Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2023: 20th Anniversary Celebrations to See Ambitious Solos, Curated Presentations and Collaborations with Leading Galleriesand Institutions
– Frieze Masters to include strong presence of artists with major institutional exhibitions, including El Anatsui, Frans Hals and Ai Weiwei
– Second instalment of Frieze’s global collaboration with Getty PST ART to see kites by Candice Lin flown in The Regent’s Park
Richard Prince, Untitled (Original), 2007 Commissioned and produced by Frieze Foundation for Frieze Projects 2007 ©Frieze Art Fair 2007 ©Photo by Polly BradenCourtesy of Frieze.
Frieze London 20th anniversary and 11th edition of Frieze Masters highlights
London, UK. Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2023 take palce from 11th – 15th October 2023, in London’s The Regent’s Park, bringing together leading galleries spanning 46 countries. Extensive on-site and citywide programming will run alongside the fairs, in a celebration of London’s wider cultural community. Together, Frieze London and Frieze Masters are a cornerstone of the international art world calendar, serving as a global meeting point for art, ideas and people.
Giant hand axe, from Aisne, Northern France 700,000-300,000 years before present
©Courtesy of ArtAncient
Deutsche Bank continues its two decade-long global partnership with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, this year exhibiting a new presentation by artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA in their lounges at the fairs.
Eva Langret, Director of Frieze London, said:
‘This year we look forward to welcoming artists, galleries institutions, collectors and art enthusiasts from around the globe in celebration of our 20th anniversary.
We’re delighted to mark the occasion with the fair’s most international edition to date, with exhibitors spanning six continents. As the international art world descends on London, we look forward to seeing the spirit of collaboration ripple across the city and for everyone to see our cultural capital shine.’
Pages Of Light, Yoko Ono, 2008 Commissioned and produced by Frieze – Foundation for Frieze Projects 2008 ©Frieze Art Fair 2008 ©Photo by Dominick Tyler – Courtesy of Dominick Tyler/ Frieze
Nathan Clements-Gillespie, Director of Frieze Masters, added:
‘As we celebrate 20 years of Frieze London, we will also recognise the contribution Frieze Masters has made to that story. The fair will provide a chance to discover works from prehistory to the break of the 21st century, demonstrating connections in creative production throughout millennia. This year’s edition sees a high concentration of artists that also have exhibitions at esteemed London institutions, emphasising how Frieze Masters is a rare opportunity to engage with museum-quality works.’
Daniel Firman, Butterfly, 2007-2010, – Galerie Perrotin Frieze Art Fair 2010 in Regent’s Park, London ©Photo by Linda Nylind – Courtesy of Frieze
FRIEZE LONDON 20th ANNIVERSARY: LEADING INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES
The 2023 edition of Frieze London will feature a line-up of over 160 preeminent galleries — with 28 participants celebrating their 20th consecutive year at Frieze — who will present a diverse range of ambitious solo, group and thematic shows.
Highlights include:
– Blindspot Gallery’s presentation will include Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin; Angela Su and Trevor Yeung, Hong Kong representatives at the 59th and 60th Venice Biennales, respectively; and Xiyadie, the subject of a recent solo exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York
– Clearing presents a solo installation by Marguerite Humeau in continuity with her ambitious land art project in Colorado, Orisons (2023)
– Sadie Coles HQ presents a group presentation in celebration of the fair’s 20th anniversary, mirroring the gallery’s participation in the very first edition in 2003 with works by gallery artists who took part in that first year, including John Currin and Sarah Lucas
– Pilar Corrias presents a solo exhibition by Margate-based artist Sophie Von Hellerman, whose installation draws from the iconic funfair Dreamland, to challenge and reclaim pejorative clichés associated with femininity.
– Edel Assanti presents new works by artists including Julianknxx, whose immersive video will coincide with his Barbican Curve commission and inclusion in the Tate Modern exhibition, ‘A World in Common’
Van Hanos Beyeren’s Banquet,2023
Oil on linen 60”x 75”
© Van Hanos, ©Courtesy Lisson Gallery
– Experimenter presents a group exhibition featuring works by intergenerational women artists, including Bani Abidi, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Biraaj Dodiya, Reba Hore, Radhika Khimji, Afrah Shafiq and Ayesha Sultana, grounded in deep personal reference.
– Stephen Friedman Gallery brings a solo presentation by artist Leilah Babirye, including wooden and ceramic sculptures that explore community-building among queer Ugandans
– Hauser & Wirth showcases the work of boundary-breaking artist Barbara Chase-Riboud in a solo presentation featuring bronze sculptures from the Standing Black Woman of Venice series and recent works on paper in her signature automatic writing style.
