Welcome to this year’s Artlyst Frieze Week 2019 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar.
“From the absurd to the sublime London Frieze week” – Artlyst
This events guide is one of the most respected Frieze and Frieze week collateral art fair guides produced. We update it daily adding new events as they ‘Pop-Up’! It includes information about the main fair and all of the satellite events launching the week of 2 October 2019. Please make sure you return over the next week to find out more…
Like Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, Frieze is the go-to event for the UK and international art world. The galleries involved offer the best in contemporary art showcasing 160 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries. Make sure you save time to visit the smaller fairs and events that complete the Frieze week calendar.
The Main Fair
Frieze London 2019
3-6 October 2019
South of The Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NR
£38.70
Frieze London returns to Regent’s Park to present the best of international contemporary art by emerging and established artists, alongside a dynamic programme of newly commissioned artworks, films and talks. The fair features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries.
The annual curated programme includes Frieze Artist Award, presenting new, site-specific works by contemporary artists; Frieze Music, the fair’s off-site music programme; and Frieze Talks, a dynamic series of panel discussions, conversations and keynote lectures. In the curated gallery sections, Focus features presentations by galleries aged 16 years or younger and Live is a space for performance and participation works
Frieze Masters 2019
3-6 October 2019
North-east corner of The Regent’s Park near the London Zoo, London, NW1 4HA
£38.70
Frieze Masters brings together thousands of years of art in a unique, contemporary context, with over 130 of the world’s leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer.
This year Frieze Masters 2019 will be an exceptional opportunity to view and acquire works by ground-breaking women artists of the 20th century. Highlights include Susan Hiller, Rachel Whiteread and Louise Nevelson among others.
The acclaimed series of Frieze Masters Talks returns to the fair this October. Once again curated by Tim Marlow (Royal Academy of Arts, London) the programme will feature leading contemporary artists discussing the influence of historical art on their research and practice and include Ai Weiwei, Elizabeth Peyton, Mark Bradford, Edmund de Waal and Michael Craig-Martin.
Frieze Sculpture 2019
3 July – 6 October 2019
English Gardens, The Regent’s Park London NW1 4JL, ,
FREE
Frieze Sculpture the free summer display of international outdoor artwork is on in Regent’s Park with works by 23 contemporary and modern artists presented by world-leading galleries.
Read Edward Lucie-Smith’s Review Here
Other Fairs
PAD London 2019
30 September – 6 October 2019
Berkeley Square W1
£25
Set in the vibrant heart of Mayfair, PAD is London’s leading fair for 20th Century art, design and decorative arts.
Sunday 2019
3-6 October 2019
Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 5LS
FREE
Sunday is an annual contemporary art fair held in London which focuses on new and emerging artists and galleries from around the world. This year Sunday will showcase 30 international galleries exhibiting solo projects or curated group presentations.
Moniker International Art Fair
2- 6 October 2019
The Chelsea Sorting Office
90-100 Sydney Street London SW3 6NJ, ,
£25
Founded in 2010 in London, Moniker is a hyper-curated five-day contemporary art fair, exhibiting an international roster of the finest artists and galleries at the cutting edge of urban art and culture.
The Other Art Fair
3-6 October 2019
Victoria House, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5HR, ,
£11
Presented by Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair is the UK’s leading artist fair to discover and buy art directly from the very best emerging artistic talent.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
3-6 October 2019
Somerset House, The Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
£25
1-54 is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora with annual editions in London, New York (since 2015) and Marrakech (since 2018).
British Art Fair
3-6 October 2019
Saatchi Gallery, The Duke of York’s Headquarters, Kings Road, London, SW3 4RY
£20
Since 1988, the British Art Fair has celebrated the best of Modern British art. Each year, the British Art Fair brings together a group of top dealers in the field, showcasing works covering the most important artistic movements of the past 100 years. In 2019, for the fair’s second edition at Saatchi Gallery, you will find a strong representation of Britain’s key 20th and 21st-century artists: from Henry Moore, David Hockney and Barbara Hepworth to Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry and Chris Ofili. In addition, a curated series of special exhibitions will include the YBAs, Alan Davie and David Inshaw.
Cultural Traffic
5 October 2019
Old Spitalfields Market
FREE
CULTURAL TRAFFIC, the roving global arts and publishing fair, will hold its fourth London edition at Old Spitalfields Market on Saturday 5 October, 2019.
Its new talks programme, which like the fair is free of charge, includes Philip Sallon and Pandemonia.
Other Events/Exhibitions
Other Spaces with United Visual Artists
1 October – December 2019
The Store X 180 The Strand WC2R 1EA
Free
A multi-sensory exploration of light and sound.
The Store X The Vinyl Factory presents a new exhibition by UVA called Other Spaces at 180 The Strand in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
Other Spaces features three large-scale installations by the multi-disciplinary collective UVA – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra and Vanishing Point.
Kara Walker Hyundai Commission
2 October 2019 – 5 April 2020
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Free
Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for London.
Based in New York, Kara Walker is renowned for her candid explorations of race, sexuality and violence.
Albert Oehlen
Serpentine Gallery
2 October 2019- 12 January 2020
Free
A major exhibition by German artist Albert Oehlen one of the most innovative and significant artists working today. He has been a key figure in contemporary art since the 1980s and the diversity of his painting is a testament to the intrinsic freedom that remains at the heart of the medium.
Ai Weiwei: Roots
Lisson Gallery (27 Bell St
2 October – 2 November 2019
FREE
A major exhibition by Ai Weiwei this autumn features a new series of monumental sculptural works in iron, cast from giant tree roots sourced in Brazil during research and production for last year’s survey exhibition, ‘Raiz’, at the Oscar Niemeyer-designed OCA Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo.