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Frieze London
The tent itself. 172 galleries from 42 countries, and the reason the whole city is busy.
The Gremlins · Museum Rat
Frieze Week A–Z
London · 13–18 October 2026 · 23 stops
One white tent in Regent's Park costs £38 to walk into. Almost everything else happening that week is free. This is the map.
What is Frieze?
Frieze is an art fair where elite galleries rent a booth in a temporary tent in Regent's Park and sell work for five days, mostly to collectors and institutions rather than to the average Joe. There are two tents. Frieze London holds contemporary art, and Frieze Masters sits a short walk across the park with everything made before 2000. Tickets start at £38 and you have to buy them online, and once you leave there is no re-entry, so go in knowing which tent you want.
Frieze Week is the cultural event that grows around it, where museums and institutions tag onto the fact that so many buyers and artists are in town. Cork Street and Dover Street put up the shows they have been saving, the museums open the exhibitions they want reviewed, and a handful of smaller fairs take over hotels and hospitality spaces. The good thing is a lot of these extra activities are free, and it's a good week to do some museum hopping. None of it needs a Frieze ticket. Plenty of it needs nothing at all.
Show
Regent's Park
NW12
Frieze Masters
Everything made before 2000, fifteen minutes' walk across the park from the contemporary tent.
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Frieze Sculpture
Eleven artists installed in the English Gardens, and nobody checks a ticket at the gate.
Fitzrovia & Marylebone
W14
Minor Attractions
Seventy-five galleries spread through the bedrooms of a hotel, which is a much better way to look at art than a booth.
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Fair Play
About seventy artists selling their own work with no gallery in between, which means you can actually afford something.
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Paraíso
A brand new Latin American fair opening with 22 galleries and Mexico as its first focus.
Mayfair
W17
PAD London
Collectable design and objects in a tent on Berkeley Square, for anyone who finds paintings a bit flat.
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Jordan Nassar: No History of Shapes
Embroidery and mosaic built out of Palestinian craft, pattern and geometry.
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Georg Baselitz: The Heroes
The first UK show given entirely to the battered Hero paintings he made in 1965 and 1966.
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Louis Fratino: Prose
New paintings of public and private life, and his first solo show in London.
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Anal House Meltdown x Bolding Gallery
A one-night cult queer club night in a Mayfair gallery, with no guest list, which during Frieze week is the joke.
The Strand
WC212
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Fourteenth London edition, contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, in the wings of Somerset House.
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Salman Toor: Someone Like You
Nineteen paintings on intimacy, isolation and belonging. His first solo show in Europe.
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Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends
Five years of dreamlike portraits celebrating queer lives, which will be the most photographed show of the week.
The City
EC215
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing
Over sixty works by the man who spent a career painting white, and finding an enormous amount in it.
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Yuko Mohri: In Concert
A kinetic installation made from salvaged Barbican parts: water-driven cymbals, leaking sinks, fans blowing across old wiring.
East
N1 / E217
Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (The Salesmen)
Paintings of salespeople and their customers, which is a very funny thing to hang during an art fair.
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Rebecca Warren
Her first London show in fifteen years, with new sculpture that goes back over her own earlier ideas.
South Bank
SE119
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography
Over 200 rare prints by more than eighty photographers, tracing the moment photography decided it was art.
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Anish Kapoor
Closing the same day Frieze does, so this is genuinely your last week for the Vantablack works.
West & South-West
W8 / SW3 / SW1121
Es Devlin: Other Worlds
Her first European retrospective, including a library installation of more than 2,000 books, all of which go to local charities afterwards.
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FOCUS Art Fair
Contemporary Asian art and diaspora, from traditional technique through to work made with AI.
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Affordable Art Fair
116 galleries, a whole section under £500, and the only fair this week where the prices are on the wall.
If you only have one day
- Start at 11 in Regent's Park with Frieze Sculpture, which is free, outdoors and never busy before lunch.
- Walk south to Fitzrovia for Minor Attractions in the hotel rooms. Also free, and more fun than the tent.
- Cut west into Mayfair and do Cork Street and Dover Street on foot. Every gallery is free and every one of them has its best show of the year up.
- Finish at the Barbican for the Curve, which costs nothing, and the Ryman if you still have the legs.
Total spend: a travelcard.