A Collective Sleep Experiment for Frieze Week 2025

London, 2025: This Frieze Week, Bompas & Parr and The Groucho Club will transform the act of sleep into a shared cultural experience. Dreaming Together invites guests to drift between wakefulness and imagination, journeying through the dreams of six contemporary artists: Larry Achiampong, Jamiu Agboke, Danny Fox, Tai Shani, Gavin Turk and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.

Hosted within one of The Groucho Club’s seventeen bedrooms, The Nap Room will become a portal into the subconscious. Guests will book an hour-long sleep session, selecting from a “dream menu” of artists whose inner worlds they wish to explore. Each session will be guided by an immersive soundscape by felix taylor, powered by Cambridge Audio’s EvoOne, and framed by the specially conceived Dream Serum ritual, a multisensory preparation designed to ease participants into a collective state of dreaming.

Supported by leading neuroscientists Professor Daniel C. Richardson and Professor Joseph T. Devlin (UCL), the project sits at the intersection of art, science and experience design, investigating how imagination, storytelling and memory weave through our sleeping minds.

The project will launch with an exclusive Frieze Week party on Wednesday 15 October, featuring a DJ set by participating artist Gavin Turk, before opening for public Nap Room sessions (16–19 October).

To visit The Nap Room please register here.

To inquire about attending the launch please email sophiao@bompasandparr.com.