Cork Street Galleries is thrilled to announce its annual Frieze week programme, highlighting exhibitions, extended opening hours, and special events that will take place on the Mayfair street during Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Wednesday 15 – Sunday 19 October 2025.

All of the galleries on Cork Street will open their doors to welcome the evening crowds of Frieze West End Night on Thursday 16 October (6pm – 8pm), with special events, music, and food and drink filling the length of the street. As part of the celebrations, CATALOGUE will launch its special centenary issue, Fear Gives Wings to Courage, marking 100 years of Cork Street as a hub for modern and contemporary art. The issue features contributions from Louisa Buck, Shirin Neshat, and Gareth Harris, among others.

The street’s permanent roster of galleries, including Alison Jacques, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Flowers Gallery, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, Goodman Gallery, Holtermann Fine Art, MASSIMODECARLO, Messums London, Nahmad Projects, Osborne Samuel, The Redfern Gallery, Sam Fogg, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Tiwani Contemporary, and Waddington Custot, together have announced 18 exhibitions to celebrate the busiest and most exciting week in London’s art calendar.

Sagarika Sundaram, Iris , 2023, Courtesy Alison Jacques © Sagarika Sundaram
ALISON JACQUES (22 Cork Street) presents Alison Jacques presents ‘Release’, the first UK exhibition of new work by Sagarika Sundaram (b.1986, Kolkata, India; lives and works in New York). Working primarily with raw natural fibres, Sundaram’s intuitive practice of ‘painterly sculpture’ or ‘textile painting’ defies material, spatial, and linguistic boundaries. This new body of work deepens her connection to fibre and felt; nuanced in colour and complex in form, she sculpts space as well as material, incorporating felt reliefs and glass mosaics, as well as a large-scale installation. This exhibition anticipates Sundaram’s forthcoming solo show curated by Laurence Sillars at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, in 2026.

(15 October – 15 November 2025)

Marc Chagall’s La Jeune Mexicaine Left: Cig Harvey’s Chive Blossoms. Images Courtesy Alon Zakaim Fine Art
ALON ZAKAIM FINE ART (27 Cork Street) presents Cig Harvey: I Want You To Remember This Forever, the debut UK show of world-renowned photographer Cig Harvey at Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London. The exhibition is an enquiry into luminosity, pairing quintessential 19th and 20th century paintings and sculptures with the intimate photographic art of Cig Harvey, including works by Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and Chaïm Soutine. The exhibition, curated by Brandei Estes, former Head of Photographs at Sotheby’s. opens Friday 17 October during Frieze London.

(17 Oct – Fri 21 Nov 2025)

Image Courtesy of Flowers Gallery
FLOWERS GALLERY (21 Cork Street) presents David Hepher: The Elegy of Robin Hood Gardens, a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist David Hepher (b. 1935). Now in his 91st year with much of his practice dedicated to a sustained examination of London’s tower blocks, Brutalist architecture, and urban housing estates, in this exhibition Hepher surveys the Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, East London. On his renowned large scale, and often working on concrete-primed surfaces layered with graffiti motifs, splatters of paint, and pictographic symbols and imagery, Hepher reflects on the legacy of this landmark estate.

For over six decades, British artist David Hepher has centered his work on the urban landscapes of south London. Exploring the scale and ‘austere grandeur’ of the expansive modern social housing estates built in the 1960s and 70s, Hepher was attracted to the formal beauty of their grid-like structures and by the physical and emotional traces of their many inhabitants. His multivalent work has both celebrated and mourned modernism in modes that are futuristic and nostalgic, utopian and entropic.

(15 October – 15 November 2025)

Zaam Arif, A Stranger, 2025 Vadehra Art Gallery Image: Courtesy of Vadehra Art Gallery and the artist.
FRIEZE NO.9 CORK STREET (9 Cork Street) will present three exhibitions over the course of Frieze week.

Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Houston based contemporary artist Zaam Arif at Frieze No.9 Cork Street from 10 October to 25 October 2025. Curated by London-based curator Ben Broome, the exhibition titled Deewaar (translated from the Hindi as “the wall”), features 18 oil paintings across variousscales, including portraiture, still life and surrealist interior scene.

As a young painter, Zaam Arif demonstrates a tremendous maturity in his philosophical reflections on the human experience, frequently returning to the principles of absurdity that shaped the thought of 20th-century philosopher Albert Camus. Camus’ ideas offer an affective respite for those grappling with a search for significance in an unrelenting, infinite world – an inquiry to which Arif responds through figurative compositions flowed together with both resolute presence and existential listlessness.

(10 October to 25 October 2025)

Curated by Slavs and Tatars & Asya Yaghmurian, Artwin Gallery presents an exhibition of works by eight artists, exploring notions of disdain and contempt, entitled To everything, spurn, spurn, spurn. Revisiting the famous 1965 song by The Byrds, “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season),” these newly commissioned paintings, watercolours, and sculptures ask what it means to spurn or kick back, whether a lover or an epoch.

(10 October to 25 October 2025)

Hafez Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of renowned Egyptian painter Ibrahim El-Dessouki entitled Testimony of the Soil. The exhibition, curated by Dr Sara Raza, explores the complex relationship between the land, power, and labour through a series of new and recent allegorical paintings inspired by Egypt’s socio-political history, cinema, and literature.

(10 October to 25 October 2025)

El Anatsi, Luvi, 2 El Anatsui, Luvi, 2025, Courtesy of Goodman Gallery and Jackson Pearce White
GOODMAN GALLERY (26 Cork Street) presents El Anatsui | Go Back and Pick Goodman Gallery London and October Gallery are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions by El Anatsui, widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Anatsui’s new wooden sculptures mark a significant moment in his artistic trajectory, evolving from his foundational use of the medium during the 1980s and 1990s. The two exhibitions of Anatsui’s most recent work underscore the artist’s presence in the much-anticipated Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern, opening 8 October 2025.

(11 October – 19 November 2025)