Now Open: Frieze Sculpture 2025 in The Regent’s Park
The free public display returns to The English Gardens, with artists including Assemble, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Erwin Wurm
The free public display returns to The English Gardens, with artists including Assemble, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Erwin Wurm
This year’s edition of Frieze Sculpture opens on 17 September in The Regent’s Park, London, and runs until 2 November 2025. Free to attend, the 13th iteration of this much-celebrated annual public art event features 14 leading international artists, whose sculptures are positioned throughout the historic English Gardens.
Frieze Sculpture coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters which also take place in The Regent’s Park, 15 – 19 October 2025.
For the first time, curator Fatoş Üstek has introduced an overarching connecting theme and a title for Frieze Sculpture: ‘In the Shadows’. This year’s exhibition imagines the shadow not as an ominous portent but as a creative and generative space where memory, material and myth intersect. The selected artists engage with shadows both as an idea and a literal physical phenomenon, exploring themes such as ecological absence, traces of ancestry, bodily imprints and sculptural metaphors. From Andy Holden’s bronze birdcalls and Reena Saini Kallat’s colossal sound sculptures to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s tribute to Indigenous memory, each piece transforms absence into presence and silence into expression.
Whether through Erwin Wurm’s spectral garments, Burcak Bingöl's transformative use of clay-rich soil from The Regent’s Park or the regenerative visions of Henrique Oliveira and Grace Schwindt, the sculptures share a common urgency, inviting us to look for what is hidden.
Frieze Sculpture 2025 will also feature a dynamic programme of tours, activations and performances offering a deeper insight into the artworks and curatorial process, including a costumed procession by Assemble, drawing performances and workshops by Simon Hitchens, live performances by Lucía Pizzani with Lucia Pietroiusti, and curator-led walks with Üstek.
Üstek says: ‘“In the Shadows” offers a curatorial perspective that embraces the unknown, the concealed and the forgotten. Shadows are zones of potential, where stories unfold quietly yet powerfully, often out of sight. The artists this year reflect these tensions with profound insight: their works address ecological vulnerability, historical erasure and human transformation. My hope is that as visitors journey through The Regent’s Park, they come to see that what resides in the shadows may contain the seeds of change.’
Frieze Sculpture partners with London Sculpture Week (20 – 28 September 2025), a city-wide celebration of public art that unites four major initiatives: Frieze Sculpture, the Fourth Plinth, Sculpture in the City and The Line. Now in its fourth edition, London Sculpture Week underscores London’s vibrant role as a global cultural capital with a huge amount of open space, providing innovative opportunities for the public to engage with contemporary sculpture in outdoor settings. Frieze Sculpture supports the London Sculpture Week programme with a conference at the Warburg Institute on 26 September.
Artists and Galleries Participating in Frieze Sculpture 2025
Simon Hitchens, Bearing Witness to Things Unseen, 2025
Presented by CLOSE Gallery
Timur Si-Qin, Last of the Wild and Free (Rhododendron calophytum), 2025
Presented by Albion Jeune
Reena Saini Kallat, Requiem (The Last Call), 2024
Presented by Nature Morte
Burçak Bingöl, Unit Terrenum Rosa, 2025
Presented by Galeri Nev İstanbul
Lucía Pizzani, The Tale of the Eye, the Snake and the Seed, 2025
Presented by Galleria Doris Ghetta and Victoria Law Projects
Grace Schwindt, When I Remember Through You, 2025
Presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Abdollah Nafisi, Neighbours, 2025
Presented by Dastan
Henrique Oliveira, Desnatureza 8, 2025
Presented by Almeida & Dale and Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
Erwin Wurm, Ghost (Substitutes), 2022
Presented by Thaddaeus Ropac
Assemble, Fibredog, 2025
Presented by Plinth
Elmgreen & Dragset, Life Rings, Fig. 3, 2023
Presented by Pace Gallery
David Altmejd, Nymph 1 Nymph 2 Nymph 3, 2025
Presented by White Cube
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, King of the Mountain, 2024–2025
Presented by Garth Greenan Gallery and Stephen Friedman Gallery
Andy Holden, Auguries (Lament), 2025
Presented by Seventeen and Hidde van Seggelen
Further Information
Bloomberg Connects returns as the Official Digital Guide for Frieze Sculpture. Available on the Bloomberg Connects app, the free guide comprising exclusive content and an audio tour narrated by Üstek will be accessible throughout the exhibition’s run, offering an innovative way for users to engage with the artworks from anywhere in the world. To access the free guide, download the Bloomberg Connects app from Google Play or the App Store.
Frieze Sculpture, The Regent’s Park, 16 October – 2 November 2025.
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Main Image: Abdollah Nafisi, Neighbours, 2025. Steel and acrylic polyurethane paint. Courtesy: the artist and Dastan
