Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2024: The Global Art Community Convenes in London

Frieze today revealed the highlight gallery presentations for the highly anticipated 22nd edition of Frieze London and 12th edition of Frieze Masters, set to return to The Regent’s Park from 9 – 13 October, 2024. Bringing together over 270 galleries spanning 47 countries, the two fairs will serve as a nexus for art, ideas and people, presenting a comprehensive survey of contemporary practice alongside millennia of art history.

Deutsche Bank’s global partnership with Frieze London and Frieze Masters is now in its 22nd year, and for 2024 will exhibit a new presentation by British artist Rene Matić in the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge.

Eva Langret (Director, Frieze London) said: ‘We are delighted to welcome more than 160 galleries to Frieze London this year, including new names from Senegal, Georgia, China and Korea. The redesigned geography of our space reflects the diversity of participating galleries, from the new and radical to the most established names, emphasising the connections between these different perspectives and Frieze’s role in fostering creative dialogues.’

‘Frieze Masters is a celebration of artistic innovation and human creativity across history. Once again, we will offer visitors a rare opportunity to explore the connections between the past and present through exceptional works of art. This year’s fair embraces a truly global perspective, inviting audiences to engage with a rich diversity of ideas, art and craftsmanship in an intimate, accessible setting,’ added Nathan Clements-Gillespie (Director, Frieze Masters).

FRIEZE LONDON: A SHOWCASE OF LEADING GALLERIES

Frieze’s flagship event brings together over 160 leading galleries presenting a dynamic mix of artists, from emerging talents to some of the industry’s most lauded names. Together, the exhibiting galleries highlight the breadth and energy of contemporary artmaking, offering a comprehensive view of today’s vibrant cultural landscape.

This year, Frieze London sees a series of notable solo presentations:

• 47 Canal will showcase new work by Danielle Dean, based around the artist’s hometown of Hemel Hempstead. An interactive booth, staged as a blend of an antiques store and a mid-century show home, will feature dozens of new, unframed watercolours
• Lisson Gallery will present a solo booth featuring the work of Leiko Ikemura, the artist’s first showing with the gallery
• Gagosian will unveil a solo show of new large-scale works by Carol Bove, featuring a ‘forest’ of nine abstract sculptures, each around ten feet tall. The pieces are constructed from the artist’s signature square-profile stainless-steel tubes painted in yellow and lavender
• Hauser & Wirth will debut new works from Charles Gaines, part of his acclaimed ‘Shadows’ series consisting of photographs, ink drawings and watercolours
• Johyun Gallery will feature a solo show of major Korean artist Lee Bae, featuring his signature monochromatic charcoal work plus bronze sculpture and watercolour
• Lehmann Maupin will offer a focused selection of new paintings by British artist Billy Childish who will be present at the booth during the fair, painting on site and discussing his practice

Alongside these, further highlights include:

• Proyetos Ultravioleta will feature a transgenerational two-person presentation of historical miniature paintings by Rosa Elena Curruchich – recently seen at the Venice Biennale – alongside new paintings by Edgar Calel
• Galerie Tanja Wagner’s presentation will include new sculptures which manipulate natural elements into political materials by Kipwani Kiwanga, who represents Canada in Venice this year, among others
• David Zwirner’s booth will feature new, large-scale paintings by Rose Wylie, celebrating the artist’s 90th birthday
• Sullivan+Strumpf will display works by three Australian artists including Naminapu Maymuru-White, one of the first Yolŋu women to be taught to paint miny’tji (sacred designs) that capture the Milky Way
• Edel Assanti presents an immersive film installation, where visitors enter a 4 x 4 sauna structure to see Jenkin van Zyl’s new film, shot in Victoria Baths, Manchester

Focus

The redesign of Frieze London will relocate the Focus section for emerging galleries to a position at the heart of the fair. This year, 34 exhibitors, representing 21 countries, will present solo or two-person shows. Highlights of the section, this year advised by Angelina Volk (Emalin, London), Piotr Drewko (Wschód, Warsaw) and Cédric Fauq (Chief Curator at CAPC Musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux), include:

