(Image credit: Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze)
For now, we’re just sharing the main details, with more in-depth coverage to come later (once we’ve seen everything ourselves).
When Is Frieze London 2024?
The London edition of Frieze art fair returns to Regents Park in October 2024, showcasing contemporary art across five days for the event’s 21st anniversary. Alongside Frieze London, Frieze Masters explores historical art and design objects. The 2023 edition showcased over 130 global galleries. Frieze also takes place in Los Angeles, New York and Seoul.
How To Get Tickets
Tickets decline in price as the fair goes on, starting from £145 on Thursday and £75 on Friday (both preview days), and settling at £46pp on Saturday and Sunday. Students and children can visit for £32pp on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets should be booked online at frieze.com.
What Is Frieze? A Guide to Its Programs and Structure
Frieze London will feature a ground-breaking new floorplan by design practice A Studio Between. The reconfigured layout and entrance give greater prominence to the fair’s curated sections, including Artist-to-Artist and this year’s themed section, Smoke. In addition, on entering the fair visitors will encounter a pair of stands, selected annually by the Frieze London committee, each showing an exceptional solo artist presentation. This initiative ensures that every year new voices benefit from increased visibility. At Frieze Masters, an artist-centred approach will debut, with an expanded Studio section and a refined floorplan by Annabelle Selldorf to encourage visitors to draw connections between objects and works from different times and places.
The Frieze London and Frieze Masters programmes will include special projects and activations, including returning the Frieze London Artist Award and Frieze Masters Talks, alongside collaborations with key UK arts organisations and public institutions. Frieze Sculpture, curated by Fatoş Üstek for the second year, will run 18 September – October 2024 in The Regent’s Park’s English Gardens.
Frieze London 2024 will feature more than 160 galleries from 43 countries. These include some of London’s defining spaces: Arcadia Missa, Carlos/Ishikawa, Sadie Coles HQ, Thomas Dane Gallery, Emalin, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Alison Jacques, Lisson Gallery, Kate MacGarry, Victoria Miro, Modern Art, Maureen Paley and White Cube. Leading international galleries at the fair include Gagosian, Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Gallery Hyundai, Tina Kim Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, Pace Gallery, Perrotin, Almine Rech, Thaddaeus Ropac, Esther Schipper, Sprüth Magers and David Zwirner.
Artist-to-Artist: after its 2023 debut, Artist-to-Artist returns as a cornerstone of the fair’s artist-driven programme with six solo presentations, selected by world-renowned artists Hurvin Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Zineb Sedira and Yinka Shonibare
Smoke: this new themed section has been organized by Pablo José Ramírez (Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles) and will present ceramic works that explore diasporic and indigenous histories. Smoke will bring together international artists to present ceramics as one of the most impactful aesthetic forms in contemporary art.
Focus: with its newly prominent placement for 2024, Frieze’s long-standing section dedicated to the young gallery community will feature numerous new spaces that define London’s vibrant contemporary scene. Focus is presented in collaboration with Stone Island, whose bursaries further aid young galleries’ participation in the fair alongside Frieze’s existing support.
Bonus track: Frieze week
During Frieze Week in October, London will see a host of major institutional exhibitions, including ‘Francis Bacon: Human Presence’ at the National Portrait Gallery; Lygia Clark and Sonia Boyce at Whitechapel Gallery; Michael Craig-Martin at the Royal Academy of Arts; ‘Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ at the National Gallery; ‘Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit’ and Mire Lee’s Turbine Hall Commission at Tate Modern; Hew Locke at the British Museum and ‘Haegue Yang: Leap Year’ at the Hayward Gallery. Frieze London and Frieze Masters are supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank for the 21st consecutive year, continuing a shared commitment to artistic excellence. This year, Deutsche Bank will showcase the work of Rene Matić, a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London whose practice spans film, sculpture and photography.
