London Gallery Weekend, 2026

Cork Street Galleries is delighted to announce its programme of exhibitions coinciding with this edition of London Gallery Weekend.

Solo presentations include an exhibition spanning several decades of Eileen Agar’s work at Alison Jacques and Anna Freeman Bentley’s debut at Lehmann Maupin’s London gallery. Goodman Gallery presents ‘Revisitations’, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ravelle Pillay and Holtermann Fine Art presents ‘Glowing Phalanges’, a solo exhibition by Ahmed Umar. ‘We Are Our Mountains’ is the first solo exhibition by Eleanor Ekserdjian at Messums London. A new exhibition by Paola Pivi continues at MASSIMODECARLO while the British multidisciplinary artist Lisa Jahovic is on view at Flowers Gallery. Waddington Custot focus on the final decade of Jean Dubuffet’s practice.

Frieze No.9 Cork Street is hosting Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi) who will present ‘A Singular Modernist’ by A. Ramachandran. In their debut at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, Project 88 (Mumbai) will present ‘Treeish’, a group show curated by Prajna Desai. Further group exhibitions are presented at Alon Zakaim Fine Art whose ‘Turmoil and Triumph: Art Through the War Years’ explores the transformation across the First World War, the interwar period and the Second World War, tracing how upheaval destabilised artistic tradition while giving rise to new formal and ideological possibilities, and at Osborne Samuel who are staging an exhibition dedicated to Modern British Art. Nahmad Projects | Helly Nahmad Gallery presents four works by both Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, celebrating the pair’s joint refusal to follow the rules of art history, and shared belief that painting had no limits in ‘Tête à tête: Joan Miró & Pablo Picasso’. Sam Fogg presents ‘Art in the Service of Faith: Masterpieces from the Middle Ages’, the exhibition bringing together more than thirty masterpieces of medieval art from the fields of painting, sculpture, goldsmith’s work, stained glass, and manuscript illumination.

Eileen Agar, Rock 10, 1985. Courtesy of Alison Jacques. © Estate of Eileen Agar. Photo: Michael Brzezinski

ALISON JACQUES (22 Cork Street) presents a solo exhibition of pioneering artist Eileen Agar (b.1899, Buenos Aires; d.1991, London). Spanning several decades of Agar’s practice, the exhibition will showcase her radical approach to material and the curious, travelled eye she cast upon the world. This presentation follows Agar’s critically acclaimed solo exhibition ‘Angel of Anarchy’, curated by the now director of Hepworth Wakefield Laura Smith, at Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 2021 which toured to Leeds Art Gallery, and internationally, to Mjellby Art Museum, Halmstad, Sweden.

Viewing from 5 June – 25 July 2026.

A private view will take place at the gallery on Thursday 4 June from 18:00 – 20:00.

Albert Gleizes, Kelly Springfield, c.1915. Courtesy of Alon Zakaim Fine Art

ALON ZAKAIM FINE ART (27 Cork Street) presents ‘Turmoil and Triumph: Art Through the War Years’. In reflecting on the relationship between conflict and artistic transformation, Arnold Hauser understood war not solely as a force of destruction, but as a catalyst for aesthetic change: a moment in which artists were compelled to abandon inherited conventions and reimagine the language of art itself. ‘Turmoil and Triumph: Art Through the War Years’ explores this transformation across the First World War, the interwar period and the Second World War, tracing how upheaval destabilised artistic tradition while giving rise to new formal and ideological possibilities.

Viewing until 17 July 2026.

Lisa Jahovic, The Soap was Dry, 2025, Archival Pigment Print, (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 until 7 June 2026.

Lisa Jahovic will be in conversation with the writer Gem Fletcher at the gallery on Saturday 6 June at 12:00 midday.

Saint Peter with his Keys, Germany, or an artist of German extraction, c. 1440

SAM FOGG (15D Clifford Street) present ‘Art in the Service of Faith: Masterpieces from the Middle Ages’. This exhibition brings together more than thirty masterpieces of medieval art from the fields of painting, sculpture, goldsmith’s work, stained glass, and manuscript illumination, created by artisans working between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Together, they reveal the extraordinary aesthetic innovations reshaping Europe during this period and the remarkable range of materials mastered by artists whose skills rival – and at times surpass – those of any generation since.

Viewing from 29 May – 10 July 2026.

A. Ramachandran, Girls on the Swing, 2017, oil on canvas, 78 x 96 in. Courtesy of Vadehra Art Gallery and the Ramachandran family

FRIEZE NO.9 CORK STREET (9 Cork Street)

On view at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from 4 June to 4 July are two exhibitions: ‘A Singular Modernist’, by A. Ramachandran, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi), and ‘Treeish’, presented by Project 88 (Mumbai).

Celebrated for the public scale of his murals and canvases, A. Ramachandran’s ambitious compositions unfold as flattened microcosms of colour and gesture. The artist is also known for his formidable five-decade-long artistic vision, shaped by a profound engagement with the natural world and a deep empathy for the human condition.

In their debut exhibition at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, Project 88 presents ‘Treeish’, a group show curated by Prajna Desai, emerging from ‘Never was a shade’, a concurrent exhibition at the gallery’s Mumbai location. Borrowing poetic logic from the work of British tree scientist Harriet Rix, the presentation centres on nature and the evidence of arboreal power, featuring works by Claire Baker, Goutam Ghosh, Mahesh Baliga, Neha Choksi, Tejal Shah, and Trupti Patel.

