September

Magic Bullet

Issy Wood

Wood's first major German solo. Over twenty-five paintings from the last five years, a lot of them on velvet. The Pavillon rotunda puts the paintings in the round, which is how her objects, handbags, dentistry, hands on skin, want to be seen.

Sandra Mujinga

Mujinga takes the Stedelijk's lower gallery and does what she does well, which is make the room feel later than it is. Fabric, shadow, figures that might be people or might be something waiting to become them.

Sueño Perro

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Iñárritu takes the Prada cinema rooms apart and builds something from the Amores Perros outtakes. Thirty-five-millimetre projectors in the dark, footage never released, the film made unmade. Not a retrospective. A second cut, twenty-five years on.

Turner Prize 2025

The Prize leaves London for Bradford, City of Culture year. Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami, Zadie Xa. Kalu won in December. Free entry, which matters, and Cartwright Hall's Edwardian galleries make the installations read differently than a Tate white box.

Wild Wild Wall

Coumba Samba

Samba takes the upstairs galleries for a year. Paint, objects, the walls themselves treated as material. First institutional solo at this scale. Runs long enough to watch the work settle.