London Art Fair returns from 22-26 January 2025, highlighting a selection of the best galleries from the UK and beyond. The Fair will offer both seasoned and aspiring collectors a diverse presentation of modern and contemporary art, alongside curated displays, and an inspiring programme of talks, panel discussions and artist insights.

The Fair’s Prints and Editions section will return after its launch in 2024. The section, which features prints and multiples from both emerging artists and household names, provides an introduction to art collecting with a more accessible price point, encouraging art enthusiasts to start their collecting journey at the Fair.

In addition, London Art Fair continues to champion and support regional museums through its annual Museum Partnership, which this year invites the celebrated art museum, Sainsbury Centre, to showcase their world-class collection at the Fair.

London Art Fair is also pleased to announce that its official destination sponsor, Visit Tampa Bay, will be commissioning a site specific multi-sensory installation piece by artist Ya La’ford to be exhibited at the Fair. Santiago C. Corrada, president and CEO of Visit Tampa Bay says, “We are inspired to be part of this prestigious event and are very proud to be working with renowned Tampa-based artist, Ya La’ford, who will be exhibiting at the Fair and showcasing what art means to us across the destination.” The installation is an evocative exploration of Florida's beauty and its intricate connections to London and the greater world. Entitled "Ebb and Flow: The Circle of Connection," this immersive experience from renowned artist Ya La’ford invites viewers to reflect on the profound relationships between nature, travel, and the shared significance of humanity.

2025 Galleries

For its 37th edition, London Art Fair will welcome over 120 galleries from around the world, including 22 international galleries from the Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and more. New exhibitors such as Henry Miller Fine Art, Annka Kultys Gallery, The Tagli, Middlemarch Fine Art, Oriel Fine Art, Narrative Gallery and Oxford Ceramics will join returning names including Osborne Samuel Gallery, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, The Redfern Gallery, Christopher Kingzett and Galerie Olivier Waltman. The Fair will feature works by some of the world’s most renowned artists across various media, including sculpture, prints, paintings, photography, textiles, and ceramics, by artists including Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Bridget Riley, and Barbara Hepworth.

London Art Fair’s specialisation in modern art remains strongly represented through the participation of leading galleries in the field, including Willoughby Gerrish/Gerrish Fine Art, Portland Gallery, and Sweden-based Mollbrinks Art Gallery. David Messum Fine Art will showcase paintings sourced directly from the studio estate of Jean-Marie Toulgouat, the great-grandson of Claude Monet. Meanwhile, Cross Lane Projects will mark the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist movement with works by Perdita Sinclair, Suzy Willey, and others. Narborough Gallery will present pieces by Gillian Ayres and Bridget Riley, while Rabley Gallery will highlight Eileen Cooper RA. Works by prominent artists from the St Ives Group will be on display at Castlegate House Gallery, Alan Wheatley Art, and Middlemarch Fine Art and Quad Fine Art will celebrate the contributions of an international group of women artists to the abstract art movements, including Prunella Clough, Sandra Blow, and Kathleen Guthrie. Additionally, Tanya Baxter Contemporary will offer a curated selection from the collection of renowned Hong Kong/Portuguese fashion designer and art collector John Rocha, featuring works by some of the greatest artists of our time, including David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Alex Katz and Andy Warhol. Meanwhile Christopher Kingzett Fine Art and Portland Gallery will present outstanding examples of work by Graham Sutherland and Elisabeth Frink.

Other highlights include works by aboriginal, diaspora, and self-taught artists. Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will present a never-before-seen suite of paintings by Emily Kam Kngwarreye, coinciding with her anticipated retrospective at Tate Modern that will open in Summer 2025, alongside Kam Kngwarreye’s contemporaries from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory of Australia. Jennifer Lauren Gallery will showcase the innovative use of unconventional media by outsider artists from Japan, while TIN MAN ART will bring works that explore topics such as climate change, migration, and displacement. Meanwhile, Ricardo Fernandes will present the first UK solo exhibition of Afro-Amerindian artist Antonio Sergio Moreira. Through his paintings, sculptures, and photographs, rooted in his extensive travels and artist residencies around the world, Moreira offers a unique perspective, weaving together global experiences and cultural intersections. At the entrance to the Fair, Oliver Projects will be showcasing contemporary pieces by Suzanne Moxhay, Alice Macdonald, Joseph Goody, and Siphiwe Mnguniand alongside Blue Shop Gallery’s presentation of Kaja Stumpf, Vivien McDermid, Roya Bahram, Sam Douglas, and Orla Kane.

