Five openings worth your time next week. Memory, movement, resistance, and return, with no beige-gallery porridge in sight.
Survivors: The Art of Defiance
Fitzrovia Chapel, 9 to 12 June. Danielle van Zedelhoff’s portraits of long-term HIV survivors, made with the National HIV Story Trust. Small show, large emotional footprint. Free.
Georg Baselitz: Back Again
White Cube Bermondsey, 10 June to 30 August. One of the last shows the painter shaped before his death. The eagle, the Hero, and his muse, Elke Kretzschmar, return. The heaviest opening of the week.
Julio Le Parc
Tate Modern, 11 June to 3 May 2027. Seven decades of Kinetic and Op art. Immersive work from before immersive meant a ticket scanner. You become part of the mechanism.
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Barbican, 11 June to 6 September. Over 300 works on Pan-Africanism through art, resistance, and global exchange. Visual culture as political imagination.
Hepworth in Colour
The Courtauld, 12 June to 6 September. Barbara Hepworth through colour rather than form. Sculpture as atmosphere and surface, not just shape.
Sources and further reading
Survivors: The Art of Defiance, Fitzrovia Chapel: https://www.fitzroviachapel.org/event/survivors-the-art-of-defiance/
Georg Baselitz: Back Again, White Cube Bermondsey: https://www.whitecube.com/gallery-exhibitions/georg-baselitz-bermondsey-2026
Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action., Tate Modern: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/julio-le-parc
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Barbican: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/project-a-black-planet-the-art-and-culture-of-panafrica
Hepworth in Colour, The Courtauld Gallery: https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-hepworth-in-colour/
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