of a living ecology—an embrace of impermanence and place over sterile control.

Across the art world, institutions are rethinking what it means to endure. Tim Blum steps back from the gallery treadmill. Bow Arts secures permanent community space. without SHAPE without FORM expands into wellbeing. These shifts suggest sustainability depends on clarity of purpose rather than size, inviting us to question how cultural organisations define success.

A wave of artists is reclaiming domestic space as a site of transformation. Zofia Palucha exposes how power seeps into private rituals, Lynn Hershman Leeson reveals the surveillance lurking in intimacy, and Tai Shani constructs mythic interiors. Their work reframes the home as a stage for agency, desire, and collective imagination.

As digital production accelerates, artists like Anna Olivia Riley and Tacita Dean are reviving analog processes as a quiet act of defiance. Through photobooks and 16mm film, they embrace imperfection and materiality over speed. Their work invites us to rediscover the power of slowness and the meaning found in handmade, time-intensive practices.

This July, London’s galleries celebrate artists who transform material and memory into new visions. Anselm Kiefer’s layered landscapes revisit Van Gogh through myth and poetry. Michaela Yearwood-Dan creates vibrant spaces of queer joy and reflection. Megan Rooney’s abstractions reveal colour as both seduction and resistance, while Josef Albers’ complete print portfolios illuminate decades of radical experimentation. Discover four exhibitions where tradition, process, and transformation converge.

Artists are redefining landscape as an active witness to human impact and ecological transformation. From the Wellcome Collection’s Thirst to Yiwen Li’s immersive works reveal that the environment is not a passive backdrop but a sentient archive. They ask us to consider whether we can learn to listen to places that remember everything.

Artists like Sterling Ruby and Rick Owens are transforming industrial remnants into powerful symbols of renewal. Their recent exhibitions reveal how decay, corrosion, and entropy can become creative forces, inviting us to see material waste as fertile ground for new narratives. This rewilding of the post-industrial landscape offers a hopeful vision of transformation amid ecological crisis.

A new wave of artists, curators, and collectives is dismantling old hierarchies to embrace shared authorship and decentralised curation. From AWITA’s collaborative experiments to Cork Street’s united exhibition, these initiatives reveal how cultural ecosystems can thrive through mutualism and transparency. Discover why hybrid authorship is reshaping the creative landscape into something more inclusive and dynamic.

This June, London’s galleries present four remarkable exhibitions that reimagine how art interacts with history, environment, and perception itself. Tadashi Kawamata transforms Annely Juda Fine Art into a sculptural farewell built from reclaimed fragments. Richard Hunt’s retrospective at White Cube traces over six decades of form and transformation, celebrating one of America’s most influential sculptors. Hauser & Wirth’s Figure + Ground brings together pioneering video works that question what we see and what we overlook. Finally, Philippe Parreno’s El Almendral at Pilar Corrias merges a live landscape stream with cinematic narrative, inviting viewers into a space where reality and fiction are inseparable.