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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Editor's Letter

Frieze

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

Media Memories • Wordplay: Ahead of Matthias Groebel's presentations at the Gwangju Biennial and Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Jeppe Ugelvig responds to his 1996 painting Untitled (069)

Sic Jokes • Wordplay: Na Mira on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and the mythos behind their Gwangju Biennale presentation Interview by Lara Mimosa Montes

Degenerate Stars • Wordplay: Kevin Killian's sublime Amazon reviews by Rainer Diana Hamilton

Tightrope Walker • Wordplay: Leonilson's stitched words are a salve for the emotionally exhausted by Fernanda Brenner

See and Repeat • Wordplay: Lara Pawson celebrates Gertrude Stein's ‘If I Told Him’ on the centenary of its publication

House Style • Wordplay: An excerpt from Marcel Christian LaBeija's ABCs of Ballroom culture

A drag ball is a miniature, temporary fantasy.

Features

Mounds and Spheres • Michael Heizer's monumental work City (1970–2022) suspends its visitors between deep past and dark future

EAT THE CONTENT • Oral History: From 2004 to 2013, an irreverent group of hipsters and intellectuals with familial and political ties to the Arab world produced the now-celebrated pages of Bidoun: an alt magazine offering perspectives in and of the Middle East and the Arab Diaspora. Through the voices of its founders, editors and contributors, this oral history delves into the magazine's mission to challenge stereotypes, showcase diverse voices and elevate the region's artistic and cultural narratives through humour, angst and experimentation

MARLENE DUMAS • Profile: In her great psychological portraits, the painter probes the power – and horror – of found imagery by Sean Burns

A Vision of the Future • Essay: How artists have used film, art and literature to examine precarious employment rights against a backdrop of increasing political instability by Juliet Jacques

‘I used to think all of it was separate – the painting, the writing, the curating – but not any longer.' • Interview: Ahead of his exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Glenn Ligon speaks with Terence Trouillot about the troubled beauty of Dutch flower paintings and how writing becomes art

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Eva Hesse • Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA

Tiffany Sia • Maxwell Graham, New York, USA

Will Stovall • Ulrik, New York, USA

Mike Kelley • The Brant Foundation, New York, USA

Lan ‘Florence’ Yee • Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Kyle Dunn • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz • Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA

Siji Krishnan • Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Julie Tolentino • Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA

Gabriel Massan • Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico

Sallisa Rosa • Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil

Mathew Wayne Parkin • Cubitt, London, UK

Otobong Nkanga • Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Hettie Inniss • GRIMM, London, UK

Michaël Borremans • David Zwirner, London, UK

Alessio Bolzoni • V.O Curations, London, UK

Maz Murray • Focal Point, Southend-on-Sea, UK

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