30 great places for art addicts to explore this winter

Commercial art galleries can remain open throughout tier 3.

Over the last year galleries have raised to the challenge of making their spaces safe for you to visit and experience art. Many galleries will continue to be open as usual (with continued safety measures in place), whilst others are by appointment only. If you are able to safely travel to Mayfair and St James's there is still plenty of art to enjoy - just remember "Hands. Face. Space."

For those who are lucky enough to be able to walk into the West End safely, why not explore the wealth of commercial art galleries that remain open?

Entry is free so you can pop in an check out exceptional works hanging out at the likes of Waddington Custot, Saatchi Yates, Nahmad Projects, Holtermann Fine Art, Messums London, Goodman Gallery, Lisson Gallery, The Mayor Gallery, Flowers Gallery, The Redfern Gallery, Browse & Darby and Stephen Friedman Gallery.

Here’s our quick guide of what’s on - sorted by ending soonest!

Image credit: © Michael Craig-Martin. Photo Mark Blower. Image courtesy Holtermann Fine Art.

Holtermann Fine Art
Ink & Steel

Running until 17^th December 2020, Ink & Steel considers sculpture and drawing beyond the familiar categories of ‘sculptors’ drawings’ and ‘drawing in space’. Rather than attend to the gestural, the calligraphic and the performing body of the artist, it focuses on the materiality of drawing and sculpture, considering these in dialogue, through the two and three-dimensional possibilities of ink and steel.

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Image credit: Installation view, 'Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field'. Image courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac.

Thaddaeus Ropac
Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field

Running until 18^th December 2020, this exhibition brings together pioneering female artists from Europe and the Americas who each contributed in her own original way to expanding the orthodox category of Minimal art. The artists on display expand on the traditional concept of minimalism to explore possibilities of the ‘minimal’ as a guiding force in their work – whether in their process, use of materials, or as forming the basis of their approach.

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Image credit: Paul Cocksedge, Slump Console Table with Three Legs. Courtesy Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Paul Cocksedge: Slump

Running until 18^th December 2020, there’s only a few days left to see this new body of work by acclaimed British Designer, Paul Cocksedge, entitled Slump. Cocksedge uses industrial sheets of glass to create a collection of limited edition and unique design pieces through complex processes, giving the rigid, flat material an unexpected softness and fluidity.

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Image credit: Alina Szapocznkiow, Sculpture Lamp (Double Mouth on Phallus) (1967-1969). Image courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery.

Richard Saltoun Gallery
OUR INHERITANCE WAS LEFT TO US BY NO TESTAMENT

Running until 18^th December 2020, this group exhibition looks to the work of seven women artists from Eastern Europe whose personal histories or cultural backgrounds necessitated a reconceptualization of tradition and created fertile ground for innovation in contemporary art through the breaking of conceptual boundaries and experiments in materiality and form.

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Image credit: Genieve Figgis, 'Psychedelic Renaissance'. Image courtesy Almine Rech.

Almine Rech
Genieve Figgis: Imaginary Friends

Running until 19^th December 2020, explore Genieve Figgis’ conjuring of “Imaginary Friends” which came forth to fill the social void, painted over the long months of COVID-19 confinement. Inspired by group pictures, found photographs, snippets of social media, and even the period costume drama “Catherine the Great,” Figgis immersed herself in lush scenes in the genre of social portraiture.

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Image credit: Installation View. Jenkin van Zyl. Image courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery.

Amanda Wilkinson Gallery
Jenkin van Zyl: Cabin Pressure

Running until 19^th December 2020, the Amanda Wilkinson Gallery has been reconfigured into a fortified crate that alludes to van Zyl's forthcoming film: In Vitro. Partially filmed on an abandoned film set on a frozen shore in Iceland, and reflecting the artist's interest in narratives that tap dance on the borderline between hellscape and paradise, In Vitro unfurls in a subterranean office constructed out of the husks of chartered aircrafts.