– Taka Ishii Gallery’s dual presentation will unite Tomoo Gokita, whose paintings absorb influences from Symbolism to Simulationism, and Goro Kakei, whose sculptures demonstrate a unique ability to shape disobedient materials into lively animate subjects.
– Casey Kaplan’s solo booth presents wall-based and freestanding sculptures by American artist Kevin Beasley
– Lisson Gallery presents a new series of paintings by US-born artist Van Hanos, inspired by the artist’s recent months spent as a voyeur in a new city, Vienna.
– Timothy Taylor has invited Claire Gilman (Chief Curator, The Drawing Center, New York) to curate a solo booth by Eddie Martinez building on the artist’s 2017 exhibition at the Drawing Center, where he employed a ‘wallpaper’ backdrop, composed of thousands of drawings.
Daniel Richter (Not Yet Titled), 2023
Oil on canvas – 230 x 170 cm
©Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac ©Daniel Richter / VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2023 ©Photo: Eric Tschernow
FOCUS
Focus showcases presentations by galleries in operation for 12 years or less. This year sees the debut of Stone Island as the official partner, providing bursaries to further aid young galleries’ participation. The 2023 edition, with 34 galleries spanning 18 countries, is advised by Angelina Volk (Emalin, London), Piotr Drewko (Wschód, Warsaw) and Cédric Fauq (Chief Curator at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux).
Josèfa Ntjam – Hydrozoa Collectiva,2022–23 – Ceramic, rope, resin, metal, dimensions variable. Installation view: to “the fire next time”, Villa Arson, Nice, FR. ©Courtesy the artist and NıCOLETTı, London. ©Photo: JC Lett
Highlights include:
– Copperfield’s booth of paintings by Larry Achiampong will interrogate whitewashing and racial bias in computer game programming and imagery.
– Harlesden High Street presents The Junior Christian Teaching Bible Lesson Program, a dual project with Hamed Maiye and Mattia MacCarthy featuring a puppet performance.
– A shared booth from Heidi and Hot Wheels featuring a new film by Jordan Strafer combining excerpts from William Kennedy Smith’s rape trial transcript with dark fantastical love scenes, exposing themes of abuse of power, greed and corruption.
– HOA showcases works by Mariana Rocha whose practice interrogates the feminine body, alongside Laís Amaral, whose practice examines environmental collapse.
– Llano presents a solo by Débora Delmar that delves into themes of colonialism, the reproduction of images and the construction of national ideals through symbols and monuments.
– Nicoletti will exhibit new works by Josèfa Ntjam, including photomontages that conflate factual and fictional narratives of the Middle Passage, coinciding with a performance by the artist at Forma Arts Media during Frieze Week.
– PM8 / Franciso Salas presents delicate sculptures by Marija Olšauskaitė made of coloured glass, hung from the ceiling to emphasise the tension of their fragility.
– Public Gallery will show a solo booth by London-based artist Adam Farah-Saad, whose multimedia works serve as an ode to London and experiences related to cruising
Ayoung Kim – Delivery Dancer’s Sphere,2022- Single-channel video 25 minutes ©Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai
ARTIST-TO-ARTIST
An integral part of Frieze London’s 20th anniversary celebrations, Artist-to-Artist will see eight internationally acclaimed artists propose a solo exhibition of work by an emerging name. Artist-to-Artist will feature:
– Paintings by Margate-based Vanessa Raw that explore her evocative meditation on the feminine body as a landscape, curated by Tracey Emin (Carl Freedman Gallery).
– Video work by Ayoung Kim, examining the gig economy and exploring virtual memory and reality, nominated by Haegue Yang (Gallery Hyundai).
– A presentation of Fabian Knecht, proposed by Olafur Eliasson, featuring Laughing is Suspicious, an installation consisting of clothing fragments originally used as camouflage to protect Russian targets in Ukraine (alexander levy).
– Large-scale collage prints by Simonette Quamina that examine migration patterns, displacement and labour, proposed by Alvaro Barrington (Praxis).
– Carlos Villa’s 1980s body-print series, which lays radical claim to a cross-cultural identity and challenges colonial perspectives, proposed by Anthea Hamilton (Silverlens).
– New paintings by Deborah Anzinger, made using pigments ground from local cookshop charcoal, exposing the different economies attached to this fuel, nominated by Simone Leigh
(Nicola Vassell Gallery).
