`Lehmann Maupin returns to Frieze London for the 21st time with a solo presentation of new and recent works by internationally renowned artist Do Ho Suh, whose major exhibition The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House is currently on view at the Tate Modern through October 26. Selections from Suh’s Specimens, ScaledBehaviour, and Spectators series will be on view, in addition to several thread drawings and a large-scale fabric installation. Concurrent to the fair, several of Lehmann Maupin's artists will have a strong presence in London. Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES is on view at the Hayward Gallery through January 11, 2026. Also at the Hayward, Teresa Solar Abboud, who joined Lehmann Maupin’s program in July, will debut a new site-specific commission during Frieze Week. In 2026, Solar Abboud will debut her first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom at Lehmann Maupin London.
Working across various media, Do Ho Suh creates drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity; the artist is best known for his life-size fabric sculptures that reconstruct his past and present homes and studios. Several works from Suh’s long-running Specimens series, including new Perfect Home and Family Cuddle iterations, will debut at the fair. The artist’s Specimen works comprise detailed fabric replicas of domestic objects from his past and present residences and studio spaces. Colorful fabric doorknobs, electrical outlets, light switches, and more are precisely measured and modeled after their literal counterparts—objects that have been both habitually touched by the artist himself and with which others have a deep and unquestioning familiarity. Suh’s new Family Cuddle works in particular depict clusters of doorknobs that intertwine and overlap within their compositions, exploring the boundaries between the self and others and probing the way memories overlap and blur between individuals in intimate relationships.
Meanwhile, new works from the ScaledBehaviour series extend Suh’s interest in the politics of touch. Through a complex process that involves handcrafted thread, robotics, and 3D printing, Suh produced ScaledBehaviour_runOn(doorknob_11_37_1) and ScaledBehaviour_runOn(deadbolt_11_39_1) (both 2025) based on an automated drawing made via script from an architectural modeling software. The result is a labyrinthine form (in this case, the shapes of a doorknob and a deadbolt) that acknowledges both its digital origins and its analogue production, collapsing distinctions between the virtual and tactile. A collaboration between script and hand, these works raise questions about control and authorship, presenting a subtle reframing of the Western interest in the “hand of the artist” and the notion of a singular “genius.”
Featuring large-scale installations, sculptures, videos, and drawings, the concurrent exhibition Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at the Tate Modern surveys the breadth and depth of Suh’s unique practice over the last three decades, spanning locations including Seoul, New York, and London—the three cities he has called home—and featuring several new site-specific works on display for the first time. Suh’s immersive works examine the relationship between architecture, space, the body, and the memories that make us who we are, provoking questions about the enigma of home, identity, and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. The exhibition is on view through October 26.
Additional fair highlights include large-scale works by London-based artist duo Gilbert & George, concurrent to their solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Gilbert & George have lived and worked together since meeting in art school in 1967 and see themselves as “two people, one artist,” their individual identities subsumed into a vision of animate sculpture that offers representations of the universal human condition. At the Hayward, Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES surveys the past 25 years of the artists’ pictures, focused on the large-scale and colorful works that reflect their motto: “Art for All.” Featuring works from key series including NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016), and THE CORPSING PICTURES (2022)—which was shown at Lehmann Maupin New York in 2023—the exhibition explores themes that have remained central to Gilbert & George’s practice over the years, including hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption, and death.
On October 16, the Hayward Gallery will debut a new site-specific commission by Madrid-based artist Teresa Solar Abboud, who joined Lehmann Maupin’s roster in July. Titled Mother tongue (2025) and located on the walkway in front of the entrance, the monumental bronze sculpture depicts two bubblegum pink tongue-like forms entangled in a dance, becoming one anthropomorphic being. Solar Abboud’s sculptural work is known for capturing moments of transformation through the construction of hybrid, surreal worlds. In Mother tongue, she explores both the fusion of her own cultural Spanish and Egyptian heritage—including the assimilation and linguistic translation therein—and the experience of becoming a mother herself. In 2026, Lehmann Maupin London will present Solar Abboud’s debut solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.
Additional highlights include new and recent works by Hernan Bas, McArthur Binion, Mandy El-Sayegh, Teresita Fernández, Tammy Nguyen, Catherine Opie, Anna Park, Calida Rawles, and Cecilia Vicuña.
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