# Friday 16 October 26 art events on Friday 16 October at Frieze Week 2026 London at Souvenir438Space Gallery, Berkeley Square and The Coronet Theatre and more: openings, fair previews, talks and parties, with times and a map. - Dates: October 12 – 18, 2026 - Where: London, UK - Times: local (BST) - Listed: 26 events - Page with map, search and favourites: https://artweekguide.com/weeks/frieze-week-2026/2026-10-16 - Part of: [Frieze Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/frieze-week-2026) ## Friday 16 October 2026 - **All day** · [Celeste Rapone: How We're Doing — Exhibition Opens](https://artweekguide.com/events/celeste-rapone-how-we-re-doing-exhibition-opens) — Show at Josh Lilley. An exhibition at Josh Lilley for Frieze Week, the third the gallery has mounted with Chicago painter Celeste Rapone. It presents figurative paintings made without preparatory drawings or sitters. The show continues to 28 November. - **All day** · [1-54 Talks Programme](https://artweekguide.com/events/1-54-talks-programme) — Talk at Somerset House. A programme of 1-54 talks at Somerset House, part of Frieze Week 2026. Sessions include one marking ten years of Addis Fine Art with poet Lemn Sissay, one featuring Seyni Awa Camara, and a Christie's Education session on African art after the spotlight. Booking is required. - **All day** · [Paraíso Latin American Art Fair — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/paraiso-latin-american-art-fair-public-days) — Fair at Ambika P3. A Latin American art fair at Ambika P3, held as part of Frieze Week 2026. This is its first edition, with Mexico as focus country. Twenty-two galleries and projects take part, showing work by Carlos Amorales, Felipe Ehrenberg and Pola Weiss. RSVP is needed. - **All day** · [1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-public-days) — Fair at Somerset House. The 14th London edition of the contemporary African art fair, at Somerset House as part of Frieze Week, introduces a new Modernist spotlight. It also includes the exhibition *West Wind*, Hassan Hajjaj's *My London Rockstars* and a courtyard installation by Martin Wöllenstein. RSVP is required. - **All day** · [Paraíso Public Programme: Talks and Live Performances](https://artweekguide.com/events/paraiso-public-programme-talks-and-live-performances) — Talk at Ambika P3. A public programme of talks and live performances at Ambika P3 during Frieze Week. River Claure speaks with Gasworks and the Barbican, and a talk is titled *Institutional Gaze*. Rafael Escardo performs on Friday, Daniela Delatorre with Juanjose Rivas on Saturday. Entry requires a fair ticket. - **All day** · [London Invitational — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/london-invitational-public-days) — Fair at The Chancery Rosewood. The Dallas Invitational makes its first London appearance, with 12 galleries sharing one floor of the former US Embassy. Participants include François Ghebaly, Bel Ami and franklin parrasch. It runs as part of Frieze Week. An RSVP is required, and entry is by timed ticket. - **All day** · [Mr & Mrs Smith: To Seek, To Find](https://artweekguide.com/events/mr-mrs-smith-to-seek-to-find) — Show at Frieze No.9 Cork Street. A photography show at Frieze No.9 Cork Street during Frieze Week, and the first photography show from the Frieze Week partner. Curated by Brandei Estes, it features Tina Barney and a previously unseen work by Martin Parr. Print sales benefit the Human Dignity Trust. - **All day** · [FOCUS Art Fair London — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/focus-art-fair-london-public-days) — Fair at Saatchi Gallery. A fair at the Saatchi Gallery during Frieze Week 2026, showing artists from Asia and the Asian diaspora. Work ranges from craft-based practice to digital and AI art. The Friday session continues into an evening late opening, and RSVP is required. - **9:00 AM** · [Sofía Bassi: Frieze Week Champagne Brunch](https://artweekguide.com/events/sofia-bassi-frieze-week-champagne-brunch) — Breakfast & Brunch at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. A