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Plus, there's plenty more to explore

• Omer Tiroche Gallery, The Art of Hermès, Mo – Fr: 10:00 – 18:00, until 18^th December 2020
• Richard Green Gallery, Fortitude, Perseverance, Creativity: Fourteen Women Artists, until 18^th December 2020
• Unit London, Damian Ewles: Where Art Happened – From Klint to Party, until 18^th December 2020
• Lévy Gorvy, Tu Hongtao: Twisting and Turning, until 19^th December 2020
• Lisson Gallery (Cork Street), Cory Arcangel: Totally Fucked, until 19^th December 2020
• Richard Saltoun Gallery, Our Inheritance was Left to us by no Testament, until 19^th December 2020
• The Mayor Gallery, Editions & Works on Paper, until 19^th December 2020
• Saatchi Yates, Pascal Sender, until 20^th December 2020
• Galerie Boulaika, Guillem Nadal: Carving a New Nature, until 23^rd December 2020
• Osborne Samuel, Sean Henry: Waiting for the Sun, until 23^rd December 2020
• Robilant + Voena, Transhistoric, until 23^rd December 2020
• Rodeo Gallery, Sidsel Meineche Hansen: home vs owner, until 23^rd December 2020
• Sprüth Magers, Gary Hume: Archipelago, until 23^rd December 2020
• Hauser & Wirth, Rashid Johnson. Waves, until 23^rd December 2020
• Gallery FUMI, 2020: It’s Good To Te Home, until 31^st December 2020
• Opera Gallery, Collective Exhibition, until January 2021
• Maddox Gallery, Winter Contemporary, until January 2021
• Illuminate Productions, All I want for Christmas is… JOY, until 3^rd January 2021
• Stephen Friedman Gallery, ‘In Real Life: Art Basel Miami Beach 2020‘, until 4^th January 2021
• Stephen Friedman Gallery (Viewing Room), ‘In Nature’ a group exhibition with works by Mamma Andersson, Juan Araujo, Tonico Lemos Auad, Andreas Eriksson, Ged Quinn, until 4^th January 2021
• Goodman Gallery, Ghada Amer: In Black and White, ruby oyinyechi amanze: the ones that stayed, until 8^th January 2021
• Mucciaccia Gallery, Stéphane Graff | Mille-Feuilles & Sugar Bytes, until 8^th January 2021
• Carl Kostyál, Maja Djordjevic: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, until 9^th January 2021
• Gazelli Art House, The Cool Series | Perle Fine, until 9^th January 2021
• Gazelli Art House, Jann Haworth: Mannequin Defectors, until 9^th January 2021
• JD Malat Gallery, Nevertheless, Mo – Fr: 10:00 – 18:00, Sa: 12:00 – 18:00, until 9^th January 2021
• Gagosian Davies Street, Edmund de Waal: some winter pots, until 16^th January 2021
• Massimo De Carlo, Johannes Kahrs: Sleep, until 16^th January 2021
• Massimo De Carlo, Yan Pei-Ming: The Mourners, until 16^th January 2021
• Sadie Coles HQ (1 Davies Street), Matthew Barney: Cosmic Hunt, until 16^th January 2021
• Sadie Coles HQ (offsite at 24 Cork Street), Alvaro Barrington
• Simon Lee Gallery, Jim Shaw: Hope Against Hope, until 16^th January 2021
• Gazelli Art House, An Imaginary Ruin | Claudia Hart, until 17^th January 2021
• Waddington Custot, Defining Space: Art Basel Miami Beach 2020, end date TBC
• Olivier Malingue, Nude, until 22^nd January 2021
• Sprovieri, Micol Assaël: Coverting Words, until 22^nd January 2021
• The Redfern Gallery, Ffiona Lewis: The Green Tapestry, until 29^th January 2021
• David Zwirner, Maxwell Alexandre exhibition, Pardo é Papel: Close a door to open a window, until 30^th January 2021
• Browse & Derby, 44th Annual Exhibition – British & French Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture, until 4^th February 2021
• Flowers Gallery, Boomoon: Waterfalls, until 6^th February 2021
• Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Lines of Thought: Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin, until 6^th February 2021
• Hamiltons, Helmut Newton: High Gloss, until 13^th February 2021
• Ben Brown Fine Arts, Frank Auerbach / Tony Bevan: What is a Head?, until 26^th February 2021
• Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, Mary Weatherford: Train Yards, Tu –Sat 10:00 – 18:00 by appointment, until 27^th February 2021
• Ben Brown Fine Arts, Frank Auerbach / Tony Bevan: What is a Head?, until 26^th February 2021

Image credit: Pascal Sender. Image courtesy Saatchi Yates.

Image credit: Gauri Gill, James Nelson, Daniel Silver, Rajesh Vangad in 'Contemporary Excavations’. Image courtesy Frith Street Gallery.