Frieze London 2025

News

‘We’re in it for the long term’: Frieze chief discusses Abu Dhabi Art fair takeover

The evolution of Abu Dhabi’s art ecosystem has been “many years in the making”

London edition of Dallas Invitational set to open at former US embassy in 2026

The Eero Saarinen-designed building will host around 15 galleries during next year's Frieze week

Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions offer some solace, but market remains wary

Peter Doig’s ‘Ski Jacket’ soared over its estimate to achieve £106.9m at Christie’s, but overall lower estimates and price corrections revealed a mixed picture

Shifting the dial: new fair Echo Soho celebrates women-run galleries

The inaugural edition, taking place in Soho Revue's residency space, features 12 gallerists

In the frame: photography comes to the fore at Frieze London and beyond

A medium once marginalised in the art world finds new momentum at the fair and in exhibitions across the capital

From fossils to fine art: top sales at Frieze Masters London

The fair makes headway with the sale of a Triceratops skull on opening night

Solidarity and shared optimism take centre stage at 1-54 fair in London

As excitement builds around the opening of the Museum of West African Art, Nigerian galleries are making the most of the moment—while under-represented voices are highlighted across the event

Diamonds as old as Earth itself go on show at Frieze Masters

The 3.5 billion-year-old gemstones are part of a display from the diamond company De Beers

‘Greater balance and fairness’ in stand pricing brings diverse galleries to Frieze London

The new pricing structure, introduced in last year in 2024, continues to encourage growth and participation

‘Quality always rules’: VIP day sales at Frieze London 2025

According to gallerists, collectors are taking longer to make decisions this year—but they are still showing up to buy

U-Haul Gallery—briefly—brings art to the streets during Frieze London

The mobile gallery has been showing art from parking spots for over a year, but its stay at Regent's Park was short lived

Frieze London's Artist-to-Artist section highlights talent emerging amid political tensions

While leaders around the world are placing a great deal of focus on people's differences, here unity and collectivity come to the fore

Everyone’s a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London

We take stock of who has won what, from the Tate Frieze Fund to the Circa 2025 prize

The Art Newspaper and L'OFFICIEL to launch Frieze week pop-up at historic London newsagent

Join us this weekend at Shreeji, Marylebone, for complimentary drinks, and to grab your free copy of all our Frieze daily editions

Palestinian artist ‘cancelled’ by US museum comes to Frieze Masters

Samia Halaby’s retrospective at the Eskenazi Museum of Art was cancelled last year, but she's in London with a message of optimism

Features

Young at art: inside Frieze London's Focus section

Our pick of the best stands in the section devoted to galleries up to 12 years old

‘Like a carefully choreographed performance’: meet the logistics professionals who bring art fairs to life

From re-assembling a baby T. rex skeleton and digging a hole in Regent’s Park to wrangling a kinetic credit-card snaffler, no challenge is too great

Embracing independence: meet the artists giving galleries a swerve

A growing number of emerging and mid-tier artists are building their own networks, and using new channels to sell directly to collectors

Thinking bigger: gallery stalwarts Sadie Coles, Maureen Paley and Stuart Shave on why they're expanding to new London spaces

Amid a challenging art market, the gallerists remain positive about London's resilience as an international hub

At Frieze London, a new section explores the flow of cultural influence between Africa and Brazil

Across eight galleries featuring ten artists, ‘Echoes in the Present’ is curated by the Nigerian art historian Jareh Das

Interviews

Tanoa Sasraku: ‘I don’t see that the work needs to live forever’

The multimedia artist has been experimenting with techniques, including using a sunbed, to create works that change and decay at a pace that mirrors human ageing

‘Wear layers and chic waterproof shoes’: Cherry Cheng on the art she collects, the London food she loves and how she survives Frieze week

The perfumer who began her career in the art world describes two very different dining experiences and why she keeps returning to a portrait in the Musée d’Orsay

Michelangelo Pistoletto: ‘AI will not destroy humanity, we are doing it ourselves’

Now in his 90s, the Arte Povera artist shows no signs of slowing down, with a new show that places his work in dialogue with Picasso—and a recent nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize

