London Art Fair 2025

The show was quite literally a ‘best of’ compilation of modern photography, including fashion, reportage, erotic and fine art takes on the genre, and all tied together with the narrative thread of Elton John and David Furnish’s own personal tastes. Dazzling, glamorous, excellent photography that absolutely won’t go breaking your heart. The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is a prestigious painting competition that celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture. 2025’s exhibition will display captivating works from around the world, by both self-taught and more established painters, that provide a snapshot of portrait painting today. Since its inception, the long-standing competition has attracted over 40,000 entries from more than 100 countries and has been seen by over 6 million people. Artists demonstrate an impressive range and complexity of skill, with artworks exploring both classical and innovative techniques that show the enduring relevance of portraiture today.

Bonhams to auction The Crown props and costumes, including Princess Diana’s ‘Revenge Dress’ and engagement ring

Channel your inner rebel through RIOT SOUP’s creative workshops, where you’ll craft a simple statement in collage or monoprint. Take your final piece to London Art Fair the streets or corners of the fair, joining a guerrilla art movement that makes your work a visible force for reflection, uplift or action. RIOT SOUP (est. Jan 2019) is a collective made up of Black and Brown women artists in London. It was founded as a grassroots, bottom up solution to addressing racism, inequality and lack of accessibility for ethnically minoritised women and non binary people in the arts.

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From arranging tips to fun floral facts, immerse yourself in the beauty of flowers, one delivery at a time. After a short but intimate conversation over his black crystal ball, Misfortuneteller will consult the spirit world and quill your very own bespoke dark prophecy artwork to take home and frame. Opening HoursCollectors' Preview, Thursday 26 September, 11am – 9pmFriday 27 September, 11am – 9pmSaturday 28 September, 11am – 6pmSunday 29 September, 11am – 5pmLast entry is half an hour before the fair is due to close.

Barring a cataclysmic event—knock on wood—people will very likely always be buying art. Where you draw the line, as journalist, collector, dealer, or auction house bigwig, will determine your perspective. In 2005, art collector Fernanda Feitosa founded São Paulo's International Art Fair, better known as SP-Arte. It has also given birth to Rotas Brazilieras, which uniquely focuses on Brazil’s deep and dynamic art market, and is now in its fourth year. Directed by Brazilian curator, editor and art critic Rodrigo Moura, the fair takes “Brazilian art and its histories as a starting point”.

• The result is an inspiring, evocative, inclusive and fun event that reframes how art can be perceived and creates lasting connections between artists and art lovers.
• Featuring never-before-seen works from around the world alongside pieces from Tate’s Collection, Light and Magic highlights the vast and varied artistic possibilities of photography as a medium.
• The Museum Partnership provides an established platform and significant opportunity for patrons, collectors and Fair visitors to engage with an exhibition of exceptional museum quality works.
• You’ll enjoy a guided tasting of four Black Chalk wines while learning the symbolic meanings behind various foods and instead of following traditional pairings, you’ll craft your own combinations that resonate with your personal tastes and emotions.

For 2025, LAF is partnering with The Sainsbury Centre, a world-class art museum on the campus of the University of East Anglia which has a unique perspective on how art can foster cultural dialogue and exchange. StART has relocated to an iconic new space in the world-renowned creative and technology hub, King’s Cross St Pancras the vibrant district for innovative talent, now known simply as KX. St Pancras Square is the energetic home to the headquarters of industry-leading global giants, such as Google, LVMH and Facebook, and has firmly established itself as the most exciting location for progressive businesses in London.

The London Original Print Fair also offered access to artists at the fair and a programme of talks and activities including live printmaking demonstrations. The Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (WCPF), together with its online edition, forms Europe’s largest art fair dedicated to highly collectible print works. At London Art Fair, the Sainsbury Centre will present the critically acclaimed Living Art  experience, encouraging visitors to step inside an exhibition case and become an artwork themselves. This will be an example of how the museum animates visitors to encounter the works not as inanimate objects, but as they would another person, prompting a reconsideration of their relationship with art. Visitors are also invited to hold their phones up to artworks using the Smartify app to hear about their life stories.

With its internationally-renowned museums, art galleries both large and small, and plethora of public art installations, London is a hub of creativity. Art fair fatigue can be real for those working in the industry, but with a substantial amount of sales garnered on art events alone, it pays to be on the road. Frieze London will feature a ground-breaking new floorplan by design practice A Studio Between. The reconfigured layout and entrance give greater prominence to the fair’s curated sections, including Artist-to-Artist and this year’s themed section, Smoke. In addition, on entering the fair visitors will encounter a pair of stands, selected annually by the Frieze London committee, each showing an exceptional solo artist presentation.

Presenting British art since 1988, the British Art Fair takes place once a year to showcase the finest modern and contemporary British art. Set within the iconic Saatchi Gallery in the heart of London’s vibrant Chelsea, leading dealers from across the UK exhibit a variety of exciting, ambitious and rare works from Britain’s most celebrated artists. We look forward to welcoming experienced collectors and art enthusiasts alike to discover, browse, and buy exceptional works by renowned artists from leading Modern and Contemporary galleries. The Jealous team will be releasing limited edition prints from artists Dave Buonaguidi, Adam Bridgland, Samuel Coleman and Maxine Gregson.

As beautiful as it was ugly and nasty, this was one of the best painting shows of the year, by far. What was very likely Caravaggio’s last ever painting was the sole focus of this tiny but mesmerising exhibition at the National Gallery. This was a chance to get up close and personal with all the power, skill and overwhelming drama of one of art history’s greats. Inspired by the Japanese Americana movement, TÓU celebrates the art of Sandos, blending cultures and flavours in a way that’s uniquely TÓU. Set of three new limited run contact sheet art prints exclusive to, and only available at, The Other Art Fair London, October 2024. A3 Inkjet Prints on Photo Lustre 275 gsm Fine Art Paper, hand signed and numbered by Rankin.

It looks at creations from the country’s 15 states and promises to be a fair full of new discoveries. Women in Art Fair returns to Mall Galleries this year to provide a prominent platform for women artists, gallerists and curators during Frieze, London’s biggest annual arts week. The Frieze London and Frieze Masters programmes will include special projects and activations, including the return of the Frieze London Artist Award and Frieze Masters Talks, alongside collaborations with key UK arts organisations and public institutions.

These two great artists vied for success through very different but equally bold approaches, transforming landscape painting in the process. This exhibition will be an unmissable chance to directly compare their spectacular works and see how their rivalry changed the course of British art. Widely regarded as one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th centuries, Edvard Munch consistently produced intimate portraits of family, friends, lovers, writers, artists, patrons and collectors, together with an extraordinary range of self-portraits. With energetic brushstrokes, bold colour and a direct sense of engagement with the sitter, these works have had a strong influence on the portrait genre. Following acclaimed presentations at both Spike Island (Bristol) and Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham), Whitechapel Gallery brings this major survey exhibition of the late British multi-media artist Donald Rodney (b.1961, West Bromwich; d.1998, London) to London. That’s a stark change from the last two years, when the houses’ totals were juiced by the $1.5 billion Paul Allen sale at Christie’s (2022) and the $406 million Emily Fisher Landau sale at Sotheby’s (2023).