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Frieze Week London: Almost 300 Galleries, a Hotel-Room Fair and a Turbine Hall Sound Takeover
Artsy has published its ten-stop guide to Frieze Week London, with Frieze London and Frieze Masters gathering almost 300 galleries from 48 countries in Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October. Satellite fairs Minor Attractions, PAD London, the debut London Invitational and the artist-led Fair Play join museum openings including Tarek Atoui's Turbine Hall commission.
Frieze Week returns to London with the main fairs occupying Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October. Frieze London and Frieze Masters together gather almost 300 galleries from 48 countries across two tents, with VIP days on the 14th and public admission from the afternoon of the 15th. At Frieze London, the Focus section remains the hunting ground for younger galleries and emerging artists, while a new section looks at art through the lens of popular culture since the late 1970s. Frieze Sculpture, the public program staged on the walk between the two tents, presents outdoor works by eleven artists this year. The satellite fairs keep multiplying. Minor Attractions, the alternative fair that traditionally takes over hotel rooms, moves to The Newman in Fitzrovia for its fourth edition (13–17 October), with more than 75 galleries and nonprofit spaces, free entry, and a program spanning music, performance and nightlife. In Mayfair, PAD London runs 13–18 October in Berkeley Square, while the debut London Invitational, an offshoot of the Dallas fair, gathers about a dozen galleries inside the former US embassy, now the Chancery Rosewood hotel. The artist-led Fair Play opens 15–18 October at One Marylebone, where seventy artists chosen by an independent committee show directly, paying nothing to take part. Museums are loading the week with openings. Tate Modern unveils Tarek Atoui's Hyundai Commission in the Turbine Hall on 13 October, a sound installation activated by live performances with collaborators including Emptyset and Mazen Kerbaj through the weekend. The Courtauld at Somerset House gives Salman Toor his first European museum solo, gathering nineteen paintings made since 2019, while 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to the same complex with a focus on African modernism. The Barbican stages the first major UK survey of Robert Ryman in more than thirty years, the National Gallery offers Renoir and Love, its first major UK Renoir show since 2007, and the National Portrait Gallery launches a new Artist Focus series with twelve self-portraits by Issy Wood.
