Frieze Sculpture—a fixture of the London art calendar—will return to The Regent’s Park in September, with works on show by 14 artists including the late Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Delhi-born Reena Saini Kallat. The 13th edition runs from 17 September to 2 November, coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters (15-19 October). All of the works featured are for sale.
Fatoş Üstek, the curator of Frieze Sculpture, has organised the exhibition thematically under the heading In the Shadows. “Shadows are not mere voids. They 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,” she says in a statement.
Andy Holden will show Auguries, part of an ongoing series initially developed for the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire. “I turned my recordings of birds, who had declined more than 50% in my lifetime, into monumental bronze vertical renders of the wave form of the song,” Holden tells The Art Newspaper. The new work continues the series but this version comprises smaller cast bronze works on top of high telegraph poles, he adds.
Reena Saini Kallat’s sound sculpture Requiem (The Last Call), 2024, also references endangered birds, featuring recordings of bird calls from eleven extinct species. The Canadian artist David Altmejd, who is represented by White Cube, will show Nymph 1 Nymph 2 Nymph 3 (2025), a depiction in bronze of a distorted figure. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s piece King of the Mountain (2024–25) is a “tribute to Indigenous memory”, says a project statement.
Other participating artists include German-born Grace Schwindt, the Brazilian painter Henrique Oliveira, New York-based Timur Si-Qin, Burçak Bingöl of Turkey and the Turner prizewinning architecture collective Assemble. The exhibition also includes the work Neighbours (2025) by the Iranian sculptor Abdollah Nafisi who is represented by Dastan Gallery in Tehran.
Frieze Sculpture forms part of London Sculpture Week (20-28 September) which includes a conference at the Warburg Institute, London University, on 26 September.