‘We are in a very special situation as collectors’: Petr Pudil on opening the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, and the art he collects

Alongside catching London’s museum shows, the co-founder of the Pudil Family Foundation likes to jog along the Thames and head out for a curry

Joy Gregory: ‘It’s about translation and trying to understand’

The British artist, whose work addresses identity in often maligned Indigenous communities from Africa to Australia, has just opened her first institutional survey in London

‘There is always something else to discover’: Glenn Brown on the art he collects and why

The artist known for his reinterpretations of others’ works explains why he treasures an early Hockney drawing and why he’ll be steering clear of Frieze week parties

'I want to show the real deal': property developer Rajan Bijlani on his Modernist design collection

Few collectors are as well positioned for Frieze as Rajan Bijlani, whose home, a former pottery studio, is a ten-minute stroll across Regent’s Park

Máret Ánne Sara: ‘art became necessary since nothing else helped’

The Sámi-Norwegian artist integrates the key motifs of a reindeer herder community with the wider ecological crisis in her Turbine Hall commission

Opinion

Comment | Galleries are looking to merch to keep spirits up—it's a joyful move in challenging times

Playful events such as Lyndsey Ingram’s ‘Bourdon Street Chippy’ are a gateway to higher spending, writes Melanie Gerlis

Comment | Frieze galleries have committed to climate donations—now it's time for the art world to pack in its private jets

A new initiative will see some galleries donate a percentage of their sales to the Gallery Climate Coalition, but when it comes to environmental action there is still much to be done, writes Louisa Buck

Comment | Why it's time to increase UK's art export threshold

Alexander Herman argues that rules set up three-quarters of a century ago may no longer be fit for purpose

Exhibitions

Sound and vision: artists take to the decks for Peter Doig’s Serpentine show

The painter’s latest exhibition includes a vintage sound system, through which Doig and a roster of his famous friends, including Brian Eno and David Byrne, will play their favourite tracks

At London's Barbican, Lucy Raven chronicles the destruction of a California dam

The artist’s video installation explores devastating impacts on the environment and Indigenous communities

Comic strips look to the future at the Cartoon Museum in London

From Dan Dare to Judge Dredd, comics illustrate insights into our present and beyond

Freedom of expression: Tate exhibition offers an overdue showcase of Nigeria’s Modernist artists

The show’s 300 works reveal how the country’s artists celebrated their culture and challenged colonialism

Wayne Thiebaud’s first UK show reveals the hidden depths of his deceptively simple paintings

At the Courtauld Gallery, the artist's pastel-coloured works are clearly shown to be still lifes with bite

In pictures

In pictures: demand is high at the Pavilion of Art and Design

Strong sales at the show signal the design sector’s good health

In pictures: p(art)y people at the Frieze London VIP preview

Celebrities and art world glitterati descended on Regent’s Park today for the fair's VIP preview

Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayne McGregor on his new installation—podcast

Ben Luke analyses the political impact of the headline-grabbing theft, explores Goldberg's updated classic book, and discusses the acclaimed choreographer's work ahead of his latest exhibition at Somerset House

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

Is Art Basel Paris set to consume the original Swiss fair?

There is no doubt Paris is on a high, writes Georgina Adam, but there are several things that continue to make Basel distinctive

Frieze in London, Hypha Studios and a Renoir drawing for ‘The Great Bathers’—podcast

Ben Luke discusses the mood at Frieze with The Art Newspaper's art market editor, Kabir Jhala, explores the parallel art world that exists for unrepresented artists and catches up with the curator of a new Renoir show in New York

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Philippa Kelly and David Clack

Almine Rech reopens in London with downsized gallery

The new venue is around a quarter of the size of Rech’s former London gallery, which closed in August

A tale of two philanthropies: why private foundations differ in London and Paris

While the new Fondation Cartier exemplifies the heft of corporate giving in Paris, the additions of YDP and Ibraaz bring London greater diversity

Frieze Sculpture brings shade—and light—to Regent's Park

Fatoş Üstek, the curator of this year's outdoor section, explains why shadows matter