Frieze New York
Press Release
April 5, 2017
Frieze Announces Programs and
Highlights for Frieze New York 2017
Taking place on Randall’s Island Park May 5 – 7, the sixth edition to
feature ambitious presentations from top international contemporary
and 20th century art galleries, curated sections showcasing emerging
artists, site-specific artist commissions and talks series
The sixth edition of Frieze New York brings together more than 200 leading
galleries from 31 countries, showcasing ambitious presentations and new
commissions by today’s most significant international artists from emerging
talents to seminal and rediscovered 20th century masters. The fair takes place at
Randall’s Island Park from May 5 – 7, 2017, with an invitation-only preview on
Thursday, May 4.
Frieze New York is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank for the sixth
consecutive year, continuing a shared commitment to discovery and artistic
excellence.
Presenting museum-quality exhibitions in a bespoke, light-filled structure
designed for the experience of art, Frieze New York offers an immersive cultural
experience for major institutional and private collectors, scholars and art
enthusiasts alike. With galleries joining from six continents, including firsttime
exhibitors from Brazil, Guatemala, Japan and Poland, the fair illuminates
the aesthetic, political and historical concerns driving contemporary practice
around the world.
Organized by Victoria Siddall (Director, Frieze Fairs) alongside Artistic
Directors Abby Bangser and Jo Stella-Sawicka, Frieze New York is further
strengthened by a team of international independent curators. Toby Kamps
(The Menil Collection, Houston) will curate the expanded Spotlight section for
the first time; Cecilia Alemani (High Line Art, New York / Italian Pavilion
2017 Venice Biennale) will commission Frieze Projects; and Jacob Proctor
(Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago) and
Fabian Schöneich (Portikus, Frankfurt) will advise the Frame section. Tom
Eccles (Bard College, New York) also returns as curator of Frieze Talks,
bringing together leading cultural figures including Shuddhabrata Sengupta of
Raqs Media Collective, poet Claudia Rankine and MoMA’s Ann Temkin to
deepen discussion of the themes of activism and influences of modernism also
seen across the fair.
For the first time, Frieze will present a major symposium in New York City
during Frieze Week. In collaboration with the Getty and the Institute of Fine
Arts, NYU, the symposium on Friday, May 5 will raise discussion on topics
related to Latin American and Latino Art featured in the upcoming edition of
“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”.
“Frieze New York continues to evolve, and this year galleries are bringing
presentations of greater breadth and quality than ever before, reflecting the
diverse cultural interests of our audience,” noted Victoria Siddall (Director,
Frieze Fairs). “Following major sales to institutions and private collectors in
2016 – and with Cecilia Alemani’s inspiring projects and Toby Kamps’s new
perspective on Spotlight this year – the fair continues to develop as a vital and
unique platform for art and ideas.”
The World’s Leading Galleries
Frieze New York will continue to showcase leading modern and contemporary
galleries from around the world in the main section, including returning
exhibitors Acquavella Galleries (New York), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
(New York), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (New York), Matthew Marks
Gallery (New York), Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), David
Zwirner (New York), Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo), The Modern Institute
(Glasgow), Foksal Gallery Foundation (Warsaw), Galerie Chantal Crousel
(Paris) and Sprüth Magers (Berlin); alongside newcomers Eykyn Maclean
(New York), Galeria Luisa Strina (São Paulo) and Castelli Gallery (New
York). The fair will also grow as a platform for the world’s most exciting
emerging galleries, with exhibitors including VI, VII (Oslo), Bridget Donahue
(New York) and Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City) joining the fair’s
Frame section for the first time.
Alongside its main section, Frieze New York features three special platforms
that ensure a diverse representation of artistic practices from around the globe:
• Spotlight, expanding to 31 galleries with solo artist presentions and curated
for the first time by Toby Kamps, reveals foundational moments in art history
since 1960, and fosters new research into artists from emerging countries, as
well as rarely seen work by iconic figures of the avant-garde. This year sees
increased participation by younger exhibitors, alongside more established
galleries, all sharing a common interest in artistic reexamination.
• Frame, advised by Jacob Proctor and Fabian Schöneich, grows increasingly
international this year, featuring 17 emerging galleries from 13 countries.
A section for experimentation, Frame brings together solo presentations by
today’s most exciting new artists.
• Focus, a platform that subsidizes today’s strongest young galleries to showcase
their programs in stands throughout the fair, will feature 28 galleries from
Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro.
