Frieze Art Fair

02/09/10

Frieze Talks 2010

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Ramin Bahrani, Susan Hiller, Amar Kanwar, Bridget Riley and Wolfgang Tillmans are all part of the international line-up of highly respected artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators taking part in Frieze Talks 2010.

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.

Keynote lectures by artists Amar Kanwar and Wolfgang Tillmans will be accompanied by conversations between co-founder of legendary New York-based art collective Group Material, Julie Ault and Bart van der Heide; ‘Neo-Neo Realist’ filmmaker Ramin Bahrani and Bert Rebhandl; American London-based artist Susan Hiller and John Welchman; and artist Bridget Riley with Michael Bracewell.

Panel discussions led by Negar Azimi, Sam Thorne and Jan Verwoert will focus on some of the current debates surrounding contemporary art and theory. Featuring artists including Jeremy Deller, Thomas Demand and Paulina Olowska, topics will include: ‘Who Owns Images?’, a discussion on how changes in technology affect the ownership of images; ‘Reference vs Reverence’, questioning whether art that is caught in a web of historic references can be a counter-critical model; and ‘Exhibition Making as Activism: Whose Politics’, which will look at work that responds to complex social issues and political situation to consider whether art can be effective activism and vice versa.

For ‘What’s So Funny?’, four artists will present their responses to the use of humour in artistic practice. Participants will be Nathaniel Mellors, Aleksandra Mir, Roee Rosen and Olav Westphalen.

Also presented will be a panel discussion,The Medium is the Message, by artist Jeffrey Vallance. A Frieze Projects commission, the panel will feature five mediums each channeling the spirits of famous dead artists. The artists will be asked questions on the role of art in the afterworld and their opinions on the art market in the living world. The panel will be open to audience questions.

Jörg Heiser, Co- Editor of frieze magazine, commented: ‘Frieze Talks has developed into a gratifying opportunity to engage with some of the best minds in art and culture; we have had great responses both from participants and audiences to the previous installments. We are looking forward to continuing that dialogue over four days of lectures, performances and discussions.’

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Editors’ Notes
Access to Frieze Talks is included in the Frieze Art Fair admission ticket. Seats for talks can be individually booked from 11am on the day outside the auditorium within the fair; ticket-holders are requested to arrive at the auditorium 15 minutes before the talk starts in order to guarantee a place.

frieze magazine is published eight times a year and is acclaimed for its insightful criticism, original articles and stylish design. frieze is one of the world’s leading publications on contemporary art and culture and has been established for 19 years.

Frieze Foundation is the not-for-profit organisation that produces the curated programmes in and around Frieze Art Fair: Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, Frieze Film, Frieze Music and Frieze Education. It is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union and Arts Council England.

For a full list of talks please see friezefoundation.org

29/07/10

Frieze Music 2010

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Frieze Art Fair announced today that Frieze Music 2010 will present two specially curated nights of very different sounds, one of disco and a second of exquisite song from a singular voice.

Friday 15 October will see Hercules and Love Affair (plus special guests) perform at Debut, one of London’s most innovative new music spaces, situated under the arches of London Bridge Station. The Guardian has described New York-based band as ‘a deliciously groovesome blend of classic disco, early house and contemporary techno.’ Their self-titled debut received considerable critical and commercial acclaim, and was named by The New York Times as the breakthrough album of 2008.

This will be a rare chance to see Hercules and Love Affair play in the UK, performing an homage to the ‘90s house scene with a celebrated new line-up. Their second album, which was recorded in Vienna earlier this year, will be released in early 2011, and new material will be debuted at the Frieze Music performance.

Saturday 16 October Frieze Music moves to Shoreditch Church for a night of ethereal music from Baby Dee, a classically trained harpist and pianist. For this one-off candlelit concert, Dee will be performing with The Elysian Quartet, one of the UK’s most innovative young ensembles and the only British quartet of its generation focused exclusively on 20th-century contemporary and experimental music. Pitchfork.com called the Cleveland-based singer’s story ‘one of the most fascinating you’ll ever hear in indie rock’, having performed in a Coney Island sideshow, as a church organist and as an arranger for the first incarnation of Antony and the Johnsons.

Hercules and Love Affair and Baby Dee have both collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Antony Hegarty.
Frieze Music is curated by Sarah McCrory (curator of Frieze Projects) and Sam Thorne (Associate Editor of frieze magazine).
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Editors’ Notes

Hercules and Love Affair (plus special guests)
Friday 15 October
Debut, London SE1
Tickets: £15.00 plus booking fee

Baby Dee + The Elysian Quartet
Satuday 16 October
Shoreditch Church, London E1
Tickets: £15.00 plus booking fee

Tickets available from 6 August 2010 via seetickets.com
For more details: friezefoundation.org/music

Frieze Music is the off-site music programme of Frieze Art Fair, one of the world’s best known and most influential international contemporary art fairs. Frieze Music has previously played host to diverse acts including: Martin Creed, Glenn Branca, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franz Ferdinand. Frieze Music was originally conceived by Dan Fox and Steve Mackey.

Frieze Music is presented by Frieze Foundation and is supported by Arts Council England

30/06/10

FAQs 2010

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How many people attend the fair and who are they?
Each year, for the last four years, we have had over 60,000 visitors to Frieze Art Fair. These visitors included those with an interest in the art world, such as curators, artists, collectors, gallerists and critics, as well as the general public. Some visit as first-time collectors of art whilst others view the fair more as an exhibition, enjoying the experience as a cultural day out.

How do I get a ticket for the fair?
Tickets for Frieze Art Fair can be purchased from 1 June each year, online at frieze.com using a credit or debit card. Alternatively, visitors can phone Frieze Art Fair’s ticket agent, See Tickets, to purchase their ticket. Tickets can also be purchased onsite at the fair, however discounted prices are available only on early bookings. Frieze Art Fair advise booking tickets in advance to avoid disappointment.

What makes Frieze Art Fair different from other art fairs?
Frieze Art Fair is one of the few fairs to focus only on contemporary art and living artists. The exhibiting galleries represent the most exciting contemporary galleries working today. The focus on living artists is also evident in the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects’ programme. The fair presents a curated programme of talks, artists’ commissions and film projects, many of which are interactive or performative and encourage visitors to engage with art and artists directly.

Unlike most other fairs, Frieze Art Fair is housed in a bespoke temporary structure, which is located in Regent’s Park and benefits from having a natural light source, avoiding the atmosphere of a trade show, thus making the fair both lively and energetic.

Since its first year Frieze Art Fair has also been fortunate enough to work with a series of talented architects: David Adjaye, Jamie Fobert and Caruso St John, who are well known for their work on museums and art galleries. The architects’ brief is to make the fair an inviting and unique experience. Each year there are eye-catching changes to the design, décor, entrance and spaces such as restaurants and cafes. The architects have the opportunity to experiment and this adds to the experience of the fair.

What is Frame?
Frame, a section of the fair introduced in 2009, is dedicated to solo artist presentations. Frame is open to galleries who have been in existence for less than six years and present a regular programme of exhibitions.

What are the annual sales figures?
Frieze Art Fair released sales figures following the first three fairs. However, the Directors came to regard such results to be misleading and inaccurate, as many sales are completed post-fair, and many galleries choose to keep their sales figures private. From 2006 the fair has not released sales figures. Whilst the fair is a commercial venture, it should be remembered that the fair equally relies on the relationships with collectors and curators made by participating galleries at the fair.

How are the galleries selected for the fair?
Around 500 galleries apply each year for the fair. Each year the application form is posted on the website in December, the application deadline is in February and the selection is made in April. There is then an appeals procedure in late April. The selection is made by a committee of gallerists who participate in the fair; the fair Directors chair the meeting but do not vote.

Who is on the selection committee?
The 2010 selection committee was:
Daniel Buchholz, Director, Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Sadie Coles, Director, Sadie Coles HQ
Marcia Fortes, Director, Galeria Fortes Vilaça
Cornelia Grassi, Director, greengrassi
Maureen Paley, Director, Maureen Paley
Toby Webster, Director, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster
Curators Cecilia Alemani and Daniel Baumann were appointed as special advisers to Frame in 2010.

What is the relationship between Frieze Art Fair and frieze magazine?
The fair and the magazine are both wholly owned by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp. The magazine was founded, in 1991, by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover with the artist Tom Gidley. When the magazine began both Amanda and Matthew served as editors, but ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. In 2003, the first year of Frieze Art Fair, they assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and Directors of the fair. Amanda and Matthew maintain the overall direction of both the art fair and the magazine, but editorial decisions are made by the Co-Editors Jörg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie, as well as Senior Editor Dan Fox. The fair and the magazine share offices, administration, communications and accounts personnel. In 2008 and 2009 the talks programme at the fair was organised by the magazine editors. In 2010 Frieze appointed Robert Devereux to its board as Chairman.

What is Frieze Foundation?
Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation, which was established the same year as the fair (2003). The foundation oversees: Frieze Talks, a programme of panel discussions and lectures printed annually during the four days of the fair; Frieze Projects, a curated programme of site-specific projects by artists in and around the fair; The Cartier Award, annually presented to an international emerging artist. The foundation also administers Frieze Music, Frieze Education and Frieze Film.

How is Frieze Foundation funded?
The foundation has received funding from a number of sources including grant bodies such as the European Union’s Culture 2000 programme and Arts Council, England. Specific areas also receive sponsorship, for example Cartier has sponsored Frieze Projects since 2005.

Who runs the curatorial programme at the fair?
The programme for 2010 will be curated by Sarah McCrory. It was curated previously by Neville Wakefield, from 2007 to 2009, and Polly Staple, from 2003 to 2006.
Can I make a project at the fair?
The curatorial programme is carefully considered many months before the fair. For artists not known to the curator, the best route to show a project at the fair is via an application to the Cartier Award. 

What is Frieze Education and how is it funded?
Frieze Education is part of Frieze Foundation and is presented in association with Frieze Art Fair’s main sponsor Deutsche Bank. The programme runs over the four days of the fair. During the week local school groups participate in the programme developed in 2009 as in 2008 in collaboration with ReachOut RCA. Frieze Education has previously worked with the Serpentine Gallery in 2003 and 2004 as well as Camden Art Centre in 2005, 2006 and 2007. At the weekend the Deutsche Bank Education Space (which is housed in the fair) is open to family groups and visiting children. They have the opportunity to undertake activities that engage with fair at large. The programme is developed to introduce children and young people to contemporary art in an exciting and fun way.

What is Frieze Music and how is it funded?
Frieze Music was established to develop the crossover between contemporary art and music. A concert (or a series of concerts) is presented during the week of Frieze Art Fair in an off-site location. Frieze Music was originally created by Dan Fox, Senior Editor of frieze magazine, and Steve Mackey, producer and musician. Frieze Music’s varied programme has featured bands, avant-garde classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and pop series, such as that co-ordinated by Franz Ferdinand in 2004. Frieze Music takes place during the week of the fair and attracts a wide audience. In 2009 Frieze Music was conceived and choreographed by Turner-Prize winning artist Martin Creed and was co-commissioned by Frieze Music and Sadler’s Wells; developing the remit to Frieze Music to include dance. In 2010, Frieze Music will be programmed by Sarah McCrory and Sam Thorne.
Does Frieze produce any publications to accompany the fair?
Each year Frieze publishes the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook, a guide to what is current in the world of contemporary art. The Yearbook introduces over 300 artists from around the globe, with a critical text and colour illustration of their work. It also features interviews with Frieze Projects’ artists; provides details of all the galleries participating in Frieze Art Fair and has an index listing over 2000 artists. Frieze also published Frieze Projects: Artists’ Commissions and Talks 2003-2005 as a record of the work of Frieze Foundation, featuring essays on the commissioned projects and texts from the lectures and panel discussions. The book serves as a valuable introduction to the critical debates in contemporary art. A second book in this series was published in 2009, entitled Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks 2006–2008, and features artists from Mike Nelson to Richard Prince and speakers from Dave Hickey to Adrian Piper.

If I cannot get to London for Frieze Art Fair is there any part of it that I can still enjoy?
frieze.com offers podcasts of all Frieze Talks as well as details of Frieze Projects and Frieze Film. Frieze Art Fair also publishes a comprehensive guide to contemporary art Frieze Art Fair Yearbook, which is available from mid-September each year and can be ordered online at frieze.com or purchased from all good bookshops. For updates on Frieze Art Fair 2010, follow @friezeartfair on twitter, become a fan on facebook and sign up to the Frieze email newsletter at frieze.com.

17/06/10

Frieze Film 2010: New Commissions

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Frieze Film 2010: New Commissions

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 four commissioned films as well as a curated film programme that will be shown in a specially constructed cinema outside the entrance to the fair that will be free to the public. 

The artists commissioned to make new work for Frieze Film are: Jess Flood-Paddock, Linder, Elizabeth Price and Stephen Sutcliffe.

The commissioned films by British artists will be shown alongside specially selected programmes as well as existing films by this year’s Frieze Projects artists. Full details of the guest-curated programmes will be available from late Summer.

The four Frieze Film commissions will be previewed in Channel 4’s innovative ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 11 October to Thursday 14 October, at 7.55pm. In previous years collaborations between Frieze Film and Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonders’ have averaged audiences in excess of one million viewers.

Commenting on Frieze Film, Avi Grewal of Channel 4 added: ‘I am thrilled to be involved with this project, Frieze Film has established an unrivalled reputation for producing bold, irreverent and audacious films. Channel 4 is proud to be a part of this movement, taking risks, pushing boundaries and inspiring change is at the heart of what we do.’

Frieze Film is presented as part of Frieze Art Fair’s unique curated programme. Frieze Film, together with Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks and Frieze Education, is commissioned and produced under the auspices of Frieze Foundation.

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Editors’ Notes

Frieze Film commissions 2010:

Jess Flood-Paddock Island - A Regime.

Drawn from an exhibition and residency taking place in Malta, Jess Flood-Paddock will make a three-minute film looking at the benefits of perimeters, routines and regulations of creativity; investigating how things are made.

During this residency, involving researching art collectives, alternative energy, access to information, home and industrial economies, making, baking, gardening, swimming and film screenings, elements of time were spent looking at an alternative way of living and will edge into the film.

Shot mostly on a mobile phone, with brief sections and passages on a higher resolution camera to create momentary contrast, the work will have the grainy look of lo-fi video. It will feature three main movements exploring scale, travel and disorientation, and distance from the location creating an island narrative that can be compared to the stories of Where the Wild Things Are and King Kong. The video will have an original soundtrack made by two solo musicians, a banjo solo by Sam Steer and a psychedelic rock drone solo by Alexander Tucker.

Linder – Forgetful Green

Linder’s commission for Frieze Film 2010 will be filmed in the aftermath of her upcoming Chisenhale Gallery performance.

On July 10th, a 13-hour improvisational performance, The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME will take place at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. On the next day, the characters from The Darktown Cakewalk – a Star, a Muse, Puella Aeterna, a Witch, a Cakewalk King and Queen – will find themselves blinking in the early morning light in the Rose Field of Cants of Colchester, the oldest rose growers in Britain. The three-minute film begins here – the morning after the night before as if in Heironymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights – now manicured, suburban and retail. Abandoned hairdryers, vacuum cleaners and other domestic appliances amongst the roses pun on the use of 20th-century Bosch electrical appliances.

The three-minute duration of the film mirrors that of the seven-inch single. Three minutes of sound was the optimum recorded length for a single due to the constraints of manufactured vinyl from 1900 until the 1960s. Songwriters and musicians composed and recorded songs appropriate to the constraints of this format. A three-minute single, a ‘spiral scratch’, is reflected in the filmed choreography throughout the rose garden, and echoes the mystical spirals of Dante or the mythic site of Glastonbury Tor.

The characters from The Darktown Cakewalk circle through the rose garden led by Linder as Minerva (Minnie Mouse’s original name) and eventually meet the artist Harminder Singh Judge as the goddess Kali by way of Gene Simmons from the rock group, Kiss.  The film traces a compressed history of glamour, from its origins in 18th-century Scotland describing enchantment, to its present day aerosolic ghosts.

Elizabeth Price – The Tent

The Tent, Elizabeth Price’s new work for Frieze Film, will extrapolate an eventful fictional narrative from a black-&-white printed booklet and the body of art that it features in its pages. Presenting artworks with reduced economies, the book, a 1972 Arts Council publication entitled Systems, includes drawings, documentation of works, and photographs of the artists in the ‘British Systems group’, along with extended texts written by each of them.

The video’s imagery will be derived from recording both the object of the book and the images it contains. The videography will employ experimental, high contrast exposures that will cause white pages to bleach away almost entirely, and black pages to intensify so that they become suggestive of spaces rather than surfaces; so that the diagrams/images on those pages seem to float in voids.

The narration will be formulated from the text of the book and delivered as motion graphics. Fragments of text will be excerpted and reorganised, to compose a fractured story that reveals the ideological and imaginative world articulated within the book. The narrative will exploit the publication’s recurring themes: apocalyptic anxiety and futurological urgency; the idealized relations between social and aesthetic economies; and ambitions for art’s social agency.

The soundtrack will also be drawn from the material of the book. Sounds (of flicking pages for example) will be amplified and manipulated to form the basis of the soundtrack.

Stephen Sutcliffe

Stephen Sutcliffe’s point of departure for his commission for Frieze Film 2010 will be Colin Wilson’s seminal book the The Outsider. In this book Wilson uses Thomas Mann’s 1943 novel Doctor Faustus as an antithesis to his own idea of a ‘positive existentialism’ and claims that Mann’s model for the character of Leverkühn was Friedrich Nietzsche. In Chapter 25 of Mann’s Doctor Faustus the composer Adrian Leverkühn has a   meeting with the devil. This hallucination is brought on by a suspected syphilitic infection picked up from a brothel visit, for which Leverkühn has been unsuccessfully treated earlier in the book. He is then enticed by the devil to sell his soul for musical perfection for a period of years, whilst his body slowly fails.

For Sutcliffe’s new video work Colin Wilson himself will meet the amorphous character of the devil, confronting Mann’s theme directly, by collageing Wilson’s criticism from The Outsider with Chapter 25 from Doctor Faustus. Sutcliffe’s new work will continue his interest in collage, not only in the integration of both of the texts, but also with the implementation of differing filmic techniques to themes of artistic self-doubt with explorations of interior psychology, and in this case, Mann’s favourite topic: of the discord between genius and sanity.

Frieze Art Fair – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 14 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 17 October 11am – 6pm
Preview:
Wednesday 13 October
Advance Tickets are on sale from 1 June:
Box Office and 24-hour credit card hotline:
See Tickets +44 (0) 871 230 3452
Group Bookings: +44 (0) 844 412 4650
Online Bookings: seetickets.com

08/06/10

Frieze Projects 2010 Announced

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Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. It is curated by Sarah McCrory and, this year, includes nine specially commissioned projects as well as the Cartier Award and collaborations with our 2010 EU partner institution Vector Association (Romania).

The artists commissioned to create these site-specific works for Frieze Art Fair are Ei Arakawa and Karl Holmqvist, Spartacus Chetwynd, Matthew Darbyshire, Shannon Ebner and Dexter Sinister, Gabriel Kuri, Shahryar Nashat, Nick Relph, Annika Ström and Jeffrey Vallance.

This year’s programme of commissioned projects includes elements of performativity – either directly, with performances taking place in and around the fair, or more obliquely, commanding a level of involvement from visitors. Ranging from the spectacular to the intimate, the emphasis is on a direct engagement that will rest upon a series of personal encounters.

The Cartier Award 2010 recipient is Simon Fujiwara. Fujiwara will present Frozen; an installation based on the fictive premise that an ancient lost city has been discovered beneath the site of the fair. Throughout the fair, visitors will encounter archaeological digs, displays of found artefacts and graphic panels describing a historic civilization that was once a hub of art and commerce.

Frieze Projects presents newly commissioned artworks by international artists. Offered as an opportunity to work in a unique context, the artists commissioned by Frieze Projects use Frieze Art Fair as a site to realise ambitious ideas in an exceptional environment.

Frieze Projects is commissioned by Frieze Foundation and presented in association with Cartier. Frieze Foundation is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union and Arts Council England.

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Editors’ Notes

Frieze Projects 2010:

pOEtry pArk will take place in Regent’s Park and incorporate various activities and performances relating to an expanded idea of poetry. A unique first-time collaboration by Ei Arakawa and Karl Holmqvist, the ‘park’ will include sculptural and print interpretations of poetry as a physical existence. pOEtry pArk will also function as a refuge from the fair, a haven to which visitors can retreat temporarily from the preoccupied atmosphere of the fair, incorporating relaxing and meditative activities and an environment influenced by Japanese-american artist Isamu Noguchi.

Spartacus Chetwynd: A Tax Haven Run By Women (In The Style Of A Luna Park Game Show)
Chetwynd will create a new unique performance based on a live game show. Two teams, ‘The Oppressed Purée’ and ‘Women Who Refuse To Grow Old Gracefully’, will take part in a live competition. Accompanied by a chamber orchestra recreating seal music, they will perform mime and dance routines in order to compete for the glory of a ride on ‘The Cat Bus’, a character brought to life from Studio Ghibli’s animefilm, Totoro My Neighbour. Continuing Chetwynd’s interest in amateur performance, handmade costume, and a number of conflating influences, ranging from Mae West to John Waters, via Doris Lessing and the Marx Brothers, the event will be a spirited contest.

Matthew Darbyshire
Darbyshire will redesign the ticket tent to simulate the design of a popular mobile phone concept store. Fully functional as the box office, it will also include a number of the functionless devices often used by the creators of such concept stores and the subversion of what we consider classic store design concepts. The project examines how an audience with varying levels of familiarity with commercial design, reacts to the displaced design conventions employed within the structure.

Shannon Ebner and Dexter Sinister: reading room
Ebner and Dexter Sinister will work in collaboration to create a reading room. Working as a live-talking room, a designated space for public reading to be seen and heard on a continual basis for the duration of the fair, readers will be solicited by invitation and from voluntary participants drawn from the general population of the fair. The readers’ voices recorded from inside the room will be broadcast in various locations both within the fair and around the world.

Gabriel Kuri
Kuri will create a number of powder-coated metal sculptures that will replace the fair’s existing outdoor ashtrays. These sculptures will require the direct interaction of the audience to complete the works. As they are used, the surface will become soiled and damaged by refuse and burns that accumulate throughout the duration of the fair. The sculptures question not only the relationship between viewer, functional object and artwork, but also their position in the transitory space between inside and out.

Shahryar Nashat
Nashat continues his dialogue with the art of others in a new video work, examining how display and reproduction affect meaning and mediation. By taking a group of selected sculptures not present at the fair, Nashat will conceive of these works as sculptural displays of proxies or stand-ins, at various locations throughout the fair, signalling the displacement and absence of the artworks. Through his use of specific film techniques such as radical framing, cropping, focal pulls and the notion of a subjective camera, he puts himself in the position of the viewer encountering the chosen artworks.

Nick Relph
Relph will invite a number of artists to design and build donation boxes for a charity or institution of their choosing. These boxes will be installed throughout the fair, encouraging the visiting public to donate as they see fit. Once the fair is over, both the box itself and the money raised will be given to the chosen charities. As a public display of physical cash and relative modesty, the project will contrast with the vast amounts of ‘invisible’ money that is exchanged at the fair, and will be an opportunity for the artists involved to consider their work in a new context.

Annika Ström
Ström’s project will address the representation of women artists at the fair. Comprising an information map that plots women artists in the fair and tours by leading artists, curators and critics, the project will also encompass a unique performative element that draws on humour, embarrassment and spectacle despite its more serious commentary.

Jeffrey Vallance
Vallance will present a panel discussion in the fair auditorium. He will employ five psychic mediums to channel the spirits of famous artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent van Gogh. These artists will be asked a number of questions. A moderator, a personality known in the art world, will pose questions querying the role of art in the after-world, and the dead artists’ opinions on the art market in the living world. The panel will open to audience questions at the end of the discussion.

EU Partner: Vector, Iasi (Romania)
Primarily constructed on the basis of gestures of auto-reflection, at Frieze Art Fair 2010 Vector faces the problem of how to perform its usual function despite its temporary displacement from its permanent site in the city of Iasi. Vector will be represented by works of a number of invited artists: Matei Bejenaru, Florin Bobu, Antonia Hirsch and the writer Dan Lungu. Another dimension to their presence in the fair will be Vector Publication, an experimental book with contributions by artists who have collaborated with Vector from 1997 to 2010. This project is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.

Frieze Art Fair – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 14 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 17 October 11am – 6pm

13/05/10

Cartier Award 2010: Winner Announced

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The Cartier Award 2010: Winner Announced
Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of the Cartier Award 2010 is the British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara, who is based in Berlin and Mexico City. His previous works have encompassed performance-style lectures, fictional writings and installations. His winning proposal was selected from over 500 applications by artists from all over the world.

For Frieze Art Fair 2010, sponsored for the seventh year by Deutsche Bank, Fujiwara plans to present a new site-specific work, Frozen; an installation based on the fictive premise that an ancient lost city has been discovered beneath the site of the fair. Throughout the fair, visitors will encounter archaeological digs, displays of found artefacts and graphic panels describing a historic civilization that was once a hub of art and commerce. Employing his fluid, personal approach to historical interpretation, Fujiwara will present the public with a proposition: that today’s art market is just one manifestation of an ancient and intrinsic need – to create, preserve, sanctify and fetishise art objects.

