Are you healthy, robust and capable of staggering feats of endurance? Well, if you want to take on October’s insane number of exhibitions and art events, you’ll have to be in the shape of your life, because next month is a cultural ultra-marathon that’ll test even the fittest of art-thletes. Pretty much every museum is opening a big exhibition next month, as is every single gallery, all to coincide with Frieze. So here, we’ve compiled the best shows at London’s major institutions, the headline acts that you can’t afford to miss.
12 unmissable London art exhibitions and events in October 2024
Mire Lee at Tate Modern
The next artist to take on the daunting task of filling the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern is gory sculptural experimenter Mire Lee. By combining plastic, metal, goo, textiles and kinetic elements, Lee messes with ideas of cleanliness, safety, technology and the body, creating, wobbly, weird, moving sculptures that will hopefully creep Londoners out for months to come.
Mire Lee is at Tate Modern, Oct 9-Mar 15 2025. Free. More details here.
—Eddy Frankel
