London's contemporary and historical art trade share one park for Frieze week, close to 300 galleries from 48 countries across two tents.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the two fairs of London’s Frieze week, share The Regent’s Park from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 October 2026. Close to 300 galleries from 48 countries and regions show across the two tents.
Amanda Sharp, Matthew Slotover and Tom Gidley founded Frieze in 1991 as a magazine. Sharp and Slotover built the fair out of it twelve years later, in the park.
Frieze Masters followed in 2012, on Gloucester Green at the park’s north-east corner. It carries work from the ancient world to the late twentieth century, while Frieze London sells what is being made now.
Frieze London is the reason the international art trade treats this week as London’s. The auction houses time their evening sales to it, the galleries hold their strongest openings for it, and the museums schedule against it.
Frieze Sculpture, the same organisers’ free outdoor strand, stands in the English Gardens for weeks either side of the fairs. The park holds Frieze for longer than the five days the tents are up.