Every October, London enters its most frenzied rhythm, and 2025 appears poised to continue the pattern. From 15–19 October, Regent’s Park becomes the gravitational centre of the art world as Frieze London and Frieze Masters open side by side. For a few days, the city is transformed into a vast stage where collectors, curators, critics, and the simply curious converge. The range is deliberately wide: cutting-edge contemporary practices are placed in direct dialogue with works drawn from centuries of history, allowing visitors to move from an emerging artist’s first outing to a Renaissance panel painting in a single afternoon.
Frieze Sculpture, installed throughout the Park and open to all at no charge, expands the atmosphere beyond the tents, drawing in passersby and locals who may never step into the fair itself. Its presence underlines how Frieze has grown from a market event into a city-wide festival with multiple entry points. Around town, galleries, museums and project spaces time their strongest shows to coincide, knowing London is at its busiest. For one charged week in October, the capital doesn’t just host the art world—it becomes the art world. – PCR 2025
Frieze London:
Frieze London has long outgrown the label of “just another fair.” Since 2003, it has been the engine that turns mid-October into the most fevered week of the capital’s art calendar. Regent’s Park becomes a temporary city of its own, where blue-chip galleries share space with younger, risk-taking outfits, and collectors roam the aisles in search of the next big name—or the next record-breaking price.
It is also a theatre. Frieze is where the art world presents itself: curators, dealers, and artists navigating a landscape that is equal parts market, spectacle, and cultural summit. The atmosphere spills far beyond the tents. Museums and commercial galleries time their strongest shows to coincide, while the city buzzes with late-night openings, parties and offsite projects. Expect chaos, energy and an almost surreal density of art-world figures packed into London’s Underground. The fair sets the tone; the city amplifies it.
Frieze Masters:
Frieze Masters, launched in 2012, brings a different tempo to Regent’s Park. Running alongside Frieze London, it focuses on art made before 2000, offering a counterbalance to the frenetic pace of its contemporary sibling. The atmosphere is quieter, the presentation more refined, but the stakes remain high. Here, museum-quality works and historical artefacts are filtered through the lens of today’s market, where collectors weigh legacy against investment. It is not nostalgia but dialogue—placing antiquity, modernism and the recent past in direct conversation with the present. For many, Frieze Masters is the fair’s most rewarding dimension.
Frieze Sculpture:
Frieze Sculpture returns to Regent’s Park this Autumn, opening on 17 September and running until 2 November 2025. Once again, it will be curated by Fatoşn Ütek, but for the first time, she has introduced an overarching connecting theme and a title for this annual open-air exhibition. In The Shadows imagines the shadow not as an ominous portent but as a creative and generative space where memory, material and myth intersect. The selected artists engage with shadows both as an idea and a literal physical phenomenon, exploring themes such as ecological absence, traces of ancestry, bodily imprints and sculptural metaphors. Participating artists include Turner-prize-winning collective Assemble, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andy Holden, Erwin Wurm, Simon Hitchens, Timur Si-Qin, Reena Saini Kallat, Burçak Bingöl, Lucía Pizzani, Grace Schwindt, Abdollah Nafisi, Henrique Oliveira, David Altmejd, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Frieze Focus
This year’s Focus section expands its reach with a wave of new arrivals shaping both London and the wider international scene. Highlights include a. Squire (London) presenting Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Bombon (Barcelona) with Lara Fluxà, Coulisse (Stockholm) with Rafal Zajko, Cylinder (Seoul) showing Rim Park, Gathering (London, Cologne, Ibiza) with Christelle Oyiri, Kayokoyuki (Tokyo) with Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, Eli Kerr (Montreal) with Marlon Kroll, and King’s Leap (New York) with Michelle Uckotter. Alongside them, twenty-five returning galleries—among them Rose Easton, Nicoletti, Madragoa, Franz Kaka and Gianni Manhattan—underline Focus as one of Frieze’s most vital platforms.
For nearly three centuries, Ruinart—the oldest of the Champagne houses—has cultivated a dialogue with the natural world, drawing inspiration from the soil, flora and cycles that shape its vineyards. This ongoing exchange is extended through Conversations with Nature, an art series that invites contemporary artists to respond to the Maison’s ethos of observation and respect for the environment.
