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.
Üstek says: ‘”In the Shadows” offers a curatorial perspective that embraces the unknown, the concealed and the forgotten. Shadows are zones of potential, where stories unfold quietly yet powerfully, often out of sight. The artists this year reflect these tensions with profound insight: their works address ecological vulnerability, historical erasure and human transformation. My hope is that as visitors journey through The Regent’s Park, they come to see that what resides in the shadows may contain the seeds of change.’
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, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
Each of the 14 leading international artists will have work positioned throughout the historic English Gardens and share a common urgency, inviting us to look for what is hidden. Andy Holden will show bronze birdcalls, Reena Saini Kallat her colossal sound sculptures and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith her tribute to Indigenous memory. Erwin Wurm will show his spectral garments, while Burçak Bingöl has transformed the use of clay-rich soil from The Regent’s Park.
Frieze Sculpture 2025 will also feature a dynamic programme of tours, activations and performances offering a deeper insight into the artworks and curatorial process, including a costumed procession by Assemble, drawing performances and workshops by Simon Hitchens, live performances by Lucía Pizzani with Lucia Pietroiusti, and curator-led walks with Üstek. The free public display coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters which also take place in The Regent’s Park, 15 – 19 October 2025.
Frieze Sculpture partners with London Sculpture Week (20 – 28 September 2025), a city-wide celebration of public art that unites four major initiatives: Frieze Sculpture, the Fourth Plinth, Sculpture in the City and The Line. Now in its fourth edition, London Sculpture Week underscores London’s vibrant role as a global cultural capital with a vast amount of open space, providing innovative opportunities for the public to engage with contemporary sculpture in outdoor settings. Frieze Sculpture supports the London Sculpture Week programme with a conference at the Warburg Institute on 26 September.
Frieze Sculpture, The Regent’s Park, 17 September – 2 November 2025. Free
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