Today’s Most Significant International Artists
Frieze New York is a vital platform to encounter today’s most significant artists
and artworks from around the world, including main section solo exhibitions
featuring: Lorna Simpson, presenting new paintings and sculptures in her firstever
project with Hauser & Wirth (New York); the celebrated American painter
John Currin with Gagosian Gallery (New York); Anri Sala, presenting Bridges
in the Doldrums (2016) with Marian Goodman Gallery (New York), ahead of
the artist’s participation in the Venice Biennale; Keith Sonnier at Pace (New
York), bringing together his pioneering neon sculptures with two new series of
works; Tala Madani with David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), coinciding
with the artist’s presentation in the Whitney Biennial; and Kevin Beasley
showing with Casey Kaplan (New York).
Galleries presenting dynamic two-artist and group presentations include: Esther
Schipper (Berlin, main) with a group show centered around Swap (2011), an
interactive performance by Roman Ondak; Lisson Gallery (London, main)
with a two-artist show by leading international artists Anish Kapoor and
Lee Ufan, coinciding with the opening of Kapoor’s Descension at Brooklyn
Bridge Park; and Herald St’s (London, main) group stand including Michael
Dean, a Turner Prize finalist and the recent subject of a Nasher Sculpture
Center exhibition, on the eve of the artist’s participation in the fifth Skulptur
Projekte Münster. Joining the fair for the first time, Galeria Luisa Strina
(São Paulo, main) will show a spectrum of major Latin American artists
including Leonor Antunes, Carlos Garaicoa, Laura Lima and Adrián
Villar Rojas alongside 20th-century icon Lygia Pape, coinciding with the
latter’sretrospective at The Met Breuer. Another leading Brazilian gallery,
Mendes Wood DM, (São Paulo, main) will bring a substantial presentation by
São Paulo-based artist Adriano Costa alongside other leading artists.
Frieze New York will also be an opportunity to preview many artists
representing countries in the Venice Biennale, including: Carol Bove,
representing Switzerland, whose work will be on view alongside the
photographer William Eggleston at David Zwirner’s (New York, main)
stand; the seminal artist Geta Bratescu, representing Romania, showing
alongside experimental conceptual artist Lia Perjovschi with Ivan
Gallery (Bucharest, Focus); and the sound and media artist Samson Young,
representing Hong Kong, showing new work with Galerie Gisela Capitain
(Cologne, main).
Politically Engaged Art
Resonating with themes explored across this year’s international biennials,
many galleries are presenting work exploring the role of art in climates
of conflict – from colonial pasts to dystopian futures. Looking back at the
politically charged scene of New York City’s East Village in the 1980s, P.P.O.W.
(New York, main) will present a large-scale, car-shaped pigeon coop by Anton
van Dalen, originally exhibited at Exit Art in 1988, alongside pioneering works
by artist-activists Martin Wong and David Wojnarowicz, all showing the
influence of immigration, street art and Hip Hop on the cultural epoch. Also
highlighting the visual culture of the 1980s, Skarstedt (New York, main) will
show works by politically engaged artists Mike Kelley and Cindy Sherman,
among other modern and contemporary artists. Maureen Paley (London,
main) will present politically themed works by AA Bronson and Wolfgang
Tillmans, and further addressing 21st century politics and technology with
humour, Carroll / Fletcher’s (London, Frame) solo presentation of multimedia
works by Thomson & Craighead will explore themes of self-help and
apocalypse, including a perfume that ‘literally’ smells of end times.
Looking at histories of colonialism, Meessen De Clercq (Brussels, Focus) will
present a solo stand of works by Vietnamese artist Thu Van Tran examining
rubber as a symbol of suppression by the French in Vietnam; and Chi-Wen
Gallery (Taipei, Focus) will showcase Chien-Chi Chang’s The War That Never
Was and Yin-Ju Chen’s Extrastellar Evaluations (both 2016), new video works
looking at memory and histories of human destruction. Showing with Mary
Mary (Glasgow, Focus), Aliza Nisenbaum’s solo presentation will use imagery
of protest found in Mexican Modernist prints from 1900-1950 to explore
painting as a form of ethics.
Feminist Perspectives
Many galleries have curated shows featuring women artists from the 20th
and 21st centuries, exploring pressing feminist issues and the role of women
in influential movements of contemporary practice. Solo exhibitions include
Simone Subal Gallery (New York, Focus) who will showcase the Austrian-
American pioneer of feminist Pop Art, Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997); newcomer
Bridget Donahue (New York, Frame) presenting a solo exhibition by Susan
Cianciolo, coinciding with the artist’s participation in the Whitney Biennial;
and The Third Line (Dubai, main) presenting a solo stand of work by Iranian
artist Farhad Moshiri exploring the common ground between Iran and the
West.
