Our Guide To Frieze London 2026

14-18 October. Eva Langret’s fair has 172 galleries from 42 countries and regions, anchored by London’s own: The Approach, Arcadia Missa, Carlos/Ishikawa, Emalin, Maureen Paley. Two stands will meet you at the entrance, Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel with Márcia Falcão and Berthold Pott with Agata Ingarden. Walk Focus first. It is the young-gallery section, with newcomers including 243 Luz from Margate and Chemould CoLab. Artist-to-Artist has seven solo presentations by emerging artists, each chosen by an established one, Firelei Báez, Otobong Nkanga and Yinka Shonibare among them. The new section, The Code Universe, is curated by Carol Yinghua Lu and looks at what shapes popular culture, late 1970s to now. Weekend tickets are £48, or £92 for both fairs, online only.

14-18 October. Emanuela Tarizzo’s fair has nearly 140 galleries from 30 countries and regions, showing work made before 2000, or before 2010 by artists born before 1950. Colnaghi and Johnny Van Haeften for Old Masters, Shapero Rare Books for paper, Kunstkammer Georg Laue for the Munich cabinet of curiosities. Queering Modernism is new this year, a thread by Anke Kempkes running through the whole fair. Spotlight is at its largest yet, under the Courtauld’s Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti. Reflections, curated by Abby Bangser of Object & Thing, takes its cue from Casa Luis Barragán and The Cosmic House. A combined ticket covers both fairs on one day, starting with the fair you booked.

14-17 October. Six talks, presented with dunhill and curated by Arturo Galansino of Palazzo Strozzi. Es Devlin will open with Tim Marlow of the Design Museum on Wednesday at 5pm, and Grayson Perry will talk ceramics with the Met’s Iris Moon on Thursday at noon, both before the public is let in. Ticket holders can catch Danh Vō and Paul Pfeiffer on the fragment (Thursday, 3pm), Lina Ghotmeh and Kulapat Yantrasast on museum displays (Friday, 5pm) and Goshka Macuga on textiles beyond Bayeux (Saturday, noon). Every talk will go up on frieze.com and as a podcast afterwards.

16 September - 1 November. The 14th edition, curated by Fatoş Üstek, puts work by 11 artists at the south end of The Broadwalk. Look for Conrad Shawcross with Victoria Miro, Angel Otero with Hauser & Wirth and three pieces by Matyáš Chochola. No booking, and the free Bloomberg Connects app has an audio tour narrated by Üstek and the artists. It runs for seven weeks, so there is no reason to see it in a crowd.

Frieze Week. Frieze’s own Mayfair space turns five this October with two first-time tenants. Dubai’s The Third Line brings Jordan Nassar, whose new embroideries and mosaics draw on Palestinian visual traditions. New York’s P·P·O·W shows new paintings and works on paper by Robin F. Williams.

The third edition will run across Mount Street, South Audley Street and Carlos Place. Miles Aldridge will set up his studio at 62 South Audley Street, orange backdrop and all, and you can book a one-off Polaroid portrait. The Audley will host an Art Pub Quiz, with David Hoyle among the question masters.

15-21 October. The shop at 105-107 Pimlico Road will build its Frieze show around 30 wind chimes Cerith Wyn Evans made for JW Anderson, hung with other works by him lent by White Cube. Around them, ceramics by Akiko Hirai, paintings by Mary Stephenson and sculpture by Shawanda Corbett.

13 October - 11 April. The French-Lebanese artist and composer is the 11th to take on the Turbine Hall for Hyundai. He builds his own sculptural instruments and makes work out of sound, much of it improvised.

8 October - 28 February. The first big UK show of Ryman’s paintings in over 30 years has over 60 works across six decades. Before painting, he was a jazz musician, then a guard at MoMA. He never cared what to paint, only how: square formats, a limited palette, surfaces from steel to newsprint.

7 October - 14 February. The Chilean poet and artist’s first major UK public exhibition covers six decades. She made her first quipu, the knotted-cord recording system of the Andes, in 1966. Stand under Quipu Menstrual: unspun wool in reds and browns, worked on from 2006 to 2024.