For the 2025 edition, American artist Sam Falls has been commissioned to create new works. Falls is known for creating paintings in direct contact with natural elements, using leaves, flowers, pigments, and the weather itself to imprint time and place onto the canvas. His contributions, conceived as botanical portraits of the landscapes he inhabits, embody both fragility and resilience.
Presented at Frieze London from 15–19 October, the works will later travel to Ruinart’s historic address, 4 Rue des Crayères in Reims, where art, heritage and ecology are placed into dialogue.
Frieze Offsite:
Hafez Gallery: Ibrahim El Dessouki ‘Testimony of the Soil’: In October 2021, Frieze inaugurated its first permanent gallery space, No.9 Cork Street, in Mayfair’s historic core. Under the Direction of Selvi May Akyildiz, the venue occupies two repurposed townhouses, with its architecture conceived by Matheson Whiteley. Across three floors, it stages a dynamic annual programme of exhibitions and projects curated by prominent international galleries.Hafez Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of renowned Egyptian painter Ibrahim El Dessouki. The exhibition, curated by Dr Sara Raza, explores the complex relationship between the land, power, and labour through a series of new and recent allegorical paintings inspired by Egypt’s socio-political history, cinema, and literature.
Frieze Tickets:
The fairs will return to The Regent’s Park from 15-19 October. Discover six millennia of art history alongside today’s leading contemporary artists. Scroll to the Bottom of the Guide
Colateral Frieze Week Fairs 2025
Fairs: Here is a list of what’s on the outside of Regents Park during Frieze
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
16 – 19 October 2025
Somerset. House
The leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, 1-54 London 2025, will welcome over 50 international exhibitors from 13 countries.
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Focus London
16-19 October 2025
Saatchi Gallery
FOCUS London returns for its 4th edition at the Saatchi Gallery, continuing to highlight the energy and diversity of contemporary Asian art.
As a leading Asian contemporary art fair, FOCUS connects emerging and established artists from across Asia with global audiences. Through curated exhibitions and programs, it aims to amplify Asian voices and foster cultural dialogue within the international art scene.
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Echo Soho
16-19 October 2025
Artist’s House, Manette Street
A new satellite art fair founded by and for female-led galleries. Taking place from 16 to 19 October 2025 at Artist’s House, Manette Street, Echo Soho offers a bold and accessible alternative to the traditional fair model, with practical support for exhibitors including on-site art handling, booth photography, and shared VIP outreach.
Founded by gallerist and art fair veteran India Rose James, the fair champions underrepresented artists through a curated programme spanning two floors of a historic Soho townhouse. Timed to coincide with Frieze Week, the fair brings together a next-generation crowd of collectors, curators, and cultural voices.
Highlights include an AWITA-curated presentation selected through an open call, as well as performances, workshops, and a special preview hosted by the Contemporary Art Society.
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The Other Art Fair
9-12 October 2025
The Truman Brewery, E1 6QR
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to London, where the art fair originated, marking over a decade of pioneering efforts in democratising the art world by connecting emerging and independent artists with art buyers globally.
Celebrating the largest edition to date, 175 game-changing artists will showcase their original yet affordable artworks combined with exclusive Guest Artists, interactive installations, performances, plus local bites, brews, and drinks.
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Affordable Art Fair
Battersea
15-19 October 2025
The fair will showcase a world of art from over 100 leading galleries from all over the globe. Highlights will include a special installation, the annual Graduates exhibition, curated displays for Black History Month, as well as special events, workshops and more.
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PAD London
14-19 October 2025
Berkeley Square
PAD London is the only fair in the UK exclusively dedicated to historical and contemporary Design. PAD fairs have become a byword for connoisseurship, exquisite taste, and curatorial flair, showcasing the very best in modern and contemporary Design, as well as historical Design from the world’s leading galleries. With their distinct approach to collecting, PAD fairs epitomise how artistic genres across time and periods interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and striking interiors.