Highlights among the themed group stands include: Lehmann Maupin (New
York, main) with a striking three-artist stand featuring Californians from
different generations: Mary Corse, Liza Lou and Catherine Opie; Cheim
& Read (New York, main) who will respond to the recent Women’s March
on Washington, with a booth featuring works inspired by the color pink by
artists including Ghada Amer, Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise
Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Jenny Holzer, Jonathan Lasker,
Jack Pierson, Juan Uslé and Andy Warhol; Salon 94 (New York, main)
featuring works by three international women artists— Huma Bhabha,
Francesca DiMattio and Katy Grannan—offering commentary on issues of
race, gender, class and sexuality; and Jhaveri Contemporary (Mumbai, Focus)
with an intergenerational stand of female artists from India including tapestry
by Monica Correa and fibre sculpture by Mrinalini Mukherjee alongside
painting and photography by Simryn Gill, Lubna Latif Agha and Yamini
Nayar.
Performance and Interactive Works
Across the fair, galleries are presenting immersive projects that invite visitors
to become part of the artworks themselves. The Breeder (Athens, main)
will revive a seminal interactive public installation borne out of the AIDS
crisis: 1-900 Mirror Mirror (1993-6) by Chrysanne Stathacos. Galeria
Nara Roesler (São Paulo, main) will present a new performance by Paulo
Bruscky, questioning the socio-political role of art, alongside elements from
performances by Eduardo Navarro and Paul Ramirez Jonas previously
only seen in institutional settings. Canada (New York, main) returns to the
fair with another immersive interior, curated by the New York-based artist
Marc Hundley to mirror the artist’s actual home at 220 Roebling in Brooklyn,
including objects and artworks hung salon-style amidst handmade furniture,
books and records. In the Focus section, David Lewis (New York) will bring
a solo stand with Dawn Kasper – presenting a participatory installation of
musical sculpture exploring the concept of desire.
Generations of Influence: 20th century movements and tribal art
Building on Frieze’s reputation for showcasing modern artists and encouraging
the growth of art collections across eras, this year’s fair features a growing
presence of galleries exhibiting significant works from the 20th century
alongside masters of contemporary art. Sprüth Magers (Berlin, main) will
bring together key figures of post war art with contemporary European and
American artists whom they have influenced; and Franklin Parrasch (New
York, main) will explore the history of art within America, showing work from
the 1960s through the 1980s by Californian pioneers Peter Alexander, Billy
Al Bengston, John McCracken, Ken Price, Deborah Remington and Ed
Ruscha.
Further, the expanded Spotlight section, curated for the first time in New York
by Toby Kamps (The Menil Collection, Houston), will bring together solo artist
presentations by pioneers of 20th-century practice. Revealing foundational
movements in art, from ‘Hippy Modernism’ to Concrete Poetry, highlights
include Thomas Kovachevich’s works using everyday materials, performance
and architecture, first exhibited at the 1972 Documenta exhibition (Callicoon
Fine Arts, New York); works by recently rediscovered Cuban-American,
self-taught artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia);
the experimental sculptor and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud (Michael
Rosenfeld Gallery, New York); Dom Sylvester Houédard—a Benedictine
monk turned counter-culture cult figure of 1960s London (Richard Saltoun
Gallery, London); rarely seen work by Lee Mullican, inspired by cosmological
abstraction, Native American and pre-Columbian influences (Marc Selwyn
Fine Art, Los Angeles); and Peruvian artist Teresa Burga (Galerie Barbara
Thumm, Berlin) presenting Pop works from the 1960s on the opening of her
first-ever US museum retrospective at SculptureCenter (New York).
Exploring 20th century art and its influences world-wide, Entwistle (New
York, main) will show tribal sculptures side by side with post war Japanese
paintings of the Gutai and Informel movements; while Axel Vervoordt
(Antwerp, main) will curate a rare solo presentation of Masatoshi Masanobu,
a significant artist from Gutai’s second wave. Major European and American
20th century figures including Sam Francis, Henri Matisse and Robert
Motherwell will be on view at Bernard Jacobson Gallery (London, main);
alongside significant works by Georg Baselitz and Robert Rauschenberg
at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris, main); Jean Dubuffet and Wayne
Thiebaud at Acquavella Galleries (New York, main); and Jean-Michel
Basquiat and James Rosenquist at Eykyn Maclean (New York, main).
In addition, acknowledging the enduring influence of tribal art on avant-garde
artists of the 20th century and today, three eminent galleries and founding
Frieze Masters exhibitors – Donald Ellis (New York and Vancouver), L & R
Entwistle and Co (London) and Galerie Meyer – Oceanic Art (Paris) – will
participate in Frieze New York for the first time.
Frieze Stand Prizes
Frieze New York 2017 sees the return of three awards recognizing exceptional
presentations from galleries across the fair, including a specific prize for
younger galleries in the Frame section.