This year’s Fair also sees an increase in sculptural pieces, exemplified by an all-sculptor stand at Architectural Heritage Ltd and Catto Gallery's exhibition of sculptural works by Philip Jackson. Elsewhere, gallery's presentation will showcase exciting mixed media works by Rebecca Appleby, Richard Perry, and Derek Wilson. Moreover, more galleries are bringing artworks created specifically for the Fair, including ArtUltra, and Caroline Fisher Projects.

Curated sections

London Art Fair showcases contemporary practice and collecting trends within the art world through its critically-acclaimed sections curated in collaboration with leading experts. Museum Partnership London Art Fair has partnered with the Sainsbury Centre for its annual Museum Partnership. For over 40 years, Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury collected works of art which ranged across time and place. They sought work from major European artists, as well as art and antiquities from different periods and cultures around the world. The Sainsbury Centre was first conceived after the couple generously gave their art collection to the University of East Anglia in 1973. Spellbinding artworks from all over the world are displayed together in cultural conversations, housed in an iconic Norman Foster building.

From Paris salons to a Polynesian workshop and from Francis Bacon to Mayan objects, the collections are displayed in direct and equal dialogue with each other, enabling people to walk among them and discover the inspiring human connection that speaks specifically to them. As the world’s first museum to recognize artworks as living entities, the Sainsbury Centre invites visitors to engage with art in a unique way. At London Art Fair, the museum 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 Sainsbury Centre animates visitors to encounter the works not as inanimate objects, but as they would another person, prompting a reconsideration of their relationship with art. Observed by iconic pieces from the Sainsbury collection, created by artists including Francis Bacon, Elisabeth Frink, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Yinka Shonibare, this inversion of the traditional viewer-artwork relationship seeks to reveal the profound connection that can emerge between individuals and art, offering a path to self-discovery. Visitors are also invited to hold their phones up to artworks using the Smartify app to hear about their life stories. Art truly comes to life at the Sainsbury Centre's display.

Jago Cooper, Director of the Sainsbury Centre, said: “We are delighted to be collaborating with London Art Fair in 2025. We hope visitors to the fair will enjoy discovering how our incredible art museum is developing new ways to connect people with our world class collection. The Sainsbury Centre was founded with the radical idea of removing the barriers that exist between art and people and believes in the ability of museums to activate social change. Our museum has created some innovative ways of bringing that raw power of art to life, and visitors to the fair will be able to try out these new Living Art ideas themselves, not least as they step inside the exhibition case and see the art looking at them".

Platform

The 2025 edition of Platform will be curated by independent curator Becca Pelly-Fry, whose work stands at the intersection of contemporary art, healing practices and ecology. The section, entitled Today for you, tomorrow for me, takes inspiration from the practice of ‘ayni’, as lived by the Q’ero people of Peru. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world as a way of keeping in balance with the land, other beings and each other. Recognising how indigenous knowledge has now found resonance in Western science, the Platform exhibition will explore stories of the complex interwoven ecosystems, mycelial networks and interspecies communication that compose the natural world, shifting from a human-centric worldview to one of interdependent multiplicity.

Pelly-Fry brings together art from six galleries that respond to this overarching theme in an attempt to re-wild visitors’ imaginations, fostering a more reciprocal relationship with nature. Ione and Mann will showcase works by Russian-born, Nottingham-based artist Yelena Popova and Slovakian artist Jana Emburey. Both artists’ processes are inextricably linked to the natural world and our relationship with it. Popova creates paintings using linen from flax plants and earth pigments, addressing climate change and ecological estrangement. Emburey employs a rich visual vocabulary, ranging from intricate compositions to fluid soak-stain abstract topographies, to explore humanity’s place in the cosmos, time and space.

