2025 in Art and Books
The books and art that I'm most excited for in 2025!
Dear Readers, As we approach the end of 2024, I thought I’d gather a selection of books and exhibitions that I can’t wait to read and see in the new year ahead! Scroll on. Xoxo Katy
15 books to look forward to
Lamorna Ash: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever, 8 May 2025
Leo Robson: The Boys, 8 May 2025
Shon Faye: Love in Exile, 6 February 2025
Jessica Stanley: Consider Yourself Kissed, 8 May 2025
Jessie Burton: Hidden Treasure, 13 March 2025
Guadalupe Nettel: The Accidentals, 10 April 2025
Liliane Lijn: Liquid Reflections, 13 March 2025
Charlie Porter: Nova Scotia House, 20 March 2025
Sophie Gilbert: Girl on Girl, 1 May 2025
Sophie Haydock: Madame Matisse, 6 March 2025
Phillippe Sands: 38 Londres Street, 3 April 2025
Arundhati Roy: Mother Mary Comes To Me, September 2025
Andrea Long Chu: Authority, 7 August 2025
James Cahill: The Violet Hour, 27 February 2025
Slutty Cheff: Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef, 5 August 2025
14 exhibitions to see in the UK and Ireland:
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Tate Modern, 10 July 2025 – 11 January 2026
Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds, Tate St Ives, 1 February – 5 May 2025
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, Hayward Gallery, 11 February – 5 May 2025
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, The Whitworth, 11 April – 7 September 2025
Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams, Courtauld Gallery, 20 June – 14 Sept 2025
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, National Portrait Gallery, 20 June – 7 September 2025
Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, Hepworth Wakefield, 17 May – 27 October 2025
Marie Antoinette Style, V&A, 20 September 2025 – 22 March 2026
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, Royal Academy, 28 January – 21 April 2025
Rachel Jones, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 10 June – 19 October 2025
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship, National Gallery of Ireland, 10 April – 10 August 2025
Linder: Danger Came Smiling, Hayward Gallery, 11 February – 5 May 2025
Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive, Tate St Ives, 24 May – 5 October 2025
Christina Kimeze, South London Gallery, 31 Jan – 11 May 2025
6 exhibitions to see outside of the UK and Ireland:
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 9 March – 6 July 2025
Suzanne Valadon, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 15 January – 26 May 2025
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 May – 2 November 2025
Mona Hatoum: Inside Out, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 1 February – 2 November 2025
Gabriele Münter: Into Deep Waters, Guggenheim New York, 7 November, 2025 –26 April, 2026
Paula Rego & Adriana Varejão, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal, 11 April – 15 September 2025
What are you most excited for in 2025? Tell us below!
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wow this is fantastic, a feast, want want hunger want
Hi Katy,
Thank you so much for this listing, but I strongly believe that you left out a gem and a definite must see and interview for your podcast: Dorothea Rockburne’s The Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Has Not Understood It is at Bernheim Gallery, London, until 25 January. Dorothea is 95 years old and if she would agree to be interviewed, do so ASAP. Thanks again for all that you do. My very best, Suzanne Nicholas, Brooklyn, NY suzannenicholas.com