Summer is upon us, and like the sun and heat, it’s time for the U.K. art world’s yearly descent on galleries across the capital with London Gallery Weekend (6–8 June 2025), now celebrating its fifth edition.
Co-directors Jeremy Epstein and Sarah Rustin called the event a singular moment that reframes London’s dynamic and continuously evolving gallery community: ‘It is forging critical cross-sector initiatives to address the challenging climate we are faced with,’ they said.
But with more than 125 galleries to see across every corner of the city, where does one even start? Ocula has selected some of the most exciting ‘firsts’ among the programme to help you jump in feet first to this weekend’s mega gallery hop.
Dotty Attie: 40 Years at Public Gallery, until 28 June
With work ranging from 1974 to the present, this East London gallery is bringing a long-overdue retrospective of Dotty Attie’s work to London for the first time. Attie’s meticulous grid paintings interrogating the art historical canon made her a pioneering figure in feminist art, as well as co-founding A.I.R. Gallery, the first all-women cooperative in the U.S. This is Public Gallery’s first London Gallery Weekend since expanding their space earlier this year.