Gagosian Brings Six New Albert Oehlen Paintings to Frieze London 2026

At Frieze London 2026, Gagosian will showcase six significant large-scale paintings by Albert Oehlen. These pieces further delve into the traditional medium and format of painting, featuring a mix of various fragments, forms, and motifs. Oehlen's body of work emphasizes the transformation of images over their subject matter, reinterpreting a wide array of sources. His technique merges graphic brushwork and painterly drips with surprising color and texture contrasts, challenging the idea of coherence. By intertwining figuration and abstraction, he often integrates multiple painting styles within a single piece, subverting modernist norms. Known for his playful embrace of "bad" painting, Oehlen's London works include abstractions of a man with an extravagant image.