Frieze London 2026 returns to Regent’s Park from 14–18 October, bringing together 176 galleries from 43 countries and regions. From ambitious new paintings by Albert Oehlen and Marina Perez Simão to artist-led collaborations, experimental installations and a spotlight on emerging talent, the 24th edition explores the ideas shaping contemporary art today.
Frieze London offers five days of exhibitions, international perspectives and encounters between contemporary practice and art history. The 24th edition of Frieze London brings together established names, pioneering galleries and emerging artists, with a programme spanning ambitious solo presentations, collaborative projects and curated sections exploring the relationship between art, popular culture and technology.
With 176 galleries representing 43 countries and regions, the fair continues to reflect London’s position as an international centre for contemporary art. Highlights include new work by Dalton Paula at Lisson, large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen at Gagosian, and atmospheric landscapes by Marina Perez Simão at Pace Gallery. Alongside these established artists, the fair’s Artist-to-Artist initiative, Focus section and new curatorial strand, The Code Universe, offer a platform for experimental practices and emerging voices.
Major solo presentations and ambitious new work
Among the standout presentations, Lisson will showcase new works by Brazilian artist Dalton Paula, whose practice draws on overlooked biographies, oral histories and visual records to restore visibility to Black historical figures from the 16th to 19th centuries. His presentation brings historical recovery and questions of representation into the contemporary art fair.
At Gagosian, Albert Oehlen will present six major new large-scale paintings, continuing his exploration of painting through an inventive combination of fragments, forms and motifs. At Pace Gallery, Marina Perez Simão will unveil new paintings inspired by natural and geographical phenomena, using layered colour and shifting light to evoke the changing character of landscapes and seascapes.
Other notable solo presentations include Miriam Cahn at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, where an installation of 24 paintings and drawings explores the artist’s relationship with her ageing body and the violence embedded within that experience. Meanwhile, Fort Gansevoort will present the first European solo exhibition of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant, whose work reimagines the traditionally male-dominated practice of drapo, or Vodou flags. Rooted in Vodou spirituality and African cultural traditions, her richly detailed work confronts colonial histories while celebrating Haitian identity, resilience and liberation.
Richard Saltoun Gallery will bring together pioneering British artists Helen Chadwick and Cathy de Monchaux, whose sculpture, assemblage and photography challenge conventional boundaries between beauty and revulsion. Elsewhere, Modern Art will present new paintings and works on paper by Francesca Mollett, exploring the tension between luminosity, density, depth and surface.
Group presentations will offer further opportunities to discover artists working across generations and disciplines. Victoria Miro will showcase recent paintings and sculpture by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami in an installation conceived by the artist, alongside new work by Clare Woods and Khalif Tahir Thompson and significant drawings by Paula Rego, ahead of her forthcoming 2027 exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery.
Hauser & Wirth will highlight London-based artists including Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Allison Katz, Christina Kimeze, Anj Smith and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. At Sadie Coles HQ, Alex Da Corte’s monumental sculpture Princess Daffodil, standing over 3.5 metres tall, will take centre stage alongside new matchbook sculptures and paintings by Yu Nishimura.
Other highlights include Hew Locke’s new sculpture Sikandar 2 at Hales, revisiting the equestrian monument as a symbol of power and collective memory, and an installation by Marcin Dudek at Edel Assanti. Reconstructing the Soviet-era apartment in Kraków where Dudek grew up, the installation will incorporate works by artists including Lonnie Holley, Jenkin van Zyl, Dale Lewis, Vinca Petersen, Sheida Soleimani and Yoshinori Niwa.
Sprüth Magers will present an intergenerational group show centred around work by Cao Fei and Kara Walker and including work by Anne Imhof, Mire Lee, Barbara Kruger, George Condo, Louise Lawler and David Ostrowski.
Victoria Miro will show recent paintings and sculpture by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami in a special installation conceived by the artist, plus new paintings by Clare Woods and Khalif Tahir Thompson, and a selection of significant drawings by Paula Rego, ahead of her 2027 Courtauld Gallery exhibition.
Artist-to-Artist: A platform for creative exchange
Returning for its fourth year, the Artist-to-Artist programme champions collaboration and artistic advocacy, with seven international artists nominated by established peers. Supported by Tiffany & Co., the initiative creates opportunities for artists to recognise one another’s work while encouraging exchange across generations, geographies and disciplines.
Among the participants is Jorge González Santos, nominated by Gala Porras-Kim, whose presentation at Embajada explores Puerto Rico’s material culture, landscape and history through collaborative weaving and smoke-dye drawings. Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo, nominated by Firelei Báez, will present paintings, handmade-paper works and clay sculptures inspired by creation and the Yoruba story of Obatala.
Interdisciplinary artist Jota Mombaça, nominated by Otobong Nkanga, will continue the project MUD/EMBANKMENT, combining painting, ceramic sculpture and raw earth at Galeria Jaqueline Martins. Meanwhile, Unathi Mkonto, nominated by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, will present sculptural works at Goodman Gallery exploring the relationship between Johannesburg’s urban environment and the energy of the ocean floor.
