Spring at Cork Street Galleries, 2026

Cork Street Galleries is delighted to announce a stellar spring programme of exhibitions – Carrie Mae Weems’ debut at Goodman Gallery London; Anna Park’s first solo exhibition in the UK at Lehmann Maupin; a survey of Roy Oxlade’s work at Alison Jacques; Nicola Hicks’ celebration of the natural world at Messums London; and the British multidisciplinary artist Lisa Jahovic at Flowers Gallery. As Waddington Custot pulls focus on the final decade of Jean Dubuffet’s practice.

Frieze No.9 Cork Street hosts Nature Morte (New Delhi), whose exhibition ‘To Build and Remember’ by Martand Khosla and Saad Qureshi will be shown alongside ‘A Home That Will Not Behave’, by Osman Yousefzada, presented by Bolanle Contemporary (London) during April. A new exhibition by Paola Pivi will be presented at MASSIMODECARLO and Tiwani Contemporary’s exhibition by Tizta Berhanu is an in-depth exploration of love by the Addis Ababa-based artist.

Group exhibitions abound – at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, whose ‘MONO / CHROMA’ examines the power of colour or lack of it in painting, photography, sculpture, and works on paper. At Nahmad Projects | Helly Nahmad Gallery, small works by internationally renowned artists are brought together in ‘Petits Bijoux’. At Osborne Samuel, an exhibition dedicated to Modern British Art is to be discovered.

ALISON JACQUES (22 Cork Street) presents a solo exhibition of British painter Roy Oxlade (b.1929, London, d.2014, Kent), spanning 30 years of his practice and featuring many works which have previously not been exhibited. To coincide with the exhibition, the first monograph on Oxlade will be published, with essays by Jennifer Higgie and Barry Schwabsky, an interview with Rose Wylie by Harry Thorne, and artist contributions by Sophie Barber, Alvaro Barrington, Julian Schnabel, Tal R and Clare Woods.

Viewing from 23 April – 30 May 2026.

Al Held, Untitled “D”, 1961, acrylic on paper mounted on panel, 185.4 x 107.6 cm (73 x 42⅜ in.), Courtesy Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London

ALON ZAKAIM FINE ART (27 Cork Street) presents ‘MONO / CHROMA’, which explores the expressive range of colour and its deliberate absence across painting, photography, sculpture, and works on paper. Positioning colour as a structural and conceptual force rather than decoration, the exhibition brings together works in which colour expands, fragments, or dissolves, alongside monochrome compositions that emphasise line, tone, and form.

Viewing until 24 April 2026.

Lisa Jahovic, The Soap was Dry, 2025, Archival Pigment Print (detail), (c) The Artist, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

FLOWERS GALLERY (21 Cork Street) is delighted to present ‘Soft Interruptions’, the second solo exhibition by the British multidisciplinary artist Lisa Jahovic. ‘Soft Interruptions’ captures subtle, absurd disruptions – small fractures in the ordinary that reveal tension, humour, and the poetic instability of everyday life.

Viewing from 30 April – 7 June 2026.

FRIEZE NO.9 CORK STREET (9 Cork Street): This April sees two new exhibitions at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, both with a relationship to architecture: ‘To Build and Remember’ by Martand Khosla and Saad Qureshi, presented by Nature Morte (New Delhi), and ‘A Home That Will Not Behave’ by Osman Yousefzada, presented by Bolanle Contemporary (London).

Martand Khosla, Force Mapping – II, 2025. Laser etching on intumescent paint on MDF, 73.6 x 45.7 cm (each), set of 16, Courtesy: the artist and Nature Morte, New Delhi

Nature Morte presents ‘To Build and Remember’, the first exhibition to bring together the practices of Martand Khosla and Saad Qureshi. Together, the two artists explore their individual perspectives of architecture: its connotations of shelter, permanence and belonging, and the absence that can occur with the failure to deliver these qualities. Khosla, a trained architect with decades of work in India’s rapidly transforming urban areas, views cities as sites of continued transformation, of construction and destruction, with their forms accelerating beyond the human capacity to understand or control them. Qureshi – who works across sculpture, drawing and textile – explores memory, landscape and the psychological experience of cultural belonging. In his work, he emphasizes the endurance not of structures but the spaces they leave behind in the memory: the feeling of a place after it is gone.

Viewing until 25 April 2026.

Osman Yousefzada, Three Pillows, 2026, oil and acrylic pigment, fibre, polyethylene, collage and embroidery on canvas, 250 × 150 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Bolanle Contemporary, Photography by Chris Lane

The solo presentation by Osman Yousefzada in Gallery 2 marks Bolanle Contemporary’s first exhibition at Frieze No.9 Cork Street. In a continuation of themes of the psychological aspects of architecture seen in gallery 1, this presentation brings together a new body of work that considers the home as a site of tension, memory, and embodied experience. For Yousefzada, home is never neutral; it is shaped by migration, silence, protection and control.