– Proposed by Rirkrit Tiravanija, a show by Wantanee Siripattananuntakul featuring a video and installation-centred collaboration with an African grey parrot named Beuys (Gallery Ver)
– New sculptures and silver gelatin prints by Mark Barker, nominated by Wolfgang Tillmans, that investigate how corporeal processes manifest in architecture (Shahin Zarinbal).
Canaletto – Westminster Bridge from the North with the Lord Mayor’s Procession – Oil on canvas47 x 77 cm ©Courtesy of Charles Beddington Ltd
FRIEZE MASTERS: CURATED SELECTIONS SPANNING ART HISTORY
Frieze Masters presents an opportunity to discover and explore historic artworks, with over 130 galleries presenting works ranging from the palaeolithic era to the 20th century.
Highlights include:
– Salomon Lilian brings Portrait of a 50 Year Old Man, signed and dated 1635, by Frans Hals. The painting has not been displayed publicly in 112 years and will be on view at the same time as the Dutch artist’s survey at London’s National Gallery.
– ArtAncient presents a selection of European Stone Age axes from the Lower and Middle palaeolithic eras, the earliest periods of human history.
– Charles Beddington Gallery and Artur Ramon Art join forces with a booth showcasing works by Pablo Picasso, Canaletto, Eppo Doeve and more.
– A shared presentation from Galerie Eric Coatalem, which showcases French Masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, and Galerie G. Sarti, which will present works by Italian artists including Simone dei Crocifissi, Biagio d’Antonio and Giulio Cesare Procaccini
GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI (Bologna 1574 -Milan 1625)
The Holy Family with the young John the Baptist and an Angelcirca 1620/1625 – Oil on panel61 x 503⁄8 in (155 x 128 cm)
©Courtesy of Galerie G. Sarti
– Galleria Continua will show works by Ai Weiwei, created between the years 1983 to 1999 and including some of his most iconic works, including Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn and June, 1994.
– D’Lan Contemporary presents several critically acclaimed paintings by Emily Kam Kngwarray, marking the first solo show by an Australian First Nations artist at Frieze Masters.
– Gomide & Co will show a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Brazilian artist Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, who developed simple motifs over a life spanning nearly the full 20th century.
– Philip Mould & Company showcases 500 years of British art, featuring Rosalba Carriera, Boris Vasilyevich Anrep, Simon Verelst, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
– Jack Shainman presents a solo booth by El Anatsui, coinciding with the artist’s Tate Turbine Hall Commission, and featuring works created over the past thirty years.
– Rafaels Valls’ curated selection of Old Master paintings will include A View of the Thames at Westminster on Lord Mayor’s Day by Thomas Wyck
Arlene Shechet – Together Again: Early Spring,2023
Glazed ceramic and powder coated steel – 22.5 x 14 x 13 in
©Arlene Shechet, courtesy Pace Gallery
STUDIO
New for 2023, Studio is a themed section that draws on the creative spirit tied to places of making. Curated by Sheena Wagstaff (Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York to 2022).
Studio highlights include:
– Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Sadie Coles HQ presents a selection of works by Brazilian artist Lucia Laguna inspired by the suburban carioca views from her studio in São Francisco Xavier
– In affiliation with Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Frankie Rossi Art Projects will exhibit Maggi Hambling’s new series of paintings, Maelstrom. These works mark Hambling’s return to the studio following a near-fatal heart attack last year.
– Pace Gallery’s solo show by Arlene Shechet will be the artist’s first major presentation in the UK, bringing together her Together and Once Removed series. In collaboration with Sam Fogg, the booth will also display the medieval illuminated manuscript, Book of Hours, which conceptually and visually inspired the artist’s practice.
– Sprüth Magers will present a solo retrospective by Hyun-Sook Song, with a selection of works spanning the artist’s career
– White Cube will unite historic and recent work by Mona Hatoum, ranging from rarely exhibited reference material to sculptures that manifest elements including the web and the body.
Faith Ringgold
Early Works #18: Two Guys Talking,1964
Oil on canvas glued onto board 20 1/8 x 16 in. (51.12 x 40.64 cm)
©Courtesy of the artist and ACA Galleries
MODERN WOMEN
This year also marks the introduction of Modern Women, a section dedicated to solo presentations by women artists, steered by Camille Morineau (Co-founder, AWARE) and AWARE (Archive of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions).
Highlights include:
– Works from the 1960s and 70s by Faith Ringgold, demonstrating the artist’s profound commitment to social justice and equity through a variety of media (ACA Galleries).
– A selection of works on paper by pioneering Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Amaral, dating from 1924 to 1956, representing the poetic maturation of her art practice (Almeida & Dale).
– A solo presentation by Korean artist Kangja Jung, who placed women’s bodies at the centre of her work to satirize traditional gender ideologies during the 1960s and 1970s (Arario Gallery).