The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading art awards. It allows an emerging artist based outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the critically acclaimed
Frieze Projects programme. Sarah McCrory, curator of Frieze Projects, commenting on the announcement said: ‘By researching and exploring tales of this imaginary city, Fujiwara uncovers the fundamentally human desire to collect and assign value and status to desirable objects.  He will create a fictitious scenario by manipulating histories relating to mythical and real sites of cultural discovery, which will have a specific resonance with the fair’s audience.’

The Cartier Award forms an exciting and visible element of Cartier’s long-standing commitment to the commissioning and display of contemporary art. Grazia Quaroni, a member of the selection panel, and curator of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris added: ‘Simon Fujiwara’s Frozen is not only an original and complex interpretation of the game that is the Cartier Award but also for the particular exhibition context of Frieze Art Fair. His skilful use and manipulation of fiction, his ability to link different parts of the same project, his capacity to make the entire work readable by the public, his attention to audience involvement, all conquered this year’s jury. Fujiwara shows an impressive maturity for his young age, keeping a freshness and humour to intricate works.’

In 2010, Gasworks, London’s outstanding complex of artists’ studios, will once again host the award’s residency. Simon Fujiwara studied Architecture at Cambridge University and Fine Art at Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Künst in Frankfurt am Main. Selected shows and projects from 2010 include Manifesta 8, Murcia; 29th São Paulo Biennial; Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Leon; Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; 100 Years, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf. Forthcoming shows include a week-long performance project for Performa 11, New York, curated by Jens Hoffmann, and a solo exhibition at TATE, St.Ives.

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Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee: 
Roger Hiorns (Artist); Catalina Lozano (Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks); Sarah McCrory (Curator, Frieze Projects); 
Grazia Quaroni (Curator, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art).

The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three-month residency at Gasworks from August to October 2010, including accommodation, per-diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK-based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, or under 30 years of age.

Cartier UK is the Associate Sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and the Cartier Award. Cartier has a long-standing relationship with contemporary art and, over twenty years ago, the company established the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. 



Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and presenting a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Frieze Art Fair takes place from 14-17 October 2010 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world.

Frieze Art Fair – Information

Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 14 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 17 October 11am – 6pm

Preview: Wednesday 13 October

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11/05/10

Frieze Art Fair 2010: Details Announced

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Frieze Art Fair 2010: Details Announced

The Directors of Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, have announced today the details of the 2010 fair. Frieze Art Fair is one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs and every year brings an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in London. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the seventh consecutive year, Frieze Art Fair 2010 is a carefully selected presentation of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe. The selected galleries will present outstanding work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists and these will be presented alongside Frieze Art Fair’s unique curatorial programme Frieze Projects. Frieze Art Fair helps set the international contemporary art agenda.

2010 will see more galleries than ever at Frieze Art Fair, with a total of 173 exhibitors. The dynamism of galleries from emerging territories such as Asia and South America is balanced by a strong European and American contingent. Galleries new to the main section of the fair include: Bortolami, New York (USA); Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (Belgium); Michael Lett, Auckland (New Zealand). The successful introduction of Frame, dedicated to galleries under six years old showing solo artist presentations, sees its return in 2010. Notable presentations this year include: the first European showing of Brazilian sculptor Carlos Bevilacqua at Simon Preston Gallery, New York; artist duo Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas (Aids-3d) at Gentili Apri, Berlin and Naeem Mohaiemen at Experimenter, Kolkata. The galleries exhibiting in Frame are selected on the basis of an artist’s solo presentation. Frame is one of the key places to see artists for the first time and on a significant platform. The Frame galleries’ selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and
Cecilia Alemani. Frame is supported by Cos for the first time this year.

Co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented, ‘Against a backdrop of improved financial stability, we are delighted that Frieze Art Fair 2010 received more gallery applications than ever. The gallery list is a strong one. We would like to thank our main sponsor Deutsche Bank for their continued support, associate sponsor Cartier, and the Financial Times, our new media partner, for their contribution to the promotion and development of contemporary art.’

Details of the annual curatorial programme Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, Frieze Film and Frieze Education will be announced during the coming months. The recipient of The Cartier Award will be announced on 13 May. In previous years Frieze Projects, which is presented in association with Cartier, has presented new commissions by artists including Richard Prince, Ryan Gander, Paola Pivi and Mike Nelson. Frieze Talks has included keynotes by John Baldessari, Yoko Ono, Dave Hickey and Roni Horn. This year, Frieze Projects is curated by Sarah McCrory under the auspices of Frieze Foundation.

Frieze Education, which is presented in association with Deutsche Bank, has grown to be of great importance to the young adults and children visiting the fair, serving to familiarise them with the best in contemporary art, design and culture. Building on last year’s successful partnership with the Royal College of Art, Frieze Education will run a scheduled programme of events for schools local to the fair and drop-in events for families.

Pierre de Weck, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Global Head of Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank added: ‘We are delighted to continue to support Frieze Art Fair as it establishes itself as a major international event for the art world. We share the organisers’ interest in emerging art from around the world and are thrilled to see an ever increasing diversity of works at the Fair.’

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection continues in 2010, the eighth consecutive year of the collaboration. This unique partnership enables Tate to buy important works of art for the nation at Frieze Art Fair. The fund to date has raised over £900,000 and, as a result, 78 works by 51 significant international artists have been added to Tate’s collection since 2003.

The Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2010-11 will be available in September.

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Editors’ Notes

Participating Galleries (List in Formation)
303 Gallery, New York
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
The Approach, London
BaliceHertling, Paris
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Bortolami, New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
BQ, Berlin
The Breeder, Athens
Broadway 1602, New York
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Cabinet, London
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Corvi-Mora, London
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gagosian Gallery, London
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Greene Naftali, New York
greengrassi, London
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Hauser & Wirth, London
Herald St, London
hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
Hollybush Gardens, London
Hotel, London
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
IBID Projects, London
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Kamm, Berlin
Casey Kaplan, New York
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Johann König, Berlin
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Michael Lett, Auckland
Lisson Gallery, London
Long March Space, Beijing
Kate MacGarry, London
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Giò Marconi, Milan
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Mary Mary, Glasgow
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Massimo Minini, Brescia
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Maureen Paley, London
Peres Projects, Berlin
Perrotin, Paris
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
Galeria Plan B, Cluj
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Raster, Warsaw
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples
Almine Rech, Paris
Regina Gallery, Moscow
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Salon 94, New York
Aurel Scheibler/ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Sprüth Magers Berlin London, Berlin
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
Sutton Lane, London
T293, Naples
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Team Gallery, New York
Richard Telles, Los Angeles
The Third Line, Dubai
Vermelho, Sao Paulo
Vilma Gold, London
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Waddington Galleries, London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Michael Werner, New York
White Cube, London
Max Wigram Gallery, London
Wilkinson, London
XL Gallery, Moscow
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Zero, Milan
David Zwirner, New York

Frame
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, Shannon Ebner
Ancient & Modern, London, Des Hughes
Chert, Berlin, Heike Kabisch
Lisa Cooley, New York, Frank Haines
Experimenter, Kolkata, Naeem Mohaiemen
Fonti, Naples, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
James Fuentes LLC, New York, Jessica Dickinson
Gaga, Mexico City, Adriana Lara
Gentili Apri, Berlin, Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas (Aids-3D)
François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, Neil Beloufa
Karma International, Zurich, Tobias Madison
Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Ion Grigorescu
MOT International, London, Laure Prouvost
Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, Keiichi Tanaami
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, Erika Vogt
Platform China, Beijing, Jin Shan
Simon Preston, New York, Carlos Bevilacqua
Renwick Gallery, New York, Drew Heitzler
Rodeo, Istanbul, Mark Aerial Waller
Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Salvatore Arancio
Micky Schubert, Berlin, Manuela Leinhoss
Seventeen, London, Oliver Laric
Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Tony Just
Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Marius Engh
Rob Tufnell, London, Ruth Ewan

Frieze Art Fair Participating Territories
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
China
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UAE
UK
USA

Frieze Art Fair – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 14 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 17 October 11am – 6pm

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12/11/09

New Curator for Frieze Art Fair 2010

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London-based Sarah McCrory has today been announced as the new Curator of Frieze Projects, the unique programme of artists’ commissions which takes place annually as part of Frieze Art Fair. McCrory takes up the post with immediate effect.

McCrory has previously worked in not-for-profit and commercial galleries. Most recently she ran South London’s Studio Voltaire together with fellow curator Joe Scotland and established its reputation as a leading cutting-edge exhibition space. McCrory will continue to work with the gallery as Curator at Large. McCrory has also worked as Curator at Swallow Street; the self-publishing fair Publish and Be Damned and was Director of Vilma Gold gallery for two years.

McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists. In the past she has worked with artists including Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.

In 2009 McCrory, with Curator Daniel Baumann, acted as an advisor to the Directors and Selection Committee of Frieze Art Fair on the fair’s new section Frame, which was inaugurated to give greater representation of galleries under six years old. Twenty-nine international galleries took part in 2009.

McCrory takes over the role of Curator, Frieze Projects from Neville Wakefield who was Curator from 2006–2009. Wakefield continues his portfolio career, including his position as Senior Curator for P.S.1 in New York. The inaugural Curator of Frieze Projects was Polly Staple who held the post from 2003–2006 and is now Director, Chisenhale Gallery, East London.

McCrory will also take up a position on the judging panel of the Cartier Award 2010 a major award for emerging artists living outside the UK. The other judges are Grazia Quaroni, Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art; Catalina Lozano, Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks and the artist Roger Hiorns. The Cartier Award is a major initiative by Frieze Projects in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier.

Directors of Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented, ‘Sarah McCrory is acknowledged as a major force in the London art world. She has a reputation for supporting and showcasing emerging artists who then make their name internationally. She is dynamic, brilliantly informed and connected and full of the kind of energy and fun we need for our unique curatorial programme.’

Sarah McCrory added, ‘I am delighted to take up the position of Curator, Frieze Projects at a time when the programme is not only an integral and highly anticipated element of Frieze Art Fair, but also in its own right is an important commissioning opportunity allowing artists of all levels to develop ambitious projects.’

Sarah McCrory will work alongside Sorrel Hershberg Project Manager, Frieze Foundation who has been in post for two years.

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Editors’ Notes

Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair which presents art that regards the particular circumstances of the fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere.
Frieze Projects is commissioned by Frieze Foundation in association with Cartier.

Frieze Foundation is generously supported by the Culture Programme of the European Commission and Arts Council England.

Frieze Foundation encompasses Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, Frieze Film, Frieze Music and Frieze Education.

Frieze Art Fair will take place in London’s Regent’s Park 14 – 17 October 2010.

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20/10/09

Clear Evidence of Confidence at Frieze Art Fair 2009

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At the close of the seventh edition of Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, participating galleries reported clear evidence of renewed confidence in the contemporary art market.

Fair directors, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp were delighted with reports of significant sales from new and established galleries exhibiting at the 2009 fair, as well as the enjoyable and positive atmosphere engendered at the event and commented, ‘We have been extremely pleased by the extent of the sales successes reported by major US, European, Latin American and UK galleries as well as the younger galleries in our new Frame section. The strong museum shows in London coinciding with the fair helped to attract the world’s most important collectors, curators and museum directors. The galleries have rewarded UK and international visitors by bringing great pieces of the highest standard to Frieze Art Fair this year and everyone involved has commented on the great atmosphere this week.’

Frieze Art Fair 2009 presented 165 of the world’s leading galleries from 30 countries. The fair welcomed 29 new galleries under six years old as part of Frame, and 24 further new galleries. Over 1,000 artists were showcased. Visitor figures once again reached 60,000 making attendance comparable to the last two years. Sales at Frieze Art Fair 2009 reflected the breadth of artists and works on show. Hauser &Wirth sold a Louise Bourgeois sculpture, The Couple, to a European collection for $3.5 million, Neo Rauch’s Harmios sold for $1 million at David Zwirner, a Baldessari Beethoven’s Trumpet (with Ear) Opus 133 on the Sprüth Magers stand sold for $400,000, and Eva Presenhuber sold its Ugo Rondinone work A Day Like This Made of Nothing and Nothing Else for €270,000. Alison Jacques reported the sale of a Hannah Wilke bronze for $150,000 while at Frame, Seventeen Gallery sold a work by Susan Collis for £35,000, and Project 88 from Mumbai sold an original Sarnath Banerjee work for £8,000.

The new section to the fair, Frame, was extremely popular with collectors, visitors and gallerists, and allowed younger galleries to show at Frieze Art Fair for the first time. Curators Daniel Baumann and Sarah McCrory who were special advisors to Frame in 2009 commented, ‘Frame has been an amazing success. Not only have the presentations been well received critically, but also many galleries have reported great
sales. The galleries have been positive about the architecture of the space and the atmosphere and many of the participating artists have received invitations to show in major institutions.’

International galleries were almost entirely uniform in their response to the fair, recognising strong sales and a positive change of mood; Iwan Wirth of Hauser &Wirth said, ‘For us, this has been one of our best Frieze Art Fairs ever. We’re delighted to have sold Louise Bourgeois’s sculpture The Couple to a European collection. Also on show in the park, Paul McCarthy’s Henry Moore Bound to Fail is on hold. We had a great success with Ida Applebroog, selling all the works on our booth, proving just how important it is to focus on older as well as younger generation artists. At this point in time, we have sold works by Andreas Hofer, Roni Horn, Wilhelm Sasnal, Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Paul McCarthy, Michael Raedecker, Hans Josephsohn, Henry Moore, Christopher Orr, Zhang Enli, David Zink Yi and Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Sales have been steady and consistent throughout.’

Carol Greene of Greene Naftali Gallery said, ‘Frieze Art Fair was an extraordinary success for us. We had low expectations but surpassed all our past fair sales. We also felt that we were able to not just place works but to engage in meaningful conversations with the collectors, curators and artists, which will have more consequences over time. We did choose to focus our booth on fewer artists and made stronger statements with larger works by artists like Bjarne Melgaard, Rachel Harrison and Gedi Sibony – all of which were very well received. We sold the majority of our work in the first three hours but had
very focused good collectors the entire time. This is a fair in which every day something happens.’

Nicholas Logsdail of Lisson Gallery remarked, ‘We have done astonishingly well right across the board, from young artists to the old classics and the middle generation. We have made 40 sales, the value of which is in the millions. We really are astonished how incredibly robust the interest and recovery has been; also interesting is the depth and breadth of clients has vastly developed. Congratulations to Frieze for working so hard to develop the fair way beyond its previous levels of success. We’ve had brilliant success with Frieze Projects artist Ryan Gander and with Anish Kapoor. Shirazeh Houshiary has been a complete sell out. It has been one of the best years.’

Alison Jacques Gallery said, ‘We’ve had an exceptional Frieze Art Fair. Strong sales and great museum interest, within a fair that takes care of its exhibitors. We showed Hannah Wilke for the first time since working with the entire estate, and are delighted with the response.’

Sree Goswami Director of Project 88 remarked, ‘It has gone very well for us. We’ve sold to corporate collections and new buyers. There is a really good vibe and feel to the Frame section and it has been very carefully selected which is a bonus for collectors. We have sold all our Sarnath Banerjee original works. We have seen many Indian clients and have benefitted from the number of Indian artists that are having gallery and institutional shows throughout London.’

Markus Lüttgen of Lüttgenmeijer commented, ‘Couldn’t have been better – perfect. I think people are willing to buy again. We sold our Gareth Moore installation Neither Here nor There (2009) to the Tate and have sold other works too.’

Dave Hoyland, owner of Seventeen was delighted. ‘It has been amazing and vastly surpassed our expectations. We have placed all the work with great collections, mostly to Americans and also Belgian and Dutch collectors. We’re flattered to be here, the architecture of the Frame section is great and the respect shown to younger galleries has been amazing.’

Alexander Hertling, co-director of Balice Hertling Gallery observed, ‘We’ve met lots of institutional people and finalized exhibition projects. It has been a very international crowd and we have seen people from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and other new markets. We did think that showing a French artist could have been difficult but we could have sold our Isabelle Cornaro installation Landscape with Poussin, four times over.’

Toby Webster of The Modern Institute said, ‘The level of people here has been really important. Although we have been selling recently the mood has been down – however, here this has changed and the fear factor seems to have calmed. We were selling works well into the weekend, whereas other fairs stop. There’s a great pace to Frieze and we’ve got a great spread of sales from small drawings to installations, from beginners to major-league buyers.’

Maureen Paley commented, ‘The fair has been essential, extremely active and we are more than pleased with the response to works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Rebecca Warren and Kaye Donachie. Overall the energy seemed high and the fair has been concentrated and focused. The energy Frieze Art Fair brings to the whole of
London is quite phenomenal.’

Peter Kilchmann of Galerie Peter Kilchmann noted, ‘It was a very good fair and the first two days were particularly fantastic. We are very happy with the sales that we have made and there has been a nice atmosphere. The Tate acquisition of Artur Zmijewski’s Democracies (2009) has brought a big interest to a less-well-known artist and that is very pleasing.’

Jamie Schwartz of Kukje Gallery commented, ‘It has been pleasantly surprising and gone really well. We’ve had a good interest in young Korean artists particularly Jimhongsok and Haegue Yang. We’ve sold works by all the artists we’ve brought with us and had a tremendous response.’

Philipp Haverkampf of Contemporary Fine Arts added, ‘In general the fair has been good. With a particular interest in Thomas Houseago, Daniel Richter and Katja Strunz, we have had sales of works by all the gallery artists. In London we always sell to new people, Frieze Art Fair is extremely well attended and that good mix of people makes it very attractive.’

Martin Janda remarked, ‘Frieze has reacted to the changes in the art market. Frame is an important addition. And the combination of these factors has meant that sales have gone really well and the fair has been attended by a really good selection of curators. Artists that have received particular attention include, Roman Ondák, Jakob Kolding and Milena Dragicevic. For us it’s absolutely important to be here and we look forward to next year.’

Mihaela Lutea, of newcomers Plan B said, ‘It has been a really good fair for us, the best in a very long time. It is our first time in London and it is a great city. We’ve seen a very international spectrum of curators and everyone seems to have come to Frieze Art Fair from all over the world. We’ve had real success with Adrian Ghenie, and could have sold The End of Romanticism to a number of collectors. We sold it to a new client, an important French collector, for €35,000.’

Anthony Reynolds commented, ‘We have used the fair to launch a completely new artist, Asier Mendizabal, and it has worked out well, we have had a fantastic response both privately and institutionally and sold internationally.’

Jason Duval from Michael Werner observed, ‘It is our first time here and it was very successful – we’ve had sales. We’ve made lots of contacts that will be useful in the future with new collectors and new curators.’

Ben Faga from Richard Telles reported, ‘We’ve sold the things we brought and we’ve had lots of interest in work that is at the gallery too. There is a new generation of collectors here, which is promising.’

Wim Peeters of first-time exhibitors Office Baroque stated, ‘We’ve done great sales and met great curators – the balance between the market and content has been perfect. A new generation of artists has received proper attention and around the fair there seems to be an interest in different generations that might have been underexposed until now. This means renegotiating our understanding of art history and contemporary art, and we have participated in this ourselves by showing a 1965 Owen Land work. It’s been a real success.’

On winning the inaugural Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize, sponsored by Champagne Pommery, Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn, Director, Salon 94, said, ‘We are incredibly proud of the art we showcased at Frieze including David Hammons’ Flight Fantasy which we are pleased to have sold. The stand was carefully conceived to best display the creativity of our artists and we are thrilled to be recognised by Frieze Art Fair’s distinguished judges.’

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection acquired Alice Channer, See-Thru 2009 from The Approach, Zbigniew Libera, How to Train Little Girls 1987 from Raster, Warsaw, David Maljkovic, Images with their own Shadows 2008 from Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, Gareth Moore, Neither Here nor There 2009 Installation from Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Marwan Rechmaoui, Monument for the Living 2001 – 2008, from Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut and Hamburg, Artur Zmijewski, Democracies 2009 from Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich. A total of £120,000 was spent acquiring the works.

Collectors from the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East were in prominence at the fair.

Marty Eisenberg said, ‘Rebecca and I had a fantastic time at Frieze Art Fair. The community that came together this year made the event special in every way. The art on display was first rate, and the exhibitions and planned events throughout London made every day enlightening. Best of all we came away with some wonderful purchases.’

Collector Filiep Libert commented, ‘Excellent edition, I think one of the best ever. I really enjoyed Frame and all the presentations were absolutely great. Good atmosphere. I bought four pieces from different galleries even though it was not my intention, but the temptations were high and I just could not resist.’

Angela Missoni said, ‘I had to miss two editions of Frieze Art Fair and so I am thrilled to be back this year – the level of quality is always outstanding. I was impressed by the number of good pieces on display and how many really attracted me.’

Collector Ingvild Goetz remarked, ‘I love to visit Frieze Art Fair. It is always very inspiring, especially as young and emerging artists can be discovered here.’

Visitors to the fair included Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for Culture and Tourism at the Department for Culture Media and Sport, Lord Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Ed Vaizey the Shadow Minister for Culture; collectors Roman Abramovich, Rosa de la Cruz, Don and Mera Rubell, Charles Saatchi, Patrizia Sandretto, Dennis and Debra Scholl, Jerry Speyer and David Tieger; artists John Baldessari, Jeremy Deller, Marlene Dumas, Michael Elmgreen, Tracey Emin, Roger Hiorns, Gary Hume, Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, Goshka Macuga and Grayson Perry; as well as high-profile people such as, Lily Allen, Lily Cole, Jefferson Hack, Eva Herzigova, Evgeny Lebedev, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Gwyneth Paltrow and Zadie Smith.

Museum Groups visited from Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; MACBA, Barcelona; GAMEC, Bergamo; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; ARTIC - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; MAMCO, Geneva; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg; Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel; Patrons of The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection, London; Tate American Acquisitions Committee, Tate International Council, Tate Latin
American Acquisitions Committee, Tate Major Supporters, Serpentine Council, London; LA MOCA, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Kunstverein Munich, Munich; Guggenheim New York, New York; MoMA Contemporary Art Council, New York; MoMA Junior Associates, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington.

Frieze Projects, curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier, received huge critical acclaim. Artists commissioned this year were Mike Bouchet, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Ruth Ewan, Ryan Gander, Per-Oskar Leu, Monika Sosnowska, Stephanie Syjuco, and Superflex. Cartier Award 2009 winner Jordan Wolfson’s commission presented at the fair was Your Napoleon.

Frieze Talks, programmed by frieze magazine editors Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser and Dan Fox, presented an international line-up of artists, philosophers, writers and cultural commentators including John Baldessari, Hella Jongerius, Sylvère Lotringer and Agnès Varda.

The Sculpture Park in 2009 showed work from established artists including Louise Bourgeois and Paul McCarthy. Younger artists such as Vanessa Billy showed work in the Sculpture Park with the help of the second year of sponsorship from the Heath Lambert Group, incorporating Blackwall Green.

Frieze Film 2009 was by artist-activists Superflex. Short films, The Financial Crisis (Session I-IV), were broadcast as short films on Channel 4 television during the week of Frieze Art Fair and are available to view on frieze.com.

Frieze Music this year was a performance choreographed by Turner-Prize winning artist Martin Creed. Creed’s work, and his first ever ballet, Work No. 1020, was performed at Sadler’s Wells in London to critical acclaim, being described by The Guardian’s dance critic, Judith Mackrell, as ‘delicious’.

Frieze Education saw over 300 children taking part in the artist-led programme of workshops and discussions organised with ReachOutRCA (The Royal College of Art’s Educational Outreach Team) and held in the Deutsche Bank Education Space.

Pierre de Weck, Global Head of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and Member of the Group Executive Committee at Deutsche Bank commented: ‘We would like to congratulate the organisers of Frieze on another successful fair at which we saw Frieze take on an increasingly important role as a promoter of the latest ideas in contemporary art. We are particularly excited about the success of this year’s Frieze
Education programme for schools, which produced some of the highest quality works by young people we’ve seen. The workshops have been highly inspirational and we have seen a real raising of aspirations and a strong realization amongst the students of the opportunities open to them in the art world.’

Arnaud Bamberger, Managing Director, Cartier UK added, ‘Cartier is delighted to yet again be the associate sponsor of Frieze Art Fair, undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the world, a testament to the sheer dynamism and talent of Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp. Going through the ever changing entrance hall on the first day is always a thrill, as is experiencing the Frieze Projects commissions assembled by the eminent Neville Wakefield. I’m incredibly proud of the maturing Cartier Award, and this year Jordan Wolfson is a deserved winner.’

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Editors’ Notes
Frieze Art Fair 2010 will be held in Regent’s Park, London, from 14 to 17 October 2010.

Visit frieze.com to download Frieze Talks 2009.
Visit suttonpr.com for images of the fair, Frieze Projects and a portrait of co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover.
Visit guardian.co.uk for vodcasts and podcasts from Frieze Art Fair 2009.