A Frieze Stand Prize will be awarded to outstanding presentations in two
categories: the first specifically to a gallery under 12 years of age, and the
second for an exceptional gallery taking part in any section of the fair. The
prizes will be awarded by a leading jury of museum directors and curators and
will be announced at 4pm on Thursday, May 4.
Supported by Stella Artois, the Frame Prize is dedicated to the most deserving
presentation in the Frame section. The winner will be selected by a leading jury
of emerging art experts. The Frame Prize will be announced at 12pm on Friday,
May 5.
Frieze Talks
Part of Frieze’s non-profit program and featuring today’s most influential
artists, thinkers and cultural figures, Frieze Talks is curated by Tom Eccles
(Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York).
Exploring themes of agency, politics and perspective, and responding to content
within the fair itself, this year’s Talks program features Claudia Rankine, 2016
MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2017 Bobbitt National Poetry Prize for
her collection Citizen, as well as a panel on art and social commitment chaired
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs Media Collective and featuring artists
Tania Bruguera, Anri Sala and Jeanne van Heeswijk; and a conversation
on “complicating the Modern” from Ann Temkin, Marie-Josée and Henry
Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.
Frieze Talks takes place daily at 11.30am at Stand H1, next to the Ruinart
Lounge at Frieze New York from Friday, May 5 through Sunday, May 7. Access
to Frieze Talks is included in all admission tickets. The complete schedule is
available at frieze.com.
Symposium in Collaboration with the Getty and the Institute of Fine
Arts, NYU
Taking place on Friday, May 5 in collaboration with the Getty and the
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Frieze’s first-ever symposium in New York will
present three panel discussions on Latin American and Latino art related to
the Getty’s upcoming “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA” (September 2017-
January 18). Participants will include Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, co-curator of
the touring exhibition “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985”
(Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2018);
Dan Fox, co-editor of frieze magazine; Clara M. Kim, curator of the Los
Angeles Municipal Art Gallery’s exhibition “Learning from Latin America:
Art, Architecture and Visions of Modernism” (2017-18); Chon Noriega, cocurator
of the touring exhibition “Home–So Different, So Appealing: Art from
the Americas since 1957” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017; Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, 2017-18); Edward Sullivan, the Helen Gould Sheppard
Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; and artists featured
in the exhibitions including Guillermo Kuitca, María Evelia Marmolejo
and Clarissa Tossin. For further information, please see frieze.com.
Non-Profits at the Fair
Frieze has invited three non-profit art spaces and organizations to present their
programs at Frieze New York. This year’s participants include the Donald
Judd Foundation, SculptureCenter and White Columns, the city’s oldest
alternative art space. Following its collaboration with Frieze on the fair’s
marketing campaign, the Judd Foundation will present a selection of Donald
Judd Furniture curated by Flavin Judd, Curator & Co-President; alongside
publications including Donald Judd Writings and Donald Judd: Complete Writings
1959-1975.
Frieze Projects
The Frieze Projects program at Frieze New York will feature seven
commissions, curated by Cecilia Alemani (High Line Art, New York & Italian
Pavilion, 2017 Venice Biennale). Inside the fair and around Randall’s Island
Park, ambitious, interactive and site-specific artworks will question the act of
watching and being watched.
On the green lawn outside the North entrance, Elaine Cameron-Weir will
build a rudimentary structure based on plans for a backyard air-raid shelter, the
inside lit by two neon sculptures – glimpses of which are only possible through
a discrete door. Inside the fair, Jon Rafman will transform a gallery stand
into a secret movie theater, where visitors can watch – and be watched while
watching – a new video series fusing amateur 3D animation and niche genres
of computer-generated erotica. Dora Budor will supplement the art fair’s
usual routine by using cinematic doubling to question perception and reality.
This year’s tribute to a groundbreaking arts space is dedicated to Galleria La
Tartaruga in Rome and its experimental exhibition “Il Teatro delle Mostre”
(1968). The tribute space will change daily, with restagings of two pioneering
projects by Giosetta Fioroni and Fabio Mauri, alternated with new
commissions by Ryan McNamara and Adam Pendleton.
The Reading Room
Returning for a second year, the Reading Room offers visitors the opportunity
to meet writers, editors and artists in book signings and presentations, hosted
by the world’s leading arts and lifestyle publications. Daily event details can be
found at frieze.com
Frieze Bespoke
Launching for the first time at Frieze New York, Frieze Bespoke is an
exclusive opportunity for those interested in collecting art to explore the
fair accompanied by an independent art specialist. These intimate tours are
available for groups of up to four people and are designed specifically for
those interested in learning about art and beginning or growing their own art
collections. Each tour lasts approximately two hours, with itineraries including
starting a collection; an introduction to Latin American art; a survey of iconic
20th century figures; and emerging talents. For further information, please visit
friezebespoke.com.
