ST.ART Gallery launches DEFROST LONDON with the debut of the Gallery Bike, a custom built, fold out exhibition trailer that transforms London’s streets into a moving gallery. Premiering during Frieze Week, the project collapses the boundary between the white cube and the pavement, bringing ambitious works directly to the public.
Across five days, the Gallery Bike will unfold at key city sites with new commissions and site responsive moments by Cem Hasimi x Baris Kareli, Tom Enoch, Mason Newman, Pneuhaus, and Frankie Boyle.
What sets this project apart is its bold approach to bringing art directly to the public. This street-level exhibition meets audiences where they are, beyond the usual VIP and invitation-only spaces, creating an accessible and immersive cultural experience. The program is cross-disciplinary, seamlessly blending painting, interactive performance, light sculpture, inflatable architecture, and guerrilla gallery-making. Designed as sustainable, human-powered cultural infrastructure, it is constructed from modular T-slot aluminum for rapid setup and pack-down, making it adaptable and environmentally conscious. Each stop transforms the city into a stage, offering live dramaturgy where assembly, display, and encounter become a performance in themselves, engaging communities in dynamic and unexpected ways.
The exhibition features a diverse lineup of young artists and designers. RCA graduate and award-winning designer Cem Hasimi(b. 1984, Bursa) collaborates with hyperrealistic special effects artist Baris Kareli(b. 1984, Gross Gerau) to present a striking light sculpture featuring a hyperrealistic face seemingly stretched from its head. CSM alumnus Tom Enoch(b. 1999, London) stages a hugging-based participatory performance moments inspired by his Monster Arms lineage, while Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Mason Newman(b. 1999, Birmingham) unveils paintings from his new series All My Heroes Are Dead, rendered in his signature unapologetically vibrant punk style. Rhode Island-based art and design collective Pneuhaus(founded in 2014) contributes a playful inflatable installation adapted for the bike
format, and experiential artist Frankie Boyle(b. 1987, Kent) exhibits Biophilia, one of her iconic light-based sculptures, known for captivating public spaces.
“Art fairs and private events dominate London’s October art calendar, but we wanted to create something radically public,”
says Charlie Pannell, Director of ST.ART Gallery.
“DEFROST LONDON is about melting down rigidity and letting art spill into the everyday city. The
intervention is playful, democratic, sustainable and impossible to ignore.”
With DEFROST LONDON, ST.ART Gallery sets out to reimagine what a gallery can be moving beyond fixed spaces and exclusivity to create encounters that meet people in the rhythm of the city. The project is designed to be bold, surprising, and democratic, while giving early-stage artists the kind of visibility that can propel them onto larger platforms. At its core, the mission is to open things up, to keep the art world accessible and relevant, and to spark a movement of guerrilla gallery making, where the Gallery Bike can continue to live on through artist takeovers and future interventions across the city.
DEFROST LONDON by ST.ART Gallery, 15th to 19th October 2025
Contributors include Sanemi Shetty, gallery assistant at ST.ART Gallery who was integral to the execution of this project
Daily activations from late morning to late afternoon Key London sites including Regent’s Park Frieze Sculpture Park, Somerset House, Bond Street area, Buckingham Palace area, London Zoo approach, and Granary Square.
Calendar of activations: 15th October – Cem Hasimi x Baris Kareli – 5pm: Outside Frieze London (Pk Sq W, NW1 4LJ) during the VIP preview. 16th October – Frankie Boyle – 5pm: Outside Somerset House during the 1-54 opening period (Strand Aldwych Pedestrian Zone, WC2R 1ES). 17th October – Mason Newman – West End fashion corridor route focusing on Bond Street and adjacent streets 18th October – Pneuhaus – 1pm: Wellington Arch followed by a ceremonial stop outside Buckingham Palace 19th October – Tom Enoch – 1pm: Granary Square, King’s Cross- *Routes and timings may adjust due to permissions and weather, the bike will make several unlisted stop
