Sadie Coles
Sadie Coles has been the heartbeat of London’s gallery world for decades. She opened her first space in 1997 on Heddon Street in Mayfair and has moved around the city repeatedly since then, bringing her stable of globally acclaimed artists – including Ugo Rondinone, Sarah Lucas and Matthew Barney – with her. Alongside her spacious headquarters on Kingly Street and a smaller space on Bury Street in St James’s, she’s opened a new gallery in a Georgian townhouse on Savile Row with a sobering show of female-form paintings by Lisa Brice. It will be followed on January 21 by a group show inspired by Oscar Wilde’s short story Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, featuring the work of Peter Doig, Chantal Joffe, Sarah Lucas and more.
17 Savile Row, W1S 3PN; sadiecoles.com
Split Riviera
At one point, when it was just called Split, this gallery drew acclaim for doing experimental, interesting, weird stuff – like flooding the basement for a show by painter Angela Leyva in 2024. But when the financial challenges of a bricks-and-mortar space got a bit much, Split changed tack – sailing metaphor very much intended – and this summer reopened on a canal boat, sailing around bringing contemporary art to London’s waterways. After a winter break, it will be back for six more exhibitions between March and November spotlighting young UK artists.
1 Haggerston Road, E8 4JL; splitriviera.co.uk
Interval
London’s newest gallery opened in a charming Clerkenwell townhouse in September. David Gryn, the man behind digital-art platform Daata, and his son Jacob are Interval’s owners. The gallery’s approach is to show contemporary art alongside historical works, creating a sort of dialogue through time. The debut show, by “net art” pioneer Petra Cortright, features dazzling digital flower paintings next to 17th- and 18th-century Dutch and Spanish floral still lifes. 2026 will see exhibitions from London-based Chilean painter Sebastiàn Espejo, abstractist Frederic Anderson, and mixed-media artist Scarlett Topley before finishing with a show featuring and curated by Jane Bustin featuring Lewis Brander and Gal Schindler.
73 Compton Street, EC1V 0BN; interval-clerkenwell.art
Rose Easton
Rose Easton quickly established her Cambridge Heath Road space as one of the best young galleries in London in 2021 (it was called Moarain House until 2022) with ambitious, immersive shows featuring a roster of exciting emerging and mid-career artists. Her current stable includes Tasneem Sarkez, Jan Gatewood and Parker Ito. Having outgrown her original Bethnal Green space, she recently doubled her gallery footprint in the same building.
223 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 0EL; roseeaston.com
