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

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Frieze London and Frieze Masters Set Nearly 300 Galleries for Regent’s Park Return

Frieze’s October takeover of Regent’s Park is taking shape with a roster that spans blue-chip dealers, younger galleries, and newly curated sections. Nearly 300 galleries will participate in Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which run from October 14 to October 18, with 172 exhibitors in the contemporary fair and 138 in the masters edition.

Eight galleries will show in both fairs, including Hauser & Wirth, Hales, Alison Jacques, Harlesden High Street, and Richard Saltoun Gallery. Frieze London’s exhibitor list also includes Gagosian, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, Lisson, and Lehmann Maupin, alongside a strong contingent of London galleries such as 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.

The fair is again foregrounding discovery. Emerging artists and younger galleries will be placed closer to the entrance, and this year’s proposal-selected booths will feature Márcia Falcão at Fortes d’Aloia & Gabriel and Agata Ingarden at Berthold Pott.

Frieze London will also introduce The Code Universe, a new curated section organized by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and co-curator of the 2027 Istanbul Biennial. The section includes Carolyn Lazard, Selma Selman, and Shinro Ohtake, and is framed around how artists respond to social transformation through mass culture, consumer goods, and media imagery. Artist-to-Artist will return as well, with nominators including Gala Porras-Kim, Ayoung Kim, Jeffrey Gibson, Firelei Báez, Otobong Nkanga, and Yinka Shonibare.

At Frieze Masters, the fair will once again gather antiquities, Old Masters, 20th-century art, and more. A new section, Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century, conceived by Anke Kempkes, will join returning programming such as Reflections, organized by Abby Bangser of Object & Thing, and Spotlight, curated by Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti of the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Deutsche Bank will serve as global lead partner for the 23rd year, a reminder that even as the fair refreshes its programming, its institutional backbone remains firmly in place.

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