Mid-January lands with real weight.
Joseph Beuys, Nan Goldin and Richard Avedon anchor a run of museum-scale gallery shows across London, before Condo London turns the weekend into a city-wide exhibition, linking 50 galleries across 23 spaces in a dense, collaborative surge of new work. (and don’t forget Chequers on Friday)
Tuesday 13th January 2026
Thaddaeus Ropac, Ely House 6PM-9PM
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul
Thaddaeus Ropac London present Bathtub for a Heroine, the first exhibition to bring focus to the decades-long evolution of Joseph Beuys’ monumental Bathtub (1961–87), a pivotal late work now on view in the United Kingdom for the first time. The exhibition brings together the sculpture’s key precursors, including Bathtub for a Heroine (1961–84), Mammoth Tooth, Framed (1961) and Lead Woman (1949). @thaddaeusropac
Gagosian** Davies St 6PM–8PM
Gagosian present an exhibition of all 126 photographs from Nan Goldin’s genre-defining photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. The presentation marks the first time the entire body of work will be shown in the United Kingdom. The exhibition coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the volume, which Goldin described at the time as “the diary I let people read.” @gagosian
Thursday 15th January 2026
Gagosian** Grosvenor Hill, 6PM–8PM
Gagosian present Richard Avedon: Facing West, an exhibition of rare prints from the photographic series In the American West (1979–84), including works that have not been shown since their debut in 1985. Opening at the Grosvenor Hill gallery in London Facing West is curated by the photographer’s granddaughter, Caroline Avedon. @gagosian
Friday 16th January 2026
Chequers 6PM-9PM
Organised by Neue Alte Brücke + Matt Williams – Featuring: Anna Howard, Caspar Heinemann, FATZOO, Graham Gussin, MOBBS @chequers
Weekend 17th/18th
Condo London 2026
CONDO LONDON is back in 2026 with a collaborative exhibition by 50 galleries across 23 London spaces, running 17th January – 14th February 2026, with a Preview weekend, Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January, 12PM–6PM both days.@condo_complex
* If you include the whole of CONDO obviously it’s more than 5 openings, but you get what we mean – don’t you? Blah blah blah
** Gagosian Burlington Street is also showing James Turrell, After Glow, from Wednesday.
