Nick Knight CBE

I start my day at SHOWstudio with a delicious flat white coffee and cinnamon bun from Ole & Steen. SHOWstudio is the gallery I run and it’s nothing like any other gallery! There are always live performances that are part of the exhibitions, and everything is broadcast live to the internet, which makes the whole experience feel very exciting.

My day weaves together galleries with some of my favourite museums in the city, and first I travel south to Tate Britain. Their collection is fantastic and it’s where I used to go as a child. As I am a member I will eat there. Just a few minutes away in a car is The Sunday Painter, who are showing an exhibition of new work by Harminder Judge, and Sam Bakewell's third solo exhibition at Corvi-Mora.

Early afternoon I will go to the Serpentine. I have seen some brilliant shows there in the past such as Matthew Barney, who has a solo show with Sadie Coles HQ on Kingly Street this year. I will buy a book from the Serpentine bookshop and if the weather permits, spend the next hour or so reading it whilst sitting out in the park.

Heading into Soho and Mayfair to see Matthew Barney’s show, I’ll also stop by Almine Rech who are showing two exhibitions of Hajime Sorayama and Ana Karkar, and to Gagosian. This year one of their shows in London will be an immersive installation by Nan Goldin at a former Welsh chapel on Charing Cross Road. Gagosian always has thought-provoking shows. Gagosian always has thought provoking shows.

The afternoon ends with a tea and cake at the Victoria & Albert Museum and then a gentle stroll through the ceramics gallery. It is vast and unbelievably nearly always empty.

When the V&A shuts I will go back to SHOWstudio to see how the day went and to thank everyone involved. Write a few emails before locking up and heading home. Days like that are bliss, but far too rare in my life; all the same, they are all the more precious when they do happen.