Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026: what Singapore collectors should watch

Frieze London and Frieze Masters opened in Regent’s Park on Wednesday and run until Sunday 18 October, with almost 300 galleries from 48 countries and regions. For a Singapore collector the useful part is narrower: a Singapore print workshop in the Editions section, a new curated section with a Southeast Asian presence, and a Masters fair that treats mid-century Asian artists as a research field.

The fairs and the calendar

Frieze London shows work made mostly after 2000, and Frieze Masters shows work made before 2000. The two sit within walking distance in The Regent’s Park. According to Frieze’s June release, Frieze London has about 170 galleries from 42 countries and regions, and Frieze Masters has nearly 140. Both opened on Wednesday 14 October by invitation. General admission opens at 1 pm on Thursday 15 October, and the fairs close at 6 pm on Sunday 18 October. A listing on ArtRabbit gives weekend general admission at £48 for Frieze London and £92 for a combined ticket, which should be checked with Frieze.

Singapore at the fair: STPI

The Singapore gallery on the list is STPI, a creative workshop and gallery at 41 Robertson Quay, established in 2002, which has shown at Frieze London since 2019. It exhibits in Editions, a section in its fifth year for publishers and print studios, which Frieze describes as an approachable entry point for collectors at the start of their journey. In 2024 STPI brought works by Lee Bul, Do Ho Suh, Haegue Yang, Heman Chong and Han Sai Por. Frieze’s release does not say which artists STPI is showing this year.

There is a direct link to Singapore’s own calendar. Three of the five publishers Frieze names for Editions, Borch Editions, Knust Kunz Gallery Editions and Cristea Roberts, also took part in the first Print Show & Symposium Singapore, organised by STPI during Singapore Art Week in January 2026. A collector who saw those prints in Singapore can see the same publishers in London.

East and South Asia in the main fair

Frieze describes the Asian presence as South, East and West Asia. South Asia is represented by Experimenter, Jhaveri Contemporary, Nature Morte, Project 88 and Vadehra Art Gallery. East Asia includes Gallery Baton, Don Gallery, G Gallery, Johyun Gallery and Taro Nasu, and Kukje Gallery returns among the leading galleries. G Gallery is a first-time participant. In Focus, the section for galleries founded in the last twelve years, newcomers include Chemould CoLab and eastcontemporary.

In Artist-to-Artist, supported by Tiffany & Co., seven solo presentations are each chosen by an artist. Eusung Lee, shown by Cylinder, was nominated by Ayoung Kim.

The Code Universe: a Southeast Asian presence

The new section The Code Universe is curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing. It looks at how artists respond to mass culture, from the mid-1980s to today. Three of its solo presentations come from Asia: Shinro Ohtake with greengrassi and Take Ninagawa, Payne Zhu with Spurs Gallery, and Nyoman Dharmawan with Nonfrasa. Nonfrasa is a gallery in Ubud, Bali, founded in 2021, and this is its first Frieze London. For Singapore it is the closest scene in the fair, and a young gallery at this stage is the kind of discovery Frieze London is built around.

Frieze Masters: Asia as research

Historical Asian art is a category at Frieze Masters. Returning specialists include Afridi, Joost van den Bergh, Prahlad Bubbar, Michael Goedhuis, Rasti Fine Art, Carlton Rochell, Shibunkaku and Thomsen Gallery, with Kent Antiques, Mohtashemi and Jacqueline Simcox as first-time participants.

More relevant to a contemporary collector is Spotlight, curated by Dr Devika Singh and Dr Sofia Gotti of the Courtauld Institute of Art. This year it focuses on pioneering mid-century artists from South Asia, East Asia and other regions, with works from the 1950s to the late 1970s. The list includes the Filipino artist Pacita Abad with Alison Jacques, Fong Chung-Ray with Alisan Fine Arts, Ganesh Haloi with Akar Prakar, H. A. Karunaratne with Saskia Fernando Gallery and Anwar Jalal Shemza with Jhaveri Contemporary. These artists are receiving new scholarly attention, and that is where a buyer can still look for work before the market has fully caught up. That last point is our reading, not Frieze’s.

What to do with it

For a collector in Singapore the fairs offer three entry points: prints through Editions and STPI, a Southeast Asian discovery through Nonfrasa, and mid-century Asian work through Spotlight. Art Basel Paris follows next week, from 21 to 25 October. The exhibitor lists are those published by Frieze and may have changed since.