• Dean Sameshima (Soft Opening): Will show paintings from the ‘Numbers’ series, recreating 1970s erotic connect-the-dots puzzles
• Eva Gold (Rose Easton): Will feature a cinematic living room installation exploring voyeurism through the absence of the (implied male) observer
• Divine Southgate-Smith (Nicoletti): Will present a solo exhibition featuring sculpture, collage, and 3D animation, drawing from Black queer experiences
• Hamedine Kane (Selebe Yoon): Will show an installation and etchings centred on Black American writers exiled in Paris, such as James Baldwin and Langston Hughes
• CFGNY (Hot Wheels): Will present a porcelain architectural models playing with American colonial-era designs and Chinese craft influences
• Tania Ximena (Llano): Will show large-scale, freestanding sculptural paintings
• Benedikte Bjerre (palace enterprise): Will feature an installation featuring 125 walking penguin balloons
• Charlotte Edey (Ginny on Frederick): Will display a site-specific installation with hanging tapestries and stained glass windows
• Hannah Morgan (Xxijra Hii, making its Focus debut): Will present hand-carved alabaster sculptures alongside bent-steel frames, clay vessels, hanging lenses and pewter debris

Focus is presented in partnership globally by Stone Island, who provide bursaries that help young galleries participate in the fair. The brand expands its support of young talent by creating staff shirts inspired by a work on view in Focus, made by a local artist. For Frieze London 2024, the shirts will feature Nat Faulkner’s 2024 chromogenic print Artificial Sun, showing with Brunette Coleman.

Artist-to-Artist

Following the success of its inaugural iteration in 2023, Artist-to-Artist returns with six world-renowned artists selecting solo presentations by new voices:

• New York-based artist Rob Davis, nominated by Rashid Johnson, presents oil on linen paintings which take 1970s and ‘80s American domestic interiors and objects as their subject (Broadway)
• Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom has been proposed by Glenn Ligon; his installation, centred around a drum kit, will host live performances by the artist (Champ Lacombe)
• Massinissa Selmani’s practice includes drawings, sculptures and animated films. Nominated by Zineb Sedira, who highlights his ability to explore social and political issues in his ‘minimal, quiet, poetical’ work. (Selma Feriani Gallery)
• Nominated by Yinka Shonibare, rising star Nengi Omuku presents three new large-scale landscape paintings on sanyan – a handspun Yoruba fabric that has shaped the cultural history of Nigeria (Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Kasmin Gallery)
• Peter Uka, proposed by Hurvin Anderson, presents a collection of his rich, joyful figurative paintings drawing from his childhood memories of Nigeria in the 1970s (Mariane Ibrahim)
• Nominated by Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska’s immersive installation includes paintings, silkscreen-printed wallpaper and piccolo projections that investigate a personal relationship to place (Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix)

Smoke

Organised by Pablo José Ramírez (Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles), the new themed section at Frieze London 2024 will present ceramic works that explore diasporic and indigenous histories. Smoke brings together international artists at the forefront of the medium today – whose practices mine pre-colonial traditions to use clay in expanded forms – presenting ceramics as one of the most impactful media in contemporary art. Select highlights include:

• Ayla Tavares’s expansive site-specific commission that brings together new and existing work, casting ceramics as a living medium engaged in a continuous exchange with its environment (Galeria Athena and Hatch)
• Tz’utujil Maya artist Manuel Chavajay will show new ceramic pots and engine-oil paintings which connect heritage with contemporary environmental concerns, urging a deeper understanding of cultural memory and ancestral wisdom (Pedro Cera)
• Indigenous Mexican artist Noé Martínez will show his suspended sgraffito ceramics and paintings rooted in his research into ancestral texts, oral narratives and visual histories. (Patron)
• A cross-generation exhibition of new adobe and soot-based works by Christine Howard Sandoval in conjunction with select mixed-media sculptures by Linda Vallejo from the 1980s and early ‘90s, reflecting on cultural memory and contested places. (parrasch heijnen)

FRIEZE MASTERS: FACE TO FACE WITH MILLENNIA OF ART HISTORY

Frieze Masters 2024 brings together over 130 galleries spanning 26 countries. Presenting works from the Palaeolithic to Modern eras, Frieze Masters is an opportunity for visitors to draw artistic connections between a remarkable collection of objects from different times and places. From ancient art through to 20th century icons, highlights include:

