From Anne Imhof\u2019s immersive gothic landscape to Paul P\u2019s portraits of 1970s gay porn actors, here\u2019s our guide to the best exhibitions to catch over London Gallery WeekendJune 05, 2026<\/p>\n
The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset by Paul P at Maureen Paley until 25 July<\/a><\/p>\n Alongside hazy skies, gathering clouds, colonies of bats and crashing waves, faces emerge from the fugue-like state of dawn or fade into enveloping dusk in Paul P\u2019s luminous paintings. Drawing inspiration from gay porn magazines of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, as well as the atmospheric work of late-19th-century painters Whistler and Sargent, his portraits immortalise the faces of anonymous men from hardcore shoots and capture moments of transition: changing light, the crest of a wave, and spent ecstasy.<\/p>\n 9The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset by Paul P<\/a><\/p>\n Citizen by Anne Imhof at Spr\u00fcth Magers until 1 August<\/a><\/p>\n Fusing performance, painting, subcultural music, fashion, film and sculpture, German-born artist Anne Imhof continues her investigation into the anxieties of the digital age \u2013 surveillance, systemic control and the corporeal experience of modernity. The immersive industrial, gothic landscape of Citizen is divided by weighty crowd-control barriers directing visitors through the gallery in a predetermined route \u2013 past the artist\u2019s new monumental, moody Wave paintings, the four-channel film exploring classical ballet, the heavy bronze reliefs and much else.<\/p>\n This Weather by Helen Marten at Sadie Coles HQ until 12 September<\/a><\/p>\n If you missed 30 Blizzards, Helen Marten\u2019s elaborate modernist opera-performance-installation commissioned by Miu Miu at last year\u2019s Art Basel Paris, it has been reconceived and restaged at Sadie Coles HQ in a condensed, singular form for London Gallery Weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n This Weather consists of five new films exploring the themes of childhood, community, sexuality, interiority and loss. As with her ambitious staging of 30 Blizzards, this latest work by the Turner Prize-winning artist is still sprawling and vast in its scope, encompassing worlds within worlds and, in the artist\u2018s own words, an\u00a0\u201cavalanche of connected meanings\u201d.<\/p>\n Read AnOther\u2019s interview with Helen Marten here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 15This Weather by Helen Marten<\/a><\/p>\n Seizure of Hope by Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth London until 1 August<\/a><\/p>\n For over four decades, artist Roni Hope has been fascinated by language. Her exhibition Seizure of Hope consists of over 45 works, each inscribed over and over with the words \u2018I am paralyzed with hope\u2019 in wax crayon. Through repetition, the meaning and gravity of the phrase seem to undulate from despair to expectation; at times feeling desperate, at times abstract. The phrase, which originates from a performance by the stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, has been described by the artist as a \u201cpoignant connection to our time with regards to politics and the environment and now, of course, in relation to the pandemic\u201d. Here, its sheer accumulation forms an urgent prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\n 8Seizure of Hope by Roni Horn<\/a><\/p>\n Bring Me Men by Gray Wielebinski at Nicoletti until 4 July<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Bring me men\u2019 was the striking slogan once carved into the brickwork of the United States Air Force Academy, where Dallas-born artist Gray Wielebinski\u2019s father trained. Removed in disgrace after the institution was investigated for systemic sexual misconduct, the phrase is ripe with all manner of meanings. Wielebinski\u2019s exhibition examines the accumulation of associations contained within the constructed concept of masculinity. Presenting sculptural objects assembled with found images, the artist concocts a series of unwieldy kind of moodboards, pasted with the signifiers of masculinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read AnOther\u2019s feature on the series\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n 18Bring Me Men by Gray Wielebinski<\/a><\/p>\n Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Shaniqwa Jarvis at Public Gallery until 7 June<\/a><\/p>\n Beloved US-artist Shaniqwa Jarvis\u2019 first UK solo exhibition, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, engages with experiences of grief, memory, loss and resilience. The show\u2019s recurring motif of flowers \u2013 avatars of beauty, abundance and sexuality \u2013 also recalls fragility and transience. Featuring photography ordained with acrylic washes and a hypnotic film, From Negative to Positive (2026), in which purple gerbera daisies gradually come into focus, Jarvis draws us in to contemplate the grinding inevitability of heartbreak but also its natural precursor, love.<\/p>\n 9Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Shaniqwa Jarvis<\/a><\/p>\n