10 September - 11 July. Seventy metres of 1066, back from France and in the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years. Tickets are £25 to £33.

Until 18 October. The summer show closes on the last day of the fair. Kapoor fills the whole building with steel mirrors and Vantablack voids, and it is Ralph Rugoff’s last show after 20 years as director.

Saturday 17 October, 11am - 6pm. Galleries showing at Frieze London will keep longer hours, most of them within walking distance of each other. Start at 41 Dover Street, which holds two: Reena Saini Kallat’s first London solo at Richard Saltoun, and Walton Ford’s paintings upstairs at Galerie Max Hetzler. Then Luxembourg + Co. on Savile Row for Mira Schendel, VeneKlasen on Upper Brook Street for Ce Roser’s first European solo in over 60 years, and Modern Art on Bennet Street for Pope.L’s Five Decades. Heidi, one of the Focus galleries at the fair, has Brook Hsu’s first UK solo on the third floor of 47 Maddox Street.

14-18 October. Ravinder Bhogal and Nadeem Nanjuwany’s Blandford Street restaurant will be at the fair for the fifth time, cooking a vegetarian menu. Much of what’s on the plate comes from Waltham Place, the biodynamic farm Jikoni buys from. In 2021 it became the first independent restaurant in the UK to be certified carbon neutral.

14-18 October. Jonny Gent runs Sessions Arts Club and paints, and this year’s pop-up, Pilgrimage, will hang on his pictures of sunsets. Architects Russell Potter and Richard J. McConkey worked on the space with him. In the kitchen, Abigail Hill: guinea fowl with potato, halibut with smoked eel and apple, fregola grape sorbet.

14-18 October. Year two at Frieze Masters for the Islington Italian. Order pasta: tagliarini with Dorset crab and Amalfi lemon, or pappardelle with beef shin ragu. Tiramisu after.

14-18 October. Kit Kemp’s pop-up for the Soho hotel’s restaurant will be back for a fifth year. The gnocchi comes with girolles and black truffle, the vol-au-vent with wild mushrooms and a poached egg. Each of nine cocktails answers a work in the hotel’s own collection, with Howard Hodgkin and Tony Cragg among the artists.

Frieze Week. For Frieze, executive chef Jamie Shears cooks from A Cookbook for Iwan, Manuela and Iwan Wirth’s book of recipes, each dish credited to someone from the art world. Pheasant pâté en croûte from Berlinde De Bruyckere. Smoked haddock from Phyllida Barlow. Cheesecake from Pedro Chillida. The negroni is Anj Smith’s.

Tuesday to Saturday. The Frieze founders’ own restaurant. Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover opened it in 2021 at 180 The Strand and named it after Alice B. Toklas and her 1954 cookbook. Seventy covers, Børge Mogensen People’s Chairs, teak parquet salvaged from a library in the north of England and a terrace. Close enough to 1-54 at Somerset House to do both in an afternoon.

On now, into November. Frieze’s East End Day was on Sunday 11 October, but the shows behind it are still up. Start at Emalin on Helmet Row for Sung Tieu’s How is your day?, her second solo with the gallery. Then Nicoletti on Paul Street, where Ana Viktoria Dzinic’s second solo there moves her work between a large storage unit and the gallery walls, in three rotations over the run. Peer on Hoxton Street has Dala Nasser’s Cemetery of Martyrs, a canopy of dyed and marked fabric draped over a wooden structure built for the space. In Bethnal Green, Rebecca Warren’s new sculptures fill both Maureen Paley spaces, a life-size bronze reclining nude among them, and Herald St has the Paris-based artist Elise Nguyen Quoc’s first UK solo.

1 October - 13 December. Frieze Week magazine’s profile of collector Alexa Waley-Cohen is a good reason to cross the river. Since 2025 she has chaired Gasworks, which has run exhibitions and residencies for international emerging artists since 1994 and has supported more than 750 artists from over a hundred countries. Chris Ofili, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Yinka Shonibare all spent time there. It is the London hub of Triangle Network, which Anthony Caro and Robert Loder founded in 1982. This autumn’s show is a solo by Paloma Contreras Lomas.