The programme also features Seoul-based Eusung Lee, nominated by Ayoung Kim; Caroline Monnet, nominated by Jeffrey Gibson; and Vienna-based painter Paul Robas, nominated by Louise Giovanelli. Together, their presentations demonstrate the value of artistic exchange in shaping new approaches to material, identity and contemporary experience.
Focus: Discovering the next generation
A key destination for collectors and visitors seeking emerging talent, Focus will bring together 35 galleries from 17 countries. Dedicated to galleries established within the past 12 years, the section places younger international galleries at the heart of the fair, with Stone Island returning as Official Partner for a fourth year and providing bursaries to participating galleries.
This year’s presentations explore subjects ranging from queer histories and disappearing urban spaces to gender, labour, technology and domestic life.
At Wschód, Laurie Smith will present paintings inspired by the history of Huddersfield’s Gemini Club, a gay nightclub targeted by police harassment. The works revisit a significant moment in British LGBTQ+ history, when the national Pride march relocated to Huddersfield in solidarity, while reflecting on the disappearance of queer spaces through gentrification and surveillance.
Marcus Jefferson will transform the Harlesden High Street booth into a life-sized office installation, incorporating his satirical Ham & High project and an original sound component inspired by Lover’s Rock. At a. Squire, Ryan Huggins will examine the discreet world of German sex cinemas through oil paintings, partitions and benches that evoke private viewing spaces.
Other presentations include Maya Hewitt’s paintings and ceramic sculptures at Theta, exploring motherhood, memory and fantasy, and Yuli Serfaty’s combination of CGI film, sculpture, sound and reliefs at Xxijra Hii, questioning whether systems designed to enforce obedience can develop their own forms of agency.
Steph Huang’s sculptural works at Public play with scale and material, transforming oversized olives and a metal toothpick into a humorous commentary on consumption. At Chemould CoLab, Jayeeta Chatterjee will present woodcut prints on recycled sari scrolls and Nakshi Kantha quilting, examining the working lives of Bengali women through questions of politics, domestic space and labour.
The section also includes Ella Fleck’s Training Material at Ehrlich Steinberg, a sculptural installation incorporating directional audio and vibrations to investigate the production and consumption of heterosexual male fantasies.
The Code Universe: Art in a post-digital world
New for 2026, The Code Universe is curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of Beijing’s Inside-Out Art Museum and co-curator of the 2027 Istanbul Biennial. Bringing together artists working from the late 1970s to the present, the section considers how popular culture is produced, circulated and consumed, and how pop and conceptual art continue to influence a generation shaped by digital media.
Among the highlights is Selma Selman’s presentation at acb Gallery, where works on scrap metal form a visual diary combining self-portraiture, everyday observations of life in Bosnia and reflections on global capitalism. At greengrassi/Take Ninagawa, Shinro Ohtake will explore the economies of images and consumer products through collage, painting, sculpture, sound and multimedia installations.
Payne Zhu’s Anal Intelligence (2026), presented by Spurs Gallery, will take the form of a multichannel, real-time rendered video installation incorporating algorithmic imagery, literary illustrations and content drawn from platforms including TikTok and Instagram. The work examines the relationship between networked technologies and contemporary visual culture.
Meanwhile, Oototol’s Chinese ink paintings on canvas feature recurring androgynous figures in military uniform, exploring fluid gender identities and anonymous, endlessly reproducible bodies. Presented by Valentine, the project brings together a collaboration between galleries in Jakarta, Tokyo and Tbilisi.
Carolyn Lazard will address the structures of medical care through two works presented by Trautwein Herleth. Portraitscomprises grids of promotional pharmaceutical pens collected from doctors’ estates, while Pre-Existing Condition examines the history of non-consensual medical experiments on incarcerated people at Holmesburg Prison.
Frieze Masters: Rediscovering art history
Running alongside Frieze London, Frieze Masters will offer a complementary perspective on the history of art, bringing together works spanning ancient civilisations to the 20th century. Highlights include Anthony van Dyck’s nearly two-metre Portrait of a Nobleman at Colnaghi and a bronze figure of Ptah from Egypt’s 26th Dynasty at Rupert Wace.
The fair will also introduce Queering Modernism, its first curated thread dedicated to queer visual history. Curated by Anke Kempkes, the initiative aims to bring greater visibility to artists and histories that have often been overlooked within established art-historical narratives. The Spotlight section, curated by Dr Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti, will revisit pioneering figures and the histories of collecting, while Reflections will create new dialogues across periods and artistic traditions.
Deutsche Bank returns as Global Lead Partner for both fairs for the 23rd consecutive year, presenting work by Salvadoran artist Studio Lenca in its lounges at Frieze London and Frieze Masters.
Together, the two fairs offer a broad view of art’s evolving relationship with history, identity, technology and society. From major new paintings and ambitious installations to emerging galleries and previously overlooked histories, Frieze London 2026 promises a compelling snapshot of the ideas and practices shaping contemporary culture.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026
14–18 October 2026
The Regent’s Park, London
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