Frieze has announced the details of Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026, which will both take place from October 14 through 18 in Regent’s Park. The two fairs will together host almost 300 galleries from 48 countries and regions, with Frieze London welcoming 172 galleries and Frieze Masters welcoming nearly 140 (some galleries will mount booths at both fairs).
The exhibitor count marks a slight uptick on the fairs’ 2025 editions, which brought together 282 galleries from 45 countries.
This year’s edition of Frieze London will introduce a new curated section, “The Code Universe,” organized by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing. The section will examine how artists respond to societal transformation through mass culture, with solo presentations including Selma Selman with Budapest’s acb and Carolyn Lazard with Berlin’s Trautwein Herleth.
At its entrance, Frieze London will open with solo artist stands by Márcia Falcão (presented by Brazilian gallery Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel) and Agata Ingarden (presented by Cologne gallery Berthold Pott). Major returning galleries include Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, White Cube, and David Zwirner. The section Artist-to-Artist returns for its fourth edition with seven solo presentations—up from six last year. Meanwhile, the Focus section, supported by Stone Island, welcomes back several galleries that sold out their booths in 2025, including Ginny on Frederick and Harlesden High Street. New galleries to Frieze London this year include hometown galleries Alice Amati and Galerina, as well as Paris’s Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Kyiv’s Voloshyn Gallery.
“Frieze London and Frieze Masters are built around a shared idea: that contemporary practice and art history are most compelling in dialogue,” said Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s executive director of fairs, in a statement.
Frieze Masters, meanwhile, returns for its second edition under director Emanuela Tarizzo. Spotlight, its section dedicated to solo presentations of 20th-century artists, returns in its largest edition to date under new curators Dr. Devika Singh and Dr. Sofia Gotti. Among others, the section will include Roland Dorcely presented by Loeve&Co, Syed Sadequain presented by Grosvenor Gallery, and Anna Zemánková presented by The Gallery of Everything.
The fair will also debut “Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century,” a curatorial theme conceived by Anke Kempkes foregrounding works around the fair that engage with queer experience, while Reflections, curated by Abby Bangser, returns for its second edition. That section, spread throughout the fair, includes works from and inspired by the collections of Casa Luis Barragán in Mexico City and The Cosmic House in London.
“Frieze Masters has always resisted the idea of a single art history,” said Tarizzo in a statement. “The 2026 edition builds on that position.”
Frieze Sculpture—Frieze’s outdoor display of large-scale sculptural works—will also run from September 16 through November 1 in Regent’s Park’s English Gardens.
Last year’s Frieze London and Masters fairs closed with stronger-than-expected results, with reported sales led by Hauser & Wirth’s placement of a Gabriele Münter painting for CHF 2.4 million ($3.01 million) at Frieze Masters.
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