• Édouard Manet’s Pelouse du champ de courses à Longchamp (1865) at Hauser & Wirth, a rare example of his racecourse pictures, completed the same year as the provocative exhibition of Olympia (1863), cementing his prominence as a key Parisian art world figure
• Jack Shainman Gallery’s solo presentation of Barkley L. Hendricks, pioneer of Black cool in American figurative painting, including early basketball-themed paintings, intimate landscape paintings created in Jamaica and self-portrait photography
• Les Nabis at Waddington Custot: a fresh, timely reappraisal of the Parisian painters, featuring rare works by key Nabis artists Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard
• Galleria Continua’s captivating and comprehensive journey through Julio Le Parc‘s convention-crushing 70-year career, from early geometric abstractions to kinetic sculptures
• Ettore Spalletti and Mimmo Jodice, two Italian masters of light, in a dialogue between painting and photography, with Vistamare
• Celebrating 100 years of Surrealism, Gallery Wendi Norris will present major landscape works from an international group including Leonora Carrington, Wolfgang Paalen, Marcel Jean, Bridget Tichenor, Alice Rahon, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo
• Gisèle Croës s.a. will bring an ensemble of early Qing dynasty masterpieces, including a remarkable set of seven wallpaper panels dating from the late 18th through early 19th century, made in China exclusively for export to Europe, alongside a range of exceptional objects reflecting the richness and diversity of Chinese culture.

Through-lines among the presentations at Frieze Masters include:

• A destination for significant Old Masters; with Southern European paintings on view from Wildenstein & Co., Didier Aaron, and Charles Beddington / Artur Ramon and Colnaghi and Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings at Johnny Van Haeften, Salomon Lilian, Koetser Gallery, and Bijl-Van Urk Masterpaintings
• Tracing the history of European design with presentations from Galerie Léage (18th century furniture and objets d’art), Koopman Rare Art (silver and silver-gilt practice between France and England in the early 19th century), Ronald Phillips (18th century English lacquerware), James Graham-Stewart (18th century decorative arts influenced by ancient Roman mosaics), Raccanello & Leprince and Imperial Art (grotesque decoration from the Italian Renaissance) and Trias Art Experts (Meissen masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries)
• A platform for significant indigenous artists from different continents: one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed artists, Paddy Bedford (D’Lan Contemporary), and Chico da Silva (Galatea), a Brazilian self-taught artist of indigenous descent
• A new look at Indian modernism: DAG celebrates India’s tryst with Cubism, showing assimilative and experimental work by G. R. Santosh, Rabin Mondal and Ramkinkar Baij, and Grosvenor Gallery and Rossi & Rossi explore the 1950s Paris period of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, featuring Sayed Haider Raza, Francis Newton Souza, Syed Sadequain and Akbar Padamsee
• Fresh from a successful Frieze Seoul, Frieze Masters welcomes Korean exhibitors Hakgojae Gallery, Johyun Gallery, PKM Gallery, Gana Art and Arario Gallery, who will bring a range of significant Korean artists including Lee Bae and Youngsook Park

Studio

Curated by Sheena Wagstaff, Studio has been expanded in its second year as a new kind of display space for thinking historically in the present. It is in the studio where the creative connection between present and past is at its highest pitch, when the spark of invention becomes manifest as an object in the world. Each of the ten Studio booths combine early with recent artworks, plus a small accretion of time-worn things from the artist’s inner sanctum, offering a fascinating glimpse into their creative process.

• Celebrated nonagenarian Isabella Ducrot (b. 1931, Italy) incorporates rare textiles and papers into her work. From intimate drawings to large-scale wall hangings, her work reflects a material and philosophical interest in the repetition of motifs. (Galerie Gisela Capitain, Sadie Coles HQ and Standard (Oslo))
• Employing carefully researched traditional techniques in her paintings on paper, Nilima Sheikh’s (b.1945, India) work gives new meaning to the term ‘pastoral’ by activating the poetic beauty of the landscape to communicate the urgent political circumstances of our time. (Chemould Prescott Road)
• Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926, USA) creates hand-carved sculptures from repurposed logs and leftover timber. Mosley’s ‘sculptural improvisations’ are indebted to modernist traditions of jazz, the sculptural work of the Dogon and Yoruba people, Constantin Brâncuși and Isamu Noguchi. (Karma)
• A cornerstone of the Memphis Group, Nathalie Du Pasquier (b.1957, USA) devoted herself to painting after the group disbanded in 1987. This presentation combines early still lifes from the 90s with more recent and increasingly abstract work. (Pace Gallery)
• Kim Yun Shin (b. 1935, Korea, now North Korea) creates wooden, at times painted, chainsaw-carved sculptures and vibrant paintings. Her work follows principles of addition and reduction drawn from Yinyang philosophy. (Lehmann Maupin)

Spotlight

Steered for the second year by Valerie Cassel Oliver (Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), Spotlight features both overlooked artists and lesser-known works from the 20th century. The section features solo presentations, among which:

