Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2025
Five Exhibitions to See in London in June 2025 – From radical photography to poetic abstraction, the capital’s galleries offer a vibrant start to summer.
“Summer, summer, summertime,” sang Will Smith in his 1991 hit—lyrics that feel especially apt as London stretches into the long, golden days of June. With Photo London just behind us, the capital’s cultural calendar is shifting into high gear. This month, galleries across the city unveil an array of exhibitions that capture the spirit of the season: reflective, bold, and alive with possibility.
From the first major UK solo shows of celebrated international artists to emotionally resonant painting and groundbreaking documentary photography, London’s visual arts scene is in full bloom. Whether you’re a collector, curator, or simply curious, our Five Exhibitions to See in London in June 2025 stand out for their range, resonance, and relevance.
At the Hayward Gallery, Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara receives his first UK solo exhibition in a public art institution, with a major retrospective spanning four decades of emotionally charged paintings, drawings and sculpture. At Amar Gallery, the powerful photographic archive of Stephen Shames—known for his documentation of the Black Panther Party—comes to London for the first time, featuring portraits of civil rights icons such as Angela Davis and Huey Newton.
Meanwhile, Huxley-Parlour presents two striking exhibitions: one by South Korean artist Jungjin Lee, whose abstracted Icelandic landscapes channel photography as spiritual experience, and another by painter Catherine Repko, whose large-scale canvases delicately explore emotional closeness between female figures. At Ronchini Gallery, Jacob Hashimoto debuts Analog Death, etc., a new body of kite-based constructions developed with laser-cutting precision, merging craft, technology and layered abstraction in response to the anxieties of modern life.
Together, these shows form the foundation of Five Exhibitions to See in London in June 2025, a cultural itinerary that speaks to both the power of visual storytelling and the shifting contours of global creativity. Each exhibition, in its own way, offers a unique entry point into conversations about identity, memory, materiality and meaning.
And Beyond the Galleries:
RCA2025 Graduate Show
The Royal College of Art’s annual graduate showcase returns this month, offering a glimpse into the future of contemporary art and design. From sculpture and fashion to moving image and performance, RCA2025 features work from emerging talents across disciplines. The show is a reminder of London’s enduring role as a crucible for innovation and experimentation.
Women in Art Fair
Also this June, the Women in Art Fair continues its mission to spotlight female-identifying artists from around the world. With a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion, the fair features painting, sculpture, photography and digital works that challenge, celebrate, and reframe our understanding of identity and creative authorship.
From established icons to tomorrow’s visionaries, London’s art world is alive with new perspectives this June. Whether inside a gallery or across a graduate campus, these Five Exhibitions to See in London in June offer just a glimpse of a season filled with inspiration—and reward those ready to look closely and think deeply.
Five Exhibitions To See In London In June 2025
Yoshitomo Nara at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery will present the first UK solo exhibition at a public art gallery by leading Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. The major retrospective invites viewers to immerse themselves in the intriguing world of one of today’s most celebrated artists through four decades of work, including recent paintings and drawings, as well as sculptures and iconic portraits brought to life through richly layered colours.
Expanding on the blockbuster exhibition from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Yoshitomo Nara will offer a window into the inner-workings of the artist, providing an insight into how Nara’s life experiences are intrinsically linked to his output through core themes and motifs.
Yoshitomo Nara at the Hayward Gallery
10th June, 2025 – 31st August, 2025
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
Full price standard: £20
Concessions available & Southbank Centre Members go free
Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames
Amar Gallery is proud to announce our exhibition Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames.
This exhibition is the first London gallery show for Stephen Shames, the photographer of the Black Panther Party, whose archive of Panther images is the largest in the world.
For the first time in London, Shames’ powerful civil rights images of Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby
Seale, Huey Newton, Maya Angelou and Angela Davis amongst others will be on view at Amar
Gallery. At a time when racism is on the rise, we hope this exhibition serves as a reminder that equality has been a struggle for millions often suppressed due to race, gender or sexuality.
Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, who co-authored a book with Shames, said of the tribulations the Black Panther’s faced: “They came down on us because we had grassroots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.” The people’s revolution, programmes and working coalitions were documented by Shames for years, protecting the legacy, history and spirit of the equal rights movement.
Black Panthers & Revolution: Stephen Shames
29th May, 2025 – 6th July, 2025
Amar Gallery
Kirkman House, Lower Ground
12-14 Whitfield Street
London, W1T 2RF
Jungjin Lee: Unseen
Huxley-Parlour is pleased to announce the first UK exhibition of South Korean artist Jungjin Lee.
The exhibition presents ten large-scale photographs from Lee’s latest body of work, made in Iceland in 2024.
For Lee, photography is a conduit for emotional and philosophical enquiry. The act of photographing is a deeply personal process, and the artist seeks to convey what is felt rather than seen. Moving freely between calligraphic delicacy and stark geometry, Lee’s photography bears witness to her own emotional responses to, and internal experience of, a landscape. In many works, the artist eschews direct representation entirely, and the landscape dissolves into non-representational forms and abstracted surfaces.
Jungjin Lee: Unseen
6th June, 2025 – 5th July, 2025
HUXLEY-PARLOUR
45 Maddox Street
London W1S 2PE
Jacob Hashimoto: Analog Death, etc.
Ronchini is excited to present Analog Death, etc., our third solo exhibition featuring new works by the New York-based artist, Jacob Hashimoto (b. 1973, Greeley, Colorado).
Developed across a body of work spanning the past three years, these works see Hashimoto respond to current events in an abstracted, nuanced manner—physically manifested by his iconic, delicately layered, and elegant kite-based constructions.
In this series, while the compositions on the kites remain intricately layered and meticulously assembled by hand, the introduction of a laser cutter into the studio has allowed the artist to revisit ideas gathered over the years. This new precision-cutting process enables the realization of compositions that were previously too intricate to be cut by hand.
As Hashimoto’s practice continues to evolve—bridging the gap between the tactile and the technological—the compositions chart both a poetic and chaotic cartography of memory and meaning. The works simultaneously embody a portrait of the artist’s mind and a reflection of broader existential concerns. Hashimoto masterfully turns a single moment into a gesture.
Jacob Hashimoto: Analog Death, etc.
23rd May, 2025 – 27th June, 2025
Ronchini Gallery
22 Dering Street
London, W1S 1AN
Catherine Repko: Duets
A new exhibition by Catherine Repko has opened at Huxley-Parlour’s Swallow Street gallery. Titled Duets, the show brings together a series of large-scale paintings that quietly examine the relationship between two figures, and the emotional terrain that lies between them.
Rather than illustrating scenes or telling stories, Repko’s works suggest a kind of shared interior space. Her paired subjects—often female—appear absorbed, leaning towards or away from one another, caught in gestures that seem both deliberate and momentary. There is an ease to their closeness, but also a reserve; a sense that each figure remains, in some way, apart.
The title hints at harmony, but also separation—two distinct voices, moving in relation to one another without necessarily merging. In one canvas, outstretched arms mirror each other’s shape without quite meeting. In another, one figure turns slightly away, the angle of her neck suggesting quiet withdrawal or contemplation.
Catherine Repko: Duets
6th June, 2025 – 5th July, 2025
HUXLEY-PARLOUR
3–5 Swallow Street
London W1B 4DE
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