champagne brunch held inside Pippy Houldsworth Gallery as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. It takes place during the gallery's exhibition of work by Sofía Bassi, the Mexican Surrealist, which is her first solo show in Europe. - **11:30 AM** · [Sotheby's: The David Hockney Sale — 20 Flowers from Normandy](https://artweekguide.com/events/sotheby-s-the-david-hockney-sale-20-flowers-from-normandy) — Other at Sotheby's. A single-artist sale at Sotheby's during Frieze Week, offering 20 flower works David Hockney made in Normandy in 2021. The Contemporary Day Auction, with 165 lots, follows at noon. The sale can be watched online. - **1:00 PM** · [The Renoir Girls: Book Talk with Catherine Ostler and Christopher Riopelle](https://artweekguide.com/events/the-renoir-girls-book-talk-with-catherine-ostler-and-christopher-riopelle) — Talk at National Gallery, Pigott Theatre. A book talk in the National Gallery's Pigott Theatre, part of Frieze Week. Author Catherine Ostler and curator Christopher Riopelle discuss the Cahen d'Anvers sisters, whom Renoir painted. It runs alongside the exhibition *Renoir and Love*. Entry is by ticket, priced at £10. - **1:00 PM** · [Fair Play: A Table With…Samuel Pye (Echlin)](https://artweekguide.com/events/fair-play-a-table-with-samuel-pye-echlin) — Other at Portland Greenhouse, One Marylebone. A midday supper-club meal at Portland Greenhouse, One Marylebone, forming part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. Samuel Pye of Echlin is the host. Tickets are £85 and include admission to the fair. An RSVP is required. - **4:00 PM** · [Isabel Nolan in Conversation with Judith Carlton (Walking Talk)](https://artweekguide.com/events/isabel-nolan-in-conversation-with-judith-carlton-walking-talk) — Talk at Southwark Park Galleries. A walking talk at Southwark Park Galleries, moving across both gallery sites, in which Isabel Nolan discusses her UK survey *some fundamental forces* with Judith Carlton. Nolan is Ireland's artist at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Part of Frieze Week 2026; RSVP needed. - **4:30 PM** · [THE WEDDING: OONA & DAVID — 'Til the Cameras Do Us Part](https://artweekguide.com/events/the-wedding-oona-david-til-the-cameras-do-us-part) — Performance at Shoreditch Arts Club. At Shoreditch Arts Club, OONA stages a live "surveillance wedding" that closes her CCTV-based project *Dear David*. A talk follows the performance. The event marks ten years of HERVISIONS and is part of Frieze Connect within Frieze Week. RSVP is required. - **6:30 PM** · [Ambra Castagnetti: Notre-Dame de Paris / Invisible Bodies](https://artweekguide.com/events/ambra-castagnetti-notre-dame-de-paris-invisible-bodies) — Performance at STÜCK. An installation-performance at STÜCK during Frieze Week, in which five dancers wear sculptures made by Ambra Castagnetti. The work recasts the characters of Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris through medical history and chronic illness. - **6:30 PM** · [Intimate Publics Zone](https://artweekguide.com/events/intimate-publics-zone) — Performance at The Horse Hospital. Tokyo's artist-led festival FLATLINE CITY 水平都市 brings an interdisciplinary performance takeover to The Horse Hospital, as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. The programme is supported by Major Futures. RSVP is required. - **7:00 PM** · [Solitary Light: Morphe Arts Residency — Opening Party](https://artweekguide.com/events/solitary-light-morphe-arts-residency-opening-party) — Drinks at St Barnabas Dalston. An opening party at St Barnabas Dalston for *Solitary Light*, the closing show of the 2026 Morphe Arts London residency, held during Frieze Week. Karen David curates work by the residency's six artists. The show continues to 24 October. Entry is free, with RSVP. - **7:00 PM** · [Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui — Live Session 1](https://artweekguide.com/events/hyundai-commission-tarek-atoui-live-session-1) — Performance at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. A