• Frieze London 2026

    Booth D17
  • Edel Assanti is pleased to present a curated selection of new and previously unseen works at Frieze London 2026. The presentation brings together artists from the gallery’s programme, spanning painting, sculpture, film and photography. 

  • Thornton Dial

  • Thornton Dial, Low Income Houses: The Projects, 1990

    Thornton Dial

    Low Income Houses: The Projects, 1990 Splash Zone, enamel on wood
    127 x 248.9 x 1.9 cm
    50 x 98 x 3/4 in
  • Thornton Dial, Indian Town, 2013

    Thornton Dial

    Indian Town, 2013 Metal, fabric, oil base paint on canvas
    139.7 x 121.9 cm
    55 x 48 in
  • From the complex, exuberant textures of his assemblages to the deft, fluid lines of his drawings, Dial’s facility as an artist was truly extraordinary.

     

     

    Sheena Wagstaff, The New York Times

  • Sheida Soleimani

  • Sheida Soleimani, Sentinel, 2026

    Sheida Soleimani

    Sentinel, 2026 Archival pigment print
    35.6 x 27.9 cm
    14 x 11 in
    Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Sheida Soleimani, Affinity, 2024

    Sheida Soleimani

    Affinity, 2024 Archival pigment print
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
    40 x 30 in
    Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Soleimani’s works artfully spin a traumatic history and personal losses into a kind of visual poetry that’s thoughtful, mysterious and captivating. And they are odes to her parents as well, in a body of work that celebrates rather than criticizes the family that shaped her.

     

    Martha Schwendener, The New York Times

  • Marcin Dudek

  • Marcin Dudek, Pawilon III, 2026

    Marcin Dudek

    Pawilon III, 2026 Steel, wood, acrylic paint, medical tape, image transfer, UV varnish
    Open: 47.5 x 58.5 x 2 cm | 18 3/4 x 23 x 3/4 in
    Closed: 47.5 x 21 x 3 cm | 18 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/8 in
  • Marcin Dudek, Pawilon I, 2026

    Marcin Dudek

    Pawilon I, 2026 Steel, wood, resin, cream cheese, aluminium foil, medical tape, image transfer, UV varnish
    Open: 35.5 x 44 x 10 cm | 14 x 17 3/8 x 4 in
    Closed: 35.5 x 22 x 3 cm | 14 x 8 5/8 x 1 1/8 in
  • In Dudek’s work, memory serves as both inspiration and medium. His installations take the form of sculptural environments reimagining lost spaces specific to his own experiences, lending themselves to critical inquiries around the construction of individual and group identity. 

     

  • Lonnie Holley

  • Lonnie Holley, Tension at the Door, 2025

    Lonnie Holley

    Tension at the Door, 2025 Found metal, steel wire and wire mesh
    105 x 60 x 40 cm
    41 3/8 x 23 5/8 x 15 3/4 in
  • Lonnie Holley, A Mother's Pain, 2023

    Lonnie Holley

    A Mother's Pain, 2023 Spray paint on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
  • Lonnie Holley, She Wished for Water but Got Wine, 2025

    Lonnie Holley

    She Wished for Water but Got Wine, 2025 Wood, metal, glass bottles and wire
    120 x 75 x 30 cm
    47 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 11 3/4 in
  • For decades, artists such as Holley—self-taught and working at a distance from the major art centers (and, until fairly recently, outside the mainstream gallery system)—have largely been sidelined or ignored. Yet the neglect of these works belies their quiet power.

    Daniel Culpan, Artforum

  • Dale Lewis

     

  • Dale Lewis, The Strawberry Thief, 2025

    Dale Lewis

    The Strawberry Thief, 2025 Oil and spray on canvas
    170 x 200 cm
    66 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
  • Lewis’ paintings are inextricably linked to his own experiences and to his observations of those around him: at times confrontational, while elsewhere nuanced and subtle. Built through the compositional layering of images within images, his densely packed details trigger a chain of associations through which his world unfolds.

     

    Maggie Horneff, Writer

     

  • Jenkin Van Zyl

  • Jenkin van Zyl, P.E.E.P. buzzer xvii, 2026

    Jenkin van Zyl

    P.E.E.P. buzzer xvii, 2026 Apartment buzzer
  • Jenkin van Zyl, P.E.E.P. buzzer xvi, 2026

    Jenkin van Zyl

    P.E.E.P. buzzer xvi, 2026 Apartment buzzer
  • Van Zyl often brings together contrasting elements – backstage and onstage, repulsion and desire, structure and decay, legibility and confusion – to foreground a position of precarity and ambiguity as a productive site for discovery.

     

    Fiontán Moran, Writer 

  • Simon Lehner

  • Simon Lehner, Zeitnarbe, 2026

    Simon Lehner

    Zeitnarbe, 2026 Acrylic on unique canvas, lens-based CNC painting
    120 x 150 cm
    47 1/4 x 59 in
  • Simon Lehner, Peasant Painting IX, 2026

    Simon Lehner

    Peasant Painting IX, 2026 Acrylic on unique canvas, lens-based CNC painting

    50 x 40 cm
    19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
  • By employing his own private photo archive again and again, Lehner’s works create a strong and simultaneously sensitive tension between technical and cognitive processes, and the deeply personal struggle of grasping one’s own past.

     

    Christina Lehnert, Mousse Magazine

     

  • Vinca Petersen

  • Vinca Petersen, River Conversation, 1994

    Vinca Petersen

    River Conversation, 1994 C-print
    50.8 x 76.2 cm (image size)
    20 x 30 in.
    Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Vinca Petersen, Sleeper II, 2001

    Vinca Petersen

    Sleeper II, 2001 C-print
    20.3 x 25.4 cm (image size)
    8 x 10 in.
    Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • I have always been much more interested in the content than the image itself and feel it’s absolutely essential not to change or interrupt what is unfolding. 

     

    Vinca Petersen, Artist 

  • Yoshinori Niwa

  • 如果我死了,國家也會消失, 2014 from yoshinoriniwa on Vimeo.

    Yoshinori Niwa

    Requesting people in Taiwan who I met by chance to declare that if they die, Taiwan will disappear, 2014 Single-channel video
    14'09 min
    Edition 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Yoshinori Niwa’s practice takes the form of social interventions, executed through performance, video and installation. Niwa deploys a nonsensical vernacular to examine socio-political realities, an artistic strategy whose roots can be traced to the post-war Japanese avant-garde.