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15/10/09

Tate Acquires New Work at Frieze Art Fair

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The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to the
The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection:
Alice Channer, born 1977, British
See-Thru 2009
Work on paper
From The Approach, London
Zbigniew Libera, born 1959, Polish
How to Train Little Girls 1987
Video
From Raster, Warsaw
David Maljkovic, born 1973, Croatian
Images with their own Shadows 2008
16mm film installation
From Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
Gareth Moore, born 1975, Canadian
Neither Here nor There 2009
Installation
From Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
Marwan Rechmaoui, born 1964, Lebanese
Monument for the Living 2001–2008
Sculpture
From Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut and Hamburg
Artur Zmijewski, born 1966, Polish
Democracies 2009
Video installation
From Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

The Fund, now in its 7th year, enables Tate to acquire works by emerging and
leading international artists from London’s Frieze Art Fair. This year the fund is a
total of £120,000.
 
Each year, two prominent international curators are invited to work alongside Tate
curators to select works. This year, Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public
Programs, San Francisco Art Institute and Joanna Mytkowska, Director, Warsaw
Museum of Modern Art, will select the works with Tate curators Ann Gallagher,
Jessica Morgan and Frances Morris. 
 
The Fund is organised by Outset which was founded in 2003 as a philanthropic
organisation dedicated to supporting new art. The charity focuses on raising private
funding from its supporters and trustees for public museums, galleries and art
projects.
 
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “We are grateful for the continuing support of
the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund which has enabled Tate to significantly extend its
Collection of work by new and emerging artists. This is increasingly important at a
time when funding for acquisitions is so limited.”
The 2009 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection is organised
and funded by Outset Contemporary Art Fund with support from Le Méridien.
 
 
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01/10/09

Frieze Art Fair 2009: Highlights

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The seventh edition of the leading international contemporary art fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, takes place in London from 15-18 October 2009.

World’s top contemporary art galleries 164 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 30 countries, will present new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists at Frieze
Art Fair. A fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the first presentation of Frame, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations. Frame will show 29 young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years. The galleries’ selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and Sarah McCrory. Taking place in the beautiful setting of Regent’s Park in a large temporary structure of approximately 21,000 square metres, Frieze Art Fair 2009 is designed for the second year running by renowned architects Caruso St John.

Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects presents art that regards the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere. This year’s seven projects create aesthetic opportunity out of the uncertainty that has become the hallmark of our troubled times; whether taking the form of grand architectural obstruction or finding new ways of protesting, authenticating or motivating our relationship to the objects we make, look at and buy. Mike Bouchet will provide a motivational speaker for the populace of Frieze Art Fair; UK-based collaborators Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth will create a seamless projection of stage-managed and live events filmed at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring unwitting visitors, gallerists and art fair workers; working alongside Resonance104.4fm radio Ruth Ewan will broadcast the entire contents of A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, started in 2003, the artist’s collection of around 1,500 politically motivated or idealistic songs now lasts for the exact duration of the Fair; Ryan Gander will set up an (almost) instant photo studio to make portraits of visitors to the fair looking at an artwork of their choice. The portrait will be printed immediately, given to the subjects and a copy will be hung in an installation along the entrance corridor to the fair; Per-Oskar Leu will arrange an impossible event at the fair – a book signing by Franz Kafka, 85 years after his death. Since none of Kafka’s novels were published during his lifetime, this book signing will be his first; Monika Sosnowska will present a major structural intervention in which a large, heavy object crashes into the roof of the fair. Taking the form of a scale model of the infamous Palace of Culture in Warsaw – a ‘gift’ to the Polish people from the USSR – Sosnowska’s project is a kind of cultural meteorite, the imposition of one cultural edifice onto another; Stephanie Syjuco will set up a parasitic workshop in which a small group of artists will make bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair. The artists will use basic and inexpensive materials and will work in a gallery stand at the fair in full view of visitors. The copies will be displayed in an adjacent gallery stand. This year’s European Partners are the Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, and curators Filipa Oliveira and Miguel Amado for Arte Contempo, Lisbon. Resonance 104.4fm will again be broadcasting live from the fair. Frieze Projects is curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier.

Frieze Talks
John Baldessari, Roger Hiorns, Hella Jongerius, Sylvère Lotringer and Agnès Varda, all form part of the international line-up of highly respected artists, filmmakers, designers, curators and cultural commentators making up Frieze Talks 2009, which is programmed by the Co-Editors of frieze Jennifer Higgie and Jörg Heiser and Senior Editor, Dan Fox. This year’s panels, conversations and keynote lectures will discuss, illustrate, perform and argue some of the myriad issues prevailing in the world of art and visual culture today. There are 12 talks in total this year, one of which is a project by Mike Bouchet.

The Cartier Award
American artist Jordan Wolfson is the fourth winner of The Cartier Award. Wolfson is an American conceptual artist, based in Berlin and New York and will present an intervention based on String Theory entitled Your Napoleon. Using the intricacies of quantum physics to navigate the complex structures of the fair, Wolfson’s project extends his transformations of culture and recent history into a unique conceptual language. The project will consist of guided tours that visitors can sign up to, and be guided by a string theorist. Each tour, strictly limited to one person at a time, is led by a scientist. The tours are recorded and transcribed to form the basis of an ever-changing, ever-growing script that will be re-enacted in Regent’s Park from Thursday 15 October to Monday 19 October.

Frieze Film
Frieze Film 2009 presents a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist-activists Superflex, The Financial Crisis (Session I–IV). Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars von Trier’s film Epidemic, Superflex’s new films will approach the economic crisis as a psychosis to be treated therapeutically. Subjects will undergo hypnosis to take them through the various stages of a financial meltdown. Frieze Film is being shown each day of the fair and on Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October at 7.55pm. In previous years collaborations between Frieze Film and Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot have averaged audiences in excess of one million viewers.

Frieze Music
Frieze Music 2009 will be a performance conceived and choreographed by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Co-commissioned by Frieze Music and Sadler’s Wells, Work No. 1020 will be performed at Sadler’s Wells during Frieze Art Fair 2009. This will be the first time that Creed has created a dance piece. Taking inspiration from Les Ballets Russes’ collaborations, Work No. 1020 will use music that Creed himself has composed. The work will be performed by five classically trained dancers at Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis studio on Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October.

Sculpture Park
This year’s Sculpture Park presents work by a broad spectrum of artists, including some of the most acclaimed international sculptors. Louise Bourgeois’ selected work, The Couple, 2003, is the largest in a series of hanging aluminium sculptures by the artist. Eva Rothschild, whose work has just been seen as the most recent Duveens’ commission at Tate Britain, will show a new work created specially for Frieze Art Fair, Someone and Someone, 2009. Artist Graham Hudson will make history at Frieze Art Fair this year. Edward VIII remains the only monarch since Elizabeth I not to have a statue or monument of commemoration in England; Hudson’s sculpture changes that. Underlining the established relationship between Frieze Art Fair and the Royal Parks, one of the Sculpture Park works will retain a place in the English Gardens long after Frieze week is over. American artist Paul McCarthy’s work, Henry Moore Bound to Fail (Bronze), 2004 is an homage to the oeuvre of Henry Moore and will remain on display for six months.

Frieze Education
Continuing its relationship with ReachOutRCA at the Royal College of Art for the second year running, Frieze Education aims to establish a strong legacy for the children and young people that take part, providing a highly ambitious, imaginative and critical exploration of Frieze Art Fair. Working with students from four inner-London schools, the Frieze Education Programme 2009, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, concentrates on sculpture and Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair, exploring them in their different manifestations. Taking place annually in the Deutsche Bank Education Space within the Fair, Frieze Education encompasses workshops for schools, a weekend public programme, a young person’s printed guide to Frieze Art Fair and an online resource. Over 300 children participated in Frieze Education in 2008.

The Stand Prize
The first Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize, sponsored by Champagne Pommery, will be judged by Peter Eleey (Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), Susanne Gaensheimer (Director of the Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt/Main) and Margot Heller (Director of the South London Gallery, London). A prize of £10,000 will go to the most innovative gallery stand at the fair. The prize will be awarded on the afternoon of Wednesday 14 October.

The Outset Fund
2009 marks the seventh anniversary of the successful collaboration between Outset, Frieze Art Fair and Tate. This unique partnership, based on the generosity of Outset, a charitable foundation focused on supporting new art, enables Tate to buy important work by emerging artists at the fair for the national collection. With a fund of more than £775,000, 72 works by 45 significant international artists have been collected since 2003.

The selection panel for 2009 will consist of Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate; Tate Curators Frances Morris, Jessica Morgan and Ann Gallagher; Hou Hanru, Curator, San Francisco Art Institute and Joanna Mytkowska, Curator, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art. The Fund is organized and financed by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and enjoys sponsorship from Le Méridien. The donors to Outset all have a particular interest in enabling Tate’s acquisition of emerging and contemporary art, and we are very grateful to all the participants for their generosity.

Hix Oyster Bar and Restaurant at Frieze Art Fair
Internationally renowned chef and restaurateur Mark Hix will bring Hix Oyster Bar and Restaurant to Frieze Art Fair for the first time. Mark Hix will be running the restaurant at the fair, offering a selection of classic British dishes. The menu will include Hix favourites such as lamb cutlets ‘reform’ and wing rib of beef to share, as well as Mark’s own ‘Hix Cure’ smoked salmon and a variety of oysters. Reservations can be made from September 21 on +44 (0)779 606 2508.

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Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm
Preview: Wednesday 14 October

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Editors’ Notes

Participating Galleries 2009
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Andersen’s contemporary, Copenhagen
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
The Approach, London
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
The Breeder, Athens
Broadway 1602, New York
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Luis Campaña, Berlin
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo
Club Nutz, Milwaukee
Sadie Coles HQ, London
COMA Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Corvi-Mora, London
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Dicksmith Gallery, London
doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gagosian Gallery, London
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Greene Naftali, New York
greengrassi, London
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Hauser & Wirth, London
Herald St, London
hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
Hollybush Gardens, London
Hotel, London
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
Kamm, Berlin
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
francesca kaufmann, Milan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Johann König, Berlin
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Krobath, Vienna
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon
Lisson Gallery, London
Long March Space, Beijing
Kate MacGarry, London
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Giò Marconi, Milan
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Mary Mary, Glasgow
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Massimo Minini, Brescia
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Jan Mot, Brussels
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Maureen Paley, London
Peres Projects, Berlin
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
Galeria Plan B, Cluj
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Rachmaninoff’s, London
Raster, Warsaw
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples
Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels
Regina Gallery, Moscow
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Salon 94, New York
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Sprüth Magers, London
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
T293, Naples
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Team Gallery, New York
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
The Third Line, Dubai
Vermelho, Sao Paulo
Vilma Gold, London
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Waddington Galleries, London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Michael Werner Gallery, New York
White Cube, London
Max Wigram Gallery, London
Wilkinson Gallery, London
XL Gallery, Moscow
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Zero, Milan
David Zwirner, New York

Frame 2009
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
Amp, Athens
Ancient & Modern, London
Balice Hertling, Paris
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Lisa Cooley, New York
Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent
Hunt Kastner, Prague
Ibid Projects, London
Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/Main
Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Limoncello, London
Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
Marz Galeria, Lisbon
Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
Monitor, Rome
Neon Parc, Melbourne
Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main
Project 88, Mumbai
Rodeo, Istanbul
galerie schleicher+lange, Paris
Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Seventeen, London
Franco Soffiantino, Turin
Supportico Lopez, Berlin
023 Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin
Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
Jonathan Viner Gallery/Fortescue Avenue, London

Frieze Art Fair Participating Territories
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil Spain
China Sweden
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Poland
Japan
Korea
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Switzerland
Turkey
UAE
UK
USA

25/09/09

The Cartier Award 2010: Call for Entries

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The Award 2010: Call for Entries

Frieze Art Fair announced today the call for entries to The Cartier Award 2010. The Cartier Award is open to artists living outside of the UK, up to five years from graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or under thirty years of age. The Cartier Award is organised by Frieze Projects, sponsored by Cartier and presented in collaboration with Gasworks.

The recipient of the prize will have the unique opportunity to present their work at Frieze Art Fair 2010, guaranteeing a major international audience. Additionally the prize will cover production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee, per diems, travel expenses and a studio residency at Gasworks in London from August to October 2010.

Now in its fifth year, The Cartier Award has proved to be an important milestone in the development of young artists’ careers. The inaugural winner in 2006, Mika Rottenberg, showed at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 and the 2007 winner, Mario Garcia Torres, received a solo exhibition at White Cube, London in 2008. The winner of The Cartier Award 2009 is Jordan Wolfson, an American artist whose work focuses on film and video. At Frieze Art Fair 2009 he will present Your Napoleon, a new site-specific work. His proposal was chosen from over 450 applications submitted by artists from across the world.

Proposals for work can take the form of site-specific installations; performance; film; video or print work. Applicants will be judged on the innovative nature of their proposal and its suitability for realisation at Frieze Art Fair. The selection committee for The Cartier Award 2010 comprises Roger Hiorns (Artist), Catalina Lozano (Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks), Grazia Quaroni (Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art) and the 2010 Curator of Frieze Projects.

Application forms will be available from 1 October 2009 and the deadline for applicants is 5 January 2010. For full details of the award and an application form please visit
http://www.friezefoundation.org/cartier.

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Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee
Roger Hiorns, Artist
Catalina Lozano, Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks
Grazia Quaroni, Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art
Curator, Frieze Projects

The Cartier Award
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides project production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three month residency at Gasworks including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK based artists within 5 years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is a curated programme of site-specific artist commissions that takes place at Frieze Art Fair together with Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.

Cartier and The Cartier Award
Cartier is the associate sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and The Cartier Award. Their dedicated support expresses the spirit of the Cartier Foundation for
Contemporary Art.

Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and includes a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and
educational projects.

Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair takes place from 15–18 October 2009 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world.

Frieze Art Fair 2009 – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm

Preview:
Wednesday 14 October

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21/09/09

Sculpture Park 2009: Details Announced

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Frieze Art Fair 2009 Sculpture Park Details Announced: Paul McCarthy work to remain in Regent’s Park for Six Months

Frieze Art Fair announced today the works to be installed in its Sculpture Park, which will be presented in the wonderful setting of the English Gardens of Regent’s Park, located a short walk to the east of the entrance to the fair. Entry to the Sculpture Park is free.

This year’s Sculpture Park, again sponsored by Heath Lambert, presents work by a strong and broad spectrum of artists, including some of the most acclaimed international sculptors working today, and a number of previously unseen pieces. These include Louise Bourgeois, whose selected work, The Couple, 2003, is the largest in a series of hanging aluminium sculptures by the artist. Eva Rothschild, whose work has just been seen as the most recent Duveens’ commission at Tate Britain, will show a new work created specially for Frieze Art Fair, Someone and Someone, 2009. Artist Graham Hudson will make history at Frieze Art Fair this year. Edward VIII remains the only monarch since Elizabeth I not to have a statue or monument of commemoration in England; Hudson’s sculpture changes that.

Underlining the established relationship between Frieze Art Fair and the Royal Parks, one of the Sculpture Park works will retain a place in the English Gardens long after Frieze week is over. American artist Paul McCarthy’s work, Henry Moore Bound to Fail (Bronze), 2004 is an homage to the oeuvre of Henry Moore and will remain on display for six months.

Bursaries provided by Heath Lambert, incorporating Blackwall Green, have allowed innovative and diverse proposals by some participating galleries, enabling works that may not otherwise have been realised.

This year’s Sculpture Park demonstrates a distinctly international feel, with representation of works from both emerging and established artists from around the world. Artists also presenting work at the 2009 Sculpture Park include Neha Choski, from Project 88 gallery in Mumbai, Italian artist Andre Nacciarriti, whose sculpture Grain Circles, 2009, will use bales of hay in the space, and Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, who will show a new work called Bandera (Flag), 2009. Margolles’ recent work for the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale involved an emotive representation of the pervasive economy of death plaguing Mexico.

Other highlights this year include a work by Rémy Markowitsch, BONSAIPOTATO, 2001/2009, Zhan Wang’s Artificial Rock No. 16, 2007, Erwin Wurm’s Pumpkin, 2009, and Maria Roossen’s Breast Berries, 2009.

The Sculpture Park will also inform Frieze Education in 2009. Working with RCA alumni, young people will not only experience workshops and build works inside the fair, but also use the sculpture at Frieze Art Fair as inspiration.

David Thorp, selector of the Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair commented, “The Sculpture Park is a fantastic opportunity for the Frieze Art Fair audience and the wider public to see some of the world’s most interesting artists and the setting is perfect. This year sees a particularly diverse, international and exciting mélange of artists and works being presented on this inclusive and public stage at the UK’s biggest art event.”

Adam Prideaux of Heath Lambert Group incorporating Blackwall Green added, “Heath Lambert is proud to be associated with Frieze Art Fair and to be able to sponsor the Sculpture Park for the second year running. As one of the leading specialist art insurance brokers in the world we are committed to working with artists across the globe. Heath Lambert is delighted to offer bursaries to enable new talent to be showcased at this prestigious event.”

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List of Works

Vanessa Billy
Two Trees I , 2009 and Two Trees II , 2009
Limoncello

Louise Bourgeois
The Couple, 2003
Hauser & Wirth

Neha Choksi
A Child’s Grove, 2009
Project 88

Graham Hudson
Edward VIII, 2009
Monitor

Teresa Margolles
Bandera (Flag), 2009
Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Rémy Markowitsch
BONSAIPOTATO, 2001/2009

Paul McCarthy
Henry Moore Bound to Fail (Bronze), 2004
Hauser & Wirth

Andrea Nacciarriti
Grain Circus, 2009
Franco Soffiantino

Maria Roossen
Breast Berries, 2009
Galerie Fons Welters

Eva Rothschild
Someone and Someone, 2009
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd. / Stuart Shave/Modern Art / Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Zhan Wang
Artificial Rock No. 16, 2007
Long March Space

Erwin Wurm
Pumpkin, 2009
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Heath Lambert Group incorporating Blackwall Green
Heath Lambert’s Art, Jewellery and Private Client Division, incorporating Blackwall Green, comprises the largest specialist Fine Art and Specie team in the UK, providing risk management and comprehensive bespoke insurance solutions to some of the world’s leading private collectors, artists, antique, commercial art and jewellery dealers, art restorers and conservators, art transporters, galleries and museums. It also has a dedicated private client team advising and handling the personal insurances for High Net Worth individuals.

Frame
A Fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the presentation of Frame, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations. Frame will show young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years. The galleries selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and Sarah McCrory.

Frieze Education
Frieze Education this year continues its relationship with ReachOutRCA at the Royal College of Art, and is held in the Deutsche Bank Education Space. This Is Yours, the Frieze Education Programme 2009, concentrates on sculpture and Frieze projects at Frieze Art Fair, exploring them in their different manifestations. Two RCA sculpture alumni, Nicolas Deshayes and Melissa Jordan, will lead two schools groups, each using their own approach to their work as a starting point. The works will be on show in the Deutsche Bank Education Space on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October. Designed for younger children attending the fair, the weekend workshops will use animation and sculpture to interpret Frieze projects. Weekend workshops are free and on a drop in basis from 11.30am to 5.30pm. Timed hourly drop in sessions will grow throughout the day into one large project.

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Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm

Preview: Wednesday 14 October

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10/09/09

Frieze Education 2009: Details Announced

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Frieze Education 2009 presents This is Yours

Frieze Art Fair announced today the details of the Frieze Education Programme 2009 which will be held in the Deutsche Bank Education Space. Frieze Art Fair continues its relationship with ReachOutRCA at the Royal College of Art to create the programme for the second year running.
Aiming to establish a strong legacy for the children and young people that take part, ReachOutRCA provides a highly ambitious, imaginative and critical exploration of Frieze Art Fair. Working with students from four inner-London schools, the Frieze Education Programme 2009 concentrates on sculpture and Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair, exploring them in their different manifestations.
Encompassing workshops for schools, a weekend public programme, a young person’s printed guide to Frieze Art Fair and an online resource, This Is Yours provides an exciting scheme that allows participants to take ownership of their cultural experiences, making learning about art more meaningful and fun.

Two RCA sculpture alumni will lead two schools groups, each using their own approach to their work as a starting point. Nicolas Deshayes will focus on the readymade, giving students the experience of making a proposal for a public sculpture. Melissa Jordan will focus on using the image as central to making sculpture, working from old books and two-dimensional formats to create three-dimensional pieces to tell a story. The artists will engage the young people with the Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair and three-dimensional pieces within the fair to contextualize their own work. They will also describe their professional pathway, the effect of education upon their choices, and the opportunities open to them as graduates. The works will be on show in the Deutsche Bank Education Space on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October.
Designed for younger children attending the fair, the weekend workshops will use animation and sculpture to interpret Frieze Projects. The workshops on Saturday will be led by RCA Animation alumni Martin Earle and Ryan Edquist. Using a range of techniques from flick books to old-fashioned optical tricks, the artists will work with five to 12-year-old children visiting the fair to make their own films. On Sunday, RCA graduate Anne Harild will also use Frieze Projects to inspire her workshop, making together with the children a piece of sculpture that will grow throughout the day. Using a film of the process, the children will then be able to see the work to which they have contributed at the end of each session. 
The Frieze Education online resource provides an insight into the fair for young people everywhere, featuring interviews with artists involved in Frieze Art Fair. Information on all education workshops and artists can also be found here, and the site will serve as an event archive post-Frieze Art Fair. 
Hannah Murgatroyd, Project Manager at ReachOutRCA commented, “Working with Deutsche Bank and Frieze Art Fair is an extraordinary opportunity for Royal College of Art artists and young people within the schools we work with. ReachOutRCA aims to be an inspirational exchange between those who have made art and design a life choice and those who stand on its threshold. The Frieze Education Programme offers an unparalled resource for young people in contextualising their idea of what an artist is, critically and creatively engaging them with new ideas whilst enabling us all to connect imagination with achievement.”
From Deutsche Bank, Kate Cavelle, Director, Corporate Citizenship UK, commented: “We are very proud of our partnership with the Royal College of Art which for the past 17 years has focused on promoting entrepreneurship amongst graduate art students. It was therefore a very natural step to extend this partnership to the Deutsche Bank Education Space where the ReachOutRCA team engages with young people to bring often complex contemporary art concepts to life. To see younger generations learn in a very hands-on way about the art world and discover the opportunities it holds for them is very exciting.”

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Deutsche Bank
Frieze Education is a key part of Deutsche Bank’s sponsorship of Frieze Art Fair, now in its sixth year. This is the fourth year that the Deutsche Bank Education Space will be part of the fair. Deutsche Bank believes that everyone has a right to an education and access to the arts. In the UK alone Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Citizenship team invests over £1m in Education programmes working with young people from some of London’s most deprived boroughs. In 2008 over 120,000 individuals directly benefited from the work of our partners and over 1,200 employees volunteered their time. The 2009 Education Space programme builds on last year’s project, which was the first time Frieze Education partnered with ReachOutRCA.
ReachOutRCA  
ReachOutRCA is the Royal College of Art’s schools’ outreach programme. Established in 2005, it engages 12-19 year olds who have potential in art or design but may face barriers in taking it to a higher level due to personal, social or cultural factors. By involving young people in exciting, experimental art and design projects, capitalising on its rich resource of RCA graduate and student practitioners from all creative disciplines, they invest in their creative future, aiming to widen diversity in the arts and welcome new thinkers and makers into the creative industries. 
The Programme
Weekend workshops are free and on a drop in basis from 11.30am to 5.30pm. Timed hourly drop in sessions will grow throughout the day into one large project. Workshops are aimed at five to 12 year olds. The Frieze Art Fair Family Guide is free and can be picked up at points around the fair. Also aimed at five to 12 year olds and their families, the guides, designed by illustrator Holly Wales and designers Europa, are full of drawings and writing activities inspired by the work of Frieze Projects artists.

Frieze Art Fair – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm

Preview: 
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03/09/09

Frieze Talks 2009

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Frieze Talks 2009: Details Announced

John Baldessari, Hella Jongerius, Sylvère Lotringer, Agnès Varda and Yu Yeon Kim all form part of the international line-up of highly respected artists, filmmakers, designers, curators and cultural commentators making up Frieze Talks 2009.

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.

Conversations between John Baldessari and Matthew Higgs, Marie Darrieussecq and Brian Dillon, and Hella Jongerius with Eugenia Bell will be accompanied by a series of keynote lectures from art historian and cultural critic James Elkins, critic and theorist Sylvère Lotringer (also General Editor of Semiotext(e)), and the renowned French ‘nouvelle vague’ filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda.
Panel discussions led by Tom Morton, Jenni Lomax, Jörg Heiser, Dan Fox and Simon Rees will focus on some of the current debates surrounding contemporary art and theory. Featuring artists Roger Hiorns, Barbara Bloom, Matthew Brannon and Marko Luliç, and curators Kathrin Rhomberg, Robert Storr, Mark Godfrey and Edit András (among others), topics including the validity of some of the main criticisms leveled at contemporary art, the relationship between art and philosophy, and the legacy and potential of monuments and public sculpture will be discussed and explored.

A further keynote lecture will be given by motivational speaker Alex MacPhail, speaking as part of Mike Bouchet’s Frieze Projects commission Sell and Destroy: Redrawing the Bottom Line. MacPhail will talk to both the exhibitors and public at Frieze Art Fair and is an expert at empowering and energising large audiences to master their motivation and achieve their full potential.

Jennifer Higgie, co-editor of frieze magazine commented: ‘Frieze Talks provides a great opportunity to engage with some of the most exciting artists, writers, filmmakers and designers working today. We look forward to welcoming our esteemed guests to the fair this October for four days of discussion, conversation, argument and illumination.’