• Ab-Anbar will present pioneering Turkish artist Nil Yalter’s Le Chevalier d’Eon (1978), an expanded portrait of a transgender individual using video, polaroids, prints and acrylic paintings
• Jhaveri Contemporary: Early works by self-taught painter Balraj Khanna, from his post-1965 England arrival period, coinciding with a display of his work at Tate Britain. • Alison Jacques will feature historic works by Guyanese painter, sculptor and ceramicist Donald Locke, exploring the carceral logic of the plantation and the racialised ideologies of the transatlantic ahead of a major survey at Spike Island
• kó will show a career-spanning survey of painter Jimo Akolo, a pioneer of Nigerian Modern art and key member of the Zaria Art Society, a group of art students who rejected Western frameworks in favour of indigenous artistic styles and narratives.
• From 10 A.M. Art, a show by Lucia Di Luciano, a leading female artist in the field of Italian programmed art, who emulates the strategies of technology without employing it directly
• Lawrie Shabibi will showcase three monumental panels by Lebanese painter Nabil Nahas, made in 1973 whilst Nahas was an MFA student at Yale, and subsequently loaned to the university’s chemistry department
• Gavlak presents early drawings, paintings, and sculptures from Judy Chicago – following exhibitions at the New Museum and the Serpentine – showcasing her exploration of colour and emotion through geometric form.

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS AT FRIEZE LONDON AND FRIEZE MASTERS 2024

Frieze Film x ICA Artists’ Film Programme

Frieze London will partner with the Institute of Contemporary Arts to curate a selection of film screenings throughout Frieze Week, shown at the ICA and online. Showcasing films from seven galleries with a focus on early-career and under-exposed artists, the programme is selected by a jury including Steven Cairns (Head of Artistic Programme at the ICA), Myriam Mouflih (Curator, Writer and Programmer at Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival) and Guilherme Blanc (Artistic Director of Batalha Centro de Cinema and curator of independent cinema and moving image) for its second edition.

Frieze Masters Talks in collaboration with dunhill

The annual Frieze Masters Talks has been conceived by Shanay Jhaveri and Sheena Wagstaff as a series of conversations entitled ‘The Creative Mind’. Bringing together an intergenerational group of speakers from different cultural contexts, including artists, architects, writers, museum directors, curators and politicians, the conversations explore creative connections across millennia, deliberate on the changing nature of creative production and artistic diversity in the 21st century, and the broad potential for shared sensibilities.

• Wednesday, 9 October at 4 pm – Glenn Ligon, Zoé Whitley & Dia Al-Azzawi – Pictorial Language + Poetic Translations: Witnessing how the word can transform the work
• Thursday, 10 October at 12 pm – Sir Christopher Bryant, Jeremy Deller & Victoria Siddall – Good Governance: Considering what we can truly ‘save for the nation’
• Thursday, 10 October at 12 pm – Barbara Walker, Ming Smith & Lou Stoppard – The Faces of Community: Inviting new ways to understand portraiture
• Friday, 11 October at 12 pm – Nairy Baghramian, Glenn Lowry & Julian Rose – Spatial Intelligence: Considering the people and politics of cultural space
• Friday, 11 October at 4 pm – Gabriele Finaldi & others – The Power of Painting: Celebrating and subverting the traditions of painting
• Saturday, 12 October at 12 pm – Abraham Thomas, Nathalie du Pasquier & Annabelle Selldorf – Plastic Power: Shaping space between art and design

Produced in collaboration with dunhill, the programme will launch with a conversation between Mark Leckey, Jenny Waldman and Polly Staple at dunhill’s Bourdon House on Thursday 3rd October, discussing The State We’re In: Reflecting on British culture today and its legacies, followed by six further talks which will take place in the dunhill x Frieze Masters Talks auditorium at the fair. The conversations will be recorded as a podcast and made available on frieze.com and dunhill.com, as well as platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship

The partner for the 2024 Emerging Curators Fellowship is Birmingham-based public institution Ikon Gallery, which today announces Amrit Sanghera as the recipient of the fellowship. The Whitworth, The University of Manchester – the partner for the prior iteration, partially supported by the sale of an edition by renowned artist Ibrahim Mahama – also announces Sophia Harari as the 2023 recipient. Harari, who began their position in August, focuses on the institution’s recently acquired archive of African Wax textiles, prints and designs.

