8 art exhibitions and fairs to see this London Frieze Week

London Frieze week is the busiest time of year in the art world. Galleries and fairs are open all over the city with countless artworks and events to see. We’ve got you covered with a list of 8 exhibitions and fairs to visit this week. 

1-54 Art Fair

Showcasing a range of work from across the continent, 1-54 is returning to it’s London home in Som8-art-exhibitions-and-fairs-to-see-this-london-frieze-weekerset House on the 15th of October. This year features several Special Projects, including Hassan Hajjaj’s My London Rocks which is a comprehensive celebration of a new generation of tastemakers and artists that he has come to know through his hybrid upbringing in London and Morocco. 

15th - 18th October Ticket Link

Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath at Ibraaz

Goliath’s strikingly sombre performance installation, Elegy, has come to the UK to commemorate the one year anniversary of Ibraaz’s opening. The artist’s work contends with themes of loss, grief and structural violence by bringing together women as a singular ongoing voice of mourning. In its current form in Ibraaz’s Minassa, Goliath’s installation deals with contexts of femicide in South Africa and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. 

8th October - 17th January Free Entry

Bolanle Contemporary at Frieze London

Opening on the 15th of October, Frieze is a melting pot of hundreds of galleries and artists from across the globe, all in one giant tent. Bolanle Contemporary will be showing works by Afro Dominican American artist, Eilen Itzel do Espírito Santo. Her practice is amalgamation of Yoruba deities and Latin American culture. Showing in the Artist to Artist section, Booth AA5. 

15th - 18th October Ticket Link 

Frieze x ICA Artist Film Programme

British Congolese artist Djofray Makumbu will be featured in this year’s Artist’s Film collaboration between the ICA and Frieze with his film Hello Mr Officer (2021). An artistic animated commentary on policing, the film will be shown throughout Art week as a part of  a continuous drop in film loop at the ICA’s cinema. It will also be available online until the 30th of October.

12th - 18th October Ticket link Film link

Previous & Ongoing by Lorna Simpson at Hauser & Wirth

After 8 years, Lorna Simpson returns to the UK with an exhibition that surveys the wider scopes of her practice with new works of painting, photography and sculpture as a way to make sense of the fragments of memory left behind by her past in news photography. 

13th October - 23rd December Free Entry

Aspects of Self by Richard Ikhide at Hope93 Gallery

A combination of Yoruba mythology, Jung’s psychology and ancestral knowledge come together through Ikhide’s work at Hope93. Ikhide’s work brings together the classicism of Renaissance art with the spirituality of Yoruba cosmologies and the creativity of Japanese manga to create a dialogue between the supposedly contradictory schools of practice. 

14th October - 19th November Free Entry

Ginny on Fredrick at Frieze London

Hosting a solo presentation of Okiki Akinfe’s BLACKOUT after her successful show at Peer Gallery this summer, Ginny on Fredrick returns to Frize London this year. Akinfe’s work can be found in the Focus section of the fair in Booth F2.

15th - 18th October Ticket Link 

I Can’t Complain by Autumn Knight at the ICA

Knight will take over the ICA’s exhibition space to explore the joys, sorrows and political potential of complaining through an installation of a ceiling full of balloons and a performance piece. The space will also be filled with an audio and visual installation to accompany the artist’s performances. 

29th September - 29th November Ticket Link