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Access to Frieze Talks is included in the Frieze Art Fair admission ticket. Seats for talks can be individually booked from 11am on the day outside the auditorium within the fair; ticket-holders are requested to arrive at the auditorium 15 minutes before the talk starts in order to guarantee a place. 
Thursday 15 October
12pm Platitudes about Contemporary Art – Popular and Provocative, but True?
Roger Hiorns (Artist, shortlisted for 2009 Turner Prize)
Kathrin Rhomberg (Curator of the 6th berlin biennial, 2010)
Adrian Searle (Curator, writer, and chief art critic at the Guardian)
Chair: Tom Morton (Curator, Hayward Gallery, London)
This panel will argue against three of the most common criticisms and truisms leveled at contemporary art: that it is elitist, confusing and irrelevant; that it is peddled by unskilled
charlatans conning the general public, and that poor artists will be more inventive and radical because they are not corrupted by the market.

2:30pm John Baldessari in Conversation with Matthew Higgs
John Baldessari (Artist) 
Matthew Higgs (Artist and Director of White Columns, New York) 
The subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern, London, renowned artist John Baldessari will answer questions put to him by the readers of frieze magazine.

5pm Keynote
What Do Artists Know?
James Elkins (E.C. Chadbourne Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism and Professor in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago).
An eminent art historian whose books include What Painting Is and Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?, James Elkins’ writing also focuses on the history and theory of images in science and nature. His current projects include The Project of Painting: 1900-2000 and a series, ‘Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts’. For this keynote lecture, Elkins will discuss the kinds of information contemporary artists both need and know.

Friday 16 October
12pm Scenes from a Marriage: Have Art and Theory Drifted Apart?
Simon Critchley (Chair & Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social
Research, New York)
Robert Storr (Artist, Critic, Curator and Dean of Yale School of Art)
Barbara Bloom (Artist)
Chair: Jörg Heiser (Co-editor, frieze)
Since the 1980s, when buzzwords like ‘semiotics’ were prevalent in the art world, theory has played an important role in the interpretation, and making, of art. Yet, after all these years, has contemporary art really influenced the way philosophers think? And is theory still relevant to today’s artists?

2:30pm Art and the State: Back to New Deal Funding?
DD Guttenplan (Writer and historian)
W.A.G.E. (Artist, Working Artists and the Greater Economy)
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Strategic Managing Director of departure, Vienna;
former Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum) 
Yu Yeon Kim (Independent curator)
Chair: Jenni Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Centre)
What are the pros and cons of state-funded art and cultural production at a moment of severe economic crisis?

5pm Keynote
In Theory
Sylvère Lotringer (General Editor, Semiotext(e) and Professor of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University, New York)
Since the 1970s, Sylvère Lotringer has been at the forefront of French Theory in the US. He will reflect on the current relationship between art and theory.

Saturday 17 October
12pm Nostalgia: What’s the Role of the Past in Fashioning the Future?
Owen Hatherley (Writer, architecture critic, and blogger)
Joanna Mytkowska (Director, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw)
Matthew Brannon (Artist)
Chair: Dan Fox (Senior Editor, frieze)
Cultural production today is dominated by images and sounds of the past. Is nostalgia always necessarily conservative and retrogressive, or can it be harnessed as a progressive force?
2:30pm The Art of Absence: Marie Darrieussecq in Conversation with Brian Dillon
Marie Darrieussecq (Writer and novelist)
Brian Dillon (Writer and UK editor of Cabinet) 
Acclaimed French novelist Marie Darrieussecq will talk about the names that have influenced her radical approaches to writing and storytelling.
5pm Keynote
A Talk
Agnès Varda (Filmmaker and artist)
In a career that has spanned over 50 years, Agnès Varda, one of the most original and renowned of the French ‘nouvelle vague’ directors, has made over 40 innovative feature films and documentaries. The Beaches of Agnès, won both a 2009 César for best documentary and a Critics’ Union award for best film. She will be talking about her extraordinary life and work, from cinema to art.

Sunday 18 October
12pm CAC Vilnius presents: Memories, Monoliths, Monsters? 
Mark Godfrey (Curator, Tate Modern)
Edit András (Art historian and critic)
Marko Luliç (Artist)
Chair: Simon Rees (Curator, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius)
This panel explores the legacies and potential of monuments and public sculptures. The speakers will address the types of histories and collective memory with which these objects interact.

2:30pm Hella Jongerius in conversation with Eugenia Bell
Hella Jongerius (Designer)
Eugenia Bell (Design Editor, frieze) 
Working between craft, art and technology, Hella Jongerius will talk about the evolution of her innovative practice.
5pm Frieze Projects: Mike Bouchet
For his commission, Sell and Destroy: Redrawing the Bottom Line, Mike Bouchet presents a motivational speaker for the exhibitors and public of Frieze Art Fair. Alex MacPhail is an expert at empowering large audiences to master their motivation and achieve their full potential, both on the day and long into the future.

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Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm

Preview:  Wednesday 14 October
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24/08/09

Frieze Music 2009: Martin Creed at Sadler’s Wells

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Frieze Music 2009 Announced: Martin Creed at London’s Sadler’s Wells

Frieze Art Fair announced today that the Frieze Music presentation for 2009 will be a performance conceived and choreographed by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Co-commissioned by Frieze Music and Sadler’s Wells, Work No. 1020 will be performed at Sadler’s Wells during Frieze Art Fair 2009. This will be the first time that Creed has created a dance piece. Tickets are now on sale. 
Taking inspiration from Les Ballets Russes’ collaborations, Work No. 1020 will use music that Creed himself has composed. The work will be performed by five classically trained dancers at Sadler’s Wells’ Lilian Baylis studio.
Creed is known for his pared-down works; often the result of a rigorously conceived formula or structure within which the work can move and interact with those witnessing it. His Work No. 850  in 2008 at Tate Britain used athletes running at top speed through the gallery every 30 seconds, all day, for four months. In 2001, he won the Turner Prize for The Lights Going On and Off (Work No. 227). In 2007, Creed showed a composition for an 18-piece orchestra, which sat in a single line according to each instrument’s pitch, at Hauser & Wirth Coppermill in London.  Playing simple chords, waves of sound travelled through the line, creating a minimal yet strong sight and sound. 
Creed has exhibited his work extensively worldwide and his musical compositions and performances have often featured in or run parallel to his visual works. In 1994 he formed a band with whom he performs regularly. He has toured his theatrical production, ‘Variety Show’ in London, Edinburgh, New Zealand and the USA. Creed was born in Wakefield, England, in 1968, and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. He lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy.

Matthew Slotover, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Frieze commented: “Frieze Music has programmed an eclectic selection of music and musicians since its inception in 2003, from Karlheinz Stockhausen to The Kaiser Chiefs. This year, for the first time, we are collaborating with Sadler’s Wells to produce an event which also has dance at its core. It is an exciting new development.” 
Alistair Spalding, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Sadler’s Wells said, “We are celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Ballet Russes this autumn at Sadler’s Wells and I can think of no better way of doing that than to work with Frieze Art Fair and Martin Creed on this project. It is exactly this kind of event that Diaghilev would have created if he were alive today.”
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Martin Creed, Work No. 1020 
Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October 2009
8pm, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
Tickets £12
Ticket office: 0844 4124300; www.sadlerswells.com 
Frieze Music is the off-site music programme of Frieze Art Fair, one of the world’s best
known and most influential international contemporary art fairs. Frieze Art Fair will take
place in Regent’s Park, London, 15-18 October 2009. 

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Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 15 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm
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Ticket numbers are limited to ensure the best experience for all visitors. Please book in
advance to guarantee your visit and to benefit from significant discounts. Booking fee
applies. 

Before 1 October
One Day Thu/Fri £15
One Day Sat/Sun £15
Concessions £10
Four Day £40
Full Price
One Day Thu/Fri £20
One Day Sat/Sun £25
Concessions £15
Four Day £60

18/06/09

Frieze Projects 2009: Curatorial Programme Announced

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Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. It is curated by Neville Wakefield and includes seven new projects as well as The Cartier Award and collaborations with this year’s partner institutions CAC Vilnius (Lithuania) and Arte Contempo (Portugal).
The seven artists commissioned to create site-specific work for Frieze Art Fair are Mike Bouchet, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Ruth Ewan, Ryan Gander, Per-Oskar Leu, Monika Sosnowska and Stephanie Syjuco. Commenting on this year’s projects, Neville Wakefield stated: “Whether taking the form of grand architectural obstruction or finding new ways of protesting, authenticating or motivating our relationship to the objects we make, look at and buy, this year’s projects create aesthetic opportunity out of the uncertainty that has become the hallmark of our troubled times.”
Above all, Frieze Projects presents art that regards the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere.
The Cartier Award 2009 recipient is Jordan Wolfson. Wolfson will present an intervention based on String Theory that continues his translations of culture and recent histories into a unique conceptual language.
Frieze Projects is commissioned by Frieze Foundation and presented in association with Cartier. Frieze Foundation is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union and Arts Council England.

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Frieze Projects 2009
Mike Bouchet: Sell and Destroy: Redrawing the Bottom Line
California-born and Frankfurt-based artist Bouchet will provide a motivational speaker for the populace of Frieze Art Fair. Bouchet’s speaker, like those found in the programmes of business conventions, will tailor their positive reinforcement skills to make presentations on topics important to the art business, such as the gallerist as cultural ambassador, how to sell more challenging works and positive visualization towards increased sales.

Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth: Players
UK-based collaborators Coleman and Hogarth will create a seamless projection of stage- managed and live events filmed at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring unwitting visitors, gallerists and art fair workers. Players will heighten our sensual awareness of the staging of the fair; mixing the premeditated and the spontaneous, what’s to be scrutinised and what’s not, what’s appreciated and what’s taken for granted. 

Ruth Ewan: These Airwaves Neutralise the Tools of Oppression;  A Radio Station of People Trying to Change the World
Working alongside Resonance104.4fm radio the entire contents of A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World will be broadcast in its entirety on its own frequency. Started in 2003, the artist’s collection of around 1,500 politically motivated or idealistic songs now lasts for the exact duration of the Fair. The songs will be broadcast live, day and night, from a booth inside Frieze Art Fair.

Ryan Gander: We are Constant
The London-based artist will set up an (almost) instant photo studio to make portraits of visitors to the fair looking at an artwork of their choice. The portrait will be printed immediately, given to the subjects and a copy will be hung in an installation along the entrance corridor to the fair. An evolving commentary on the consumption of art and the construction of the fair as a spectacle in which the content is removed, Gander will produce a portrait of the fair through its population.

Per-Oskar Leu: The Bachelor Machine
The Norwegian artist will arrange an impossible event at the fair – a book signing by Franz Kafka, 85 years after his death. Since none of Kafka’s novels were published during his lifetime, this book signing will be his first. Using autopen technology and facsimile first editions, the project is both a humorous commentary on trade fairs in general and a complex set of links between sinister machines – the sentencing / punitive machine in Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, Duchamp’s Bachelor Machine and the innocuous yet deceptive Autopen itself, recently used by Donald Rumsfeld to sign letters to the families of US soldiers killed in combat.
Monika Sosnowska: Untitled
The Polish artist will present a major structural intervention in which a large, heavy object crashes into the roof of the fair. Taking the form of a scale model of the infamous Palace of Culture in Warsaw – a ‘gift’ to the Polish people from the USSR – Sosnowska’s project is a kind of cultural meteorite, the imposition of one cultural edifice onto another.
Stephanie Syjuco: Copystand: an autonomous manufacturing zone
During Frieze Art Fair, Syjuco will set up a parasitic workshop in which a small group of artists will make bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair. The artists will use basic and inexpensive materials and will work in a gallery stand at the fair in full view of visitors. The copies will be displayed in an adjacent gallery stand. Copystand draws on Syjuco’s recent projects involving approximate copies: crocheted branded luxury goods, cardboard replicas of Charlotte Perriand furniture and body doubles: the landscape of her native Phillippines standing in for Vietnam in Hollywood war movies. 
Collaborating Partner Institutions
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Curators Kestutis Kuizinas and Simon Rees have commissioned artist Mindaugas Navakas to create Smash the Windows, Snatch the Crystals, made from window frames and panes recently removed from the CAC. The marriage of a monumental sculpture and material from a famous example of soviet modernist architecture is playful reflection on ways that art forms, and memories, associated with history can be productively remade. Accompanied by a panel discussion presented in the Frieze Talks programme, the CAC’s project for Frieze Art Fair is a reflection on monumentality in post-Soviet countries and how its significance differs from the role and meaning of the monument in the west. 

Arte Contempo, Lisbon (Portugal)
Curators Filipa Oliveira and Miguel Amado will present a group of artists’ commissions that play on the transactional nature of the art fair. From their stand, visitors will be invited to engage in a number of activities that reverse or subvert the usual exchange of money for goods or services.
Resonance 104.4fm
London’s art radio station will again be broadcasting live from the fair. The Frieze Talks programme will be broadcast alongside specially commissioned radio art projects and interviews with artists and art professionals around the fair. Fair visitors will be able to watch the resonance team at work and contribute to the debate. Listeners in the London area can tune in on 104.4FM or online.

Artists’ biographies
Mike Bouchet (b.1970) is an American artist based in Frankfurt am Main.
Recent solo shows include ‘CANBURGER’, Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris; ‘New New Age Film Festival’, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (both 2008) and ‘16x9 Action Film’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2008) and MOCA, Los Angeles (2007). Group shows include ‘Making Worlds’, 53rd Venice Biennale; ‘Quand la première ivresse des succès bruyants ….’ CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (both 2009) and ‘Meet Me Around The Corner’, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2008). 
Kim Coleman (b. 1976) is a Northern Irish artist based in London and Jenny Hogarth (b. 1979) is a Scottish artist based in Edinburgh.
They have been working together since 2003. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include ‘Glare’, S1 Artspace, Sheffield (2009); ‘Act Natural’, Picture This, Bristol (2009) and the Museum of Bath at Work, Bath (2008); ‘Nought to Sixty’ (with the Boyle Family), ICA, London (2008) and ‘Timebank’, Associates, London (2007).
Ruth Ewan (b.1980) is a Scottish artist based in London.
Recent solo shows and projects include A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, Ancient and Modern, London (2009); Fang Sang, ‘Nought to Sixty’, ICA, London (2008) and Did You Kiss the Foot that Kicked You?, Artangel, London (2007). Recent group shows include ‘Younger Than Jesus’, New Museum, New York (2009); ‘Come in, friends, the house is yours!’, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2009) and ‘Altermodern: Tate Triennial’, Tate Britain, London (2009). Forthcoming shows include ‘Art Sheffield 2010’ and a solo project as part of ‘The Street’ at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009/10).

Ryan Gander (b.1976) is an English artist based in London. 
Recent solo shows include ‘It’s a Right Heath Robinson Affair’, gb Agency and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2009); ‘As it Presents Itself’, Picture This, Bristol (2009) and ‘Heralded as the New Black’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and South London Gallery, London (2008). Group shows include ‘The Malady of Writing’, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; ‘Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York (both 2009) and ‘Wouldn’t it be Nice’, Somerset House, London, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich (2008) and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2007).

Per-Oskar Leu (b. 1980) is a Norwegian artist based in Frankfurt am Main.
Recent solo shows and projects include ‘Like a Dog!’, UKS, Oslo (2008) and ‘Americka’, Torpedo, Oslo (2007). Group shows include Landings Project Space, Vestfossen (2009); ‘Snowball Editions’, Lautom Contemporary, Oslo (2009) and ‘Reality Effects’, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden (2008). Forthcoming shows will be at Brown Gallery, London (2009) and Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (2010).
Monika Sosnowska (b. 1972) is a Polish artist based in Berlin and Warsaw.
Recent solo shows and projects include The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2008); Schaulager, Basel (2008) and the Polish Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (2007). Group shows include ‘The Russian Lineman’, Hayward Gallery, London (2009); ‘As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film’, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2008); ‘Other Than Yourself – An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space’, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2008) and ‘Stay Forever and Ever and Ever’, South London Gallery, London (2007).
Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1976) is an American artist based in San Francisco. 
Recent solo shows include ‘Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures’, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin; ‘The Village (Small Encampments)’, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, (both 2009) and ‘Total Fabrications’, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2008). Group shows include: ‘Dritto Rovescio’, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, (2009); ‘FUTURAMANILA’, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2008) and ‘Altered, Stitched, and Gathered,’ PS1, New York (2006). 
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realize a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides project production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three-month residency at Gasworks including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

Cartier is the associate sponsor of Frieze Art fair supporting Frieze Projects and the Cartier Award. Their dedicated support expresses the spirit of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Frieze Talks includes panel discussions, conversations and keynote lectures from leading artists, writers and cultural commentators debating issues in aesthetics, ethics, writing and art production. Frieze Talks is presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of frieze magazine.  Access to Frieze Talks is included in the Frieze Art Fair admission ticket. Seats for each day’s talks can be individually booked from 11am on the day.
Frieze Film will present a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist- activists Superflex. Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars von Trier’s film Epidemic, Superflex’s new films will show prominent figures who combine the worlds of art and finance, as they subject themselves to hypnosis.  Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October, at 7.55pm.
Frieze Education is a four-day programme of artist-led events with scheduled workshops for schools on weekdays and drop-in activities for families at the weekend. Frieze Education is programmed by ReachOutRCA and is held annually in the Deutsche Bank Education Space.  For further information see http://www.friezefoundation.org/education.
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Frieze Art Fair features 150 of the most dynamic art galleries in the world, showing over 1,000 of the most exciting artists working today, Frieze Art Fair is the contemporary art event of the year. 

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28/05/09

Frieze Film 2009: Superflex

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Frieze Film 2009 is delighted to present a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist-activists Superflex. Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars von Trier’s film Epidemic, Superflex’s new films will show prominent figures who combine the worlds of art and finance, as they subject themselves to hypnosis.
Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s innovative ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October, at 7.55pm. In previous years collaborations between Frieze Film and Channel 4’s ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot have averaged audiences in excess of one million viewers.
Superflex work outside traditional art contexts, collaborating with designers, engineers, businesses and marketers, they define their works as tools which have the potential for social or economic change. The artist-activists explained: “We want to experience the final stages of an economic crisis as seen through the eyes of a mayor economic player. We will use hypnosis to get us there, talk us through it and maybe even speak about what is to be seen on the other side of an apocalyptic financial crisis”.
Recent films have included Flooded McDonald’s at the South London Gallery in January 2009, and Burning Car in 2008, made in the aftermath of civil unrest in Paris and Copenhagen in 2007. 
Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Film commented: “‘Having flooded the structures of global capitalism with their Poseidon adventure film Flooded McDonald’s, Superflex now want to peel back the conscious reasoning of its greatest minds to reveal the structures, fears and doubts upon which it may have been built…”.
Frieze Film is presented as part of Frieze Art Fair’s unique curated programme. Frieze Film, together with Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks and Frieze Education, is commissioned and produced under the auspices of the Frieze Foundation.
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Friday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 18 October 11am – 6pm

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14/05/09

The Cartier Award 2009: Winner Announced

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Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of The Cartier Award 2009 is the American artist Jordan Wolfson.
Wolfson is a talented conceptual artist, based in Berlin and New York. His winning proposal was selected from over 450 applications by artists from all over the world. For Frieze Art Fair 2009, sponsored for the sixth year by Deutsche Bank, Wolfson will present a new site-specific work. 
The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading art awards. It allows an emerging artist from outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Projects, commenting on the announcement said: “Jordan’s unique brand of poetic conceptualism ranges across the sciences and humanities to create what are at once delightful and perplexing forays into the narratives and myths that colour our times.  Especially exciting is the opportunity to bring such complex and sometimes challenging work to the wider audience of Frieze.”
The Cartier Award forms an exciting and visible element of Cartier’s long-standing commitment to the commissioning and display of contemporary art. Grazia Quaroni, a member of the selection panel, and curator of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris added: “Mixing with total freedom all aspects of contemporary culture for his visual purposes, Wolfson creates a new language while researching new paths to engage the audience.”

In 2009, Gasworks, London’s outstanding complex of artists’ studios, will once again host the award’s residency. 
Jordan Wolfson (b. 1980) is an American artist whose recent work focuses on film and video. He lives and works in Berlin and New York and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2003.
Selected solo shows include: ‘Untitled false document’, Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art, New York (2008); ‘Optical Sound’, Gamec - Galleria Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2007) and Kunsthalle Zürich (2004). Group shows include: T - Torino Triennale Arte Contemporanea, 50 lune di Saturno, Turin (2008); Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2008); ‘Passengers’, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2008); ‘Learn to Read’, Tate Modern, London (2007) and ‘Day for Night’, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006).

Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee
Neville Wakefield (Curator, Frieze Projects)
Grazia Quaroni (Curator, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art)
Catalina Lozano (Residencies Co-ordinator, Gasworks)
Mario Garcia Torres (Artist)
The Cartier Award
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three month residency at Gasworks from August to October 2009 including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK-based artists within five years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree, or under 30 years of age.
Cartier and The Cartier Award
Cartier UK is the Associate Sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and the Cartier Award. Cartier has a long-standing relationship with contemporary art and, over twenty years ago, the company established the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris.
Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and presenting a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks
The second edition of Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks covering the years from 2006 to 2008 will be published in September 2009. Serving as an introduction and critical contribution to the most current debates in contemporary art, Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks serves as an invaluable reference tool. UK £19.95

Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair takes place from 15-18 October 2009 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world.

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07/05/09

Frieze Art Fair 2009: Details Announced

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The Directors of Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, have announced today the details of the 2009 fair. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s most important art event and one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the sixth consecutive year, Frieze Art Fair 2009 is a tightly selected presentation of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe. The selected galleries will present outstanding work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists and these works will be presented alongside Frieze Art Fair’s unique curatorial programme of artists’ projects. Frieze Art Fair helps set the international contemporary art agenda. 
A fresh and exciting addition for 2009 will be the first presentation of Frame, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations. Frame will show young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years. The galleries selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and Sarah McCrory.
2009 will see a total of 164 galleries exhibiting at Frieze Art Fair, including leading galleries from across America and Europe. The strength of galleries from emerging territories such as Asia and Eastern Europe continues this year - galleries new to the fair include Kukje Gallery from Seoul (South Korea), Galerie Plan B from Cluj (Romania) and The Third Line from Dubai (UAE). Also new in 2009 are Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea from Lisbon (Portugal), Office Baroque from Antwerp (Belgium), Kamm from Berlin (Germany) and hiromiyoshii from Tokyo (Japan).
Every autumn Frieze Art Fair reinvigorates the artistic and cultural scene in the UK, bringing an annual focus, which is widely known as Frieze Week, to contemporary art in London. British galleries exhibiting for the first time this year include Hollybush Gardens, Limoncello and Ancient & Modern (all from London), and Ingleby from Edinburgh.
Co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented, “Against a tough economic backdrop, we are delighted that so many new and established galleries continue to want to show their best work at Frieze Art Fair. Applications to the new Frame section were so strong we were able to almost double the anticipated size of the section which means that collectors, curators and general visitors alike will be able to enjoy not only a wealth of solo presentations from the UK and US but also less well-known territories ranging from Australia to Lithuania. The art world is increasingly global and we are proud to have that represented at the 2009 fair.

We would like to thank our Main sponsor Deutsche Bank, Associate sponsor Cartier, and the Guardian, our Media sponsor, for their continued support of the Frieze Art Fair and for their contribution to the promotion and development of contemporary art.”
Details of the annual curatorial programme Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, Frieze Film and Frieze Education will be announced during the coming months. The recipient of The Cartier Award will be announced in May 2009. 
In previous years Frieze Projects, which is sponsored by Cartier, have presented new commissions for the fair by artists including Richard Prince, Agnieszka Kurant, Kris Martin and Andrea Zittel. Frieze Talks have included presentations by Boris Groys, Yoko Ono, Dave Hickey and Roni Horn. Frieze Projects is curated by Neville Wakefield under the auspices of Frieze Foundation. 
Frieze Education, which takes place in the Deutsche Bank Education Space, has grown to be of great importance to the young adults and children visiting the fair, serving to familiarise them with the best in contemporary art, design and culture. Building on last year’s successful partnership with the Royal College of Art, Frieze Education will run a scheduled programme of events for schools local to the fair and drop-in events for families.
Pierre de Weck, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Global Head of Private Wealth Management Deutsche Bank added: “We are pleased to show our commitment to the development of contemporary art through our continued sponsorship of Frieze Art Fair. Seven years ago, the organizers of Frieze spotted the need for a fair that fostered the new international spirit in art. Frieze has played its part in making it easier for artists from every part of the globe to claim an international reputation. Not only does Frieze provide one of the most exciting marketplaces, but it believes in art education, something that we are strongly committed to at the fair through the Deutsche Bank Education Space.” 