Launched in 2020, this initiative is part of Frieze and Deutsche Bank’s commitment to amplifying diverse voices in the art world by supporting emerging Black and POC curators through 12-month, full-time, paid fellowships within leading arts organisations.

This year’s edition of Frieze London will feature a research-based activation by Ben Swaby Selig, 2022 Curatorial Fellow with V&A East, drawing upon Jamaican sonic cultures and archival recordings from East London and Jamaica to explore notions of collective memory. In collaboration with filmmaker Hannah Oliver, multiple sound stations placed throughout the fair will encourage playful migration and active listening, lifting intricate local histories from an area that has experienced rapid gentrification since its redevelopment into the Olympic Park. The activation at Frieze will mark the first iteration of Selig’s Sound Clash, one of the events forming part of V&A East’s live back2back live programming strand prior to its opening in 2025.

FOOD & DRINK

Frieze London and Frieze Masters will host pop-ups from a selection of the city’s most beloved restaurants and bars, including BAO, Company Drinks, Jikoni, Maison François, Rita’s, Sayuri and Yalumba Wine Bar. Restaurant, bar and art and performance space Sessions Arts Club will make its debut at Frieze London. At Frieze Masters, Nobu joins for the first time, alongside returning restaurants Dumplings’ Legend and Ham Yard Bar & Restaurant. Gail’s Bakery will have cafes at both fairs.

PARTNER COLLABORATIONS

Frieze London and Frieze Masters will see the return of internationally recognised partners, as well as new relationships, who will present special projects at the fair and throughout Frieze Week.

Deutsche Bank will showcase the work of London-based, multidisciplinary artist Rene Matić at Frieze London, highlighting its commitment to cutting edge art. The selection of their work featured in the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge, inspired by the artist’s close connection to dance and cultural musical movements, will include lightboxes and photographic artworks, wallpaper installations, an out-sized mirror ball, as well as music that has inspired them.

The 2024-25 partnership between Breguet and Frieze sees a series of projects exploring evolutionary change by independent curator, Jenn Ellis. Presented at Frieze London is ‘River of Stars’, a monumental new multi-panel bark work and installation by Naminapu Maymuru-White of the Maŋgalili clan who is based in Yirrkala, North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Exploring connection, family and the spiritual life that infinitely binds us all, she uses the miny’tji or sacred clan design for the sandscapes of Djarrakpi where she was born, to evoke the soul’s journey from life to death to rest to rebirth as conducted through water. The project is intricately connected to Breguet’s emphasis on storytelling and the celestial, with global artistic dialogue activating Breguet’s watchmaking history.

Maison Ruinart will unveil its Carte Blanche 2024 at Frieze London, titled ‘Conversations with Nature,’ by Marcus Coates, who creates new relationships with a ‘more than human’ world, and Henrique Oliveira, with his spectacular sculptures using organic elements. Bringing artists with strong convictions into conversation with the living world, the Maison responds ambitiously to climate upheaval. The works will be unveiled throughout the year before entering into permanent display at Ruinart’s emblematic address, 4 rue des Crayères, Reims.

For Frieze London, BMW highlights the work of South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who became the first African and the first woman to paint a BMW Art Car in 1991. The brand’s lounge at the fair will showcase a curated selection from the private collection of actor and Talk Art podcast co-host Russell Tovey, with pieces selected in response to Mahlangu’s work. This presentation coincides with the unveiling of Mahlangu’s new mural, Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (“I am because you are”), at Serpentine.

George, a Private Members’ Club renowned for blending art, culture, and exceptional dining, will present its first external pop-up at Frieze London 2024. Celebrated for its elegant Mayfair setting, the pop-up will present a selection of its Mediterranean-inspired menu and signature cocktails, all within a refined and sophisticated oasis for fair visitors to enjoy. Designed to reflect the essence of George, the space will also showcase elements reminiscent of its original club, including works by British artist David Hockney.

illycaffè will present the latest illy Art Collection, which highlights the importance of human rights through the stories of four contemporary artists: Simone Fattal, from Syria; Shirin Neshat, from Iran; Monica Bonvicini, from Italy; and Binta Diaw, a Milanese artist of Senegalese origin. Each artist has used the illy cup as a canvas to reflect on pressing cultural, environmental, and social issues, sharing their experiences as women from diverse geographical and social backgrounds.

Frieze Week partners include The Dalmore, supporting West End Gallery Night, and Sloane Street, which will host a specially programmed talk during Frieze Week.

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