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Recommended Galleries and extras
To coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters (15 – 19 October 2025), there are three special days of London gallery openings: East End Day (Sunday 12 October, 11 am–6 pm), West End Day (Saturday 18 October, 11 am–6 pm) and Bloomsbury Afternoon (Friday 10 October, 4 pm–8 pm). Each day will focus on a different art-rich area of London, featuring galleries participating in Frieze London that will extend their opening hours to foster a sense of community and creative dialogue.
This curated route features all ten galleries participating in Bloomsbury Afternoon 2025. Assuming you spend 20–30 minutes in each, you should be able to complete it within the event’s four hours.
Bloomsbury Afternoon Friday 10 October Try These Events
East End Day, Sunday 12 October 11 am-6 pm
West End Day, Saturday 18 October
West End Highlights
Sadie Coles 8 Bury Street 7 October – 15 November
Arthur Jafa: Glas Negus Supreme
Sadie Coles 62 Kingly Street 10 October – 29 November 2025
Christopher Wool Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
13 October–19 December, 2025
Featuring over fifty works on paper, sculptures, and prints from the most recent period of his career, this long-awaited exhibition is the most expansive presentation of Wool’s work in London for many years.
Andreas Gursky
White Cube Mason’s Yard
11 October – 8 November 2025
Cristina Iglesias: The Shore
Hauser & Wirth
14 October – 20 December 2025
East End Highlights
Wolfgang Tilmans: Build from Here
Maureen Paley 4 Herald St and 60 Three Colts Lane
3 October – 20 December 2025
The Turner Prize winner’s eleventh exhibition with Paley sees the inauguration of its new gallery at 4 Herald St in Tillmans’s former studio.
Stan Douglas: Birth of a Nation and the Enemy of All Mankind
Victoria Miro until 1 November
Helen Cammock: Pelicans Dive at Half Light
until 25 October Kate MacGarry
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Mirage
Hales Gallery until 18 October
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Ryan Gander
I’ve fallen foul of my desire
Camden Arts Projects – 15 October 2025 – 18 January 2026
Time and value are at once fleeting, elastic, distracting, and inevitable, and form the central subject of Ryan Gander’s latest exhibition, I’ve Fallen Foul of My Desire.
Referencing humanity’s ongoing obsession with the accumulation of “stuff”, the exhibition brings together new and recent sculptures, animatronics, and installations, exploring how we perceive, distort, and inhabit time and how imagination can transform our relationship to it.
El Anatsui: Go back and pack
October Gallery 9 October – 29 November, 2025.
Goodman Gallery
11 October – 19 November 2025
October Gallery and Goodman Gallery, London, present ‘Go Back and Pick’, an exhibition in two parts by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s. These twin exhibitions of Anatsui’s most recent work underscore his significant presence in the much-anticipated Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern, opening 8 October 2025.
Connaught Village Art Month
Connaught Village Art Month returns this October with a vibrant programme of exhibitions, pop-ups, and events celebrating creativity across the neighbourhood. This year features a special Acme Studios takeover with Anemoia, a nostalgic, tech-inspired exhibition curated by Eleanor McLean, Ellie Pearch, and Jacob Talkowski. Running from 13–23 October, Anemoia explores the feeling of longing for a time never personally experienced, through sculpture and installation.
Frieze Tickets
Frieze Membership Access
In-Person Membership – From Thursday Preview
Membership Type Price
Individual (single entry to both fairs, admits 1) £125 / €150 / $165
Dual (single entry to both fairs, admits 2) £225 / €270 / $297
Frieze Connect Membership – From Wednesday VIP Preview
Membership TypePrice
Frieze Connect (multiple entry to both fairs, admits 2) From £990
General Admission
Ticket Type: Early Bird Price: Full Price
Thursday 16 October
Thursday First Preview Sold Out £150
Combined Thursday First Preview (access to both fairs) Sold Out £250
Friday 17 October
Preview First Access (before 3 pm) Sold Out £95
Preview Sold Out £78
Combined Preview (access both fairs) Sold Out £130
Weekend: 18 or 19 October
General Admission First Access (before 3 pm) Sold Out £59
General Admission Sold Out £48
Combined General Admission (access to both fairs) Sold Out £92
Student Combined Admission (access to both fairs) Sold Out £32
Child (2–17 years) Admission
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