Frieze London, Frieze Masters Name Nearly 300 Galleries for 2026 Fairs

Nearly 300 galleries will participate in the upcoming editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will run in the Regent’s Park from October 14 to October 18.

Frieze London will have 172 exhibitors, while Frieze Masters will host 138. Eight galleries will have booths in both fairs including Hauser & Wirth, Hales, Alison Jacques, Harlesden High Street, and Richard Saltoun Gallery.

“What gives Frieze London and Frieze Masters their energy is the breadth of what comes together: galleries and artists from long-established centres alongside scenes gaining recognition further afield,” Frieze’s EMEA director Eva Langret said in a statement. “At Frieze London that range is also an argument for greater equity: for giving space, visibility and serious attention to artists and galleries whose work is advancing contemporary practice, wherever they are based.”

Frieze London will feature numerous blue-chip galleries including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, Lisson, and Lehmann Maupin. London galleries at various levels of the market are also well-represented including Sadie Coles HQ, Victoria Miro, Maureen Paley, Thomas Dane Gallery, The Approach, Arcadia Missa, Carlos/Ishikawa, Edel Assanti, Frith Street Gallery, Herald St, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and Timothy Taylor.

As with past editions of Frieze London, the fair will put a spotlight on “discovery,” per a press release placing the work of emerging artists and younger galleries closer to the entrance. This year’s iteration will open with two booths that were selected via proposals: Márcia Falcão at Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel) and Agata Ingarden at Berthold Pott.

Frieze London will once again host a number of curated sections, including the introduction of “The Code Universe,” which is organized by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and co-curator of the 2027 Istanbul Biennial. Featuring artists like Carolyn Lazard (Trautwein Herleth), Selma Selman (acb Gallery), and Shinro Ohtake (greengrassi & Take Ninagawa), the section will “examine how artists respond to societal transformation through the prism of mass culture, from everyday objects and consumer goods to the imagery and information flows of mass media,” according to a release.

“The Code Universe” will be joined by Artist-to-Artist, in which acclaimed artists select another artist as a way “to champion the work of a peer they believe deserves greater attention,” per a release. This year’s nominators include Gala Porras-Kim, Ayoung Kim, Jeffrey Gibson, Firelei Báez, Otobong Nkanga, and Yinka Shonibare.

The Focus section, for galleries founded in the last 12 years, features enterprises 56 Henry, Franz Kaka, Ginny on Frederick, Heidi, Eli Kerr, King’s Leap, Llano,Marfa’, Nicoletti, Gallery Vacancy, Ehrlich Steinberg, Linseed, and Chemould CoLab.

Frieze Masters will once again bring together antiquities, Old Masters, 20th-century art, and more. The main Galleries section will feature Ortuzar, Skarstedt, Axel Vervoordt, Galleria Continua, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Vito Schnabel Gallery, Annely Juda Fine Art, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Athr, Berry Campbell, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Colnaghi, D Lan Galleries, Susan Sheehan Gallery, Lyndsey Ingram, and Waddington Custot.

The four-booth Reflections section, organized by Abby Bangser of Object & Thing, will return for the second time. This year, it will draw on the architecture of Casa Luis Barragán in Mexico City and The Cosmic House in London. Ammann Gallery, Erskine, Hall & Coe, Tristan Hoare and Side Gallery will participate.

Curated by two academics from the Courtauld Institute of Art, Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti, the Spotlight section, featuring solo presentations of 20th-century art, will be the largest to date.Among the artists included are Pacita Abad (Alison Jacques), Ernest Mancoba (Galerie Mikael Andersen), Fong Chung-Ray (Alisan Fine Arts), Adebisi Fabunmi (kó), and Emma Reyes (Crèvecoeur).

Frieze Masters will also debut a new section, titled “Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century.” Conceived of by Anke Kempkes, who recently curated “Queer Modernism 1900–1950” (2025) at the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in  Düsseldorf, the section will be spread throughout the fair and feature presentations like Claude Cahun and Judy Chicago at Alberta Pane Gallery, Lotte Laserstein and Glyn Philpot at Agnews, and Luis Fernando Zapata at Elvira Moreno Gallery.

Deutsche Bank will continue its longstanding support of the fair, serving as global lead partner for the 23rd year. Its VIP lounge will feature an installation curated by Studio Lenca that “draws on personal memory and lived experience of migration through the lens of an undocumented, mixed Indigenous Central American artist,” according to a release.

“Frieze London and Frieze Masters are built around a shared idea: that contemporary practice and art history are most compelling in dialogue,” Frieze’s executive director of fairs Kristell Chadé said in a statement, pointing to “The Code Universe” and “Queering Modernity” sections. “[B]oth fairs will reveal new perspectives and striking discoveries across generations, disciplines and geographies, from the artists and galleries defining what comes next, to the specialists and curators bringing new research and overlooked histories into view. Together in The Regent’s Park, the two fairs make London the place where the international art world gathers each October.”

Frieze London: Galleries

Frieze London: Artist-to-Artist

Frieze London: Focus

Frieze London: “THE CODE UNIVERSE”

Frieze London: Editions

Frieze Masters: Galleries

Frieze Masters: Spotlight

Frieze Masters: “Queering Modernism”

Frieze Masters: Reflections