As the dust settles on CONDO London’s opening weekend, London’s exhibition year begins in earnest. From London Art Fair 2026 to a landmark Juanita McNeely presentation at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, a Wilde-inspired group show at Sadie Coles HQ, Carrie Moyer’s UK debut at Pilar Corrias, Massimiliano Gottardi at Alice Amati, and a new commission by Joe Moss at Matt’s Gallery, we’ve selected five openings setting the tone for the season ahead.
Tuesday 20 January
London Art Fair 2026 5PM – 9PM
Edition of 50 Signed, numbered and dated by the artist Courtesy Moniker Projects
London Art Fair returns to the capital from 21st-25th January 2026, bringing together a curated selection of leading Modern and Contemporary galleries from the UK and around the world. Now in its 38th year, the Fair remains a trusted destination for collectors and art enthusiasts to discover new work, connect and invest at the start of the international art calendar. @londonartfair
Lévy Gorvy Dayan
•Opening on the 20th, but not sure if there is an opening
Lévy Gorvy Dayan will present the first solo exhibition in London dedicated to Juanita McNeely, marking a landmark moment for the late New York painter’s work in the UK.
Spanning paintings and works on paper from the 1960s through to the 2010s, the exhibition traces more than five decades of McNeely’s uncompromising practice. Her work is defined by an unflinching engagement with the human body and a radical determination to confront taboo subjects, placing women’s lived experiences at the centre of shifting social, political and artistic contexts.
The exhibition unfolds across two floors of the gallery’s home in the former Empress Club — one of London’s earliest members’ clubs for women. The historic setting, long associated with female autonomy and community, provides a resonant framework for McNeely’s work, underscoring its enduring urgency and feminist conviction. @levygorvydayan
Wednesday 21 January
Sadie Coles HQ, Savile Row 6PM -8PM
Sadie Coles HQ’s second exhibition in their newly opened Savile Row space takes its cue from Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Oscar Wilde’s darkly comic novella set in a sharply observed Victorian London. Part satire, part moral farce, Wilde’s story — populated by palm readers, poisonous trinkets and melodramatic social obligations — becomes the conceptual springboard for a sprawling group exhibition spanning multiple media and scales. @sadiecoleshq
Thursday 22 January
Pilar Corrias 6PM-8PM
Opening at Pilar Corrias, Always Venus, Never Mars, marks the first UK solo exhibition of American artist Carrie Moyer, featuring new abstract paintings and works on paper.
In this exhibition, Moyer continues to embed her queer feminist politics within an expansive and distinctly elastic legacy of 20th-century American abstraction. Born in an era shaped by the civil rights movement, Marcel Duchamp’s revival and Helen Frankenthaler’s triumph, Always Venus, Never Mars sees Moyer pushing deeper into the 21st-century, steering away from apocalyptic thinking and toward imaginative possibility. @carrie.moyer.studio @pilarcorriasgallery
Alice Amati 6PM -8PM
Alice Amati to present the first solo exhibition with the gallery of London-based Italian artist Massimiliano Gottardi’s (b.1989). The exhibition Zero is accompanied by a newly commissioned essay by Italian art historian and poet Ilaria Monti. gottardimassimiliano @_aliceamati
Friday 23 January
Matt’s Gallery 6PM-9PM
Matt’s Gallery to present Automated Fantasy Procedure, a major new commission by London-based artist Joe Moss. Automated Fantasy Procedure continues and expands Moss’ engagement with ‘the proleptic’: a collapse of past, present and future in which fiction, reality and ideas of progress fold into one another. The exhibition aims to create a haunting, feedback-laden environment – an exploration of how bodies and technologies move through, and are moved by, the historical systems that structure contemporary life. The result promises to be a layered, self-reflexive system in which images, bodies and infrastructures continuously refer to and reshape one another. @joemoss1 @mattsgallerylondon
Automated Fantasy Procedure is supported by The Foundation Foundation.