Viewing until 25 April 2026.

Anna Park, Hold That Thought / Absolutely Mad, 2026, Pastel and paint on paper mounted on aluminium panel, 58.25 x 40.25 inches 147.95 x 102.24 cm, Courtesy Lehmann Maupin

LEHMANN MAUPIN (9 Cork Street) presents ‘Hot Honey’, a series of new works by New York-based artist Anna Park. Featuring Park’s signature large-scale charcoal works, the exhibition centres on female protagonists who both inhabit and unsettle the archetypes of the vixen and the bombshell. Marking Park’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, ‘Hot Honey’ signals a pivotal moment in the artist’s evolving practice, as technical ambition and cultural critique converge with renewed force.

Viewing from 30 April – 30 May 2026.

Carrie Mae Weems, The Law of Diminishing Returns, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery, Photographed by Stephen White and Co

GOODMAN GALLERY (26 Cork Street). For more than four decades, Carrie Mae Weems has positioned herself at the threshold between image and history – reshaping the possibilities of photography, installation, video and performance. This April, she makes her debut with Goodman Gallery London, presenting an exhibition that brings together recent and significant bodies of work reflecting on migration, belonging and the enduring afterlives of the Atlantic passage. Concurrently, Weems will present a newly commissioned film for the launch of V&A East on 17 April 2026.

Viewing until 23 May 2026.

Paola Pivi, TBT, 2025, multicolour plastic pearls, Courtesy the artist and MASSIMODECARLO, Photography by Andrea Rossetti

MASSIMODECARLO (16 Clifford Street) presents a solo exhibition by Paola Pivi titled ‘A girl loved pearls so much she left engineering, strung them off the wall, and made art’.

Viewing from 30 April – 20 June 2026.

Nicola Hicks, Big Dog, 2010, plaster and straw, 101 x 76 x 76 cm, Courtesy Messums London and the artist

MESSUMS LONDON (28 Cork Street) presents ‘Love’, an exhibition by Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS that celebrates Hicks’ enduring connection to the natural world. The show will bring together a series of plaster sculptures shown alongside limited-edition prints. ‘Love’ invites viewers into an intimate encounter with the animal kingdom, where vulnerability, strength, and tenderness coexist.

Viewing from 22 April – 23 May 2026.

‘Petits Bijoux’, installation view at Nahmad Projects | Helly Nahmad Gallery, Photo by Stephen White and Co

NAHMAD PROJECTS | HELLY NAHMAD GALLERY (2 Cork Street): Helly Nahmad Gallery at Nahmad Projects is pleased to present ‘Petits Bijoux’, a gathering of small artworks by modern masters spanning a century of periods and practices – proposing scale not as a limitation, but as an invitation to look closely. In a world with a seemingly endless appetite for the grand, this exhibition subverts traditional thinking, celebrating intimacy, precision, and sensitivity.

Viewing until 8 May 2026.

Lynn Chadwick, Maquette for R 34 (Maquette for Stranger III), 1959, Bronze, edition of 6, 44 x 54 x 18 cm (17 ⅜ x 21 ¼ x 7 ⅛ in), Courtesy Osborne Samuel

OSBORNE SAMUEL (21 Cork Street) will present an exhibition dedicated to Modern British Art throughout April and May. A major highlight is Lynn Chadwick’s Maquette for R 34 (Maquette for Stranger III) from 1959.

Viewing April – May 2026.

Tizta Berhanu, Weeping with those who weep, 2024, Oil on canvas, 170 x 180 cm, Courtesy of the artist, Addis Fine Art and Tiwani Contemporary, Photo by Deniz Guzel

TIWANI CONTEMPORARY (24 Cork Street) is delighted to present ‘Tizta Berhanu: Love Is A Practice’ in collaboration with Addis Fine Art. The exhibition is a tender meditation on the many forms love takes in our daily lives. For Berhanu, love is not just a fleeting emotion but an active, ongoing gesture, something we choose, nurture, and embody through presence, empathy, and quiet devotion. At the heart of the exhibition is the human need for support.

Viewing until 16 May 2026.

Jean Dubuffet, Site aléatoire avec 2 personnages 29 mars 1982, Courtesy Waddington Custot

WADDINGTON CUSTOT (11-12 Cork Street) is pleased to present ‘Jean Dubuffet: The Last Ten Years’, its 14th solo exhibition of works by French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–85), a celebration of the gallery’s longstanding relationship with the artist and his Estate, spanning over 50 years since hosting his first British solo show in 1972.

Viewing until 13 June 2026.