Frieze Week London: Our Picks Across the City

Frieze London and Frieze Masters open in Regent’s Park from October 14 to 18, but the fair is only part of it. Here is what caught our eye, at the fair and out in the city.

At the Fair

Agoueh Thaoyone Négre Tayovi Wanguitor - Beads and sequins on fabric, 1995. Courtesy of Fort Gansevoort.

Myrlande Constant, Fort Gansevoort

The Haitian artist gets her first European solo presentation. Constant started out in a Port-au-Prince factory, then made the drapo her own, the beaded and sequinned flags of Vodou tradition, blown up into big textile works. Each one takes thousands of beads. Her work is in the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Gênese - Oil and silver leaf on canvas, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery

Dalton Paula, Lisson Gallery

Paula paints Black figures from Brazilian history who were never pictured in their own time. He works from scraps of record and his own research, and gives them faces, often with gold or silver leaf behind them. His subjects are the people the archive skipped. He is Brazilian, born in Brasília, and his work has shown at the São Paulo Bienal and in major museum collections.

Desire Path - Installation view, Kunsthalle Appenzell, Switzerland, 2025–2026. Courtesy of the artist and Berthold Pott Gallery

Agata Ingarden, Berthold Pott

The Paris-based Polish artist makes sculptures from caramel, metal, glass and ice. The materials melt and crack over time, so the work keeps changing while it sits in the room. Strange, industrial and a bit alive. Ingarden trained in Paris and New York, and shows across Europe, though this is a rare chance to catch her at the fair in London.

o.t. (ohne Titel / untitled) - Oil on canvas, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Miriam Cahn, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Cahn is a Swiss painter known for raw, direct canvases where the figure glows against open space. Her recent oils are beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. She has always been political, from war to the body to violence against women. Now in her late seventies, she had a major show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris a few years back.

Conrad Shawcross, Eye of the Needle (Time Pebble (E30A13)), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro. Photo: Linda Nylind.

Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park

The fair’s free outdoor section is back, with 11 international artists spread through Regent’s Park, Conrad Shawcross among them. It runs from September 16 to November 1, so you can see it without a fair ticket. A good first stop, or a break from the booths. The works sit out in the open across the park, so it doubles as a walk.

Eusung Lee, Eggshell, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and CYLINDER. Photo: Janghwal Lim.

Artist-to-Artist, Across the fair

One of Frieze’s better ideas: big-name artists nominate others to show solo. It puts work on the stands that might not be there otherwise, and this year’s picks include Eusung Lee. Worth hunting down between the bigger galleries. The nominations change every year, so it is one of the freshest parts of the fair.

Beyond the Fair

Quipu Menstrual 1 (unknotted) - Site-specific installation with unspun wool and video, 2006/2024. Installation view, Soñar el Agua, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, 2024. Photo: Isabella Matheus

Cecilia Vicuña, Whitechapel Gallery

Living Threads is the first major UK show of the Chilean artist, poet and activist, and it covers six decades. Vicuña studied in London in the early 1970s and stayed in exile here after the 1973 coup in Chile, so the city is part of her story. The show centres on her quipu works, hanging installations of unspun wool. Through February 14.

Yuko Mohri during her Barbican residency, May 2026. Photo: Toby Coulson. © Toby Coulson / Barbican Centre

Yuko Mohri, Barbican (The Curve)

The Japanese artist’s first UK solo. Mohri builds moving installations out of everyday objects, and this one came from the makeshift repairs she photographed in the Tokyo metro, leaks patched with bottles, tubes and tape. She represented Japan at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and won the Calder Prize in 2025. Through January 24.

Maqueta - Glazed ceramics, 2025. Installation view, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City. Courtesy of the artist and Pequod, Mexico City.

Paloma Contreras Lomas, Gasworks

Disco Inferno is the Mexican artist’s first European solo. She fills the space with murals, sculpture, sound and video, and runs Dante’s nine circles of hell through Mexico’s history, from the Revolution to the drug wars. Dark and funny at the same time. It is a new commission made for Gasworks, and free to visit. Through December 13.

The Warrior, kauri wood, 1974. Pallant House Gallery. Purchased with support of Art Fund, V&A Purchase Grant Fund and private donors, 2021. © The Ronald Moody Trust. Photo: Pallant House Gallery

Ronald Moody, Orleans House Gallery

Sculpting Life brings the West London sculptor back to the city where he lived. Moody was born in Jamaica and carved heads and figures in wood. The show follows him from his early London and Paris years through the war. Free to enter, and easy to fit into a Frieze week. It runs well past the fair, so there is no rush. Through February 28.

Turning Up, In Memory, oil on canvas, 1970. Courtesy of the Giorgos Ioannou Archive/Collection and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

Giorgos Ioannou, The Hellenic Centre

A Different Kind of Pop is the first real UK show of the Greek painter, 100 years after his birth. Ioannou built his own pop and comic-book style during the Greek military junta, and many of these paintings were first shown under that regime. The show comes with a small publication and a talk with his son. Through November 19.

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