Frieze Sculpture—a fixture of the London artwork calendar—will return to The Regent’s Park in September, with works on present by 14 artists together with the late Native American artist Jaune Fast-to-See Smith and Delhi-born Reena Saini Kallat. The thirteenth version runs from 17 September to 2 November, coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters (15-19 October). The entire works featured are on the market.
Fatoş Üstek, the curator of Frieze Sculpture, has organised the exhibition thematically below the heading Within the Shadows. “Shadows aren’t mere voids. They’re zones of potential, the place tales unfold quietly but powerfully, usually out of sight. The artists this 12 months mirror these tensions with profound perception: their works deal with ecological vulnerability, historic erasure, and human transformation,” she says in an announcement.
Andy Holden will present Auguries, a part of an ongoing collection initially developed for the Hepworth Wakefield gallery in West Yorkshire. “I turned my recordings of birds, who had declined greater than 50% in my lifetime, into monumental bronze vertical renders of the wave type of the track,” Holden tells The Artwork Newspaper. The brand new work continues the collection however this model includes smaller solid bronze works on high of excessive telegraph poles, he provides.
Reena Saini Kallat’s sound sculpture Requiem (The Final Name), 2024, additionally references endangered birds, that includes recordings of chook calls from eleven extinct species. The Canadian artist David Altmejd, who’s represented by White Dice, will present Nymph 1 Nymph 2 Nymph 3 (2025), an outline in bronze of a distorted determine. Jaune Fast-to-See Smith’s piece King of the Mountain (2024–25) is a “tribute to Indigenous reminiscence”, says a mission assertion.
Different collaborating artists embrace German-born Grace Schwindt, the Brazilian painter Henrique Oliveira, New York-based Timur Si-Qin, Burçak Bingöl of Turkey and the Turner prizewinning structure collective Assemble. The exhibition additionally contains the work Neighbours (2025) by the Iranian sculptor Abdollah Nafisi who’s represented by Dastan Gallery in Tehran.
Frieze Sculpture varieties a part of London Sculpture Week (20-28 September) which features a convention on the Warburg Institute, London College, on 26 September.