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to Benefit the Tate Collection continues in 2009, the seventh consecutive year of the collaboration. This unique partnership enables Tate to buy important works of art for the nation at Frieze Art Fair. The fund to date has raised over £775,000 and, as a result, 72 works by 45 significant international artists have been added to Tate’s collection since 2003. The selection panel for 2009 will consist of Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate; Tate Curators Frances Morris, Jessica Morgan and Ann Gallagher; Hou Hanru, Curator, San Francisco Art Institute and Joanna Mytkowska, Curator, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art.
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Exhibitor List 2009

Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Andersen’s contemporary, Copenhagen
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
The Approach, London
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
The Breeder, Athens
Broadway 1602, New York
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Luis Campaña, Berlin
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo
Sadie Coles HQ, London
COMA Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Corvi-Mora, London
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Dicksmith Gallery, London
doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gagosian Gallery, London
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Greene Naftali, New York
greengrassi, London
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Hauser & Wirth, London
Herald St, London
hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
Hollybush Gardens, London
Hotel, London
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
Kamm, Berlin
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
francesca kaufmann, Milan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Johann König, Berlin
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Krobath, Vienna
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon
Lisson Gallery, London
Long March Space, Beijing
Kate MacGarry, London
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Giò Marconi, Milan
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Mary Mary, Glasgow
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Massimo Minini, Brescia
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Jan Mot, Brussels
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome
Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp
Maureen Paley, London
Peres Projects, Berlin
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
Galeria Plan B, Cluj
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
Rachmaninoff’s, London
Raster, Warsaw
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples
Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels
Regina Gallery, Moscow
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Salon 94, New York
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Sprüth Magers, London
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
T293, Naples
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Team Gallery, New York
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
The Third Line, Dubai
Vermelho, Sao Paulo
Vilma Gold, London
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Waddington Galleries, London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Michael Werner Gallery, New York
White Cube, London
Max Wigram Gallery, London
Wilkinson Gallery, London
XL Gallery, Moscow
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Zero, Milan
David Zwirner, New York

Exhibitor List 2009: Frame

Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
Amp, Athens
Ancient & Modern, London
Balice Hertling, Paris
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Lisa Cooley, New York
Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent
Hunt Kastner, Prague
Ibid Projects, London
Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/Main
Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Limoncello, London
Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin
Marz Galeria, Lisbon
Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest
Monitor, Rome
Neon Parc, Melbourne
Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main
Project 88, Mumbai
Rodeo, Istanbul
galerie schleicher+lange, Paris
Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Seventeen, London
Franco Soffiantino, Turin
Supportico Lopez, Berlin
023 Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin
Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
Jonathan Viner Gallery/Fortescue Avenue, London

Frieze Art Fair Participating Territories
Australia      
Austria    
Belgium    
Brazil    
China    
Czech Republic    
Denmark    
France    
Germany    
Greece    
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
UAE
UK
USA

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20/10/08

Frieze Art Fair 2008 Sales Exceed Expectations

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At the close of the sixth edition of Frieze Art Fair on 19 October, participating galleries reported that sales across the board had exceeded expectations. Against a backdrop of some of the most turbulent financial markets in decades, Frieze Art Fair was pleased with reports from the 150 participating galleries of significant individual sales and even a few sold-out stands.
Attendance at the leading contemporary art fair was strong with ticket sales equalling those of 2007.
Frieze Art Fair co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented: “With the financial markets in turmoil we anticipated that all the galleries would still showcase the best of international contemporary art and that the usual debate and exchange of ideas which takes place each year would continue unabated, but we were aware there was concern about sales. We are pleased, therefore, that the sales the galleries have been reporting have exceeded expectations.  We have been heartened by the extent of the positive reports from the US, European, Latin American as well as UK galleries. Important collectors from across the globe continued to travel to the fair.” 
Frieze Art Fair 2008, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, presented 150 of the world’s leading galleries from 27 countries. Thirteen galleries were new to the fair this year. Showcasing new work by over 1000 artists, the fair cemented its reputation as the best place to see and buy the most exciting international contemporary art. 
Nicholas Logsdail, owner of Lisson Gallery, confirmed this positive outlook, “Interest and buying has remained strong for artists of quality and historical importance. Notably an Anish Kapoor sold for close to a million pounds to the chairman of the board of trustees of a major American museum. We have made good sales of major works running into the millions at both the fair and at our current Julian Opie show where all the animations have sold out.”

Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth commented “A brilliant fair! Our best Frieze ever, with sales right into the weekend.”
James Lavender, Director, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, said, “We love Frieze Art Fair.  We had a bigger booth this year so decided to take a different approach and focus on a smaller group of artists that really complemented each other and complemented the booth.  We’ve done well across the spectrum of artists and across price points too.”
“There is still confidence, sales have definitely exceeded expectations.  We have sold to new people and have a number of reserves from institutions.  We particularly made strong sales of Jim Lambie, available work has sold out, and Cathy Wilkes.” Commented Toby Webster of The Modern Institute/Toby Webster.
Metro Pictures’ Tom Heman observed, “We’ve done better than we expected.  There has been a great atmosphere and we’ve been busy all week. It’s like art fairs used to be. We’re able to have much more of a dialogue about the work.” 
Glenn Scott Wright, Director, Victoria Miro, said, “It has been a good fair. People are taking their time, so we’ve had more considered purchases and overall sales have gone very well. This year the architects Caruso St John have done a great job.  It’s very important that Frieze use an architectural equivalent to the visual art on display.”
Claus Andersen from Andersen’s contemporary, Copenhagen commented, “I was a bit scared but it has been better than I expected. After all the good collectors are still here. It is nice that it’s going back to normal and that it’s time to talk about art again, instead of investment. I am really pleased about that.”
Jack Hanley was upbeat, “It’s been great, I’ve definitely had a similar level of interest and sales to last year and attention has been spread throughout the fair, which is a much more pleasant way to do business. Frieze is my favourite art fair, it’s nicer than any of the others we do, it has a very different vibe, which is due to everything from the building to the way it is more artist orientated.  This year the entrance is particularly great as is the openness of the fair.”
Darren Flook & Christabel Stewart of Hotel commented, “It’s been really good, which is a huge relief.  Big things have sold straight away and the big collectors are still here, picking the work. The thing about Frieze is the link between the city and the fair; the city totally supports the fair.  The organizers of Frieze have a very good relationship with the galleries, you feel as if they are really listening.  Also the commissioned projects are very important, you feel you are working in a creative environment and that makes all the difference.”
Maureen Paley reinforced this view, “Everyone has been pleasantly surprised.  There has been a lot of positive energy, spread over the whole of the fair, which is a healthy thing. The fair’s architects Caruso St John have done a fantastic job, everything from the entrance to the lighting is much more resolved this year. There is also an important exchange with ones peers and colleagues that takes place at Frieze, which allows us to place our artists with galleries from abroad that are meaningful to their practice. 
Akio Aoki of first-time exhibitor Vermelho, commented, “It has been great. We were anxious about the economic situation but then we had a lovely surprise.  We’ve sold at least 70% of our stand so we’re delighted. We’ve had a really good response from institutions.  There’s a truly international feeling, a good response from continental Europe as well as Asia, the US and Canada. The architecture is wonderful.  Frieze, as an organization are very kind, from the cleaning staff to electricians everyone has been very helpful and professional”
Sies & Höke, in their first year at Frieze observed, “Everything has been really good.  Although the preview started slowly for us that is not necessarily bad, interest and sales have been spread out through the fair. All the galleries at Frieze Art Fair are of such a high quality, it’s our first time here and it’s good to be a part of it. It is great to be in London, in such a central location. We’ve done really well with Kris Martin in particular but also Damien Roach and Neal Tait.  All the collectors have come.” 
Another first-time exhibitor Regina gallery commented, “We’ve had an amazing amount of interest in Sergey Bratkov. It is very good for our market for us to be in London.”
Almine Rech commented, “It’s been good.  Our stand-out artist has to be Uwe Henneken, whose work sold within two minutes of the fair opening. London is very important to us, we love Frieze, we’ve been coming since the beginning and we look forward to it every year.”
François Chantala, Director of Thomas Dane Gallery, emphasized this point: ‘We have done very well, everything has gone but our sales have been based on trust and relationships rather than hysteria and this has made for a more pleasant fair.”  In regard to the Tate’s acquisition of a work by Hurvin Anderson, Chantala observed that ‘the Tate’s selection of works was a very balanced one and it is important that they have bought painting this year, we are very pleased that they have recognized the significance of Hurvin Anderson’s work.”
The Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection acquired Hurvin Anderson Jersey, 2008 from Thomas Dane Gallery, Andrea Fraser Projection, 2008 from Galerie Christian Nagel, Bela Kolárová Assemblage, 1969 from Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Lorna Simpson Photo booth, 2008 from Salon 94, Tris Vonna-Michell <>>, 2008 from Cabinet, and Akram Zaatari Nature Morte, 2008 from Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg. A total of £125,000 was spent on acquiring the works.
US collectors Susan and Michael Hort said “The quality of the art was excellent.” Also from the US Diane Wallace added “I bought from the fair, enjoying the interaction with the galleries and the excellent pieces on offer. I thought it was a really good fair.” Adam Lindemann agreed “This Frieze is the best I’ve ever seen, the dealers have made a real effort.” 
Collector Maurizio Morra Greco from Naples said, “I enjoyed most the high quality of artworks displayed at Frieze Art Fair this year and the great effort made by all galleries to present outstanding stands. I was pleased to be able to buy from the fair.”
Belgian collector, Xavier Donck, enjoyed the high standard of the fair “I believe it is the best edition ever. I love visiting Frieze Art Fair as I always discover new talent.”
Visitors to the fair included the Rt Hon. Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, and Barbara Follett MP, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism; collectors Charles Saatchi, Don & Mera Rubell, Susan & Michael Hort, Dianne Wallace, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Joel Wachs, Jennifer Stockman, Tom Ford & Richard Buckley, Daria Zhukova, Roman Abramovich, Kenny Goss and George Michael; artists Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Peter Doig, Steve McQueen, Goshka Macuga, Anish Kapoor and Ai WeiWei; as well as Lily Allen, Sofia Coppola, Keanu Reeves, Alexander McQueen, Ron Arad and Jarvis Cocker.
Thirty Museum groups from five different countries, including Guggenheim, Whitney, MOMA New York, LAMOCA and Kunstverein Muenchen visited the fair this year.
Frieze Projects, curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier, received widespread critical acclaim. Eleven artists were commissioned Cory Arcangel, Pavel Büchler, Ceal Floyer, Tue Greenfort, Sharon Hayes, Jeppe Hein, Agnieszka Kurant, Norma Jeane, Bert Rodriguez, Allen Ruppersberg and Andreas Slominski. Cartier Award 2008 winner Wilfredo Prieto’s commission presented at the fair was Ascended Line.
Frieze Talks, programmed by frieze magazine editors Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser and Dan Fox, presented an international line-up of artists, philosophers, writers and cultural commentators including Boris Groys, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono and Raqs Media Collective.
The Sculpture Park in 2008 almost doubled in size. A new sponsorship from the Heath Lambert Group, incorporating Blackwall Green, allowed for innovative and diverse proposals from some participating galleries, which may not otherwise have been realised.
Frieze Film 2008 was an experiment in filmmaking. The results of the open submission for artists and filmmakers to produce a short film inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road,  were broadcast as four films on Channel 4’s ‘Three Minute Wonder’ slots during the week of Frieze Art Fair and are available to view on http://www.frieze.com.

Frieze Education saw over 300 children taking part in the artist-led programme of workshops and discussions organised with ReachOutRCA (The Royal College of Art’s Educational Outreach Team) and held in the Deutsche Bank Education Space.
Frieze Art Fair is pleased to announce the continued support of main sponsor Deutsche Bank, Associate sponsor Cartier and Media sponsor The Guardian, up until and including 2010. Frieze Foundation, the non-profit organisation that runs Frieze Talks and Projects, has also secured core funding from the EC Culture Programme and the Arts Council of England up to and including the 2010 fair.
Pierre de Weck, Global Head of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and Member of the Group Executive Committee at Deutsche Bank commented: “We congratulate the organisers on another exceptional Frieze Art Fair. Deutsche Bank has a long-term commitment to the arts and finds it an excellent venue for engaging with clients and the community more broadly. We welcomed a record number of clients at the fair, whilst this year’s programme of activity offered in the Deutsche Bank Education Space saw record levels of direct involvement by professional artists. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Frieze through sponsorship of the fair in 2009 and 2010.”
Arnaud Bamberger, Managing Director, Cartier UK added, “Cartier is delighted to yet again be the associate sponsor of Frieze Art Fair, undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the world, a testament to the sheer dynamism and talent of Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp. Going through the ever changing entrance hall on the first day is always a thrill, as is experiencing the Frieze Projects commissions assembled by the eminent Neville Wakefield.  I’m incredibly proud of the maturing Cartier Award, and this year Wilfredo Prieto is a deserved winner.” 

Editors’ Notes

Frieze Art Fair 2009 will be held in Regent’s Park, London, from 15 to 18 October 2009.
Visit http://www.frieze.com to download Frieze Talks 2008. 
Visit http://www.suttonpr.com for images of the fair, Frieze Projects and a portrait of co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. 
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16/10/08

Tate Acquires Major New Works at Frieze

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The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to the The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection:

Hurvin Anderson born 1965
Jersey, 2008
Oil on canvas
2500 x 2080 mm
Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Andrea Fraser born 1965
Projection, 2008
Two channel high definition video projection
50 minutes
Edition 1/5 + 1AP
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne

Bela Kolárová born 1923
Assemblage, 1969
Paperclips on paper
880 x 595mm
1060 x 770 mm (framed)
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna

Lorna Simpson born 1960
Photo booth, 2008
50 found photos booth portraits and 50 ink drawings on paper
each 50 x 38 cm (unframed)
Overall dimension variable upon installation
Salon 94, New York

Tris Vonna-Michell born 1982
<>>, 2008
Reel to reel tape, porcelain, ink on paper
Dimensions variable
Cabinet, London

Akram Zaatari born 1966
Nature Morte, 2008
Video projection
11 minutes
Dimensions variable
Ed 2/5 + 1 AP
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

Each year, two prominent international curators are invited to work alongside Tate curators to select works. This year, the international curators were Thelma Golden (Director and Chief Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem) and Sabine Breitwieser (independent curator and General Secretary of CIMAM).
The Fund is organised by Outset which was founded in 2003 as a philanthropic organisation dedicated to supporting new art. The charity focuses on raising private funding from its supporters and trustees for public museums, galleries and art projects.
With Tate’s annual government funding for its acquisitions effectively frozen since 1982, and now worth a small proportion of its original value, the Fund helps provide a much needed contribution towards Tate’s ongoing campaign to develop its Collection. A significant number of works acquired through the Fund are currently on display at Tate Modern.
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “We are grateful to the continuing support of the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund which has enabled Tate to significantly extend its Collection of work by new and emerging artists. This is increasingly important at a time when government funding for acquisitions is so limited.”

The 2008 Outset / Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection is organised and funded by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and enjoys sponsorship from Champagne Laurent-Perrier and Le Méridien, with additional support from John Jones.

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08/10/08

Frieze: FAQs

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How many people attend the fair and who are they?
Each year, for the last two years, we have had over 60,000 visitors to Frieze Art Fair. These visitors included those with an interest in the art world, such as curators, artists, collectors, gallerists and critics, as well as the general public. Some visit as first-time collectors of art whilst others view the fair more as an exhibition, enjoying the experience as a cultural day out. 
How do I get a ticket for the fair?
Tickets for Frieze Art Fair can be purchased from 1 June, online at frieze.com using a credit or debit card. Alternatively, visitors can phone Frieze Art Fair’s ticket agent, See Tickets on +44 (0)871 230 7159 to purchase their ticket. Tickets can also be purchased onsite at the fair, however discounted prices are available for early bookings. Frieze Art Fair advise booking tickets in advance to avoid disappointment.

What makes Frieze Art Fair different from other art fairs?
Frieze Art Fair is one of the few fairs to focus only on contemporary art and living artists. The exhibiting galleries represent the most exciting contemporary galleries working today. The focus on living artists is also evident in the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects’ programme. The fair presents a curated programme of talks, artists’ commissions and film projects, many of which are interactive or performative and encourage visitors to engage with art and artists directly. 
Unlike most other fairs, Frieze Art Fair is housed in a bespoke temporary structure in Regent’s Park and benefits from having a natural light source, avoiding the atmosphere of a trade show, thus making the fair more lively and energetic. 
Since the first year Frieze Art Fair has also been fortunate enough to work with a series of talented architects: David Adjaye, Jamie Fobert and Caruso St John, who are well known for their work on museums and art galleries. The architects’ brief is to make the fair an inviting and unique experience. Each year there are eye-catching changes to the design, décor, entrance and spaces such as restaurants and cafes. The architects have the opportunity to experiment and this adds to the experience of the fair. 
What is Frame?
Frame, a new section dedicated to solo artist presentations will be introduced in 2009. Frame is open to galleries who have been in existence for less than six years and present a regular programme of exhibitions.
What are the annual sales figures?
Frieze Art Fair released sales figures following the first three fairs. However, the directors came to regard such results to be misleading and inaccurate, as many sales are completed post-fair, and many galleries choose to keep their sales figures private. From 2006 the fair has not released sales figures. 
Whilst the fair is a commercial venture, it should be remembered that the fair equally relies on the relationships with collectors and curators made by participating galleries at the fair. 
How are the galleries selected for the fair?
Around 450 galleries apply each year for the fair. Each year the application form is posted on the website in December, the application deadline is in February and the selection is made in April. There is then an appeals procedure in late April. The selection is made by a committee of gallerists who participate in the fair; the fair directors chair the meeting but do not vote. 
Who is on the selection committee?
The 2009 selection committee is:
Gavin Brown, Director, Gavin Brown’s enterprise
Daniel Buchholz, Director, Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Sadie Coles, Director, Sadie Coles HQ
Marcia Fortes, Director, Galeria Fortes Vilaça
Cornelia Grassi, Director, greengrassi
Maureen Paley, Director, Maureen Paley
Toby Webster, Director, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster
Curators Sarah McCrory and Daniel Baumann have been appointed in 2009 as special advisers to Frame.
What is the relationship between Frieze Art Fair and frieze magazine?
The fair and the magazine are both wholly owned by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp. The magazine was founded, in 1991, by Amanda Sharp and
Matthew Slotover with the artist Tom Gidley. When the magazine began both Amanda and Matthew served as editors, but ceased direct involvement in editorial decisions in 2001. In 2003, the first year of Frieze Art Fair, they assumed the roles of Publishing Directors of the magazine, and directors of the fair. Amanda and Matthew maintain the overall direction of both the art fair and the magazine, but editorial decisions are made by the editors Joerg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie, as well as their associate Dan Fox.
The fair and the magazine share offices and admin, communications and accounts personnel. In 2008 and 2009 the talks programme at the fair has been organised by the magazine editors.
What is Frieze Foundation?
Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation, which was established the same year as the fair (2003). The foundation oversees: Frieze Talks, a programme of panel discussions and lectures printed annually during the four days of the fair; Frieze Projects, a curated programme of site-specific projects by artists in and around the fair; The Cartier Award, annually presented to an emerging artist. The foundation also administers Frieze Music, Frieze Education and Frieze Film. 
How is Frieze Foundation funded? 
The foundation has received funding from a number of sources including grant bodies such as the European Union’s Culture 2000 programme and Arts Council, England. Specific areas also receive sponsorship, for example Cartier has sponsored Frieze Projects since 2005. 
Who runs the curatorial programme at the fair?
The programme has been curated by Neville Wakefield in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Polly Staple previously curated the programme, from 2003 to 2006.
Can I make a project at the fair?
The curatorial programme is carefully considered many months before the fair. For artists not known to the curator, the best route to show a project at the fair is via an application to the Cartier Award. 
What is Frieze Education and how is it funded?
Frieze Education is part of Frieze Foundation and is supported by Frieze Art Fair’s main sponsor Deutsche Bank. The programme runs over the four days of the fair. During the week local school groups participate in the programme developed in 2009 as in 2008 in collaboration with ReachOut RCA. Frieze Education has previously worked with the Serpentine Gallery in 2003 and 2004 as well as Camden Art Centre in 2005, 2006 and 2007. At the weekend the Deutsche Bank Education Space (which is housed in the fair) is open to family groups and visiting children. They have the opportunity to undertake activities that engage with fair at large. The programme is developed to introduce children and young people to contemporary art in an exciting and fun way.
What is Frieze Music and how is it funded?
Frieze Music was established to develop the crossover between contemporary art and music. A concert (or a series of concerts) is presented during the week of Frieze Art Fair in an off-site location. Frieze Music is presented under the curatorship of Dan Fox, Associate Editor of frieze magazine, and Steve Mackey, producer and musician. Frieze Music’s varied programme has featured bands, avant-garde classical composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen and pop series, such as that co-ordinated by Franz Ferdinand in 2004. Frieze Music takes place during the week of the fair and attracts a wide audience.
If I cannot get to London for Frieze Art Fair is there any part of it that I can still enjoy?
http://www.frieze.com offers podcasts of all Frieze Talks as well as details of Frieze Projects and Frieze Film. Frieze Art Fair also publishes a comprehensive guide to contemporary art Frieze Art Fair Yearbook, which is available from mid-September and can be ordered in advance online at http://www.frieze.com or purchased from all good bookshops.

01/10/08

Frieze Talks 2008: Details Announced

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Boris Groys, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono and Cosey Fanni Tutti are all part of the international line-up of artists, philosophers, writers and cultural commentators making up Frieze Talks 2008.
Frieze Talks, a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions taking place in the Auditorium at Frieze Art Fair, is presented by Frieze Foundation in collaboration with frieze magazine. 
Panel discussions led by Jennifer Allen, Stuart Comer, Carol Yinghua Lu and Simon Reynolds will focus on subjects that include the state of alternative culture, the challenges and possibilities facing the art system in China, and ideas surrounding time and memory in recent art and exhibitions.
Conversations with Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Alasdair Gray and a presentation by Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective will be followed by keynote lectures from philosopher Boris Groys and influential artists and commentators Fritz Haeg, Yoko Ono and Judith Williamson.
Jennifer Higgie, Co-Editor of frieze magazine said, “We are excited about the richly diverse, international programme of speakers we have put together for the 2008 Frieze Talks. From artists and novelists to philosophers, architects, musicians, critics and curators, this year’s participants will be discussing, illustrating, performing and arguing some of the myriad issues swirling around the world of art and visual culture today.”
Thursday 16 October
12pm The China Experience

Carol Yinghua Lu (Writer, Curator and Contributing Editor, frieze) will bring together three key players in Chinese contemporary art to discuss the impact of the country’s political, financial and creative conditions on its artists, critics, curators and gallerists.  With so much attention focused on China, the panel examines the structures of its art scene and looks at how it compares to Western models.
Weng Ling (Curator and Founder of the Beijing Center for the Arts)
Zheng Shengtian (Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art)
Karen Smith (Writer, Curator and Chinese Contemporary Art Specialist)
3pm A Personal Grammar of Means

Artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz in conversation with writer and art historian Roger Cook.

5pm The Aesthetic Responsibility

Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys will give a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self-revelation and self-positioning in public space.  Arguing that design has acquired a new ethical dimension, he contends that where there was once religion, there is now design.

Friday 17 October
12pm It’s About Time

This discussion chaired by Jennifer Allen (Writer and Critic) will explore the recent emphasis on temporality in art exhibitions. While considering historical and philosophical precedents, the panel will explore how and why time has become a tool for curators, and will question the political implications of such an approach.
Philippe Parreno (Artist)
Carsten Höller (Artist)
Elena Filipovic (Writer and Independent Curator)
Peter Osborne (Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London)

3pm The First Pictures I Enjoyed

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.

5pm PASSAGES OF LIGHT

Artist Yoko Ono will present a keynote lecture, demonstrating the continued importance of the performative practices and engagement with audiences that she has pursued since the 1960s.
Saturday 18 October
12pm In Memory of the Image

This panel chaired by Stuart Comer (Curator: Film, Tate Modern) will look at the proliferation, immediacy and increasing mobility of images. If we have reached the demise of representation, how do we talk about the image? What are the implications for rethinking terms such as documentary, form and abstraction?
George Baker (Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles and editor at October)
Morgan Fisher (Artist and Filmmaker)
Hito Steyerl (Filmmaker and Author)
3pm Transhumance

Raqs Media Collective will perform a selection of reports and conversations gathered from their nomadic practices as artists, curators and theorists.

5pm Something for Everyone

Artist, writer, architect, educator, ecologist and radical gardener Fritz Haeg will give a keynote talk exploring populist projects, insular bohemia, activist art, passive entertainment, networked communication, broadcast media, social strategies of isolation, and potential roles for today’s artist in a fractured society.
Sunday 19 October
12pm Is the Underground Over?

A conversation chaired by music critic Simon Reynolds will examine how the notion of subculture has become outmoded through the overexposure afforded by the internet and the media’s rapid assimilation of the marginal.  This panel also surveys the past, present and future of unpopular culture and explores the possibility of alternatives to ‘alternative’.
Cosey Fanni Tutti (Artist)
Penny Martin (Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery, London College of Fashion)
Claire Titley (Music Promoter, ‘Upset the Rhythm’) 

4pm The Culture of Denial
Influential writer, broadcaster and lecturer Judith Williamson will give a keynote lecture on the skewed relationship between what we know and what we do, examining how the gulf between knowledge and behaviour shapes contemporary culture. 
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29/09/08

Highlights of Frieze Art Fair 2008

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29 September 2008
Highlights of Frieze Art Fair 2008
Frieze Art Fair 2008
The sixth edition of the leading international contemporary art fair is sponsored by Deutsche Bank and takes place in London from 16-19 October 2008.

