The Regent’s Park, 16 September – 1 November 2026

One of London’s leading outdoor art events, Frieze Sculpture returns for its 14th edition from 16 September to 1 November 2026, taking place in the historic English Gardens section of The Regent’s Park. Curated for the fourth consecutive time by London-based curator Fatoş Üstek, this year’s exhibition brings together works by 11 international artists. Frieze Sculpture brings contemporary art into the public realm, connecting park visitors with art throughout the autumn.

Taking place alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Frieze Sculpture approaches sculpture not simply as an autonomous object, but as part of the relationships between materials, stories, communities, and the natural environment. This year’s exhibition focuses on the concept of hybridity, bringing together works that combine different media, materials, techniques, and cultural references.

The Expanding Language of Sculpture

Curated by Fatoş Üstek, the 2026 edition sees each artist approach the idea of hybridity in a different way. From Angel Otero’s threshold-like structure extending into the grass to Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran’s two-faced figure, and from Ivana Bašić’s brutalist monument to Tarini Sethi’s stainless-steel panels depicting utopian scenes, the works demonstrate sculpture as a fluid and expanding field of expression.

Üstek describes Frieze Sculpture 2026 as a space for encounters with today’s hybrid world. In an environment where cultures constantly transform one another, artistic disciplines come together to generate new forms, and social life is shaped across both digital and physical spaces, the exhibition invites visitors to step away from the rhythm of everyday life and encounter new ways of thinking and feeling.

In line with this approach, the works in the exhibition engage with concepts such as history, myth, ritual, and belonging through material and space. Hybridity therefore emerges not as a condition to be explained, but as a reality to be experienced.

Fatoş Üstek’s Curatorial Approach

Frieze Sculpture 2026 is curated for the fourth consecutive time by London-based curator Fatoş Üstek. This year’s edition places hybridity at the centre of the exhibition, bringing together different media, materials, techniques, and cultural references. Within Üstek’s curatorial approach, sculpture moves beyond being a standalone object to become part of the relationships between materials, stories, communities, and the natural environment.

Participation of Turkish Artists in Frieze Sculpture

Frankfurt-based artist duo Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, who live and work in Frankfurt, are participating in Frieze Sculpture 2026 with their series titled “Possibilities for a Sculpture” (2026). Installed across different sites in The Regent’s Park, Possibilities for a Sculpture reconsiders the tradition of public sculpture, inviting visitors to become the absent figures of three monumental sculptures in London through their own bodies.

Günyol & Kunt replace the original figures of three public monuments with written instructions describing their poses. Inscribed onto concrete surfaces embedded in the ground, these instructions invite visitors to interact with the text, becoming temporary sculptures and reshaping the work with each encounter.

Possibilities for a Sculpture challenges the monument as a fixed object, reconsidering the relationship between sculpture, viewer, and site, and transforming sculpture into a living form shaped by language, body, and interpretation.

New Encounters in Regent’s Park

Newly commissioned works are also among the highlights of this year’s Frieze Sculpture. Elena Nemkova’s new work Agony in the Garden is being realised in collaboration with Dom Art Gallery as part of the 2026 Mtec Bursary. Since 2018, the Mtec Bursary has supported the installation and deinstallation costs of galleries participating in Frieze Sculpture, while Mtec Fine Art provides technical and logistical support for bringing works to life in Regent’s Park.

Frieze Sculpture 2026 also hosts free curator-led tours. Through the exhibition’s digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, visitors can access exclusive content as well as an audio tour narrated by Fatoş Üstek. For the first time this year, a dedicated Family Guide has also been added to the programme.

London Sculpture Week

Frieze Sculpture also forms part of London Sculpture Week, taking place from 19–27 September 2026, alongside a series of public art events across London. Bringing together Fourth Plinth, East Bank, Sculpture in the City, and The Line alongside Frieze Sculpture, London Sculpture Week unites sculpture and public art projects across different parts of the city under a shared programme.

Artists and Works at Frieze Sculpture 2026

Ivana Bašić
Metanoia, 2025
Albion Jeune, London

Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt
Possibilities for a Sculpture series, 2026
Dirimart, London / İstanbul Dirimart, London / İstanbul

Elena Nemkova
Agony in the Garden, 2026
Dom Art Gallery, Dubai

Angel Otero
Dreams and Salt, 2025–2026
Hauser & Wirth

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Warrior Figure, 2026
Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai / Sullivan+Strumpf

Douglas White
Black Palm, 2026
Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai / New York

Tarini Sethi
The Sun Bathes Its Friends and Neighbours, 2026
Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles

Carolina Aguirre
Held, 2026
Ruttkowski;68

Matyáš Chochola
BRUTALIST, 2024
METEOR, 2024
MACE II, 2024
The Chemistry Gallery, Prague

Catriona Robertson
WYRM, 2026
The Muse Gallery, London

Conrad Shawcross
Eye of the Needle (Time Pebble (E30A13)), 2026
Victoria Miro, London

Cover Image: Catriona Robertson, Gigantic Pile, 2023_Saatchi Gallery Garden, RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Photography Stephen Studd. Courtesy of the artist and The Muse Gallery