{"id":786128,"date":"2026-02-24T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786128\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:52:14","slug":"late-february-london-gallery-openings-guide-rachel-whiteread-retna-hannah-lim-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786128\/","title":{"rendered":"Late February London Gallery Openings Guide: Rachel Whiteread, RETNA, Hannah Lim & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late February closes the month with a tightly packed run of openings across London, where drawing meets sculpture, sound becomes architecture, ornament carries memory, and street-born visual languages move into the gallery space. From intimate solo presentations to ambitious group shows, these exhibitions trace how artists use mark, material, and form to hold personal histories and collective experience.<\/p>\n

Thursday 26th February<\/p>\n

Hazlitt-Holland Hibbert 6PM \u2013 8PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" Rachel Whiteread, Black Tiles, 1994, Ink and graphite on watercolour paper, 101.5 x 66.5 cm.<\/p>\n

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert<\/a> present an exhibition of drawings by Rachel Whiteread<\/a> alongside a small selection of related sculptures, marking a rare departure from the artist\u2019s longstanding practice of keeping these two mediums separate. For decades, a label on the back of the artist\u2019s framed drawings has stated: \u2018It is Rachel Whiteread\u2019s express wish that none of her drawings should be exhibited alongside her sculptures\u2019 \u2013 a directive that underscores the deeply personal nature of her works on paper, most of which reside in her studio archive.<\/p>\n

Curated in close collaboration with Whiteread, this exhibition therefore represents a significant moment in understanding her practice and reveals the fluid relationship between mediums that has always existed in her work, even as she has maintained their physical and conceptual separation. There is no hierarchy between the mediums; rather, as Allegra Pesenti observes, \u2018the drawings are as sculptural as the sculptures are graphic<\/p>\n

Cell Project Space 6PM -9PM <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Artist and musician, LA Timpa presents his first UK solo exhibition and a new body of work that extends his compositional practice into spatial form. Rooted in memory, the installation considers how sound leaves its trace on physical matter, proposing sculpture as a resonant architecture through which histories are held, carried, and given agency.<\/p>\n

For this exhibition, Timpa summons unseen presences, reframing listening as an embodied, durational encounter. Drawing from personal narratives shaped by precarity, his work opens onto wider reflections on exile and return. Listening becomes a way of navigating the porous terrain between an internal world and the material, social, and political structure that surrounds it. @l.a.timpa<\/a> @cell_project_space<\/a><\/p>\n

Wilder Gallery\u00a06.30PM-8.30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" Fire Orchid and Moon Moth Snu? Bottle by Hannah Lim Fire Orchid and Moon Moth Snu? Bottle 2025 Polymer clay, jesmonite, chalk, acrylic paint, gloss 16 x 17.5 x 10 cm<\/p>\n

Wilder Gallery<\/a> present Fire | Orchid, a solo exhibition by Hannah Lim<\/a>, marking the artist\u2019s second presentation with the gallery. Bringing together new paintings and Lim\u2019s distinctive Snuff Bottle series, the exhibition expands upon her ongoing exploration of cultural inheritance, ornament, and the symbolic language of objects.<\/p>\n

The works in Fire | Orchid draw particular inspiration from Lim\u2019s recent journey to Singapore and Malaysia, where she reconnected with extended family and revisited the visual environments that continue to shape her practice. Working from her mixed Singaporean and British heritage, Lim reflects on how architectural detail, decorative traditions, and material culture become carriers of memory \u2014 quietly embedding themselves within contemporary forms. @wilder.gallery<\/a> @hannahlim<\/a><\/p>\n

Woodbury House 6PM -9PM <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" RETNA \u2018The Pursuit of Research to Heal, 2011\u2019 Acrylic on Canvas 96 1\/2 x 63 in<\/p>\n

Woodbury House<\/a>\u00a0brings a piece of Los Angeles\u2019 visual DNA to Mayfair with\u00a0Los Angeles: A Visual Lineage, a landmark group exhibition uniting four artists whose work has helped shape the city\u2019s cultural identity from the street up. Featuring Chaz Boj\u00f3rquez, DEFER, Estevan Oriol and\u00a0RETNA, the show marks the first time these figures have exhibited together \u2014 a rare alignment that traces how a local visual language became global.<\/p>\n

The exhibition approaches Los Angeles not as a style to export but as a living system of culture \u2014 forged through community, discipline and continuity across decades.<\/p>\n

Friday 27th February<\/strong><\/p>\n

OHSH\u00a0 5PM \u2013 9PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

OHSH present RUNES, a group exhibition at Thames-Side Studios Gallery. Bringing together an intergenerational group of artists,\u00a0RUNES<\/strong>\u00a0explores the emergence of human mark-making through abstraction, tracing visual language as an unbroken thread linking contemporary practice with ancient traditions of symbol and inscription.<\/p>\n

ARTISTS:\u00a0<\/strong>Bijanka Bacic, Basil Beattie RA, Magda Blasinska, Alice Browne, Jo Dennis, Howard Dyke, Gus Farnes, Guy Haddon Grant, John Hoyland RA, \u00a0Albert Irvin RA, \u00a0Harry Kincade, Arthur Lanyon, Paul Moriarty, Pia Ortu\u00f1o, Jonathan Michael Ray, Kes Richardson.<\/p>\n

The exhibition places pioneering post-war abstractionists, including Basil Beattie RA and work from the estates of John Hoyland RA and Albert Irvin RA, alongside leading contemporary painters and sculptors whose practices span painting, installation, assemblage and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, artists will investigate gesture, geometry, ritual mark, surface and symbol as carriers of memory, perception and belief. Some will draw from archaeology, mythology and landscape; whilst others will work through colour, structure, and others still will build visual languages from found materials, repetition or intuitive drawing. @ohshprojects<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, this week, some great museum exhibitions are opening: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracey Emin<\/strong>,\u00a0A Second Life at Tate Modern 27th Feb 2026 \u2013 31st Aug @tate<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose Wylie<\/strong>, The Picture Comes First at The RA, 28th Feb \u2013 19th April @royalacademyarts<\/a><\/p>\n

Beatriz Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> at the Barbican Art Gallery Wed 25th Feb\u2014Sun 10th May @barbicancentre<\/a><\/p>\n

Chiharu Shiota<\/strong>: Threads of Life at the Hayward Gallery, Tue 17th Feb \u2013 Sun 3rd May @hayward.gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

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