More than 170 exhibitors are taking part in Frieze London 2026, where artists explore themes ranging from climate change and cultural memory to technology and everyday life. The fair runs at Regent's Park through October 18.
Landscapes, memory and materials
Emma Stibbon's large-scale installation Rock Fall, Bideford Bay uses pigments made from British coastal stones and rocks gathered in North Devon to consider erosion and changing shorelines. Jun Martínez turns to Puerto Rico's roble blanco tree, presenting nature as a record of ecological resilience and shared history.
Textile traditions and community knowledge are central to other displays. Jayeeta Chatterjee's The Infinite Weft brings woodcut prints, recycled saris and the Bengali Nakshi Kantha stitching technique together in a work shaped by women's experiences in weaving communities. Selma Selman, meanwhile, incorporates discarded metal and car parts into an exploration of material value and creative reuse.
Technology and new perspectives
Payne Zhu's installation Anal Intelligence uses a multi-channel, real-time-rendered work to connect artificial intelligence with ideas of consumption and data processing. Elsewhere, Juan Uslé combines paintings and photographs in an immersive display that encourages close attention to changing urban surroundings. Senegalese artist Arébénor Basséne layers natural materials and Sahelian cosmology in paintings that connect maps of the earth with ideas of the cosmos.
Together, the presentations show how contemporary art can bring environmental questions, cultural knowledge and emerging technologies into conversation. Such encounters may help shape a future in which galleries serve as spaces for public reflection and new ways of understanding the world.
