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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Hanayo • To Do: What’s on the agenda for the art world’s most booked and busy?

Big Dick Energy • One Take: As Jana Euler’s solo exhibition opens at WIELS, Brussels, Chloe Stead revisits GWF 1, the artist’s painterly rebuke of sexism in the German art scene

Tell It Slant • Built Environment: Giovanna Silva on photographing history through unexpected architectural interventions

After the Miracle State • Built Environment: Reimagining a postcolonial Ivorian cityscape with less concrete and more natural materials by Lennart Wolff

Sleepers Awake • Built Environment: By slowing sound, John Cage created a rousing music of shifting relations to space by Carson Chan

Where Is Everyone? • Built Environment: Minoru Nomata’s paintings ask why we obsess over unpeopled architecture by Juliet Jacques

The Promise of the Past • Built Environment: On the occasion of the ‘Tropical Modernism’ exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Derin Fadina examines the architectural movement’s exclusionary narratives

Features

4 Galleries to Watch in Tokyo • Dossier: A new generation of galleries, non-profits and artist-run spaces has emerged in Tokyo, embracing the city’s famous pop sensibility – and revitalizing one of Asia’s oldest and most storied contemporary art scenes

Fig. • Chance encounters have shaped a gallery inspired by Tokyo’s past

Lavender Opener Chair • Far from Tokyo’s centre, a cutting- edge gallery cooks you a meal

Tenko Presents • A gallery with no fixed address tries to bridge generations

The 5th Floor • A radical non-profit takes on projects that museums and galleries avoid

Primary Information • Profile: How a storied artists’ book publisher brought 1970s conceptual art into the hands of a new generation

'I'm trying to follow my instinct: to have confidence and not get into my head too much about what other people are expecting.' • Conversation: Ahead of a solo show at London’s Cubitt Gallery, Marlene Smith speaks to Lubaina Himid about her time in the BLK Art Group, friendship and collaboration

The Second Self • On the tenth anniversary of Chris Marker’s pioneering experiment in machine intelligence

Inward Yearnings • Essay: Rianna Jade Parker retraces the history of the Jamaican intuitives, a group of self-taught artists who ushered in a national form of artmaking mythologizing African traditions through religious divination and esteem-raising cultural work

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Pierre Huyghe • Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

Silvia Rosi • Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Arthur Simms • Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Alia Farid • Passerelle Centre for Contemporary Art, Brest, France

Joan Semmel • Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

Fatima Moallim • [tart vienna], Austria

Echoes of the Brother Countries • Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Zhanna Kadyrova • Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

Indigenous Histories • KODE Bergen, Norway

Ibon Aranberri • Artium Museoa. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Esther Mahlangu • Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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