Frieze Sculpture 2026 in The Regent's Park

Eleven artists, seven weeks, no ticket: the free outdoor exhibition in the English Gardens, and how to plan a visit.

By the London BGTC Society editorial desk · Updated 17 September 2026

Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Frieze Sculpture opened in The Regent’s Park on 16 September 2026 and stays until 1 November. It is free, it needs no ticket and no timed slot, and it is the longest-running part of Frieze’s London year: seven weeks of outdoor sculpture against a park that changes colour while the show is on.

This is the 14th edition, curated for a fourth year by Fatoş Üstek. Eleven international artists are sited across the historic English Gardens, at the southern end of the Broadwalk. The theme is hybridity — works that mix materials, traditions and references rather than settling into one of them.

At a glance

The eleven artists

Elena Nemkova’s commission comes with the Mtec Bursary, awarded this year to Dom Art Gallery. ArtCulture goes through the same eleven works in more detail, and what the hybridity brief actually looks like on the grass, in Frieze Sculpture 2026: Eleven Works in the English Gardens.

Four works to find first

If you have half an hour rather than half a day, these four carry the theme most clearly.

• Angel Otero, Dreams and Salt. A threshold — a doorway that appears to lead down below the surface of the lawn. Otero is a Puerto Rican artist best known for paintings made from dried, peeled and reassembled oil skins; the same logic of a surface taken apart and put back together runs through his sculpture.
• Ivana Bašić, Metanoia. A brutalist monument in scale and material, set against soft planting. Bašić’s work usually turns on bodies under pressure, and the hardness here is the point.
• Tarini Sethi, The Sun Bathes Its Friends and Neighbours. Four interconnected stainless-steel screens cut with utopian scenes. They are exactly the kind of object a park collects photographs of: you see the garden through the work as much as the work itself.
• Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Warrior Figure. A dual-faced idol in strong colour, drawing on Hindu and Buddhist iconography and on the very old idea of a figure that guards a place.

Tours, audio guide and the family trail

Frieze runs a programme of free curator-led tours in September and November. They take place in the English Gardens and start at the St Andrew’s Gate entrance; dates are listed on the Frieze Sculpture page.

A free audio guide narrated by Fatoş Üstek is on the Bloomberg Connects app, along with a Family Guide introduced this year for younger visitors. QR codes on site link straight to it, so a phone and headphones are worth bringing.

Üstek describes the invitation plainly: to step outside the rhythms of everyday life and into the park, where the works open up new ways of thinking and feeling. Her curatorial note calls hybridity not a condition to be explained, but a reality to be experienced.

Where it is and how to get there

The English Gardens sit at the southern end of the Broadwalk in The Regent’s Park. Regent’s Park station is the closest, about five minutes’ walk; Great Portland Street and Baker Street are a little further, and Camden Town works if you come in from the north.

Pedestrian gates open at 5am and close at dusk, which moves earlier through the season: by late October the park is dark not long after 4.30pm. The exhibition is outdoors and free, so there is no entrance, no bag check and no cloakroom — dress for the weather and allow an hour.

How it fits into London’s autumn

Frieze Sculpture is the free front end of a much larger commercial week. It opens a month before Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which run 14–18 October 2026 in the same park and are ticketed, online and in advance. Our guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026 covers hours, tickets and what is in each fair. Maria Bregman’s review of what the fairs do to London puts the free half and the ticketed half side by side.

It also overlaps with London Sculpture Week, 19–27 September 2026, which links the Fourth Plinth, East Bank, Sculpture in the City and The Line. That week is the one moment in the year when the city’s outdoor sculpture reads as a single programme rather than as separate commissions.

Creativitys sets the season in a wider frame — why Frieze week matters more than ever for London’s autumn, and whether London’s art scene is really shrinking.

For a wider route through the season, our guide to London’s museums and galleries sets out what else is worth a detour.

The London BGTC Society’s view

Frieze Sculpture answers the most common objection to Frieze week — that the art world arrives in London, transacts, and leaves. The sculpture park is public, free and open for seven weeks, and it is where most Londoners actually meet the fair’s roster of artists and galleries. For members with an interest in collecting or in the creative economy, it is also the cheapest way to read the season: the galleries behind these eleven artists are the same ones you will see inside the tents in October.

Frequently asked questions

Official Frieze Sculpture page: frieze.com/fairs/frieze-sculpture

Sources

• frieze.com — the official Frieze Sculpture page, tour dates and map
• artculture.uk — the eleven works in the English Gardens, read as one argument
• fadmagazine.com — the 2026 artist line-up as announced in July
• creativitys.uk — why Frieze week matters to London's autumn season
• artplugged.co.uk — the eleven artists with their works and galleries
• londonsociety.uk — our guide to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026
• creativitys.uk — Maria Bregman on what the fairs do to London
• royalparks.org.uk — opening times and visitor rules for The Regent's Park
• artculture.uk — how to survive your first Frieze London
• creativitys.uk — is London's art scene shrinking, or changing shape
• frieze.com — the Frieze Sculpture 2026 announcement, 20 July 2026
• frieze.com — visitor information for Frieze London and Frieze Masters

This is an independent informational guide compiled by the London BGTC Society for its members; we are not affiliated with, nor the organiser of, this event. All booking and official information lives on the organiser's website, linked above. Dates and programmes are subject to change — always confirm on the official site before making plans.