The best art exhibitions to see in Fitzrovia — October 2026

Fitzrovia is home to a multitude of contemporary art galleries, cultural institutions and exhibition spaces. Discover the best exhibitions to see this October, from abstract paintings, photography and design to immersive installations.

Tache presents Alice Delhanty: Invented Fire, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Alice Delhanty (b. 2001, United Kingdom). Across 15 canvases, Delhanty explores form, colour and markmaking, the paintings charged with a vast sense of landscape.

Travel is foundational to Delhanty’s work as a contemporary abstractionist: her exploration of gestural markmaking and its relationship with the physicalities of paint and of surface; her handling of colour as material and as sign. In Delhanty’s words, her works call forth “a haptic visual response, closing the circle between my hand, the surface, and the eye.”

On view at Tache Gallery, 36 Newman Street, W1T 1PZ, until 29 October 2026

Alice Black presents an exhibition by the the late British abstractionist Michael Perton (1935–1996). The artist's first exhibition with the gallery, A Life in Abstraction brings renewed attention to Perton, a significant yet under-recognised figure in post-war British abstraction. Focusing on the pivotal decade of the 1960s, it brings together rarely seen paintings that reveal the ambition, experimentation and originality of an artist whose achievements have long exceeded his reputation.

On view at Alice Black Gallery, 7 Windmill Street, W1T 2JD, until 24 October 2026

Tiderip presents I Just Gotta Do It, Alexandra Baraitser’s first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery since 2007. Bringing together a new body of paintings with an earlier work from 2007, the exhibition revisits the designed objects and interiors that have occupied Baraitser’s practice for more than three decades, tracing the changing relationships between design, photography and painting.

On view at Tiderip, 17 Percy Street, W1T 1DU, from 7 October — 7 November 2026

TAFETA presents So Far..., a solo exhibition by Nigerian-born, London-based artist Babájídé Ọlátúnjí. Bringing together works made across several years, the exhibition considers identity, inherited knowledge, economic value and the social codes through which people create meaning.

On view at TAFETA, 83 Charlotte Street, W1T 4PR, from 7 October — 6 November 2026

The Tagli presents their latest group exhibition, Containers: Part I, with five artists examining how artworks can both accommodate for and alter established stereotypes surrounding society, masculinity, archaeology, architecture and anthropology.

Containers: Part II features a solo presentation by Lucas Dupuy, capturing the overlooked beauty of architectural interventions into public space, the mathematical concepts that underpin the field of fractal geometry and the unexpected occurrences that arise as one attempts to coexist with nature.

On view at The Tagli, 67 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7PT, from 8 — 18 October 2026

Regenerative Design 2026 brings together more than 100 organisations working to transform how buildings and places are designed, constructed and cared for.

Centred on the Regenerative Architecture Index — the UK’s first evidence-based benchmark for regenerative design — the month-long exhibition moves beyond statements of ambition to examine what regenerative practice looks like in action. Through built projects, photography and an immersive live installation, it explores how the built environment can restore ecosystems, strengthen communities and create a positive legacy for future generations.

On view at the Building Centre, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT, until 30 October 2026

Developed over more than a decade as a ritual performance and installation project, Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy (2015–ongoing) gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. 

Installed in the sonic chamber of Ibraaz's Minassa, voices and moving images immerse audiences within a space of mourning, kinship and collective care. Addressing contexts of rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life, Elegy proposes mourning not as closure, but as a sustained practice of collective presence.

On view at Ibraaz, 93 Mortimer Street, W1W 7SS, from 8 October — 17 January 2027

Art Forward Gallery presents Echoes of Utopia, a solo photography exhibition by Norwegian artist Christian Houge, exploring monumental architecture and collective memory of the former Yugoslavia.

The exhibition brings together Houge’s haunting photographs of “Spomeniks”, the Brutalist World War II memorials scattered across the Balkans. Once conceived as powerful symbols of collective unity, progress and utopian vision, the Spomeniks now exist in varied states of decay, carrying with them the histories and ideals of a country that is no longer.

At the centre of the project is Houge’s use of collodion silver wet-plate photography, an almost forgotten analog photographic process dating from the 1850s.

On view at Art Forward Gallery, 12-14 Whitfield Street, W1T 2RF, from 15 — 31 October 2026