Frieze London 2026: Tickets, Satellite Fairs, Where to Stay

Frieze London 2026: dates, venue and what’s new

Regent’s Park, 14 to 18 October

From £48 (indicative) 14-18 October 2026 Around 15 °C, frequent rain Public from Thursday 1pm

Frieze London (24th edition) sets up from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 October 2026 in The Regent’s Park. Wednesday is invitation-only. On Thursday 15 the general public is let into Frieze London from 1pm to 5pm; on Friday and Saturday the doors are open from 11am to 7pm, and on Sunday from 11am to 6pm. The fair has around 175 galleries, including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, David Zwirner, White Cube and Victoria Miro, according to ArtNews.

The Frieze London entrance is on Park Square West (NW1 4LL), under five minutes on foot from Regent’s Park station (Bakerloo line). On the programme, three sections are worth a look on a first pass: Focus, for galleries less than 12 years old, The Code Universe, a new section curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, and Artist-to-Artist, where seven emerging artists are presented at the invitation of established names such as Yinka Shonibare and Otobong Nkanga.

Highlights

• Around 175 galleries at Frieze London and 140 at Frieze Masters, in two tents linked by a free shuttle
• Editions section: prints and artists’ editions, including Allied Editions prints priced between £30 and £100
• Around four hours for one fair, not counting the queue to get in and breaks

Pixidia tip: art fairs are a marathon. If you only have one afternoon, go for Thursday or Sunday late in the day, and wear comfortable shoes: you’ll walk miles, warm inside the tent and cold in the queue.

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Frieze London 2026 tickets: indicative price ranges and smart habits

Tickets are sold online only, for a dated and timed slot, with no sales on the door. The July early bird offer has sold out, and a standard ticket allows no re-entry, according to the official Frieze FAQ as relayed by momaa.org.

A caveat on prices: the official 2026 price list couldn’t be checked directly, and the figures found don’t all agree. A detailed guide, travel.art, gives the amounts below, in line with the £48 to £250 range published by Time Out for the 2025 edition. Other sites quote closer to £70 for a day ticket. Treat everything below as indicative and confirm on frieze.com before you buy.

How to pay less

• Pick an afternoon slot: the gap with the morning is around £10 to £15, according to London Art Walk
• Only take the combined ticket if you’re sure you can manage two fairs in one day
• A companion of a disabled visitor goes in free
• Fill the gaps with the no-ticket options: Frieze Sculpture, Minor Attractions, the Mayfair galleries

Frieze Masters and Frieze Sculpture: the museum version and the free version

Frieze Masters (14th edition, around 140 galleries) covers art from antiquity to the year 2000: it’s the fair that feels like a museum. The Spotlight section, curated by Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti of the Courtauld Institute of Art, showcases 20th-century solo presentations, for example Pacita Abad at Alison Jacques. The new Queering Modernism section traces LGBTQIA+ representation from early modernism to the 1980s. The “Breaking the Mould” talks series includes Es Devlin (Wednesday 14 at 5pm) and Grayson Perry (Thursday 15 at 12pm), according to Frieze. The two tents are about 1.2 km apart, with a free shuttle roughly every 15 minutes.

Frieze Sculpture is the one part of Frieze you can see without a ticket. Eleven artists, including Conrad Shawcross and Ivana Bašić, are showing in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park from 16 September to 1 November 2026, free of charge, with an audio trail designed for families for the first time, according to FAD Magazine. It’s also the best option for a picnic if the weather holds. For more free things to do in London, our Open House London 2026 guide lists buildings you can visit without paying.

The satellite fairs of art week

This is often where the week gets more surprising, and more affordable. The dates below come from the fairs’ official websites; prices are those displayed to date.

• 1-54 pairs well with the Courtauld Gallery, in the same Somerset House, according to Somerset House
• Minor Attractions takes over around fifteen rooms of an Art Deco hotel: one for an evening, the mood there is more nocturnal
• Fair Play brings together some 65 to 70 independent artists picked by a jury, in a Marylebone building a few minutes from Regent’s Park
• The Other Art Fair falls before Frieze week: the only option if you arrive earlier

Mayfair galleries, auctions and museums to combine

The Mayfair galleries (Hauser & Wirth on Savile Row, Gagosian, David Zwirner on Grafton Street, Pace on Hanover Square, White Cube in Mason’s Yard) often open new exhibitions early in the week, according to travel.art. All are free. Allow 20 to 25 minutes on foot from the fair, or 15 minutes by bus.

