10/10/11
Frieze Art Fair 2011: Highlights
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The ninth edition for Frieze Art Fair, the leading international contemporary art fair, takes place in London’s Regent’s Park from 13–16 October 2011. The fair is sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
World’s leading contemporary art galleries
173 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 33 countries, will present new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists at Frieze Art Fair.
The dynamism of galleries from emerging territories such as Asia and South America is balanced by a strong European and American contingent. Additions to last year’s participants include Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), Konrad Fischer Galerie (Dusseldorf), Johnen Galerie (Berlin), Yvon Lambert (Paris), The Pace Gallery (New York), Andrea Rosen Gallery (New York) and Donald Young Gallery (Chicago). Previous Frame exhibitors that are this year exhibiting in the main section of the fair are: Andreiana Mihail Gallery (Bucharest), Project 88 (Mumbai), Rodeo (Istanbul) and Micky Schubert (Berlin).
The Frame section of the fair is dedicated to galleries under six-years old, showing solo artist presentations. The selection of the 25 Frame galleries was advised by Cecilia Alemani and Rodrigo Moura. Frame is supported by COS.
Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is a unique programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. This year the Projects are curated by Sarah McCrory and are supported by the Emdash Foundation
The artists commissioned to create these eight site-specific works for Frieze Art Fair are: Bik Van der Pol, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Jankowski, Oliver Laric, LuckyPDF, Peles Empire, Laure Prouvost and Cara Tolmie.
This year’s programme incorporates a number of unique viewpoints throughout the fair that will demand a shift in viewers’ perception.
The winner of the Emdash Award 2011 is the video and performance artist Anahita Razmi, who is based in Stuttgart. Razmi will present a new commission that intends to draw attention to how Tehran’s skyline was recently used by protestors after the Iranian presidential election. She will use choreographer Trisha Brown’s 1971 work Roof Piece, which took place on 12 different rooftops over a ten-block area in downtown New York, as its point of departure. The work will be presented as a video installation at Frieze Art Fair.
Interviews with all the commissioned artists appear in the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2010–2011 which is available to purchase for £19.95 from all good bookshops and online at frieze.com
Frieze Film
Frieze Film is a programme of artist films screened to coincide with Frieze Art Fair. This year it is curated by Sarah McCrory and includes five commissioned films that will be shown in the auditorium at the fair and will be previewed in a new post-watershed Channel 4 arts slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 10 October to Friday 14 October.
The artists commissioned to make new work for Frieze Film are: Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Anthea Hamilton, Judith Hopf and Katarina Zdjelar.
Frieze Talks
John Bock,Daniel Buren, Adam Curtis, Alison Knowles and Taryn Simon, are all part of the international line-up of highly respected artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators taking part in Frieze Talks 2011.
Frieze Talks is a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions that take place in the auditorium at Frieze Art Fair. It is presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser and Dan Fox.
Sculpture Park
The Sculpture Park offers a rare opportunity to see a significant group of international work that is addressed on a public scale. Presented in the wonderful setting of the English Gardens of Regent’s Park, the Sculpture Park is located a short walk to the east of the entrance to the fair. The Sculpture Park is free to the public.
This year’s Sculpture Park presents work by some of the most acclaimed international sculptors. These include new works by Thomas Houseago and Claudia Fontes, as well as pieces by Tom Friedman and Kiki Smith.
The Stand Prize
The third year of the Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize, sponsored by Champagne Pommery, will be judged by: Tom Eccles (Director, The Centre for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York); Karola Kraus (Director, MUMOK, Vienna); Stéphanie Trembley (Independent Curator, Beaux Arts magazine, Paris). A prize of £10,000 will go to the most innovative gallery stand at the fair. The prize will be awarded by Nathalie Vranken of Vranken Pommery Monopole at 4pm at the fair on Wednesday 12 October.
Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to Benefit the Tate Collection
This unique partnership between Outset, Frieze Art Fair and Tate, based on the generosity of Outset, a charitable foundation focused on supporting new art, enables Tate to buy important works at the fair for the national collection. 83 works by 53 significant international artists have been collected since 2003.
The guest curators for the fund in 2011 will be: José Roca (Chief Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial) and Adam Szymczyk (Director of the Kunsthalle Basel). The fund is organized and financed by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and enjoys the continued support of Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts for the fourth consecutive year. The donors to Outset have a particular interest in enabling Tate’s acquisition of emerging and international art. The 2011 Tate acquisitions will be listed on the Frieze Art Fair website on Thursday, 13 October.
Further Information
Regular updates on all the fair’s news will be available on the Frieze Art Fair mobile apps and on the Frieze Art Fair website.
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