– A solo show of Anna-Eva Bergman, presented with the support of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation, on view concurrently with her retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Musée d’Art
Moderne (Perrotin).
– Computer-generated graphic drawings created through algorithmic chance by Vera Molnár, who was invited to participate at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 (Vintage Galeria).
Mehdi Moutashar – Parallèles, 1968
Acrylic on wood – 62 x 82 cm
©Courtesy Lawrie Shabibi and the artist
SPOTLIGHT
Frieze Masters’ celebrated Spotlight section, curated for the first time by Valerie Cassel Oliver (Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), returns with solo presentations of influential 20th century artists. This year, Spotlight will centre overlooked works dating from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Highlights include:
– Cecilia Brunson Projects will exhibit works by Judith Lauand. Renowned as the ‘First Lady of Concretism’, Laund was the sole female member of Grupo Ruptura, the avant-garde pioneers of abstraction in Brazil.
– Berry Campbell showcases six paintings by Abstract Expressionist Ethel Schwabacher from 1945–59, created during the peak of the movement and the artist’s underappreciated career.
– Susan Inglett Gallery will recreate elements of Maren Hassinger’s 1981 LACMA installation, On Dangerous Ground, which marked the historic moment that the museum presented its first solo presentation of a Black artist.
• Kisterem presents a solo exhibition of abstract reliefs by Anna Mark, focusing on a key decade in Mark’s career, the 1970s.
• Sicardi Ayers Bacino presents a solo booth of works by Venezuelan artist Elsa Gramcko, the artist’s first presentation in the UK, featuring her early experiments from the 1960s
Krishna, Radha and Yamunaji Dance in the Lotus Ponds of the Yamuna Kota or Nathdwara, Rajasthan, India, circa 1840
Pigments on cotton heightened with silver and gold – 215 x 225 cm
©Courtesy of Prahlad Bubbar
STAND OUT
Luke Syson (Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) returns to for the third consecutive year to curate Stand Out, a section devoted to challenging traditional hierarchies of media, which are largely obsolete in contemporary art. This year, Stand Out explores the potency and manifold uses of colour, with highlights including:
– An exhibition of artworks spanning 1600 to 1800, contextualised alongside Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual work Réalisation (1967) to highlight their contemporary relevance (Prahlad Bubbar).
– Objects illustrating various aspects of colour in ancient China, ranging from neolithic ceramics to archaic bronzes and a Sui Dynasty polychrome stone sculpture (Gisèle Croës).
– The Baird Casket, which belongs to a rare group of ivory caskets with secular themes created in the 14th century during the height of French Gothic miniature carving (Sam Fogg).
– A solo display featuring the works of Elizabeth Fritsch CBE, widely celebrated for her innovative approach to ceramics, which pushed the boundaries of colour juxtaposition (Adrian Sassoon).
– French textile artist Simone Prouvé’s intricate hangings in conversation with British master weaver Peter Collingwood’s Macrogauze and Anglefell series, celebrating technical and innovative approaches to hand weaving (Rose Uniacke).
Shahryar Nashat, Quad Commissioned and produced by Frieze Foundation for Frieze Projects 2010 ©Frieze Art Fair 2010 ©Photo by Polly BradenCourtesy of Frieze
FURTHER PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS AT FRIEZE LONDON AND FRIEZE MASTERS 2023
Frieze Masters Talks in collaboration with dunhill Dr. Nicholas Cullinan (Director, National Portrait Gallery) returns to steer the much-celebrated Frieze Masters Talks. This year’s programme, taking place in dunhill’s design-led space at the fair, sees acclaimed international artists paired with leading industry figures for a series of illuminating discussions exploring connections between historical art and contemporary practice.
The line-up includes:
– Thomas J. Price in conversation with Gus Casely-Hayford (Director, V&A East) on Wednesday, 11th October, 3pm.
– Arlene Shechet in conversation with Sheena Wagstaff (Leonard A Lauder Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art, The MET until 2022) on Thursday 12th October at 12pm
– Rachel Whiteread in conversation with Briony Fer (art historian) on Thursday 12th October at 3pm
– Maggi Hambling, Sarah Lucas and Louisa Buck (journalist) in conversation on Friday 13th October at 3pm
– Mandy El Sayegh, Flavia Frigeri and Valerie Cassel Oliver (Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) in conversation on Saturday 14th October at 3pm
Candice Lin to Present a New Commission in Collaboration with Getty’s PST ART
Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Candice Lin will present a new work as part of the second instalment of the collaboration between Frieze and Getty’s PST ART initiative. Employing traditional indigo-dying techniques, the commission will take the form of large-scale kites, drawing on Asian traditions, which will be displayed at the fair and flown by performers in The Regent’s Park. Lin’s research on the practice of castration in human culture is echoed by the negative spaces created by the distinctive central holes of traditional Korean fighter kites.
