London galleries I'm currently obsessed with (no notes)!!

Amara Okafor

@amara.curates

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Okay so I basically live on the 63 bus between Peckham and everywhere else in this city chasing private views and free wine (don't tell my bank account) and THESE are the twelve spaces that keep pulling me back in!! Junior curator brain never switches off so I've been taking notes on my phone mid-opening for MONTHS -- from the big shiny commercial giants to the scrappy little Peckham spaces round the corner from my flat. Obsessed, no notes, will die on this list!!!

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London galleries I'm currently obsessed with (no notes)!! — 7 items
Name	Comment	Address	City	Known For
1White Cube Bermondsey	The main gallery is genuinely the size of a warehouse (bring comfy shoes, I mean it!!) and the shows always feel like an event. Obsessed, no notes!!	144-152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ	London	Huge industrial-scale space for blue-chip contemporary art
2Whitechapel Gallery	This building has SO much history (they've championed artists here for over a century, wild!!) and the current programme is always ambitious. A proper pilgrimage.	77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX	London	Landmark East London gallery with a legendary exhibition history
3Goldsmiths CCA	The building alone (an old bathhouse!! the concrete!!) is worth the trip, and it's five minutes from Peckham so obviously it's in heavy rotation for me.	St James, London SE14 6AD	London	University gallery in a converted Victorian bathhouse
5Serpentine South	There's something so lovely about wandering through the park then just... being in a gallery?? Ten out of ten transition. Always leaves me thinking for days.	Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA	London	Park-set gallery known for boundary-pushing shows and its summer pavilion
7Victoria Miro	The garden out back is such a treat (genuinely gasped the first time I found it!!) and the shows upstairs never disappoint. Quiet little gem.	16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW	London	Canal-side gallery with a proper hidden garden
8The Approach	A gallery above a PUB, need I say more?? Pop up for the show, pop down for a pint after. This is peak London to me, obsessed.	1st Floor, 47 Approach Road, London E2 9LY	London	Gallery above a Bethnal Green pub
9Maureen Paley	Such an OG of the East London gallery scene (long before it was cool, if you know you know). Always leave feeling a bit smarter, honestly.	60 Three Colts Lane, London E2 6GQ	London	One of the pioneering East End contemporary galleries