Frieze week in London 2026: the fairs, the free sculpture park and the gallery nights

Frieze week is Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 October 2026, when the two fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters, set up in Regent’s Park with almost three hundred galleries from forty-eight countries. The fairs are the expensive part. The week around them is the point: every gallery in the city opens something, the auction houses put their autumn sales on view, and most of it is free.

The free bits

Frieze Sculpture in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park runs from 16 September to 1 November, free, open all day, with eleven artists this year. It is the best thing Frieze does and it costs nothing. The galleries in Mayfair, Fitzrovia and along Cork Street open their Frieze shows the weekend before and stay open late on the Thursday of the week; the East End galleries do the same on a different night. The auction previews at the big houses are open to anyone who walks in.

The fairs, if you go

Frieze London is contemporary, Frieze Masters is everything older, and a joint ticket covers both with a shuttle between the tents every fifteen minutes. The Wednesday is invitation only; the public gets in from one o’clock on the Thursday, then eleven to seven on Friday and Saturday and eleven to six on Sunday. A day ticket is around seventy pounds, timed to the hour, and the Thursday and Friday afternoons are the quietest; the weekend is a crowd. Half a day is enough for one fair. The cafes inside are expensive and slow; eat in Marylebone before or after.

The evenings

Frieze week is the busiest week of the year for gallery openings and the parties that follow them. Most openings are open to the public for the first hour; the invitations are for the second. The list below carries the openings and lates as the galleries confirm them.

Our rule for this page

Rewritten each September when the fair publishes its programme, with the galleries added as they announce. The sculpture park hours and the fair times are checked against the organiser the week before.