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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Jeffrey Gibson • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

Closer to Freedom • One Take: To commemorate Nil Yalter receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Biennale, Simon Wu looks back on the artist's longstanding series, ‘Exile Is a Hard Job’

Tourists Everywhere • Mother Tongues: How local artists and activist groups are caring for the social ecologies of Venice by Francesca Tarocco

Until Morning • Mother Tongues: An anthem for poor Irish speakers by Eimear Walshe

The Inveterate Collector • Mother Tongues: Abdullah Al Saadi creates alphabets out of ephemera by Rahel Aima

Silently Chanting • Mother Tongues: MAHKU's murals give form to ancestral musical traditions by Ela Bittencourt

After the Storm • Mother Tongues: The Altersea Opera brings the cultural imaginary of Cantonese restaurants to the Swedish Pavilion by Charlene K. Lau

Features

John Akomfrah • Profile: Vanessa Peterson meets with the artist ahead of his Venice presentation to discuss the challenges of representing the UK at this year's biennial and the overdue recognition of Black British art

PEOPLE LIKE US • Roundtable: This year's Venice Biennale sees a number of projects by Indigenous artists from across the globe. Here, Dare Turner talks to Jeffrey Gibson, Archie Moore and Inuuteq Storch about the challenges and opportunities of working within the settler colonial framework of the American, Australian and Danish national pavilions

No Idlers • A novelist observes Venice through the lens of the artists and writers who have lived and worked in the city over the centuries

‘I want to go beyond these boundaries to create the bones, if you will, of a new vision for a universal nation that is not driven by borders.’ • Conversation: Senior editor Terence Trouillot sits down with artists Koo Jeong A of South Korea and Yuko Mohri of Japan to discuss their respective Venice Biennale presentations and the obsolescence of national divisions

Africa Out of Venice • Essay: Eric Otieno Sumba analyzes the complex legacies of artists and pavilions from the African continent at the Biennale

On View • International listings of galleries for April 2024 – For more information, visit frieze.com/on–view/galleries

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

A Model • MUDAM Luxembourg

Grace Weaver • Max Hetzler, Paris, France

Jim Shaw • Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium

Karolina Jabłońska • Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

Paul Kolling • Kunstverein München, Germany

Nschotschi Haslinger • EXILE, Vienna, Austria

Sarah Brahim • Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland

Mathias Toubro • Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, Denmark

Shuang Li • Peres Projects, Milan, Italy

Jan Gatewood • Rose Easton, London, UK

Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Andrew Cranston • The Hepworth Wakefield, UK

Siobhán Hapaska • The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Tim Pitsiulak • Art Gallery of Guelph, Canada

Cauleen Smith • 52 Walker, New York, USA

Auriea Harvey • Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA

Cristina Iglesias • Marian Goodman, Los Angeles,...