World’s top contemporary art galleries
151 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 27 countries, will present new work by over 1,000 artists at Frieze Art Fair. 2008 will see 11 galleries exhibiting at Frieze Art Fair for the first time, including Juliètte Jongma from Amsterdam, Long March Space, Beijing, Mary Mary, Glasgow and Vermelho, Sao Paulo.

Taking place in the beautiful setting of Regent’s Park in a large temporary structure of over 200,000 square foot, Frieze Art Fair 2008 is designed by renowned architects
Caruso St John.

Four galleries – Annet Gelink, Hauser & Wirth, Taka Ishii and Timothy Taylor have all employed architects to design their stands. Each year the fair’s organisers invite two spaces from developing centres of art to the fair, in 2008 they are Appetite from Buenos Aires and PiST from Istanbul.

Frieze Projects
Eleven artists have been commissioned to create site-specific work for Frieze Art Fair 2008. This year’s Frieze Projects engage directly with the ecology of the fair and its surroundings. Working closely with Caruso St. John, Jeppe Hein has drawn together the artificial construction of the fair with the natural surroundings of the park in an installation of subtly animated trees outside the entrance to the fair. Norma Jeane will present three transparent booths for visitors of the fair to smoke in. Each smoker will be part of the performance which is a comment on how the once social activity of smoking has been transformed through regulation and legislation into something deeply anti-social. Agnieszka Kurant will present a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Cory Arcangel has intervened in the fair’s gallery selection process, giving one gallery unsuccessful in their application to this year’s fair the opportunity nonetheless to exhibit. Tue Greenfort will excavate a chamber between gallery stands presenting an installation that is both a space to relax in and – literally – a distillation of the essence of the visitors to the fair, with dehumidifiers imperceptibly extracting the moisture from those who enter. Further projects from Pavel Büchler, Ceal Floyer, Sharon Hayes, Bert Rodriguez, Allen Ruppersberg and Andreas Slominski are presented throughout the fair. This year’s European Partners are MUSAC from Spain who will provide the fair’s own mobile phone ringtone and Kling and Bang from Iceland who will reconstruct Rejkavik’s famous Sirkus bar, a favourite with artists and musicians, within the fair. Icelandic beer will be served. Frieze Projects are curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier.

Frieze Talks
Boris Groys, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono, Raqs Media Collective and Cosey Fanni Tutti are all part of the international line-up of artists, philosophers, writers and cultural commentators taking part in the richly diverse programme of Frieze Talks 2008 which is curated for the first time by the Co-Editors of frieze Jennifer Higgie and Jörg Heiser and Associate Editor, Dan Fox. This year’s panels, conversations and keynote lectures will discuss, illustrate, perform and argue some of the myriad issues prevailing in the world of art and visual culture today.

The Cartier Award
Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto is the winner of the 2008 Cartier Award. For the fair this year Prieto’s commission is a classic red carpet, the sort associated with wealth and fame, which will trace a route through the fair that anyone can follow until it leads out and up to join the top of a very tall flagpole. The piece is partly a gestural act that draws a line from the insider world of the art fair to the outside. The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading art awards.

Frieze Film
For Frieze Art Fair 2008, Frieze Film presents four films created on YouTube. An experiment in film-making, each three minute film is created out of elements from hundreds of contributions to an open submission call for films inspired by the themes of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel “The Road”. Each film draws on different strands - the destructive apocalypse, the father son relationship, the bleak landscape and the road itself. The soundtracks are provided by underground bands such as Sunn O))) and A Silver Mt. Zion. Each movie will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the admired 3 Minute Wonder slot from Monday 13 – Thursday 16 October.

Sculpture Park
This year the Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair has almost doubled in size, with sixteen sculptures on show in Regents’ Park’s English Gardens. Artists presenting work at the 2008 Sculpture Park include Americans Robert Melee and Michael Craig-Martin, Indian artist Subodh Gupta, Ugo Rondinone from Switzerland, Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson and British artist Harland Miller. Other highlights will include work by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary and Ângela Ferreira, an artist who was born in Mozambique but now lives and works in Portugal. For the first time sponsorship by the Heath Lambert Group, incorporating Blackwall Green, has provided bursaries enabling innovative and diverse proposals by some participating galleries that may not otherwise have been realised.

Frieze Education
Frieze Education, which takes place annually in the Deutsche Bank Education Space within Frieze Art Fair, will work with ReachOutRCA (The Royal College of Art’s Educational Outreach Team) for the first time in 2008 to realise its artist-led programme of events for children and young people. Aimed at 5-12 year olds, the weekend workshops and an activity guide inspired by the Frieze Projects programme are both free.

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23/09/08

The Cartier Award 2009: Call for Entries

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Frieze Art Fair announced today the call for entries to The Cartier Award 2009. The Cartier Award is open to artists living outside of the UK, up to five years from graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree or under thirty years of age. The Cartier Award is organised by Frieze Projects, sponsored by Cartier and presented in collaboration with Gasworks.

The recipient of the prize will have the unique opportunity to present their work at Frieze Art Fair 2009, guaranteeing a major international audience. Additionally the prize will cover production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee, per diems, travel expenses and a studio residency at Gasworks in London from August to October 2009. 

Now in its fourth year, The Cartier Award has proved to be an important milestone in the development of young artists’ careers. The inaugural winner in 2006, Mika Rottenberg, showed at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 and the 2007 winner, Mario Garcia Torres, received a solo exhibition at White Cube, London in 2008.
The winner of The Cartier Award 2008 is Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto. Prieto, based in Barcelona and Havana, is a young conceptual artist whose work often takes the form of site-specific installations. His proposal was chosen from over 400 applications submitted by artists from across the world. 
Proposals for work can take the form of site-specific installations; performance; film; video or print work. Applicants will be judged on the innovative nature of their proposal and its suitability for realisation at Frieze Art Fair. 
The selection committee for The Cartier Award 2009 comprises Neville Wakefield (Curator, Frieze Projects), Grazia Quaroni (Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art), Alessio Antoniolli (Director, Gasworks) and Mario Garcia Torres (Artist). 
The deadline for applicants is 5 January 2009. For full details of the award and an application form please visit http://www.friezefoundation.org/cartier.

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Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee
Neville Wakefield, Curator, Frieze Projects
Grazia Quaroni, Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art
Alessio Antoniolli, Director, Gasworks
Mario Garcia Torres, Artist
The Cartier Award
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides project production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three month residency at Gasworks including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK based artists within 5 years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is a programme of site-specific artist commissions curated by Neville Wakefield, taking place during Frieze Art Fair together with Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award. 

Cartier and The Cartier Award
Cartier is the associate sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and The Cartier Award. Their dedicated support expresses the spirit of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and includes a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.
Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair takes place from 15 – 18 October 2009 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world. 

Frieze Art Fair 2008 – Information
Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 18 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 19 October 11am – 6pm

Preview: 
Wednesday 15 October

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11/09/08

Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair 2008 Almost Doubles in Size

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The Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair 2008 has almost doubled in size according to details released today. Sixteen sculptures are on show this year in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park a short walk from the entrance to the fair. Entrance to the Sculpture Park is free.

For the first time sponsorship by the Heath Lambert Group, incorporating Blackwall Green, has provided bursaries enabling innovative and diverse proposals by some participating galleries that may not otherwise have been realised.

This year’s Sculpture Park demonstrates a strong representation of works from both emerging and established artists. Artists presenting work at the 2008 Sculpture Park include American artists Robert Melee and Michael Craig-Martin, Indian artist Subodh Gupta, Ugo Rondinone from Switzerland, Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson and British artist Harland Miller. Other highlights will include work by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, a collaboration between Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary and British artist Pip Horne, and Angela Ferreira, an artist who was born in Mozambique but now lives and works in Portugal.

Exhibiting for the first time at Frieze Art Fair, Long March Space from Beijing will present a work by Qiu Zhijie. Another Side (2008) is a two-part installation composed partly of mani stones - small pebbles or rocks from Tibet used for prayer or mantra - inscribed with phrases from the Bible and the Koran in Tibetan script. With one pile of stones placed in Regent’s Park and another in Qinghai Province, China, Zhijie provokes a quiet statement about the relationship between culture and the economy, Tibet and China, and how Tibet is perceived internationally. Japanese artist Kishio Sugo presents Adjoined-M, (1989), an installation of extreme delicacy and beauty placed in conjunction with the trees of Regent’s Park and acting as adjunct to them, whilst Brazilian Ernesto Neto exhibits new work made from laser cut steel, comprising organically interconnecting parts woven together as a form of chain.

Liz Craft will present Large Rose III (2008), a large hybrid sculpture that suggests a domestic space with fireplaces and balustrades punctuating its structure. The relationship between culture and identity, the city and nature, the modern and the arcadian is explored by the pavilion that Dan Graham has designed specifically for the park. Michael Sailstorfer focuses on the contradiction of the nomadic and home with Wohnen mit Verkehrsanbindung, Grosskatzbach (Living with Transport Connection, Grosskatzback) (2001-2008).

David Thorp, curator of the Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair commented,
“The Sculpture Park is a fantastic opportunity for the Frieze Art Fair audience and the wider public to see works that have been made specifically by some of the world’s most interesting artists to be shown out doors in an ideal setting.”

Adam Prideaux of Heath Lambert Group incorporating Blackwall Green added, “Heath Lambert is proud to be associated with Frieze Art Fair and to be able to sponsor the Sculpture Park. As one of the leading specialist art insurance brokers in the world we are committed to working with artists across the globe. Heath Lambert is delighted to offer bursaries to enable new talent to be showcased at this prestigious event.”

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Heath Lambert Group incorporating Blackwall Green
Heath Lambert’s Art, Jewellery and Private Client Division, incorporating Blackwall Green, comprises the largest specialist Fine Art and Specie team in the UK, providing risk management and comprehensive bespoke insurance solutions to some of the world’s leading private collectors, artists, antique, commercial art and jewellery dealers, art restorers and conservators, art transporters, galleries and museums. It also has a dedicated private client team advising and handling the personal insurances for High Net Worth individuals.

List of Works
Liz Craft (American)
Large Rose III, 2008
Alison Jacques Gallery/Marianne Boesky Gallery

Michael Craig-Martin (American)
Pitchfork (colour blue), 2008
Gagosian Gallery

Gardar Eide Einarsson (Norwegian)
Club (Destroy This Mad Brute), 2008
Team Gallery

Angela Ferreira (b. Mozambique, lives and works in Portugal)
Meridian House (a response to an English park), 2008
Galerie Filomena Soares

Dan Graham (American)
Rectangle Inside ¾ Cylinder, 2008
Hauser & Wirth

Subodh Gupta (Indian)
Mind shut down, 2008
Hauser & Wirth

Shirazeh Houshiary & Pip Horne (Iranian and British)
Undoing the Knot, 2008
Lisson Gallery

Gary Hume (British)
Liberty Grip, 2008
White Cube

Robert Melee (American)
Her Leaving, 2008
It Sitting, 2008
Andrew Kreps Gallery/David Kordansky Gallery

Harland Miller (British)
The Bigger the Search Light the Larger the Circumference of the Unknown, 2008
White Cube

Ernesto Neto (Brazillian)
Tic Tac Playing Cards, 2008
Galeria Fortes Vilaça

Ugo Rondinone (Swiss)
Sunrise. east. May; June; July; August; October and December, 2005
Sadie Coles HQ

Michael Sailstorfer (German)
Wohnen mit Verkehrsanbindung, Grosskatzbach, (Living with Transport Connection, Grosskatzback) 2001- 2008
Johann König/Zero

Sudarshan Shetty (Indian)
The History of Loss, 2008
GallerySke

Kishio Suga (Japanese)
Adjoined-M, 1989
Tomio Koyama Gallery

Qiu Zhijie (Chinese)
Another Side, 2008
Long March Space

Frieze Art Fair – Information

Opening dates and hours:
Thursday 16 October 11am – 7pm
Friday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 18 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 19 October 11am – 6pm

Preview:
Wednesday 15 October

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29/08/08

Frieze Education 2008 Announced

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Frieze Education, which takes place annually in the Deutsche Bank Education Space within Frieze Art Fair, will work with ReachOutRCA (The Royal College of Art’s Educational Outreach Team) for the first time in 2008 to realise its artist-led programme of events for children and young people. Details of the programme are announced today.      



With the aim of establishing a strong legacy for the children and young people that take part, ReachOutRCA will provide an imaginative, critical and playful exploration of Frieze Art Fair.  



How Do We Get To Here encompasses an exciting and challenging programme of schools workshops, public engagement days, a printed guide and an online resource.  



A series of workshops will take place both on and off-site for students from four Westminster, Camden and Islington schools. Project Space will provide direct experience of the thought processes and practicalities necessary in the understanding and realising of an exhibition. The Lives (of the Most Excellent Artists) introduces students to the working methods and the role of the artist, encouraging them to understand how artists create their identity within the art world.



The weekend public programme consists of free, drop-in sessions. Designed for children between the ages of five and twelve, they will encourage an imaginative and fun response to the fair. Type Club (a collective of graphic designers) will present The Story Wall, a narrative and typographic discovery of Frieze Art Fair. Likewise, A+D+A+D (a group of animators and architects working collectively through drawing) will present Inflated Drawing, a 3-D drawing that explores the international flow of art, artists and other visitors in and out of Frieze Art Fair 2008.  



The online resource provides an insight into the fair for young people, featuring How Do We Get To Here interviews with artists and curators involved in Frieze Art Fair.  
The Family Guide is a free, mini-guide aimed at 5-12 year olds. The guide, inspired by the Frieze Projects programme, will help children discover the fair through imaginative activities. 


ReachOutRCA commented, “At ReachOutRCA, we believe in investing in the future of young people to widen diversity in the arts and welcome new thinkers and makers into a creative life. We are excited to be working with Frieze Art Fair and Deutsche Bank as it enables us to offer our unique learning experience to a new audience. Workshops aim to develop confidence, individual voice and critical thinking and enhance practical and imaginative capabilities. All our artists are eager to collaborate with young people to transform their potential into action.”  



From Deutsche Bank, Kate Cavelle, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) UK commented, “Building on the success of the previous two years, the Deutsche Bank Education Space at Frieze Art Fair will host a highly ambitious programme of educational arts activities focused on inspiring creativity and encouraging curiosity as young people learn about the exciting career opportunities in the arts. We are delighted to extend our relationship with the RCA, one of our longest standing CSR partners, to deliver this important element of Deutsche Bank’s Frieze Art Fair sponsorship.”

16/06/08

Frieze Projects 2008: Curatorial Programme Announced

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Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. It is curated by Neville Wakefield and this year includes 11 new commissions as well as the Cartier Award and collaborations with this year’s partner institutions Kling & Bang (Iceland) and MUSAC (Spain).

Eleven artists have been commissioned to create site-specific work for Frieze Art Fair. This year the projects engage with the ecology of the fair and its surroundings and reflect on the tensions between nature and culture, pollution and purity, economic gain and strategic loss. Above all, Frieze Projects presents art that regards the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere.

Cory Arcangel will intervene in the fair’s gallery selection process. Like Willy Wonka, Arcangel has hidden a golden ticket inside one of hundreds of chocolate bars which were sent to all the galleries who were unsuccessful in their application to this year’s fair. The finder of the golden ticket will be allocated a stand at the fair.

Pavel Büchler delights in drawing attention to the obvious and his project is an expression of the metaphorical climate of the fair. Reinforcing the experience of dislocation from reality, his piece will confound the senses of visitors in the entrance corridor by playing sounds that represent the opposite of actual external weather conditions.

Ceal Floyer will be working with one of the ubiquitous irritations of social life: the placing of a folded beer mat under a table leg to stabilize it.  In fact the idea of steadying an uneven surface is turned on its head and instead a situation of co-dependence is created, with all the legs of the table being balanced on beer mats and relying on each other to create ‘stability’.

Sharon Hayes will present a performance that increases in intensity on each subsequent day of the fair. The performance will be an exposure of the constitution of the fair’s audience and will reflect notions of inclusivity, exclusivity and advantaged information.

Jeppe Hein draws together the artificial construction of the fair with the natural surroundings of the park in an installation of subtly animated trees outside the entrance to the fair. Creating an illusion that is visually unsettling, the piece is also an encouragement to pause amid the frenetic human activity inside the tent.

Tue Greenfort will excavate a chamber between gallery stands to present an installation that is both a space to relax and - literally – a distillation of the essence of visitors to the fair. While inside a darkened room filled with the sound of waves, dehumidification equipment will imperceptibly extract moisture from unsuspecting visitors.

Agnieszka Kurant will present a trio of trained parrots that have been taught to use an alternative language. Both a reflection on nature behaving unnaturally and a caricature of the zoo-like atmosphere of the art fair and the self-reflexive communication of the art world.  Referring to two similar but unrealized projects by other artists, Kurant also questions the notions of copyright and the marketplace.

Norma Jeane, an artist who works outside the commercial gallery system, will present a performance that depends on audience participation. The piece will be both a commentary on how the once-social activity of smoking has been transformed through regulation and legislation into something deeply-antisocial, and a presentation of the heightened discomfort required to indulge private pleasure in public space.

Bert Rodriguez will create a performance based installation project consisting of a massage station located in a centralized, highly trafficked area of the fair. At certain times for the duration of the fair, the artist will be available to perform a ten minute foot massage for any weary visitors walking through.

Allen Ruppersberg will be following in the tradition of the travelling bard, by performing and selling poems at reduced prices during the time of the fair. Setting up an ad-hoc stall inside the Koenig bookstore, Ruppersberg will be bringing some of the anti-commercialism of the beat era to the slick marketplace of the art fair.

Andreas Slominski  will furnish the fair with elements familiar from public spaces overseas but rare in the UK. Digital signage in various location inside the fair will play with received notions of time and climate and disrupt expectations of trust in so-called official information.

Partners

Kling og Bang, the artists collective from Iceland, will commemorate Sirkus, a Reykjavik bar, landmark, and hub of the alternative arts scene, which is due for demolition. Kling og Bang will save its facade and interior and re-erect it at the Frieze Art Fair, like a circus moving to another town. A zany nomadic act reflecting the drive of Icelandic art, producing a situation of one circus within another for artists to respond to.

MUSAC (the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León) from Spain will present three artists’ projects that intersect with the fair’s daily traffic on the subtlest of levels in order to represent the institution within the art fair.
Entitled Intangible Actions, curator Agustín Pérez Rubio has selected three Spanish artists who have had individual projects in the museum programme: the invisible performance Los Romeos by Dora García, the project Frieze Ringtone by Carles Congost and the action Momentos de Intensidad (Moments of Intensity)” by Marc Vives + David Bestué. A special edition of FAKE magazine will also be distributed.

Resonance104.4fm, London’s art radio station will be broadcasting Frieze Talks live from the fair along with interviews and specially commissioned radio art projects. Fair visitors will be able to watch the Resonance team at work and contribute to the debate. Listeners can tune in on 104.4FM in the London area.

30/05/08

Frieze Film 2008: Road Movie

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Frieze Film 2008 announces Road Movie, an experiment in film making, authorship and dispersal made in response to the way in which digital platforms such as YouTube have made film a medium freely available to all.

Road Movie will be a film made by artists and filmmakers in response to an open invitation issued by Frieze Film. Road Movie will be produced and distributed on the Frieze Film 2008 group on YouTube, and on the Frieze Film website. The final result will be a film made in an entirely new way: the first multi-authored fractal film assembled from the sum of its submitted parts.

Inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road, Frieze Film will not have a conventional narrative: in addition to submitting original material visitors to YouTube will be able to download and refashion existent clips, spurring a chain-reaction of multiple narratives and occurrences: Road Movie will be wholly individual and collective.

Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4’s admired 3 Minute Wonder slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 13 October to Thursday 16 October at 7.55pm. Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Film comments, “If, as Francis Ford Coppola famously said of filming Apocalypse Now that, (traditional) film-making offers one of the last chances to be a dictator in a democracy, then it could be said that Frieze Film Road Movie offers one of the first opportunities to create a democratic form out of a dictatorship. Not knowing the outcome is precisely what makes this project so exciting.”

Kate Vogel, editor 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4 added, “I’m thrilled to be involved with this audacious project, it will encourage a visual dialogue between artists and filmmakers and provide a platform for their collective story telling – it feels exactly where Channel 4 should be, risk taking should be at the heart of what we do”.

Frieze Film is presented as part of Frieze Art Fair’s unique curated programme. Frieze Film, together with Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks and Frieze Education, is commissioned and produced under the auspices of Frieze Foundation.

Editors’ Notes

Each submission to Road Movie should be up to three minutes in length.

Channel 4’s 3 Minute Wonder slot follows directly after Channel 4 News and regularly attracts viewing figures of around one million.

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12/05/08

The Cartier Award 2008: Winner Announced

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Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of The Cartier Award 2008 is Cuban artist, Wilfredo Prieto. Prieto, based in Barcelona, is a talented young conceptual artist whose works often take the form of site-specific installations. His winning proposal was chosen from over 400 applications submitted by artists across the world.

For Frieze Art Fair 2008, sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the fifth year, Prieto will present a new site-specific work. The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading art awards. It allows an emerging artist from outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the influential Frieze Projects programme curated by Neville Wakefield. Wakefield, commenting on the announcement, said: “Wilfredo Prieto stands out amongst his peers for creating art that levitates the ordinary. With great economy of means he addresses issues of sculptural and geo-political accumulation in ways that are at once provocative, charming and poetic.”

The Cartier Award forms an exciting and highly visible element of Cartier’s long-standing commitment to supporting contemporary art. Grazia Quaroni, one of the selection panel, and curator of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art added: “Wilfredo Prieto’s installations reinvent reality and create new global landscapes for a better world. The poverty of means and the minimal structures he always uses are essential to obtain a powerful synthesis of a visionary urban context, strong, lyrical and human-scale based.”

In 2008, Gasworks, an outstanding studio complex in London, will host the residency for the second year.

Wilfredo Prieto was born in 1978 and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte de la Universidad de Habana in 2002. His work has been exhibited at SMAK (Ghent) in 2008, the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2007, at the Kadist Art Foundation and Apolitical at the Louvre Museum, Paris as well as the VIII Havana Biennal in 2006 and in A moment of Silence at the Dia Art Foundation in New York in 2003. Prieto was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2006.

Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee
Neville Wakefield, Curator, Frieze Projects
Grazia Quaroni, Curator, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
Mia Jankowicz, Residency Curator, Gasworks
Richard Wentworth, Artist

The Award
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations, performance, film, video or print. The award provides project production costs of up to £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three month residency at Gasworks including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK based artists within 5 years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is a programme of site-specific artist commissions curated by Neville Wakefield, taking place during Frieze Art Fair together with Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.

Cartier and The Award
Cartier is the associate sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and The Cartier Award. Their dedicated support expresses the spirit of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and includes a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair takes place from 16 – 19 October 2008 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world.

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Friday 17 October 11am – 7pm
Saturday 18 October 11am – 7pm
Sunday 19 October 11am – 6pm

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22/04/08

Frieze Art Fair 2008: Details Announced

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Details of Frieze Art Fair 2008, 16-19 October, have today been announced by directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. Frieze Art Fair is acknowledged as both the UK’s most important contemporary art event and one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs. The 2008 fair will present a rigorous selection of the most exciting international galleries alongside Frieze Art Fair’s unique curatorial programme of artists’ projects. Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the fifth consecutive year, continues to inspire debate, and helps set the international contemporary art agenda.

The galleries at Frieze Art Fair will present exceptional artworks by over 1,000 of the world’s top artists. Exciting galleries from the fast expanding markets of Brazil, China, India and Russia will exhibit alongside the leading galleries from across America, Europe, Japan and Scandinavia.

Nine galleries will be participating at Frieze Art Fair for the first time in 2008, including Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi from Berlin, GallerySke from Bangalore, A Gentil Carioca from Rio de Janeiro, Galerie Juliètte Jongma from Amsterdam, Long March Space from Beijing, magical Artroom from Tokyo, Regina Gallery from Moscow, Sies + Höke from Dusseldorf and Reena Spaulings Fine Art from New York.

Each year the attendance of key international collectors, curators and museum directors at Frieze Art Fair surpass expectations. Over 68,000 visits were made to the 2007 Frieze Art Fair and demand for tickets continues to grow. This year overall ticket numbers will be limited to further improve the visitor experience. Tickets will go on sale from 2 June.

Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented: “Frieze Art Fair 2008 will be essential viewing for collectors looking to see the latest developments in contemporary art. This year’s exhibitors were chosen to reflect the continued expansion of the international artworld and recent developments in Brazilian, Indian, Chinese and Russian art. In addition to presenting the best emerging and established galleries, the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects will again be curated by Neville Wakefield. We are grateful to Deutsche Bank, our main sponsor, Cartier, our associate sponsor and the Guardian, our media sponsor for their continued support of Frieze Art Fair and contemporary art”.

The details of the 2008 curatorial programme Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks, Frieze Film and Frieze Education, which takes place in the Deutsche Bank Education Space, and the third recipient of The Cartier Award will be announced in May. In previous years Frieze Projects have included new works by Kris Martin, Mike Nelson, Paola Pivi, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler and Andrea Zittel. Frieze Talks have included presentations by Marina Abramovic, Daniel Birnbaum, Zaha Hadid, Dave Hickey and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Pierre de Weck, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Global Head of Private Wealth Management Deutsche Bank commented: “Deutsche Bank congratulates Frieze on the success of Frieze Art Fair which has grown and developed year on year. As a very keen supporter of the arts and education for many years and in this, Deutsche Bank’s fifth year as main sponsor, we are very proud to be associated with the success of London’s first truly international contemporary art fair.”

