As January gathers pace, London’s galleries roll out another tightly packed week of openings. From intimate embroidery-led abstraction and rediscovered figurative painting to countercultural drawing, interdisciplinary installation, and geometry-driven group shows, these late-January launches trace a city shifting smoothly back into exhibition mode.
Tuesday 27th January
White Cube Masons Yard 6:30PM-8PM
White Cube presents a solo exhibition by Jessica Rankin, featuring new embroidered paintings and works on paper. Blending autobiography with politics, history, literature, and poetry, Rankin’s compositions bring together painted gesture and sewn line to form shifting topographies—at once intimate and expansive, earthly and cosmic.
Thursday 29th January
David Zwirner 6PM-8PM
David Zwirner presents a survey of work by R. Crumb, spanning the audacious arc of his six-decade career. From comics to countercultural drawing, the exhibition traces Crumb’s redefinition of graphic art as a radical, subversive form. This marks his first solo exhibition at David Zwirner London since 2016. @davidzwirner
Sadie Coles HQ Bury Street 6PM-8PM
Sadie Coles HQ presents a rare exhibition of paintings and drawings from the 1990s by Alexandra Christou (1950–2009). Largely unseen during her lifetime, Christou’s work captures Greek city and island life—markets, tavernas, landscapes, and recurring figures—where private rebellion meets collective ritual in scenes of intense, compassionate observation. @sadiecoleshq
Goldsmiths CCA 6PM-9PM
Goldsmiths CCA presents the first UK institutional solo exhibition in over a decade by Christina Mackie. Bringing new works into dialogue with key pieces from the past fifteen years, the exhibition foregrounds Mackie’s interdisciplinary practice across sculpture, painting, and installation—shaped by geological, environmental, digital, and scientific modes of thinking. @goldsmithscca
Stephen Friedman Gallery 6PM-8PM
Geometry in Motion brings together paintings, sculptures, and large-scale installations exploring geometry, seriality, and systems of order. The group exhibition features works by longstanding gallery artists including: Tonico Lemos Auad, Jonathan Baldock, Claire Barclay, Tom Friedman, Kendell Geers, Pam Glick, Channing Hansen, Ilona Keserü, Yinka Shonibare, Clare Woods and Luiz Zerbini.@stephenfriedmangallery
