Nalini Malani’s ‘video shadow plays’ combine video, shadow and sound to tell multiple stories. In this work, she creates a tribute to women’s lives forgotten throughout history.

Step into Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s imagination at Chila Welcomes You, a major new art commission for IWM North. 

The exhibition is a personal perspective on the heritage of conflict and stories of Indian migration to Britain after the Second World War.

Bradford is the UK City of Culture for 2025 with a huge range of events taking place across the city.

Arpita Singh's first institutional solo exhibition in London, "Remembering," opens in March at Serpentine North, supported by the Bagri Foundation. Spanning six decades, Singh’s powerful work ranges from large oil paintings to intimate watercolours, exploring themes of gender, motherhood, and political unrest through vivid contemporary reimaginings of Indian myths.

The exhibition will address tradition, co-existence and exploration within South Asia that emphasises the interconnectedness in the region, and the collective memory of being a nation. 

Jai Chuhan: Dancer brings together new and existing works by Indian born, British artist Jai Chuhan for her first solo exhibition in the South West.

This new exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, curated by writer and critic Hettie Judah, plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.

Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, this year-long series launches in May with an exhibition of works by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum in September and Lynda Benglis in February 2026.

Drawing Room Invites… exhibits solo presentations from three artists who contributed to Drawing Biennial 2024, giving greater insight into their practices and the innovative art being made within the expanded field of drawing today. 

The Ring in the Fish explores what role imagination holds in migration, and how these images carried across multiple generations of migrants create new psychic landscapes, enabling new ways of being—reworking filmmaker Humphrey Jennings’ notion of “making visible the delicate re-balancing of facts, events and ideas”.

Reaching back more than 2,000 years, this new exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the ancient and powerful nature spirits of India, and the spread of this art beyond the subcontinent.

Tigers and Dragons has both a historical and contemporary element – it examines the past, while forging a future. It spotlights Wales-based practitioners alongside art from South Asia and its diasporas, it will serve as a platform for debates about ‘British’ heritage, imperialism, decolonization – and competing nationalisms.

The NAE Open returns for its fifth edition with a bold, diverse and stimulating exhibition showcasing painting, video, live art, photography, textiles and sculpture.

Hamad Butt: Apprehensions is the first major survey of Hamad Butt (b. 1962, Lahore, Pakistan; d. 1994, London, UK).

One of the most innovative artists of his generation, Hamad Butt was a pioneer of intermedia art, bringing art into conversation with science, whilst also referencing his Queer and diasporic experiences. He offered a nuanced artistic response to the AIDS crisis in the UK, taking a conceptual rather than activist approach.

Celebrated for her work in establishing an architectural language that is both contemporary and deeply connected to a specific place, climate, context, culture, and history, Marina Tabassum brings her distinctive vision to the Serpentine Pavilion 2025.

‘BEDROCK’ draws on Liverpool’s distinctive geography and the beliefs which underpin the city’s social foundations. It is inspired by the sandstone which spans the city region and is found in its distinctive architecture. ‘BEDROCK’ also acts as a metaphor for the social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground all of us. 

Mirror, Mirror is the largest solo presentation of Permindar Kaur’s work in a London institution to date and will take place across the main gallery and the historic manor. Kaur’s installations use a visual language of toys, clothing, and shelter to explore how domestic settings shape individuals, and how identity and background relates to these things.

Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works

“I believe with all my soul that a true artist paints solely for himself”: so said this remarkable artist. Souza’s friendship with Britten and Pears, and his famous portrait of the latter, inspire this special Festival exhibition.

For their exhibition Doubles, artist Prem Sahib brings together objects and sculptural interventions that stretch beyond the last decade, referencing the local area, both past and present. The exhibition explores the idea of a copy or replica, as it pertains to performance, mimicry, memory, deception and perceived threat.

Debjani Banerjee’s exhibition Jalsaghar is an intricate exploration of identity, culture, and heritage. The title, which translates from Bengali as “The Music Room”, hints at a space of collaboration and cultural expression.