The Last Princesses of Punjab
Discover the story of Punjabi princess and suffragette icon, Sophia Duleep Singh and five women who shaped her life, in this new exhibition at Kensington Palace for 2026.
Soma Surovi Jannat: Climate Culture Care
This is the fifth in the Ashmolean NOW exhibition series, where contemporary artists are invited to create new work inspired by the Ashmolean’s historical collections.
Gladys Hynes: Radical Lives
The first major exhibition devoted to Gladys Hynes (1888–1958), ‘Radical Lives’ reintroduces a pioneering artist whose work and politics were inseparable.
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific
A landmark collaboration between the V&A and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane.
Rising Voices will offer an unparalleled view of the Asia Pacific region’s dynamic creative landscape.
Mrinalini Mukherjee
This major retrospective at The Hepworth Wakefield will celebrate Indian artist Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949 – 2015), one of the world’s most significant modernist sculptors. The exhibition will bring together – for the first time in the UK – the full range of different media Mukherjee worked with, including textiles, ceramic and bronze sculptures, drawings, etchings and watercolours, celebrating an extraordinary 40-year career.
Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees
This exhibition is Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional show and showcases a new body of work.
ART NOW: Mohammed Z. Rahman
This summer, Tate Britain will present Never the Same, a new exhibition by Mohammed Z Rahman. Presented within two timber pavilions inspired by Bengali wedding canopies, Never the Same will premiere a new body of paintings that continue Rahman’s exploration of notions of home and love.
Anish Kapoor
One of the most influential artists of our time, Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery, where he staged his first major UK survey almost 30 years ago.
Chitra Ganesh, Journey to the Great Below
Baltic presents the first major UK solo exhibition in a public institution of Chitra Ganesh. Journey to the Great Below features a new animation, newly commissioned sculptural works and a site-specific wall drawing, alongside a selection of recent paintings, prints, works on paper and mixed media works.
Bharti Kher at the V&A
British Indian artist Bharti Kher is internationally recognised for her sculptures which explore the body, womanhood, mythology and cultural identity. This display brings her work into conversation with the V&A’s historic collections.
Raqib Shaw, Night Sonnets
Embrace the night and immerse yourself in the dreamlike works of Raqib Shaw with his new exhibition
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now
This major survey exhibition will reveal Sunil Gupta’s (b.1953, New Delhi) pioneering contribution to photography over five decades.
Amar Kanwar
Shaped by the history of the Indian subcontinent, Kanwar frequently draws on lived experience to investigate the enduring legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, which led to the creation of India, Pakistan and eventually Bangladesh. In his films, Kanwar bears witness to social upheaval, displacement, power, violence, arrogance, justice and memory. Reckoning with the past to better comprehend the urgencies of the present, he reveals what unites us, regardless of geography or context.
Listening to the earth
Listening to the earth brings together an intergenerational group of 10 artists who work with the earth as both subject and material.
Balraj Khanna, Lines of Flight
Ikon presents the first major survey exhibition of artist Balraj Khanna (1939-2024)
Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir
Discover the distinctive work of Sagarika Sundaram as she explores the sculptural possibilities of wool and felt in monumental, immersive and colourful ways.
Matrika: She Who Makes Worlds by Saroj Patel
Matrika: She Who Makes Worlds by Saroj Patel is an exhibition exploring women’s strength, ancestral memory, and the futures we imagine into being. In Hindu cosmology, Matrika refers to the divine mothers, a group of powerful feminine energies connected to creation, protection, and transformation.
NALINI MALANI ‘video shadow plays’
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.