Shoreditch and the streets around it have dozens of commercial and public galleries, from print studios on Curtain Road to blue-chip spaces on Wharf Road. The 12 below were open in October 2026. Hours and shows were taken from each gallery’s own website.
Jealous
53 Curtain Road, EC2A 3PT. Print studio and gallery showing editions and contemporary work. Open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX. Public gallery founded in 1901. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm, and to 9pm on Thursdays.
StolenSpace
17 Osborn Street, E1 6TD. Urban and contemporary art gallery at the southern end of Brick Lane, co-founded by Eve Hennings and the artist D*Face.
Pure Evil Gallery
108 Leonard Street, EC2A 4XS. Street art and print gallery. Open Thursday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
Hang-Up Gallery
10D Branch Place, N1 5PH. Contemporary gallery in Hoxton showing provocative work by emerging and established artists.
Nelly Duff
156 Columbia Road, E2 7RG. Prints and originals by urban and contemporary artists, on the Sunday flower market street.
Flowers Gallery
82 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP. Long-running contemporary gallery. It is showing photographs by Nadav Kander from 18 September 2026 to 20 January 2027.
Victoria Miro
16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW. Major contemporary gallery near the City Road basin. Hernan Bas runs from 17 September to 14 November and Khalif Tahir Thompson from 8 October to 7 November 2026. Free, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
Raven Row
56 Artillery Lane, E1 7LS. Non-profit exhibition space in two 18th-century silk merchants’ houses in Spitalfields, reopened in 2023. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.
The Brick Lane Gallery
216 Brick Lane, E1 6SA. Contemporary gallery with changing group and solo shows. Open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm and Sunday from noon to 6pm.
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG. Artist-run space hired by artists and collectives, with shows booked through December 2026.
Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA. Arts centre with exhibitions, music and talks. Its daily cinema programme is paused until autumn 2027 for building work, but the venue stays open for events.
Street art
The walls of Brick Lane, Hanbury Street, Redchurch Street and Great Eastern Street change every few weeks. The self-guided Shoreditch street art walk maps a route.
Galleries no longer on this list
Parasol Unit on Wharf Road closed in 2020. Several other spaces on earlier versions of this guide no longer list exhibitions online and have been removed.