London-based gallery, Metamorphika Studio, will present a trio of artists exploring human relationships with the more-than-human. Natalia Janula’s "monsters" or hybrid creatures challenge our human imposition of order on the natural world; Paola Estrella creates imposing scenes where human-animal hybrids inhabit grand interiors, gradually being overtaken by abundant plant-life and Keiron Coffey envisions a future where objects are no longer designed purely for human use and consumption, but rather in collaboration with plants and animals for future innovations. Meanwhile, 99 Projects will present Poppy Lennox, whose work with wood, paint, and thread explores structures within the cosmos and nature’s intricate systems and patterns, making visible the interconnectivity of life. Elsewhere, Soho Revue will bring works by the London-based contemporary Japanning lacquer artists Tuesday Riddell and Rene Gonzalez, who portray animal and human characters in dream-like natural landscapes, reflecting the experience of living as an outsider navigating an adopted environment.

The events program will also include ceremonial interludes and moments for contemplation within the fair's bustling atmosphere, along with discussions that invite dialogue on ecofeminism, the role of art in climate justice, and ways to collectively envision a more sustainable and interconnected way of life on Mother Earth.

Becca Pelly-Fry said, ‘Today for you, tomorrow for me is an invitation to live in harmony with Mother Earth, and with each other. If we start with giving, rather than taking, everything might look different. The artists exhibiting make artwork about the earth, nature, spirituality and emotional connections. Essentially, they are interested in exploring what love for all beings looks like’.

Encounters

Established in 2005 to support emerging and international galleries, Encounters provides a unique platform for galleries to test the market before transitioning to the main Fair—an achievement reached by Saul Hay Fine Art and Wizard Gallery this year. Participation in the section is subsidised by London Art Fair, reinforcing its commitment to fostering new talent, showcasing unexpected meetings, and championing international collaborations.

This year's Encounters returns with dynamic projects from around the world. New additions include Tehran-based Sohrab Gallery and Prague-based The Chemistry Gallery, alongside Galeri/Miz from Istanbul, presenting an all-Turkish stand.

Elsewhere, South Korea-based Mookji Gallery will participate, alongside Tokyo based gallery, Gallery KITAI, who will showcase a solo booth of Mikako Nakagami's works that combine elements of ink painting and calligraphy, making it the most internationally diverse mix of galleries in the contemporary curated section of the Fair in recent years. Other notable solo presentations include Daniel Preece at Kittoe Contemporary, who will exhibit vast panoramas documenting complex topography to intimate studies of overlooked corners.

Moreover, Encounters highlights the evolution of artistic practice over time, featuring artists who re-engage with their earlier work and invite fresh conversations with new audiences. Patrick Davies Contemporary Art's presentation explores John Virtue’s evolution into full-blown abstraction, a process the artist views as the distillation of everything he has done before. The linear gestures that were once integral to his work, going back to his 1980s ink drawings, have vanished completely. What remains is a charged, visceral energy that pulses across the canvas, echoing the influence of masters he has long admired while standing as something utterly new. Perve Galeria presents works by João Artur da Silva, the last living founder of the Portuguese Surrealist group, whose practice shifted away from surrealism to explore photography and textiles after moving to England. Having lived, worked and exhibited in London for over two decades—from 1958 until the early 1980s—this marks João Artur's first major exhibition in London in over 40 years and features an exciting live 3D printing performance of the artist's sculptures.

Encounters further expands on the idea of unexpected meetings by exploring how artworks in different media resonate and amplify shared concerns when exhibited together. This convergence is evident at Narrative Gallery, which features drawing, printmaking, and photography by artists including Jaime Sicilia, Johnny Dowell, Thierry Simôes, and Enda Bowe, and at Cole-Levi Klimt, which presents a dynamic mix of collage, drawings, paintings, and mixed media including pieces by Paul Freud - Lucien Freud’s grandson.

Curator Pryle Behrman says: "Whereas the word ‘encounter’ might most often be associated with a meeting between people, this year’s Encounters explores how an encounter can be something unexpected that brings together different locations and times. The presentations in Encounters not only gather together a truly global selection of artists and galleries, but they also see eras meeting in unique ways, sometimes by bringing together artists from different generations or by showcasing how artists regularly reexamine and reappraise their earlier practice, forging an encounter with their former selves".