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Gallery List 2008 (list in formation) ACME., Los Angeles Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid Andersen’s contemporary, Copenhagen Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam Appetite, Buenos Aires The Approach, London Arndt & Partner, Berlin Art : Concept, Paris Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin BQ, Cologne The Breeder, Athens Broadway 1602, New York Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne Cabinet, London Luis Campaña, Cologne Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid Sadie Coles HQ, London Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin Corvi-Mora, London CRG Gallery, New York Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow Thomas Dane Gallery, London Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Dicksmith Gallery, London doggerfisher, Edinburgh Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin The Fair Gallery, London Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo Marc Foxx, Los Angeles Carl Freedman Gallery, London Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Frith Street Gallery, London Gagosian Gallery, London GallerySke, Bangalore Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro Gladstone Gallery, New York Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main Greene Naftali, New York greengrassi, London Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg Studio Guenzani, Milan Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Herald St, London Hotel, London Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Jablonka Galerie, Cologne Alison Jacques Gallery, London Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna Johnen Galerie, Berlin Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam Annely Juda Fine Art, London Casey Kaplan, New York Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York francesca kaufmann, Milan Kerlin Gallery, Dublin Anton Kern Gallery, New York Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York Johann König, Berlin David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna Yvon Lambert, Paris Simon Lee Gallery, London Lehmann Maupin, New York Lisson Gallery, London Long March Space, Beijing Kate MacGarry, London magical Artroom, Tokyo Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Giò Marconi, Milan Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Mary Mary, Glasgow Metro Pictures, New York Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe Massimo Minini, Brescia Victoria Miro Gallery, London The Modern Institute/Toby Webster, Glasgow Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne Galerie Neu, Berlin Galleria Franco Noero, Turin Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica Maureen Paley, London Peres Projects, Berlin Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern PiST, Istanbul Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich Produzentengalerie, Hamburg Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples Galerie Almine Rech, Paris Regina Gallery, Moscow Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Rivington Arms, New York Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin Salon 94, New York Aurel Scheibler, Berlin Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf Studiò di Giovanna Simonetta/Frieze Projects (Cory Arcangel) Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne Standard (Oslo), Oslo Store, London Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo Sutton Lane, London Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Team Gallery, New York Vermelho, Sao Paulo Vilma Gold, London Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou Waddington Galleries, London Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam White Cube, London Max Wigram Gallery, London Wilkinson Gallery, London Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen XL Gallery, Moscow Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Zero, Milan David Zwirner, New York Frieze Art Fair Participating TerritoriesFrieze Art Fair – Information Opening dates and hours: Thursday 16 October 11am – 7pm Friday 17 October 11am – 7pm Saturday 18 October 11am – 7pm Sunday 19 October 11am – 6pm Preview: Wednesday 15 October Advance Tickets go on sale from 2 June: Box Office and 24-hour credit card hotline: See Tickets +44 (0)870 890 0514 Group Bookings: +44 (0)879 899 3342 Online Bookings: http://www.seetickets.com For General Information, Accommodation and Travel details, visit http://www.frieze.com

15/04/08

Frieze Art Fair Announces New Architect

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Frieze Art Fair directors, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, announced today the appointment of the London firm Caruso St John as the new architects for Frieze Art Fair 2008.

Since establishing the firm in 1990 Adam Caruso and Peter St John have developed an international reputation for innovative design, winning major international competitions including most recently the commission for the expansive new Nottingham Contemporary. They have twice been shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize (2000 and 2006).

Caruso St John are acknowledged as leading architects within the cultural sector. They were appointed to work with Tate Britain in 2007, gained critical acclaim for the New Art Gallery in Walsall in 2000, and public admiration for projects such as the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood in London.

Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented; “Caruso St John’s wide experience of working with leading museums, galleries and temporary exhibition spaces makes them an ideal partner for Frieze Art Fair. We look forward to developing the unique tradition at Frieze Art Fair of collaborating with architects on key aspects of the fair’s design.”

Adam Caruso of Caruso St John added: “We are very pleased to be involved with the Frieze Art Fair this year. We enjoy projects that are light on their feet and look forward to the challenge of making the spatial experience of the fair even more memorable and enjoyable.”

15/10/07

Strong Sales Reported by Frieze Art Fair 2007

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Gallerists reported that sales had been stronger than ever and the number of visits to the fair increased to 68,000 in 2007 from 63,000 in 2006.
Frieze Art Fair co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented: “Gallerists, collectors and visitors have all told us that the improvements we have made to the fair this year have made a real difference, enhanced the fair experience for all and importantly resulted in strong sales for the exhibitors.”
151 of the world’s leading galleries from 28 countries exhibited at the fair which has established a reputation as the best place to see new developments in international contemporary art.
Special gallery presentations included a solo show by Pawel Althamer at Foksal Gallery Foundation which has been acquired for Tate Collection, Rob Pruitt’s Fleamarket at Gavin Brown’s enterprise and an exhibition curated by Aurélie Voltz at The Fair Gallery - a new collaborative venture presented at an art fair for the first time. 
Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth commented: “The fair was extremely positive for us and with so many excellent shows on in London I believe this has really helped make it a great year.”
“It’s been absolutely amazing - one of our strongest years. The intelligence of this fair makes it a joy to participate in. The audience is very aware and primed. We brought works by Rebecca Warren and Wolfgang Tillmans that were well received. The fair is also a great place in to introduce new artists. Overall, we’ve had a great response,” said Maureen Paley.

Ricardo Trevisan from Casa Triângulo, Sao Paolo, who are newcomers to the fair, added: “This is the first time we’ve been here and we sold work by Mauro Restiffe to Tate. We also sold to American foundations and collectors we have never met from England, America and Brazil. We do other fairs like Arco Madrid and Miami Basel but Frieze is special; the location and setting, in the middle of a park, is perfect. The galleries are well selected and so are the works.” 
“The way people bought was different, more reflective and calmer. It used to be that people raced in grabbing the young, cool, hip and cheap works. Now purchases are more considered.” Thorsten Albertz, Director, Arndt & Partner
“We didn’t have as much inventory as usual, but we sold a lot of work just based on reproductions in our catalogues, which is a sign of success. As usual, almost all of our business was conducted in the first day. Yesterday, however, we sold two pieces by Lisa Yuskavage to a museum. In total, we’ve sold eighty works. We were happy with the attention given to the work by Michael S. Riedel - there have been lots of curators asking for it. That’s exactly what we wanted for this work – it’s subversive, so it’s perfect for an art fair. We’ve had a lot of new interest. For instance, we sold two works by Chris Ofili to a totally new buyer. I get great energy from that. There’s such a wide audience for art in London, even the taxi drivers know all about it. It’s a phenomenon.” Hanna Schouwink, Director, David Zwirner
“I’ve been here since the beginning and this has been our best year financially. A high proportion of the crowd were serious collectors. What’s interesting is that although there are lots of Americans they do not represent the majority of sales, as they do elsewhere. The organizers have done a great job of cultivating a balanced and international crowd. I do six fairs in a year but, in terms of sales and interest, this is the highest calibre - They’ve kept the quality by keeping the size manageable. If you open it up too much then people lose interest. The organisers should be commended. Each year they develop it. The exhibitors are very well looked after – they make sure collectors come and it makes us want to come back.” Alison Jacques, Owner, Alison Jacques Gallery
“This year’s fair has gone really well for us, sales are as strong as last year, and we’ve continued to sell throughout the four days mostly to Americans and Europeans.  And we’re looking forward to coming back next year, with a bigger booth hopefully!”
Luisa Strina, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
Collector, Beth DeWoody said: “It’s a really nice fair. It’s more relaxing and I could really look at art and get to know the dealers.”
Museum groups from America, Russia, Germany, France, Belgium and Latin America all visited Frieze Art Fair. 
Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, commented: “Frieze has played a key role in helping to make London one of the leading centres of the artworld.”
In a year which has seen unprecedented levels of parliamentary interest in the fair, with visits from the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and ministers from both the UK’s main political parties, James Purnell, Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport told the Art Newspaper: “Frieze Art Fair raises public awareness of contemporary art, provides opportunities for artists, stimulates the UK’s contemporary art market and makes a significant contribution to London’s economy . . . Frieze has reinforced London’s position as a world class destination for contemporary visual art.”
Frieze Projects, the unique curatorial programme presented at the fair, received widespread critical acclaim with Richard Prince’s first major UK commission and the entire fair falling silent for a minute in an intervention by Kris Martin. Frieze Talks included keynote lectures from Dave Hickey and Allen Smithee - a presentation by Cartier Award winner Mario Garcia Torres - Thierry de Duve and Roni Horn. All Frieze Talks are downloadable from http://www.frieze.com. Frieze Projects is curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier. 
Joanna Pitman commented in The Times, 6 October 2007: “Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp have put together a hugely ambitious series of events, performances and talks designed to move Frieze beyond an art fair and turn it into a larger event where art is made and the cultural agenda is set.”
Frieze Film presented four new film commissions from Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, David Shrigley, Wilhelm Sasnal and Kara Walker. The films were premiered in the on-site auditorium and broadcast on Channel 4 in a significant new collaboration with the television channel. Frieze Film is sponsored by BMW, supported by Channel 4 and Arts & Business. 
Frieze Education saw over 250 children taking part in the artist-led programme of workshops and discussions organised with Camden Arts Centre and held in the Deutsche Bank Education Space.
Frieze Music brought legendary musician Glenn Branca’s epic symphony for 100 guitars to an audience of 1500 at London’s Roundhouse. 
Frieze Art Fair is pleased to have the continued sponsorship of main sponsor Deutsche Bank, associate sponsor Cartier and media sponsor The Guardian. 
Pierre de Weck, Global Head of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and Member of the Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank commented: “Deutsche Bank was delighted to celebrate its fourth successive year as main sponsor of Frieze Art Fair. This year’s fair was enjoyed by a record number of Deutsche Bank staff and enabled the Bank to share its art concept with a wider audience through a successful series of workshops in the Deutsche Bank education space. The Bank added 20 small pieces to its art collection and enjoyed a fair that supported the next generation of emerging artists in a way not seen before.”
“My sincere congratulations go out to the team at Frieze Art Fair, and to Amanda and Matthew for managing yet again to stage Britain’s most exciting art fair. Cartier are thrilled to be involved as the associate sponsor of Frieze. Neville Wakefield brought a new dimension to Frieze Projects this year and we are looking forward to following the career of Mario Garcia Torres, the recipient of the Cartier Award 2007.” 
Arnaud Bamberger, Managing Director, Cartier UK
Frieze Art Fair 2008 will be held in Regent’s Park, London, from 16 to 19 October 2008. 
Visit http://www.frieze.com to download Frieze Talks 2007. 
Visit http://www.suttonpr.com for images of the fair, Frieze Projects and a portrait of co-directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. 
Visit http://www.guardian.co.uk for vodcasts and podcasts from Frieze Art Fair 2007.

08/10/07

Highlights of Frieze Art Fair 2007

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05/10/07

The Cartier Award 2008

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25/09/07

Frieze Sculpture Park

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Frieze Sculpture Park

Frieze Art Fair today announces the list of works to be installed in the Sculpture Park at Frieze, which will be presented in the wonderful setting of the English Gardens, located a short walk to the east of the entrance to the fair.

The park will showcase 9 sculptures by artists working with participating Frieze Art Fair galleries. This year’s park includes a strong representation of artists from across Europe, including both younger artists and established names such as Bjoern Dahlem and Brigitte Kowanz.

The majority of the works in the park have been made for the Fair and all the work, with one exception, is from 2007. They include three life-size bronze statues by Christian Jankowski of street performers dressed as Che Guevara, Salvador Dali’s ‘anthropomorphic cabinet’ woman and a Roman legionnaire who calls himself ‘Caesar’. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen will present French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005, two oversize stainless steel musical instruments painted bright yellow. Kader Attia has topped broken concrete columns with rusted metal fragments to create works that resemble decaying house foundations and distorted concrete trees. The work was inspired by houses the artist has seen in Algeria, his homeland, and comment on both the broken dreams of immigrants returning home and the architecture of the Parisian suburb (the Banlieues) where Attia grew up.

David Thorp, curator of Sculpture Park 2007 at Frieze Art Fair, commented “The Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair is a unique opportunity for the public to experience some of the very latest in contemporary art in a beautiful setting”.

Access to the Sculpture Park is free.

Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair:

Kader Attia, (Born and lives in France)
Untitled, 2007
Christian Nagel

Marc Bijl, (Born in Holland, lives Holland and Germany)
Triumph (proposed for the memorial to the Iraq war), 2007
The Breeder

Bjoern Dahlem, (Born and lives in Germany)
M-Stars, 2007
Guido W Baudach

Dias (Born Brazil, lives in Brazil and Switerland) & Riedweg (Born Switzerland, lives in Brazil and Switerland)
Promenade, 2007
Galeria Filomena Soares

Christian Jankowski, (Born in Germany, lives in USA)
Living Sculptures, Caesar / El Che / Dali Woman, 2007
Lisson Gallery

Brigitte Kowanz, (Born and lives in Austria)
Light Columns, 2007
Krobath Wimmer

Claes Oldenburg (Born Sweden, lives in USA) / Coosje van Bruggen (Born Holland, lives in USA)
French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005
Waddington Galleries

José Pedro Croft, (Born and lives in Portugal)
Untitled, 2007
Galeria Filomena Soares

Gary Webb, (Born and lives in UK)
UK Sandwiches, 2007
The Approach

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20/09/07

Frieze Education 2007

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In 2007 Frieze Art Fair will continue long-term commitment to education with an inventive and expansive programme introducing contemporary art to young people and families. Now in its fifth year and third collaboration with Camden Arts Centre, Frieze Education will include artist-led workshops for schools; a panel discussion; family workshops and a free guide to the fair.

Taking place in the Deutsche Bank Education Space, Frieze Education will introduce young people to creative processes and materials, and will engage them with contemporary art in new and empowering ways.

‘Introducing the Art World’ is a series of workshops for students aged 15-18. Teaming artists with schools from Camden and Westminster, the workshops will provide students with the skills to think critically and creatively about contemporary art and the art world. Taking place both in schools and on site, the workshops will give insights into professional artists’ thought processes and their means of practical experimentation.

On 11 October, a panel discussion for young people aged 16 and over will further their access to contemporary art and Frieze Art Fair. Students will find out about careers within the creative industries and discover more about the importance of artists in society.

Families visiting Frieze Art Fair can participate in free creative workshops. Aimed at 5-12 year olds, each session will last 2 hours. Guided by artists, visitors will explore the materials and creative processes of artists in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Kate Cavelle, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility UK, commented, “Using the arts to underpin and enrich education is a central element of Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility activities in London. Deutsche Bank initiates and supports educational and artistic projects that maximise the potential of young people and ensure the educational journey they experience is enjoyable and successful. We are delighted to be teaming up once again with Camden Arts Centre at Frieze Art Fair to provide fun, creative workshops in the Deutsche Bank Education Space.”

For a fun and imaginative tour of Frieze Art Fair, visitors can pick up The Young People’s Guide to Frieze Art Fair. This free mini guide for 5-12 year olds is always extremely popular with people of all ages. Please refer to http://www.frieze.com for full details.

26/07/07

Full Details of Frieze Projects 2007

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Frieze Projects 2007: Details of Curatorial Programme Announced

Two of the most illustrious figures from the world of contemporary art will be taking part in Frieze Projects 2007 - details are announced today by the directors of Frieze Art Fair Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover.
Richard Prince, regarded as one of the greatest living American artists, will present a unique installation intended to drive a critical-celebratory wedge into the art of commerce as part of Frieze Commissions. Esteemed cultural commentator Dave Hickey will present a keynote lecture on the subject of selling without selling out, focusing on how sites of commerce have evolved from the white cube to the art fair as part of Frieze Talks.

Frieze Projects takes place annually at Frieze Art Fair and consists of Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award. Frieze Projects is curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier. 
Artists Lara Favaretto, Elín Hansdóttir, Janice Kerbel, Kris Martin and Gianni n Motti have also been commissioned to produce site-specific works in response to the unique conditions of the fair.
Dave Hickey joins Thierry de Duve, Roni Horn and Allen Smithee as keynote speakers in the Frieze Talks programme. Also taking part in the panel discussions: Massimiliano Gioni, Alice Rawsthorn, Ralph Rugoff, and Philippe Vergne.

The Cartier Award is a major art award for emerging artists living outside of the UK. Mario Garcia Torres, the recipient for 2007, will present a new commission at Frieze Art Fair.
Frieze Projects is presented in association with Cartier and supported by Arts Council England, and Culture 2000 programme of the European Union. 
Please refer to http://www.frieze.com for full details, or the attached Frieze Projects PDF.
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Editors’ Notes

Frieze Commissions

Artists commissioned for 2007 are Lara Favaretto, Elín Hansdóttir, Janice Kerbel, Kris Martin, Gianni Motti and Richard Prince

Frieze Talks

Talks at Frieze Art Fair 2007 are titled The Expanded Gallery, Custodians of Culture, Theory & Practice and Cultural Cartography. Keynote speakers for 2007 include Dave Hickey, Thierry de Duve, Roni Horn and Allen Smithee. Those taking part in the panel discussions include Massimiliano Gioni, Alice Rawsthorn, Ralph Rugoff, and Philippe Vergne.

The Cartier Award

Mario Garcia Torres (b. 1975), 2007 recipient of The Cartier Award, graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005 and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recent group shows include ‘2 Moscow Biennale’ and ‘Saturday Live: Actions and Interruptions’, Tate Modern, London (both 2007). Garcia Torres has current solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris). He is also included in the current 52nd Venice Biennale.

Collaborating Partner Institutions

In 2007 Frieze Projects is working with European partner institution Frankfurter Kunstverein. Frankfurter Kunstverein will be presenting a variety of the organisation’s
activities including films screenings and discussions in a structure designed by the artist Tobias Putrih.

Resonance104.4fm

Resonance104.4fm will set up an on-site radio station and broadcast live from the fair. Broadcasting Frieze Talks alongside specially commissioned radio art projects they will also feature interviews with artists and art professionals in and around the fair.

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8 features all of the Frieze Projects, and more than 275 artists exhibiting at Frieze Art Fair. Fully illustrated, it is an insiders’ guide to contemporary art containing full details of all participating galleries. The yearbook will be available to buy at this year’s fair and at all good bookshops.

06/07/07

Frieze Music 2007 announced

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Frieze Music 2007 Announced: Glenn Branca at London’s Roundhouse

Frieze Art Fair announced today that the Frieze Music presentation for 2007 will be a performance of Glenn Branca’s epic Symphony No.13: Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars. Tickets go on sale today.  Glenn Branca will be directing the performance on Friday, 12 October at London’s Roundhouse. 
A piece of transformative beauty, it has been described by the Village Voice as “Branca’s most impressive work ever.”
Glenn Branca, who started out as a member of NY punk outfit Theoretical Girls, began composing for electric guitar ensembles in the early 80s. His ensembles have featured members of Sonic Youth, Swans and Helmet. 
Hallucination City was premiered in the World Trade Centre Plaza, New York, in 2001 to overwhelming public acclaim. 
Symphony No.13 is in four movements; March, Anthem, Drive and Vengeance. Glenn Branca’s music is not conventional in any sense and in this piece the guitars use the basis of only two chords. Players need to be able to read basic staff notation and have the ability to follow a part measure for measure. The playing technique includes plenty of double strumming and chording.
Over the next few months Branca will closely supervise the recruitment of the 100 guitarists who will all be unpaid volunteers. Interested players, who must own their own guitar and small sized amp, can contact Branca at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), marking their email LONDON.  In the run up to the performance those chosen to take part will be sent sections of the piece every few weeks to learn but the composer stipulates that these do not need to be memorized. The volunteers must be available for two day-long rehearsals and, of course, the event itself.
Branca’s music has been used for film and performance by a diverse group of internationally renowned companies including; Alvin Ailey Company, Peter Greenaway, San Francisco Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater and The Wooster Group.
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Editors’ Notes

Glenn Branca Symphony No.13: Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars
Friday 12 October 2007
9pm, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London
Doors open 7.30pm
Tickets £25 plus booking fee
http://www.livenation.co.uk; http://www.seetickets.com; http://www.roundhouse.org.uk
Credit Cards tel: 0870 400 0688 (24hr)
Roundhouse tel: 0870 389 1846

Symphony No.13 volunteers must be able to provide their own guitars and a small/medium amp. They must be available for two, day-long, rehearsals at The Forum, Kentish Town, London, on 9 October and 10 October and for a lengthy sound check and performance on 12 October at the Roundhouse, London. 
Frieze Music is created by Dan Fox and Steve Mackey, produced and co-curated in 2007 by Paul Smith in association with Live Nation. 
Frieze Music is the off-site music programme of Frieze Art Fair, one of the world’s best known and most influential international contemporary art fairs. Frieze Art Fair takes place in Regent’s Park, London 11-14 October 2007.

06/07/07

Frieze Film 2007 announced

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Frieze Film 2007: Artists Announced

Frieze Film presents four short film commissions from some of the most exciting and challenging international artists working today: Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Shrigley and Kara Walker. 
Each of the films will be premiered in the on-site auditorium at Frieze Art Fair and broadcast daily on Channel 4 television in the prime time ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slots during the week of the fair. Frieze Film is sponsored by BMW and supported by Channel 4 and Arts & Business.
Frieze Film recognises and showcases the increasing role of film as a medium for contemporary artists. 
Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Film comments, “Film has always been an important component of Frieze Art Fair and this year we are moving into new territory by collaborating with Channel 4. Frieze Film have commissioned artists who seduce, amuse, provoke and entertain – we want to bring this new work to as wide an audience as possible. Television is the perfect ‘Trojan horse’ delivery system in that it has the potential to deliver the challenging and often difficult artistic content in a form that is both familiar and commanding of our attention.”
Frieze Film is part of the highly acclaimed curatorial programme that runs annually at Frieze Art Fair.
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Oliver Payne & Nick Relph
British artists Oliver Payne and Nick Relph manipulate a range of visual material to create films that meld contemporary culture and artist’s video, referencing documentary film, music video and surveillance footage. Their subject matter is often drawn from their antagonistic relationship to the social and physical architecture of London. Bleak, gritty and laden with teenage angst, their work is at the same time elegiac and wryly funny. 
Wilhelm Sasnal
Best known for his painting, Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal focuses on the details of the drab and often overlooked landscapes that surround him to articulate emotional analogues to moments that linger as much in the mind as they do in reality. His subjects often interrogate the way in which we inhabit the space between public and private spheres and the ways in which music and image infiltrate our interior landscapes. Sasnal attributes his interest in painting to music, which consistently plays a key part in his films, providing the narrative structure for an abstract language of sensation fed by social and political events. 
David Shrigley
British artist David Shrigley has worked with various media, though he is best known for his mordantly humorous cartoons describing various conditions of ineptitude and the bizarre. His work, which bears reference to Outsider Art, often focuses on the infiltration of violence and the effects of morbid curiosity on the mundane. His films, which have included music videos for Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Blur, are animations of the narratives implicit in the drawings. These tales of curiosity and misadventure and their deadpan humour stay with the viewer long after the last frame has disappeared.
Kara Walker
American artist Kara Walker tackles issues of black history, race, gender and stereotype. She uses the traditionally proper medium of silhouette and turns it on its head with unruly cut-paper characters who fornicate and inflict violence upon one another. Recently, these works have developed into puppet-show films enacting tragicomic pornographic scenarios of illegitimacy, degradation and compulsive persuasion. Drawing on the historical realism of slavery and the fantastical space of the romance novel, Walker’s films present seductive, nightmarish fictions. 
Frieze Film is curated by Neville Wakefield, sponsored by BMW and supported by Channel 4 and Arts & Business.

Frieze Film commissions will be broadcast Monday 8 October - Thursday 11 October in the ‘3 Minute Wonder’ slot at 7.55pm which follows directly after Channel 4 News.

06/06/07

Frieze Projects 2007: Curatorial Programme Announced

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Frieze Projects 2007: Curatorial Programme Announced

 
Frieze Projects is the critically acclaimed curatorial programme presented annually at Frieze Art Fair. Frieze Projects consists of site specific interventions and installations, performance, debate and conversation through Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award.

Frieze Projects is curated by Neville Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier. Tickets for the 2007 fair are now on sale.

Frieze Art Fair provides a unique environment for a new series of Frieze Commissions. In 2007 Frieze Projects artists include Lara Favaretto, Elin Hansdottir, Janice Kerbel, Kris Martin, Gianni Motti and Richard Prince. The collaborating partner organisation this year is Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Frieze Talks complement the commissions programme, and feature leading figures from the art world, critical theorists and philosophers delivering keynote lectures and debating prevailing issues such as Collecting & Institutions, Authorship & Ownership, Boundaries & Nationalities and Education & The Market. Speakers at Frieze Talks 2007 include cultural theorist and McCarthy Genius Award recipient, Dave Hickey, Senior Curator of the Walker Art Centre, Philippe Vergne and art critic Alice Rawsthorn. Frieze Talks take
place daily at the on site auditorium.

The 2007 recipient of The Cartier Award, Mario Garcia Torres, will present a new commission at the fair, following a three month residency at Gasworks, London’s distinguished studio complex. The Cartier Award is a major international award, open to non-UK based artists within five years of graduating from a graduate or undergraduate degree.