The kites’ surface decoration will feature mythological and animal imagery while referencing 19th-century representations of eunuchs at the imperial Chinese court. Rethinking these histories from an inter-species perspective, Lin’s use of kites as a medium – the first time the artist has done so – also engages the long enmeshment of art and science, reminiscent of historical explorations of aerial devices. A public kite workshop co-taught with Yaeun Choi will invite visitors to create and fly their own kites during the fair. Lin will be featured in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ PST ART exhibition ‘Scientia Sexualis,’ opening Fall 2024 in Los Angeles.
Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005
Sculpture Park, Frieze Art Fair 2007
©Photo by Linda Nylind ©Courtesy of Frieze
Frieze Music featuring Loyle Carner, with invitations via Instagram giveaway. Another highlight of this year’s programme is Frieze Music, presented in collaboration with BMW. The live performance by Mercury Prize-nominated British rapper Loyle Carner will take place at KOKO on Thursday, 12th October, with invitations distributed via a giveaway on the Frieze Instagram on 5th October. Frieze Music provides a leading platform for exploring the intersection of music and the arts, with iterations across all four of Frieze’s host cities — London, New York, Los Angeles and Seoul. Frieze x ICA Artists’ Film Programme.
Frida Orupabo
Installation image ‘Fear of Fear’ at Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, May 12 –June 17, 2023
©Photo credit: Ramiro Chávez ©The ArtistCourtesy: The Artist and Galerie NordenhakeBerlin/Stockholm/Mexico City
Making its debut in 2023 is the Frieze x ICA Artists’ Film Programme, launching on Monday 9th October to centre new voices. The featured films were selected from an open call to all participating galleries in Frieze London and will be shown at the ICA throughout Frieze Week. The programme will display artists including Elisa Giardina Papa, Noemie Goudal, Kiluanji Kia Henda, donna Kukama, Sarah Meyohas, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Sin Wai Kin, Jordan Strafer, Lewis Teague Wright and Alberta Whittle, juried by leading curators who specialise in the moving image including Steven Cairns (ICA Curator, Artists’ Film & Moving Image); Róisín Tapponi (Founder, CEO and Head of Programmes, Shasha Movies); and Greg de Cuir Jr. (Co founder and Artistic Director of the Kinopravda Institute in Belgrade).
Channelling, A Project by Outset Contemporary Art Fund To celebrate the 20th anniversaries of both Outset Contemporary Art Fund and Frieze London, the recipients of the Outset Studiomakers Prize will transform the fair’s entrance corridor. Within this passageway, Channelling will invite visitors to immerse themselves in the symbolic threshold through artworks exploring wide array of materials and disciplines, created by over a dozen artists including Mark Corfield-Moore, Andrew Pierre Hart and Céline Manz. Steered by Annie Jael Kwan (independent curator), in collaboration with Outset Studiomakers Prize recipients from 2017 to the present, the corridor will additionally feature an immersive looping audioscape composed of the voices of Studiomakers artists.
Paola Pivi, Untitled (slope), 2003
Frieze Projects 2003
©Courtesy of Frieze
Tours
At Frieze London this year, QUEERCIRCLE will lead tours for the first time, highlighting the exhibiting LGBTQ+ artists and participating galleries, through the eyes of Founder and Director Ashley Joiner.
Guided tours are available throughout the fairs’ run, with bookings available online and at the tour desks onsite. For enquiries, contact tours@frieze.com.
Food and Drink
Frieze London and Frieze Masters will host pop-ups from a selection of the city’s most beloved restaurants and bars including Jikoni, Petersham Nurseries, Rita’s, BAO, Yalumba Wine Bar and Company Drinks. Making their debut at Frieze London will be Parisian brasserie Maison François and sustainable eatery Fallow, alongside matcha bar SAYURI. At Frieze Masters, Dumplings’ Legend joins for the first-time, alongside returning restaurants Ham Yard Bar & Restaurant and Spring x Heckfield Place. Gail’s Bakery will have cafes at both fairs.
Frieze Viewing Room
A dedicated online Frieze Viewing Room opens on 4th October before the fair, offering audiences a first look at exhibitor presentations and the opportunity to engage with the fair remotely.
Frieze Art Fair 2008
©Photo by Lyndon Douglas ©Courtesy of Lyndon Douglas/Frieze