On the auction side, only Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale on 14 October 2026 is confirmed. It features Piet Mondrian’s Composition III (1920), estimated at £20 to £30 million, according to Artlyst. Dates for Sotheby’s and Phillips haven’t been confirmed.

Exhibitions to add to your diary

• Courtauld Gallery: Salman Toor, Someone Like You, 2 October 2026 to 10 January 2027
• Royal Academy: Painting the French Riviera, 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 (around £24 to £26), with Monet, Matisse and Picasso
• Barbican: Robert Ryman: The Real Thing, from 8 October
• Tate Modern: Light and Magic (photography), from 8 October; Tate Britain: The 90s, from 1 October
• Whitechapel Gallery: Cecilia Vicuña, from 7 October

Where to stay during art week

Marylebone, Fitzrovia, Camden: choosing your area

Around £193 a night on average in London 10-20 min on foot from the fair Book early

Prices for the week of 14 October can’t be checked yet, so here are benchmarks rather than rates. The average price of a hotel night in London is projected at around £193 in 2026, with occupancy close to 81%. On Kayak, Marylebone hotels listed outside Frieze week run from around £74 to £105 for budget, £88 to £156 for three stars and £200 to £723 above that, with Thursday the priciest night and Sunday the cheapest, according to Kayak. Expect higher rates during the fair.

Which area for which kind of stay

• Marylebone: the closest (10 to 15 minutes on foot), with addresses such as The Marylebone, The Langham or The Mandeville. It’s also the home of Fair Play
• Fitzrovia: a good balance of design and distance (around 20 minutes on foot), with The Newman, the hotel behind Minor Attractions
• Mayfair: for the galleries and auctions, but at the very top end of the market (Claridge’s, The Connaught)
• Camden, King’s Cross, Euston: the options for smaller budgets, with King’s Cross and St Pancras also the Eurostar arrival station. For Camden, our guide to things to do in Camden helps you choose
• Shoreditch: handy for The Other Art Fair and Brick Lane, but around 45 minutes from the fair

Pixidia tip: arrive on Sunday or Monday, leave on Sunday evening, and avoid Thursday night if you can. Stay in zone 1, near Baker Street, Great Portland Street or Regent’s Park: leave the car at home during Frieze week, with the traffic and the ULEZ.

Getting there: entry rules, trains and the Tube

Entry rules and transport

ETA: £20 (overseas visitors) Eurostar from €44 each way Tube cap: £8.90 a day

If you live in the UK, there’s nothing to sort out beforehand: Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras are the main rail hubs, all within reach of Regent’s Park by Tube or on foot. Visiting from abroad? Most visitors who don’t need a visa, including EU citizens, need an ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation), which costs £20 since 8 April 2026, is valid for two years and is requested through the UK ETA app, according to the Home Office. Allow three working days; our article UK ETA before London explains the process.

If you’re combining Frieze with a trip across the Channel, Eurostar runs to St Pancras from Paris or Lille, with tickets advertised from €44 per person each way on the basis of a return for travel between 23 September 2026 and 31 January 2027, according to Eurostar (French-language page, fares in euros). A ticket bought two to three months ahead costs €52 on average, against about 40% more inside two weeks.

Getting around

• Tube and bus by contactless: daily cap of £8.90 in zones 1-2, buses at £1.75, according to London Drum
• Regent’s Park station (Bakerloo): no step-free access (two flights of stairs). Baker Street or Euston have lifts, according to TfL
• No Bakerloo line closure is planned for October 2026, and no RMT strike had been announced as of 21 September: double-check before you travel
• From Heathrow, the Elizabeth line costs £15.50 to zone 1

Pixidia tip: in October, expect around 15 °C by day, 9 °C at night and frequent rain. A light waterproof and trainers are enough, as the fair is heated but the queues are outdoors.