live improvised performance in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, part of Frieze Week 2026. Tarek Atoui, Emptyset, Mazen Kerbaj, Kenichi Iwasa and Aya Metwalli play inside the new Hyundai Commission, which serves as both instrument and sound system. RSVP is needed. - **7:00 PM** · [3 Evenings: Experiments in Performance and Technology — Night 1](https://artweekguide.com/events/3-evenings-experiments-in-performance-and-technology-night-1) — Performance at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. The opening night of a three-evening performance series at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, staged offsite to mark ten years of Somerset House Studios. The line-up is Gazelle Twin, Lawrence Lek, Jenkin van Zyl and Agnieszka Szczotka, and SERAFINE1369. Ticketed, 18+, and now sold out. - **7:00 PM** · [Fair Play: A Table With…Eric Underwood](https://artweekguide.com/events/fair-play-a-table-with-eric-underwood) — Other at Portland Greenhouse, One Marylebone. A dinner sitting at Portland Greenhouse as part of Frieze Week 2026, with Eric Underwood presenting *Stories from The Moth*. Each seat includes fair entry, and tickets cost £85. RSVP is required, and only a few seats remain. - **8:00 PM** · [Mutt Art Review Issue Lauch - Minor Attractions](https://artweekguide.com/events/mutt-art-review-issue-lauch-minor-attractions) — Other at The Newman. A launch for the latest issue of Mutt Art Review, titled Minor Attractions, held at The Newman as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. RSVP is needed. Still on from an earlier day: - **Until Sat** · [Movana Chen: Questioning the Line](https://artweekguide.com/events/movana-chen-questioning-the-line) — Performance at The Coronet Theatre. Movana Chen stages a performance at The Coronet Theatre, with dancers working inside connected sculptures knitted from shredded maps. The piece takes territory and identity as its subject. It is presented with Flowers Gallery as part of Frieze Week 2026, and tickets cost £25. - **Until Sat** · [The Bright Eyes of Children](https://artweekguide.com/events/the-bright-eyes-of-children) — Show at Pollock's Theatrical Print Warehouse. OCD Gallery's pop-up for Frieze Week London shows sculpture, painting and print by six artists in a nineteenth-century Fitzrovia house that was once half of Pollock's Toy Museum. The show is about attention before interpretation, and the building's layered interiors replace white walls. - **Until Sun** · [PAD London](https://artweekguide.com/events/pad-london) — Fair at Berkeley Square. PAD London is a design fair on Berkeley Square, part of Frieze Week 2026. It covers historical and contemporary design from leading galleries, and was founded in 2007 by Patrick Perrin. It is the sister fair to PAD Paris. RSVP is needed. - **Until Sun** · [Frieze Masters — Public Days](https://artweekguide.com/events/frieze-masters-public-days) — Fair at Frieze Masters. A fair of about 140 galleries showing work from antiquity to the 20th century, held as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. It adds a new thread, *Queering Modernism*, alongside the Spotlight and Reflections sections. Entry is ticketed and an RSVP is needed. - **Until Thu** · [CONSUMED (Swallow The Sky) by Thomas Hjelm](https://artweekguide.com/events/consumed-swallow-the-sky-by-thomas-hjelm) — Other at Souvenir438Space Gallery. *CONSUMED (Swallow The Sky)* is a work by Thomas Hjelm, presented at Souvenir438Space Gallery as part of Frieze Week 2026 in London. An RSVP is needed to attend. ## Suggested walks - [Brunch, Hockney and new paintings](https://artweekguide.com/walks/vxih7l91) — Friday 16 October: 4 stops · 1.8 km · 24 min on foot, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM - [Paraíso then dinner](https://artweekguide.com/walks/lagedqk9) — Friday 16 October: 3 stops · 940 m · 13 min on foot, 5:00 – 7:45 PM --- From Art Week Guide (https://artweekguide.com/), a free, hand-picked guide to the events of art weeks and cities worldwide. Check each event's own page before you go.