Frieze

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.

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Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff • To Do: What’s on the agenda for the art world’s most booked and busy?

Bottom Line • One Take: On the occasion of Yoko Ono’s retrospective at Tate Modern, London, Philomena Epps looks at the one of the artist’s most iconic works, Film No. 4 (Bottoms)

The Secret World • Outer Depths: Filmmaker Meredith Lackey speaks to Jonathan Griffin about documenting the physical internet

after the interview is over, she keeps going • Outer Depths: Holly Pester pens a poem on the origins of eels

Piscine Dreams • Outer Depths: The uncanny pull of Ahmed Morsi’s fish by Rob Goyanes

Beyond Listening • Outer Depths: How do we name sounds we don’t fully understand? by Ella Finer

Haunted Hydrology • Outer Depths: Dominique White envisions the future from the bottom of the ocean by Eric Otieno Sumba

Features

Arise, Saint David! • Celebrating the influential artist and performer David Hoyle ahead of his homecoming retrospective and residency in Manchester

Nina Beier • Profile: Ahead of Nina Beier’s two solo exhibitions at the Kiasma, Helsinki and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Jeppe Ugelvig considers the artist’s penchant for critiquing commodity fetishism

'I don't want to make objects that are sterile and live on their own, I want them to connect back to the rhythm of life.' • Conversation: Harlem-native artist Nari Ward speaks with long-time friend and collaborator LeRonn P. Brooks about the performance of objects and the devotional spirit they inhabit

Just Slapped Together, and Illegal, and Nobody Really Cared • Oral History: In 2011, the artists Calla Henkel, Lindsay Lawson and Max Pitegoff opened a small bar in Berlin. It proved to be both a symbol and a catalyst for a rapidly changing city

Thread of Dissent • Essay: Lauren Elkin analyses what is drawing curators and audiences to re-evaluate the subversive relationship between gender, textiles and artistic production

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Taipei Biennial • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Shanghai Biennale • The Power Station of Art, China

Tan Jing • Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Homma Takashi • Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan

Kwan Sheung Chi • Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong

Ghada Amer • Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) • New Museum, New York, USA

Diana Al-Hadid • Kasmin, New York, USA

Gray Wielebinski • Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA

Rosemary Mayer • Hannah Hoffman Gallery and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

Johanna Hedva • JOAN, Los Angeles, USA

Carlos Alfonso • Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia

Mahmoud Khaled • Gypsum, Cairo, Egypt

Lin May Saeed • Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

Leyla Yenirce • Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Annika Larsson • Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

Charlie Prodger • Secession, Vienna, Austria

Steven Shearer • The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece

Emilio Prini • Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

Michael Dean • Mendes Wood DM, Paris, France

Caspar Heinemann • Edouard Montassut, Paris, France

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