Mahesh Baliga, Tailpot palm, 2026, casein on linen, 30 x 22 in. Courtesy of the artist and Project 88

Both viewing from 4 June – 4 July 2026.

Exhibition previews will take place at the gallery on Wednesday 3 June from 18:00 – 20:00.

LEHMANN MAUPIN (9 Cork Street) is pleased to present ‘Conduits’, Anna Freeman Bentley’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery in London. ‘Conduits’ will feature a suite of new and recent paintings by Freeman Bentley, which explore the idea of veils and coverings as conduits to meaning. At the heart of Freeman Bentley’s practice is a psychogeographic exploration of the built environment – from baroque interiors and historic buildings to shops, film sets, and industrial sites. Her paintings examine how spaces are shaped by function, class, aspiration, and time; often touching on themes like gentrification, decay, and renewal.

Viewing from 3 June – 14 August 2026.

The gallery will host an opening reception on Wednesday 3 June from 18:00 – 20:00.

Ravelle Pillay, The Shallows, 2026. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery and the Artist

GOODMAN GALLERY (26 Cork Street) presents ‘Revisitations’, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ravelle Pillay, in which paint becomes a medium through which to bridge geographies, timelines and archives, alongside histories of indenture, colonialism, displacement and erasure within the artist’s own family history. The exhibition marks Pillay’s first gallery presentation in London since relocating to the United Kingdom, following a significant period of institutional and curatorial visibility in the city, including a residency at Gasworks in 2022, her first institutional solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in 2023, and a major commission for the National Portrait Gallery in 2025.

Viewing from 4 June – 16 July 2026.

The gallery will host an exhibition preview on Thursday 4 June from 18:00 – 20:00.
Ravelle Pillay and Dr. Zoé Whitley will be in conversation at the gallery on Saturday 6 June at 15:00.

Copyright the artist [Ahmed Umar]. Courtesy of Holtermann Fine Art. Photo Phil Macdonald

HOLTERMANN FINE ART (30 Cork Street) is delighted to present ‘Glowing Phalanges’, a solo exhibition by Ahmed Umar. ‘Glowing Phalanges’ forms part of Umar’s ongoing project ‘Forbidden Prayers’, a body of work he has been developing since 2018. The exhibition presents a series of sculptural works in glass and mixed media; each held in acrylic casts of the artist’s right hand.

Viewing from 5 June – 1 August 2026.

The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday 4 June from 18:00 – 20:00.
Ahmed Umar and Founder and Director Marianne Holtermann will be in conversation at the gallery on Friday 5 June. The talk starts at 18:00, with extended opening until 20:00.

Paola Pivi, A girl loved pearls so much she left engineering, strung them off the wall, and made art, Installation view. Courtesy of MASSIMODECARLO

MASSIMODECARLO (16 Clifford Street) The title of this exhibition, ‘A girl loved pearls so much she left engineering, strung them off the wall, and made art’, draws from the beginning of Paola Pivi’s artistic career. In her early years, Paola Pivi trained as a chemical nuclear engineer at the Politecnico di Milano before a number of coincidences brought her in the direction of art, soon enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. The same mind that once worked with quantum mechanics, algebra, and analysis for exams now harnessed gravity, physics, and order to approach the action of transforming materials into the sublime.

Viewing until 20 June 2026.

The gallery will remain open until 20:00 on Thursday 4 June.

Eleanor Ekserdjian, They Will Not Take My Island II © the artist. Courtesy of Messums London

MESSUMS LONDON (28 Cork Street) ‘We Are Our Mountains’ is the first solo presentation of the work of Eleanor Ekserdjian at Messums London. Ekserdjian is a painter and film artist whose practice blends moving images with rapid mark-making. The exhibition explores cultural memory through landscape and examines our shifting ideas of homeland from the perspective of diaspora.

Viewing until 27 June 2026.

Joan Miró, Oiseaux en Fête pour le lever du Jour (Birds Making Merry for Daybreak) March 21, 1968

NAHMAD PROJECTS | HELLY NAHMAD GALLERY (2 Cork Street) will present ‘Tête à tête: Joan Miró & Pablo Picasso’. It all started with a pastry. In 1920, the young Joan Miró (1893-1983) arrived in Paris carrying an ensaimada from Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) mother in Barcelona. The Catalonian capital meant everything to both of them. Miró was born there, Picasso spent his formative years there, and in the end, both men gave large portions of their life’s work back to it. It was an unlikely introduction to one of the great friendships in modern art, one that would last more than fifty years. ‘Tête à tête: Joan Miró & Pablo Picasso’ presents four works by each artist, celebrating the pair’s joint refusal to follow the rules of art history, and shared belief that painting had no limits.

Pablo Picasso, Homme et femme nus, 1965

Viewing from 1 June – 17 July 2026.

A private view will take place at the gallery on Thursday 4 June from 18:00 – 20:00.

Henry Moore (1898-1986), Women Winding Wool, 1948, Pencil, ink, watercolour, crayon, and coloured chalk on paper. Courtesy of Osborne Samuel

OSBORNE SAMUEL (21 Cork Street) will present an exhibition dedicated to Modern British Art throughout June and July. A major highlight is Henry Moore’s Women Winding Wool from 1948.

Viewing during June and July 2026.

Jean Dubuffet, Site aléatoire avec 2 personnages 29 mars 1982, 1982, acrylic on paper on canvas 26 3/8 x 39 3/8 in / 67 x 100 cm. Courtesy of 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. 
The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday 4 June from 18:00 – 20:00.