White Cube Bermondsey

The lowdown

White Cube's Bermondsey gallery is enormous, one of the largest commercial art spaces in Europe, and like nearly all commercial galleries it is completely free to walk into. Behind its plain frontage on Bermondsey Street lie vast white halls that show major exhibitions by some of the most famous names in contemporary art.

Because it is a selling gallery rather than a museum, the shows change regularly and there is never a ticket or a queue, just serious, ambitious art in beautifully lit rooms. It anchors a whole cluster of free galleries and design shops along Bermondsey Street, making the area one of the best free art wanders south of the river.