This group exhibition explores ideas of belonging, memory, migration and the search for sanctuary. Curated by Dr Omar Kholeif as their ‘love-letter to London’, it brings together a cross-generational, international line-up of twenty artists including Otobong Nkanga, Lubaina Himid and Hugeutte Caland, offering glimpses into personal memories and imagined futures.

Rachel Ruysch’s deceptively realistic floral still lifes was sought-after and expensive collector’s items during her lifetime. Demand was so great that the Amsterdam painter could afford to produce merely a few works a year. As the daughter of the renowned professor of anatomy and botany, Frederik Ruysch, the first female member of the Confrerie Pictura, court painter in Düsseldorf, lottery game winner and the mother of eleven children, she was an exceptional figure in her time.

The Weight of Lightness features the works of three artists: Cao Jigang, Angela Glajcar and Bay Tang Jiaxin. The exhibition explores the potential of paper as a medium and considers its meaning through a cross-cultural and intergenerational dialogue.

The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Turner, who pushed the limits of the landscape painting genre in pursuit of his own expressive ends, astounding contemporaries with his bold and highly original compositions. The exhibition showcases the museum’s rich holdings of Turner’s work, including some of Turner’s most acclaimed oil paintings.

The Daughters that Dreamed is a duo exhibition showcasing the work of Natasha Malik and Jade Annalise Gaskin. Both artists explore imaginary spaces, mythical encounters and the trials of being a woman. Malik’s figures are provocative in their indifference, untouched by the male gaze, whereas Gaskin’s ‘girls gone wild’ dominate their paintings and are defiantly free.