Curated by Fatoş Üstek for the second year in a row, Frieze Sculpture 2024 returns to London’s Regent’s Park, featuring 27 works—including 18 new pieces—from 22 artists, including Yoshitomo Nara, Theaster Gates, Leonora Carrington, and Zanele Muholi.
“This year’s Frieze Sculpture features daring and experimental artistic approaches,” Üstek states. “It carves a place for playful encounters, socially and environmentally conscious themes, and conceptual and spiritual practices that redefine public sculpture.” The new edition provides a comprehensive representation of contemporary sculpture by integrating sound, light, performance, painting, video, and augmented reality.
Although the 2024 lineup features a similar number of artists as 2023, the upcoming exhibition will highlight a greater representation of women and non-binary artists. Among them are Carrington, Ashwini Bhat, Zanele Muholi, Anna Boghiguian, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Theresa Chromati, Céline Condorelli, İnci Eviner, Frances Goodman, Libby Heaney, Nika Neelova, Fani Parali, Zizipho Poswa, and Kirstine Roepstorff.
The 14 artists will showcase their work along the tree-lined paths of Regent’s Park, alongside Gates, Nara, Nathan Coley, FOS, Albano Hernández, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Hans Josephsohn, and Woody De Othello.
Some highlights of the exhibition include Leonora Carrington’s The Dancer, Fani Paroli’s performative art piece incorporating sculptures, titled Aonyx and Drepan, The Ghaf Tree by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, and İnci Eviner’s Materials of Mind Theatre.
Frieze Sculpture is part of London Sculpture Week, running from September 21 to 29, which includes other public art initiatives like the Fourth Plinth and Sculpture in the City. A comprehensive public program of live activations and curator-led tours is offered alongside the exhibition. The experience is further enhanced by the collaboration with Bloomberg Connects as an official partner, which provides a digital guide to the visitors.
Taking place for the 21st time this year, the highly acclaimed public art project also coincides with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which take place concurrently in The Regent’s Park from October 9–13. With the aim of bringing contemporary sculpture to the widest possible audience, all events during the week are free to the public.
