Frieze London

A group of teenagers traverse a utopian city, their journey nuanced with poetic texts and motifs borrowed from 19th-century Sicilian fairy tales

A complex surreal tapestry that blurs the boundaries between science fiction, archaeology and youthful spontaneity

With nods to noir and German Expresionism, Strafer’s film is an intriguingly wonky piece of meta-cinema

Workers select 100,000 petals from 10,000 roses to create a generative algorithm in this meditation on nature, beauty and uniqueness

A film that champions the shipworm, a tiny marine creature that ate away at the vessels involved in the Atlantic slave trade

Notions of authenticity and performance are questioned in a distortion of the conventional frameworks of narrative cinema

A deeply personal retrospection on the influence of US foreign policy on the decades-long civil war in Angola  

An anthropological narrative of migration seen through a landscape that was frozen during the last ice age but is now jungly and equatorial

Referencing an iconic moment of frivolity in a time of revolution from art history, Kukama reinterprets a playful act into a critique of the power dynamics at play in contemporary Johannesburg

20 years since the transformative debut Frieze Art Fair, discover a city and a community as vibrant as ever

This year’s wide-ranging programme, showing at the ICA and online, ‘offers a thoughtful exploration of contemporary realities, encouraging viewers to engage critically with the world around them’

Originating in an Underground station, Soft Opening is at the forefront of London’s art scene. Its founder Antonia Marsh gives a gallerist’s eye view of the capital

Shoreditch-based Emalin is home to emerging artists with strikingly diverse practices. Its gallery team gives a street-eye view of the capital

Two decades of the fair in moments, according to Cory Arcangel, Steven Cairns, Lubaina Himid, Mike Nelson, Sarah McCrory and others

Celebrating one year in London, GRIMM Gallery fosters community between artists. Its director gives a gallerist’s eye view of London

Available from October 4 – 18, visitors can preview and acquire significant artworks on our digital platform, with exclusive access to gallery presentations ahead of official opening

The artist has created two poetic prints in aid of Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers

Discover the artist’s new commission which uses video and sculptural assemblage to explore the river Thames and themes of migration, colonisation and ecological collapse that weave along its banks

Running concurrently 11–15 October 2023, in The Regent’s Park, London, the fairs bring together emerging and leading galleries spanning 46 countries