From interactive experiences and augmented reality to walking among the famous works of Van Gogh or Monet, our city has really stepped things up a notch when it comes to viewing art. Forget your bog-standard gallery visits and silent spaces, these are the best immersive art exhibitions London has ready to book right now.
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Frameless Exhibition London
Ongoing Availability, Marble Arch
When you want a whole gallery of immersive art, Frameless London is your best bet. Featuring the works of multiple famous artists - think Klimt, Monet, Rousseau and more - across many rooms, there are plenty of sights to behold here. Motion sensors change the artwork as you pass, while the variety of themed spaces range from Abstract to Surrealism and even landscapes mixed with cityscapes.
A gathering of the best immersive exhibitions in London for 2024, Frameless isn't to be missed.
Van Gogh Exhibit: The Immersive Experience
Ongoing Availability, Shoreditch
Chances are, you've heard of the Van Gogh Immersive Experience tickets. Perhaps one of the most famous (and tragic) artists, the Dutchman can be appreciated through two-storey projections of his greatest works. But this isn't just a visual and VR masterpiece, as there are ethereal soundscapes to accompany your journey through the space too.
Stand right among the brushstrokes of 'The Starry Night' at this immersive Van Gogh exhibition.
Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition
28th March - 27th June 2025, Newham
Excel London Waterfront play host to a limited run of Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition in 2025, before it heads out of the UK and onwards in a tour across Europe. An interactive journey discovering Ancient Egypt, it includes six galleries that feature one of Europe’s largest immersive video mapping rooms via 8-metre-high projection, a digital metaverse walk-through of the Valley of the Kings, and more.
Walk like an Egyptian.
Illusionaries
Permanent, Canary Wharf
A revolutionary space for contemporary digital art, Illusionaries is a series of artist-led exhibitions with a changing roster of experiential offerings. Immerse yourself in light, sound and motion at their latest: Entheon by Alex and Allyson Grey. This ethereal work boasts three immersive rooms, including mirrors and 360-degree projections, exploring how the physical and spiritual worlds collide.
Alongside the above, a second choice of immersive art shows in London, Breathscapes, also runs at Illusionaries. Curated alongside 'renowned breathwork facilitator' Meloai, the landscape is split into four parts - 360-projections, abstract gardens and two mirrored environments - and explores meditation and mindfulness, with select narration from philosopher Alan Watts. Renowned composer Robotkoch's soundscapes also accompany for an even more enveloping feel.
See some of the best immersive art in London with tickets to Illusionaries.
The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks
Selected dates until end of April 2025, King's Cross
Tom Hanks narrates The Moonwalkers, an immersive insight into the Apollo missions and the impending return of crewed surface exploration in the Artemis Programme. Lightroom's projection takes you on a voyage to the moon itself, all while behind-the-scenes details are unveiled and an original score from Anne Nikitin - performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - is played.
This one's out of this world - quite literally.
Battersea Power Station's Light Festival
23rd January - 23rd February 2025, Battersea Power Station
Another free light festival in an iconic setting - this time from Battersea Power Station - this annual event returns with eight light art installations inside and outside the iconic Grade-listed landmark. A brand new abstract light sculpture called Aurora has been designed bespoke by James Glancy Design for Art Deco Turbine Hall A, representing the northern lights, while In Bloom by Kumquat Lab is an interactive musical light sculpture inspired by the pollination of plants and accompanied by a delightful melody.
Another highlight includes Never Ends by Italian artists Luigi Console and Valentina Novembre, featuring a rideable horse on a spring.
Battersea Power Station like you've never seen it before.
Lauren Halsey: emajendat
Until 24th February 2025, Kensington Gardens
From a family with four generations living in South Central Los Angeles, Lauren Halsey is known for a unique visual language centred around the iconography of African diaspora and Black and queer icons. Bringing together past, present and future with the layering of funk music, the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK has created a unique and immersive 'Funk Garden' for you to explore at Serpentine South Gallery.
Think life-sized versions of her signature vignette, moving image work, a prismatic floor and walls, sand dunes and more at emajendat.
Explore this immersive landscape of African diaspora and Black icons.
Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience
Ongoing Availability, Wembley
Forget ya standard ol' bubble bath or wand, Bubble Planet is making sure you can experience this globular fun to the absolute max. Spanning everything from glowing infinity rooms with light-up spheres to giant ball pits, inflatable playgrounds, VR and even a hot air balloon simulator, this interactive exhibition aims to stimulate all five of your senses.
Feel like a kid again at Bubble Planet.
Outernet
Permanent, Charing Cross Road
After a free immersive art gallery near London's Tottenham Court Road station? Outernet is an interactive entertainment district where the latest technology awaits. Having featured The Spaces In-Between - a free light exhibition featuring works from visual artist Rupert Newman that respond to body movement - the Now Building has since played host to Nature's Confetti (a blossom installation in collaboration with the National Trust), as well as the regularly-returning Butterfly Trail.
These picks of free immersive art in London are fully interactive.
Moco Museum
Ongoing Availability, Marble Arch
Although not a space fully dedicated to immersive art, Moco Museum is still worth a mention. Featuring over 100 modern, contemporary, digital and immersive works of art, including Warhol, Banksy and immersive queen Yayoi Kusama, it's dedicated to those who have shaped the history of art in more recent years or are still doing so right now.
Featuring cutting-edge media art technology and rare art NFTs, immersive art includes Pulse Interactive by Jon Lloyd and Six N. Five.
Enjoy contemporary art and some immersive exhibits here.
Twist Museum
Ongoing Availability, Oxford Street
Twist Museum is a collaboration between artists, neuroscientists and philosophers. There's a whole world of illusion to be found here, with a range of rooms helping you to uncover how your brain responds to reality being twisted. From not knowing which way is up to corridors that seem to go on forever, each interactive element is mind-bending at this top pick of immersive museum exhibitions.
Time to trick your mind at an immersive art gallery in London.
Paradox Museum
Ongoing Availability, Brompton Road
Newbie on the block, Paradox Museum, can be found right near Harrods in Knightsbridge; another venue of immersive exhibits that take you out of touch with reality. Expect gravity-defying or camouflage illusion-filled rooms, plus vortex tunnels and infinity optical illusions to wrap your head around - all across a fun and family-friendly space.
Challenge reality at Paradox Museum.
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