Frieze Sculpture gave The Regent's Park fourteen international artists in autumn 2025, under a first overarching theme, In the Shadows.
Frieze Sculpture, the free outdoor strand of Frieze week, stood in the English Gardens of The Regent’s Park from Wednesday 17 September to Sunday 2 November 2025. Curator Fatoş Üstek gave its 13th edition a first overarching theme, In the Shadows.
Frieze began in 1991 as a magazine about contemporary art. Its founders built the fair in the park in 2003, and it has put a temporary art city there every October since.
Frieze Sculpture is the outdoor part of that city, an exhibition among the trees open to anyone crossing the park. Work there is seen at a distance and from behind, in weather and changing light. Galleries bring pieces at a scale no stand could take, judged against trees and sky rather than a white wall.
Üstek read the shadow as a generative space where memory, material and myth meet. Fourteen international artists took part, among them Erwin Wurm, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, David Altmejd and Assemble.
Burçak Bingöl made her sculpture from clay soil dug from the park itself, and Assemble led a costumed procession through the gardens. Andy Holden showed bronze birdcalls and Reena Saini Kallat a sound sculpture.