Frieze Sculpture is open in the English Gardens of The Regent's Park from September 16 to November 1, 2026, free and without tickets. It is the 14th edition, and the fourth curated by Fatoş Üstek. Eleven artists, twelve names once you count the duo, spread across the lawns a few minutes' walk from where the Frieze London and Frieze Masters tents go up for the fair week of October 14 to 18.

We argued in August that the park does more work for Frieze than the fair admits. This year's line-up is a good test of that argument.

The theme is hybridity

Üstek's framing for 2026 is hybrid work: pieces that mix materials, cultural references and techniques rather than settling into one tradition. "Frieze Sculpture returns to The Regent's Park with a heightened awareness of the hybrid world we inhabit," she said in the announcement, as reported by FAD Magazine.

The works bear it out on paper. As reported by Time Out:

  • Angel Otero, Dreams and Salt (2025 to 2026), Hauser & Wirth: a blue door opening out of the lawn onto steps that lead underground. Otero calls it "emblematic of migration, representing the emotional distance that grows between a person and their homeland."
  • Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Warrior Figure (2026), Jhaveri Contemporary and Sullivan+Strumpf: a two-metre, two-faced figure modelled in wet clay and cast in bronze, drawing on South Asian devotional sculpture.
  • Conrad Shawcross, Eye of the Needle (Time Pebble (E30A13)) (2026), Victoria Miro: an elliptical monolith in perforated anodised aluminium.
  • Douglas White, Black Palm (2026), Leila Heller Gallery: a seven-metre palm built from reclaimed steel and tyres collected from Central American roadsides.
  • Catriona Robertson, WYRM (2026), The Muse Gallery: a worm-like form in reclaimed plywood, timber and corrugated iron.

Who brought the work

The list that matters for collectors is the one in the small print. As reported by ArtPlugged, the other six works and their galleries are:

  • Ivana Bašić, Metanoia (2025), Albion Jeune, London.
  • Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, Possibilities for a Sculpture (Charlotte, Jan, Millicent) (2026), Dirimart, London and Istanbul.
  • Elena Nemkova, Agony in the Garden (2026), Dom Art Gallery, Dubai.
  • Tarini Sethi, The Sun Bathes Its Friends and Neighbours (2026), Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles.
  • Carolina Aguirre, Held (2026), Ruttkowski;68, with spaces in Bochum, Cologne, Düsseldorf, New York and Paris.
  • Matyáš Chochola, BRUTALIST, METEOR, MACE II (2024), The Chemistry Gallery, Prague.

Twelve galleries stand behind the eleven works. Two of them, Hauser & Wirth and Victoria Miro, are the names you expect in a Frieze-branded park. The other ten are mid-size or young programmes, two of them with a base in Dubai. A monumental outdoor piece is expensive to fabricate, ship and install for seven weeks, and the fair acknowledges it: the Mtec Bursary went to Dom Art Gallery to cover the installation of Nemkova's new commission, as reported by ArtPlugged.

That is the park doing what the fair floor cannot. A gallery like Rajiv Menon Contemporary, which sold most of its Raghav Babbar stand at the Armory Show's Presents section this week, gets a seven-week public presentation in London for one work. A Prague gallery gets placed next to Victoria Miro in front of the audience that walks through Regent's Park every autumn. None of those galleries would be on the same aisle at the fair.

What to do with it

The display runs with free curator-led tours in September and November and a Bloomberg Connects audio guide narrated by Üstek, which this year adds a first family guide. It also overlaps with London Sculpture Week, September 19 to 27.

For anyone flying in for Frieze London in October, the park is the one part of the week that can be seen in advance, at no cost, and without the preview-day queues. We will be looking at which of these galleries turn up in the tents on October 14.

Line-up, dates and curator from Frieze's announcement. Works, galleries, the Mtec Bursary and programming as reported by ArtPlugged and FAD Magazine (July 21, 2026), including Üstek's quote. Materials, dimensions and Angel Otero's quote from Time Out London (India Lawrence, September 18, 2026).