Know that going in blind can be a woefully inefficient—not to mention tiring—approach. Instead, take a look through the full program and anchor your day around a couple of stand-outs. In Frieze London’s main section, mine include Ajamu X’s new photographs at Amanda Wilkinson; Sadie Coles HQ’s mega line-up (including an 11-foot-tall Alex Da Corte sculpture and works by Tau Lewis and Karimah Ashadu); Sam Lipp and Maren Karlson’s paintings at Soft Opening; and a lucid dream of a Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings painting on show at Arcadia Missa.
Over in the Tiffany & Co.-sponsored Artist-to-Artist section, which hosts solo projects by emerging artists nominated by established names, I’ll be making a beeline for Brazilian interdisciplinarian Jota Mombaça’s presentation, as nominated by Otobong Nkanga. At Focus, the section dedicated to platforming rising galleries, Okiki Akinfe’s solo booth at Ginny on Frederick, Amanda Moström’s goatskin-clad everyday objects at Rose Easton, Benjamin Lallier’s somber installation at London newcomer Heidi, and Ryan Huggins’s recreation of a “porno booth” from a decaying German sex cinema at a.Squire are all at the top of my list. And don’t miss the gender-neutral public restrooms, which this year have been transformed into “an intimate olfactory experience” by Gray Wielebinski.
Daniel Rodgers, British Vogue’s senior fashion news editor, tells me he’ll be heading straight for Frieze Masters. “The guests are, on average, at least 20 years older and the work spans millennia of art history. Last year I saw an early Rubens, a Cretaceous-era subadult triceratops skull, and a lovely wooden cabinet.” Funmi Fetto, British Vogue’s beauty and wellness director, adds that she “can’t wait to see what [director] Emanuela Tarizzo has done for Frieze Masters,” citing a Paula Rego painting on show at Piano Nobile’s booth among her highlights, as well as Grayson Perry’s scheduled talk. “He is always so brilliant and entertaining.”
What’s on beyond them?
Yuyan Wang, Boring Billion, 2026. Commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, and co-produced by the Vega Foundation, for the exhibition Canicula, 2026.
Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione In Between Art Film.