Frieze Projects is in its fifth year and has proved a tremendous critical and popular success and works from previous years have been bought by important institutions including Tate. Mike Nelson’s nomination for the 2007 Turner Prize on the strength of his Frieze Projects 2006 commission affirmed Frieze Projects position at the forefront of contemporary art.

Frieze Projects is supported by Arts Council England, and Culture 2000 programme of the European Union (2005-07).
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Editors’ Notes

Frieze Commissions
Lara Favaretto (b. 1973) is an Italian artist based in Turin.
Favaretto has had solo exhibitions at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin (2005) and at GAMeC, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy (2002). Recent group shows include: ‘Oú? – Scènes du Sud’, Carré d’art, Nimes (2007), ‘Trial Balloons/Globos Sondas’, MUSAC, León and ‘Five Billions Years’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (both 2006), ‘The poor are mad’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Torino, ‘Ectasy: Recent Experiments in Altered Perception’, MOCA, Los Angeles, ‘Padiglione Venezia/Opera DARC’, 51 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (all 2005), and ‘Forse Italia’, S.M.A.K., Gent (2003).
Elin Hansdóttir (b. 1980) is an Icelandic artist based in Reykjavik.
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Taking Time’, Sequences Realtime Festival, Reykjavik and ‘Book Space’, Jugendbibliothek Zeisehalle, Hamburg (both 2006) and ‘Nameless’ (Nafnlaust), Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Iceland (both 2005). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Between The Two Deaths’, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2007) and ‘New Icelandic Art II’, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (2005).
Janice Kerbel (b. 1969) is a Canadian artist based in London.
Recent solo exhibitions and projects include ‘1st at Moderna’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, ‘Deadstar’, Locus + Newcastle and ‘Nick Silver Can’t Sleep’ commissioned by Artangel (all 2006). Recent group exhibitions include the Montreal Biennial (2007), ‘Janice Kerbel, Hilary Lloyd, Silke Otto-Knapp’, Grazer Kunstverein and ‘Around the World in 80 Days, South London Gallery (2006), and British Art Show 6, Baltic, Newcastle and touring (2005).
Kris Martin (b. 1972) is a Belgian artist based in Ghent.
Martin has recently participated in the group exhibitions ‘Some Time Waiting’, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007) and ‘Of Mice and Men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art’ (2006) and will be included in Tate Modern’s forthcoming group exhibition ‘Learn to Read’ in June 2007. Martin has forthcoming solo exhibitions at P.S.1, New York and will launch the publication and exhibition ‘My Private # 5’ during this year’s Venice Biennale. 
Gianni Motti (b. 1958) is a Swiss artist based in Geneva.
Recent solo exhibitions include those at La Salle de Bain, Lyon (2007), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2006) and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2004). Recent group shows include ‘2. Moscow Biennale’ (2007), ‘Cinq milliards d’années’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006), ‘Defamation of Character’, P.S.1, New York (2006), ‘Six Feet Under’, Kunstmuseum Bern (2006), ‘A Brief History of Invisible Art’, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2005) and the Swiss pavilion at the 51 Venice Biennale (2005). 
Richard Prince (b. 1949) is an American artist based in upstate New York.
Richard Prince has a prolific history of international exhibitions; recent solo projects include the major exhibition ‘Richard Prince: Canaries in the Coal Mine’, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2006). Recent group exhibitions include ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’, Serpentine Gallery, London, ‘Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images’, LACMA, Los Angeles, and ‘Surprise, Surprise’, ICA, London (all 2006), ‘Atlantic & Bukarest’, Kunstmuseum Basel, and ‘Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (both 2005). Prince has a forthcoming solo retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in September 2007.
The Cartier Award
Mario Garcia Torres (b. 1975), 2007 recipient of The Cartier Award, will present a new work at the fair as part of Frieze Commissions. Garcia Torres graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005 and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recent group exhibitions include ‘2. Moscow Biennial’ and ‘Saturday Live: Actions and Interrruptions, Tate Modern, London (both 2007). Garcia Torres has forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris and will be included in the upcoming 52 Venice Biennale.
Collaborating Partner Institutions
In 2007 Frieze Projects is working with European partner institution Frankfurter Kunstverein. Frankfurter Kunstverein will be presenting a variety of the organisation’s activities including film screenings and discussions in a structure designed by the artist Tobias Putrih.
Resonance104.4fm
Resonance104.4fm will set up an on-site radio station and broadcast live from the fair. Resonance104.4fm will broadcast Frieze Talks alongside specially commissioned radio art projects and will feature interviews with artists and art professionals in and around the fair.
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007- 8 features all the Frieze Projects, and more than 275 artists’ exhibiting at Frieze Art Fair. Fully illustrated, it is an insiders’ guide to contemporary art containing essays by frieze critics, and full details of all participating galleries. The yearbook will be available to buy at this year’s fair and at all good bookshops.

23/04/07

The Cartier Award 2007 Announced

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The Cartier Award 2007 announced

Frieze Art Fair, the world’s most influential contemporary art fair, today announced the recipient of The Cartier Award 2007, as Mexican artist Mario Garcia Torres.

Mario Garcia Torres, who is currently based in Los Angeles, is an exciting young conceptual artist, whose work includes film, video and photography. His proposal was chosen from over four hundred applications submitted worldwide.
The Cartier Award is a major art award providing a unique opportunity for an emerging artist living outside the UK to realise a project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the fair’s critically acclaimed curatorial programme. Neville Wakefield, Curator, Frieze Projects commented, “Mario’s proposal for Frieze is a brilliant and irresistible combination of dry
wit and conceptual elegance sure to perplex, confuse and hold everyone’s attention at the same time.” The artist also receives production costs up to £10,000, an artist’s fee and a three month residency in London.

The award is run under the auspices of Frieze Projects and sponsored by Cartier. Cartier’s commitment to contemporary art is now well recognised through its continued sponsorship of this award, Frieze Art Fair and over twenty years of the prestigious Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. Hervé Chandès, director, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and part of the selection panel added, “Mario Garcia Torres explores new ways to approach the characteristics and processes which constitute and define the world of contemporary art. By choosing very particular works of art from the recent past, focusing on dematerialisation as a starting point for his personal work, he both redefines the role of the artist with a humorous and intelligent approach and plays with the concept of the work of art in today’s society.”

In 2007 the collaborating partner is Gasworks, London’s most acclaimed studio complex. Mia Jankowitcz, Residency Coordinator, Gasworks, said, “We look forward to welcoming Mario to Gasworks. His proposal made it clear how much he appreciated the opportunity this UK residency offered.”

Mario Garcia Torres’s project will be presented for the first time at Frieze Art Fair 2007, sponsored now for the fourth year by Deutsche Bank. The award is an opportunity to
reach a wide audience of international gallerists, collectors, curators and other artists, and in 2006 over 60,000 visits were made to Frieze. Matthieu Laurette, an artist who presented a Frieze Commission at the fair in 2005, was also on the judging panel, saying, “I know from experience that realising a commission at Frieze Art Fair is both a
considerable pleasure and a real challenge. I believe that Mario Garcia Torres with his 70’s conceptual art heritage and very personal contemporary twist is an artist who will embrace the opportunity and develop a very particular and strong work which will stand out from all the fizz of the fair.” 
Mario Garcia Torres expressed his delight at being the recipient of The Cartier Award 2007, “London and the fair are very important arenas for the discussion of art. Being able to work in that context and to conceive the fair as a production setting will certainly render more complex the project’s implications, which is both challenging and stimulating.”

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Editors’ Notes

Selection Committee
Kitty Anderson, Associate Curator, Frieze Projects
Hervé Chandès, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
Mia Jankowicz, Gasworks, London
Matthieu Laurette, Artist

Mario Garcia Torres
Mario Garcia Torres was born in 1975 in Mexico. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005, and lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA. Garcia Torres took part in the ninth Baltic Triennale CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania, and will also take part in the exhibition Escultura Social in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in June 2007.

The Cartier Award
The Cartier Award is an extraordinary opportunity for artists to realise a major new work at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects. Works may be site-specific installations,
performance, film, video or print. The award provides project production costs of up to of £10,000, an artist’s fee of £1,000, and a three month residency at Gasworks from mid September to mid December 2007 including accommodation, per diems and travel expenses. The award is open to non-UK based artists within 5 years of graduating from an undergraduate or postgraduate degree.

Frieze Projects
Frieze Projects is an arts programme, curated by Neville Wakefield, which takes place during Frieze Art Fair, and comprises Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award. Details of the Frieze Projects programme will be announced in July 2007.

Cartier and The Cartier Award
Cartier is the Associate Sponsor of Frieze Art Fair supporting Frieze Projects and The Cartier Award. Their dedicated support expresses the spirit of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Gasworks
Gasworks is a contemporary arts organisation in South London housing 12 artists’ studios and includes a programme of exhibitions, residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair takes place from 11 – 14 October 2007 in Regent’s Park, London. Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s largest art fair and one of the leading contemporary art fairs in the world. Over 63,000 people visited Frieze Art Fair in 2006.

17/04/07

Galleries Announced

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Frieze Art Fair 2007: Details Announced

Details of Frieze Art Fair 2007, 11 – 14 October, have today been announced by directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover. Celebrating its fifth year, Frieze Art Fair has established itself as one of the world’s best known and most influential art fairs. The 2007 fair, with its tightly selected galleries and critically acclaimed artists’ projects will reaffirm Frieze’s reputation as the best place to see the latest developments in international contemporary art. Deutsche Bank is the fair’s main sponsor for the fourth year.

The world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 25 countries from the UK to China and Brazil to the USA, will present over 1000 artists at Frieze Art Fair 2007.

9 galleries will be participating at Frieze Art Fair for the first time including Casa Triângulo from Sao Paulo, Regen Projects from Los Angeles, Standard from Oslo, Taxter & Spengemann from New York and Zeno X from Antwerp. The fair will also feature the first presentation by The Fair Gallery, a new initiative which aims to develop an experimental form of collaboration between existing galleries in the form of a curated exhibition.

Whilst the number of important international collectors attending the fair and sales continue to exceed expectations every year, Frieze Art Fair has also proved to be extremely popular with artists and curators. Tickets for the 2007 Frieze Art Fair go on sale on 1 June. There were 63,000 visits to the fair in 2006, and tickets sold out on both   the Saturday and the Sunday.

Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover commented: “Frieze Art Fair showcases the best of what is new and exciting in contemporary art from all over the world. This year’s list of exhibitors is our strongest so far, featuring the world’s leading galleries presenting the best available works by both established and emerging artists. Now in its fifth year Frieze Art Fair is widely acknowledged as the UK’s leading art event where art is made and discussed, and the cultural agenda is set. We are delighted to be working once more with Deutsche Bank as our main sponsor, Cartier as associate sponsor, and the Guardian as our media sponsor: it is a pleasure to be working with companies that are committed to the development of contemporary art.”

Neville Wakefield is the new Curator of Frieze Projects which is once again sponsored by Cartier. Frieze Projects comprise Frieze Commissions, Frieze Talks and The Cartier Award. The details of the 2007 programme will be announced in May.

In previous years Frieze Commissions have included Pawel Althamer, Phil Collins, Mike Nelson, Roman Ondák, Paola Pivi and Andrea Zittel. Frieze Talks have previously included speakers Marina Abramovic, Daniel Birnbaum, Richard Flood, Zaha Hadid and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Details of Frieze Projects, and transcripts of all Frieze Talks from previous years can be downloaded from http://www.frieze.com. The second recipient of The Cartier Award will have their work realised at Frieze Art Fair, and a further announcement on the award will be made later in April. 2007 will also see the continuation of the Deutsche Bank Education Programme. In 2006, this proved to be greatly popular with both children and adults alike. Full details will be released in September. Frieze Art Fair’s Sculpture Park is curated by David Thorp, and is free to all visitors to Regent’s Park during the duration of the fair.

Pierre de Weck, Member of the Group Executive Committee and Global Head of Private Wealth Management Deutsche Bank comments “As an extremely keen supporter of the arts for many years, Deutsche Bank jumped at the opportunity to be associated with Frieze Art Fair and has been a proud sponsor since 2004. Since then, Frieze has emerged as one of the most exciting events of its kind not just in London, but the world. With innovations such as last year’s Deutsche Bank Education Space helping to further boost the event’s popularity, we look forward to this year’s fair more than ever.”

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Gallery List 2007 (list in formation)

ACME., Los Angeles
Air de Paris, Paris
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Andersen_s contemporary, Copenhagen
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
L’appartement 22, Rabat
The Approach, London
Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Art : Concept, Paris
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
BQ, Cologne
The Breeder, Athens
Broadway 1602, New York
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Cabinet, London
Luis Campaña, Cologne
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Corvi-Mora, London
CRG Gallery, New York
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Dicksmith Gallery, London
doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig/Berlin
The Fair Gallery, Brussels, Paris, Warsaw
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Carl Freedman Gallery, London
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gagosian Gallery, London
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Metro Pictures, New York
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Massimo Minini, Brescia
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster, Glasgow
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
Maureen Paley, London
Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
pkm Gallery, Seoul
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
The Project, New York
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Rivington Arms, New York
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Salon 94, New York
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main
Greene Naftali, New York
greengrassi, London
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Guild and Greyshkul, New York
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
Herald St, London
Hotel, London
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Johnen Galerie, Berlin/Cologne
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
Casey Kaplan, New York
Georg Kargl, Vienna
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
francesca kaufmann, Milan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
KHOJ International Artists’ Association, New Delhi
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Johann König, Berlin
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Lisson Gallery, London
Luhring Augustine, New York
maccarone, New York
Kate MacGarry, London
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Gio Marconi, Milan
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Galerie Sfeir-Sembler, Beirut
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne
Standard, Oslo
Store, London
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
Sutton Lane, London
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Taxter & Spengemann, New York
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Team Gallery, New York
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Vilma Gold, London
Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou
Waddington Galleries, London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
White Cube/Jay Jopling, London
Max Wigram Gallery, London
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
XL Gallery, Moscow
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Zero, Milan
David Zwirner, New York

 

30/11/06

Frieze Art Fair Announce New Curator

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24/10/06

End of Frieze Art Fair 2006

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26/09/06

Education at Frieze Art Fair

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18/09/06

Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair

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14/09/06

Frieze Music events

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26/06/06

Frieze Art Fair Curatorial Programme Announced

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25/04/06

The Cartier Award 2006 Announced

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12/04/06

Details of Frieze Art Fair 2006 announced

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06/02/06

Frieze Art Fair Appoint New Architect

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01/11/05

Final Sales Figures

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25/10/05

End of Fair Results

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08/09/05

The Cartier Award

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08/09/05

Full Details of Frieze Projects 2005

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03/08/05

Frieze Music 2005 announced

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03/06/05

Frieze Projects 2005 announced

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Details of Frieze Art Fair 2005 announced

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01/11/04

Frieze Art Fair Announces Record Sales

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Amazing Stats, Facts and Figures from the UK’s Largest Contemporary Art Fair

The Frieze Art Fair 2004, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, today announced unprecedented attendance figures at this year’s event, welcoming over 42,000 visitors - a 50% increase on last year’s figures, and cementing its reputation as the UK’s largest and most influential contemporary art fair. 
Still only in its second year the Frieze Art Fair has established itself as a powerhouse event in the art world with an internationally admired reputation supported by the caliber of galleries and artists involved, the record attendance figures and the profile of attendees. This year Madonna, Charles Saatchi, Kate Moss, Gywneth Paltrow, Claudia Schiffer, Stella McCartney, Hedi Slimane, François Pinault and Bernard Arnault amongst others visited the fair. 
A total of 26 million pounds worth of contemporary art was sold by the world’s leading contemporary art galleries including Marian Goodman Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, Matthew Marks Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Hauser and Wirth, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Lisson Gallery and Sprüth Magers Lee. 
This year the work was of an even higher quality than in the inaugural year. Highlights included Jake and Dinos Chapman’s The Shape of Things to Come (1999-2004) at White Cube, Paul McCarthy’s Tokyo Santa (2004) at Hauser and Wirth, David Hammons’ This and That (2001) at Salon 94 and Jason Rhoades’ Untitled (2004) at David Zwirner. 
Additional highlights included a series of site specific commissions including Rover Momentum - a fleet of Rover cars in fading colours by the artist Pae White, an installation piece entitled The Slow Dance Club by Latin American artists Los Super Elegantes and assume vivid astro focus, and Good Feelings in Good Times – a series of spontaneous queues set up throughout the fair as envisaged by the artist Roman Ondák. 
Key works by 10 artists were selected for the Frieze Art Fair Acquisition Fund to benefit the Tate Collection, including pieces by Jeremy Deller/Alan Kane, Roman Ondák, Martin Boyce, Pae White and Mark Lecky. 
Co-founder of the Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp said of this year’s event: “We could not have hoped for a better second year. The galleries brought wonderful works, better even than last year. The number of people that have travelled from all over the world to attend the fair this year was extraordinary. We are very happy that the Frieze Art Fair is now established as one of the major art events of the year. We are already looking forward to the next fair.”
Pierre de Weck, Global Head of Private Wealth Management and Executive Committee member of Deutsche Bank, commented that “Deutsche Bank is delighted to have been title sponsor for the first time this year and to be associated with such a prestigious and successful event.”

15/09/04

New information on commissioned artists and events

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Frieze Art Fair announces artists commissions

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05/02/04

Details of Frieze Art Fair 2004 Announced

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The largest contemporary art exhibition and programme of events ever staged in the UK
Details of the Frieze Art Fair 2004 were announced today (26th April), with organisers Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp promising the largest contemporary art event ever to be held in the UK. The announcement was timed to coincide with the confirmation of the Fair’s galleries list and the announcement of Deutsche Bank, owner of the largest corporate collection of contemporary art, as title sponsor of this year’s Fair.
Featuring 140 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries – culled from a list of more than 400 applicants – this year the fair will host new additions from Moscow, Beijing, Melbourne and Auckland, as well as some notable new participants from mainland Europe and USA, alongside many of those from last year’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful inaugural event (*full galleries list in editors notes).
Showing over 1,000 artists – all housed in London’s Regents Park, in an enlarged temporary structure designed by architect David Adjaye – Frieze Art Fair 2004 will be the largest single contemporary art exhibition ever staged in the UK.
The supporting programme of events includes commissions by leading artists; talks with leading art professionals; educational events for local schools; and a music programme. With many more activities yet to be confirmed, this October will see London play host to a major city-wide art festival.
One thing is certain: with 40,000 estimated visitors, including some of the biggest players in the art world, this is one week in the calendar when London will indisputably be the most important city for art.
Dates: 15th-18th October
Address: South Side, Regents Park, London
Directors: Amanda Sharp, Matthew Slotover
Curator: Polly Staple
Selection Committee: Gavin Brown, Sadie Coles, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Martin Klosterfelde, Maureen Paley, Eva Presenhuber, Toby Webster
Architect: David Adjaye
Graphic Design: Graphic Thought Facility

Frieze Art Fair 2004: a festival for art lovers, a feast for art buyers
“We couldn’t have hoped for a more successful inaugural fair” comments Matthew Slotover, Co-Director, Frieze Art Fair 2004.  “However, as successful as Frieze Art Fair 2003 was, we see it more as a statement of intent - an initial building block upon which we can develop Frieze Art Fair as an annual headline event in the global art calendar and a showcase that reinforces London’s status as one of the most important art centres in the world.”
 
“Last year we were mentioned in the same breath as Art Basel; Miami Beach and the Armory” comments Amanda Sharp, Co-Director, Frieze Art Fair 2004.  “This year, our aim is to make sure we justify such comparisons - and hopefully exceed all expectations.  Working with some of the world’s best galleries,
curators, architects and artists, we are confident that we can achieve these goals.  If all goes according to plan, Frieze Art Fair 2004 will be a festival for art lovers, and a feast for art buyers.”
The committee consists of respected art dealers Gavin Brown of GBE (Modern) New York; Sadie Coles of Sadie Coles HQ, London; Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn of Salon 94, New York; Martin Klosterfelde of Klosterfelde, Berlin; Maureen Paley of Interim Art, London; Eva Presenhuber of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; and Toby Webster of The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
The committee selected the 140 galleries according to strict criteria – to stimulate debate about contemporary art and culture whilst showing the most dynamic contemporary galleries working today. This rigorous selection procedure ensures Frieze Art Fair 2004 is one of the best places to see and buy
contemporary art.
The enviable roster of galleries taking part in Frieze Art Fair 2004 makes the fair one of the unmissable
events in the contemporary art calendar and the largest ever staged in the UK.
Fact and Figures
With a total of 140 leading galleries from around the world, the fair has expanded to include such high profile names as Gladstone Gallery, New York; Jablonka, Cologne; and Andrea Rosen, New York. Of them, 26% are from USA, 44% from mainland Europe, 21% from UK, 9% from rest of world. 
New Galleries
To ensure fair representation of emerging up-and-coming artists, an additional contingency has been made for younger galleries. This includes young and dynamic galleries such as john connelly presents and Daniel Reich Gallery, New York; and Christina Wilson, Copenhagen. 
Sales
Frieze Art Fair 2003 was an incredible commercial success, with overall estimated sales of between £16-20 million.
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
To coincide with Frieze Art Fair 2004, the organisers will publish a yearbook, to act as both a fair catalogue and also a snapshot of contemporary art. Each gallery can propose up to three artists for inclusion in the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook. 
The yearbook is an art lover’s bible, edited to show the best of what the fair – and the art world – has to offer. The book includes comprehensive listings of all galleries at the fair, making it an indispensable tool for anyone interested in buying or learning about contemporary art.
Artists Commissions (full details pending)
Polly Staple has again been appointed to commission new works of art for the fair featuring up-and-coming as well as established artists. 
Last year’s commissions were met with critical acclaim and proved to be a talking point at the fair, with the more unique commissions –such as Klaus Weber’s Public Fountain LSD Hall and Paola Pivi’s Untitled (Slope) – being covered by the international media.
Talks (content to be announced)
Frieze Art Fair 2004 plans to build on the success of last years programme by presenting another series of talks featuring international curators, critics, collectors and artists to debate timely issues arising from the production and collecting of contemporary art.
Previous panel members have included Adrian Searle, Art Critic of the Guardian; Roberta Smith, Art Critic of the New York Times; Artist Lucy McKenzie; Laura Hoptman, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art; Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Portikus and Peter York, writer, author and broadcaster on art.  Members have discussed topics as diverse as the role of the contemporary collector to the emerging trend of marketing culture.
Educational Programme (full details pending)
Frieze Art Fair’s dedication to art goes beyond that of an annual art fair: it is committed to making a lasting contribution to the way art is perceived and to its future. To this end, the organisers have developed an educational programme aimed at schools in the local area. The children have a chance to attend the fair and learn more about the art on show and also take part in workshops to develop their own ideas. 

Events: Off-Site

Music Programme (content to be announced)
As well as providing a diverse programme of art events, Frieze Art Fair has developed a music programme curated by musician Steve Mackey and Dan Fox, Associate Editor of frieze. The music programme aims to bring together an eclectic range of musicians and contemporary artists with common interests in the potential of pop music culture. 
The 2003 programme was a great success and saw exclusive performances by Relaxed Muscle, Schneider TM and Selfish C***.

Frieze Art Fair at Regents Park

Structure and Design
The unique 150,000 square foot structure has been designed by David Adjaye, famed for his sculptural and innovative approach to building design and his collaborations with artists.
The signage and print design will be undertaken by contemporary design agency Graphic Thought Facility. 
Layout and Facilities
The expanded space will incorporate a larger area for galleries and new commissions, as well as more cafes and restaurants. Food will again be provided by Mark Hix, Chef Director of the Ivy and Caprice restaurants. 
Accreditation
Accreditation will be open to journalists three months before the opening. Online registration is currently available through http://www.friezeartfair.com.

Related Events

Frieze Art Fair Special Acquisitions Fund to Benefit Tate (full details pending)
Launched in partnership with Tate; The Frieze Art Fair’s Special Acquisitions Fund was established to enable four international curators to purchase the newest and most exciting contemporary art for the Tate.
The fund was organised by London collector and Tate patron, Candida Gertler, who raised the fund from a group of London collectors. The amount of funding available for 2004 will be confirmed in the coming months. 
Last year the Special Acquisitions Fund totalled £100,000, which helped secure the works of Fikret Atay, Olafur Eliasson, Anri Sala and Yutaka Sone for the Tate Collection. 
Gallery Events
To coincide with Frieze Art Fair 2004, public and commercial galleries throughout London will be holding special events and exhibitions to join in the celebration of art in the capital.
Sponsors
Frieze Art Fair 2004 is pleased to announce that Deutsche Bank will be the title sponsor for the 2004 Fair. This is another example of Deutsche Bank’s global commitment to the arts which has led it to build up the largest corporate collection of contemporary art in the world.
Deutsche Bank has pioneered the concept that corporations should not buy art for investment but that it should be for the enjoyment of their staff and to support artists. The 50,000 works of art in the Deutsche Bank collection are just part of the Bank’s arts programme, which includes the publication of more than 30 catalogues and books and the creation of a touring exhibition programme to Moscow, Edinburgh and Johannesburg. On top of this, Deutsche Bank has collaborated with the Guggenheim Foundation to create the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
“We were very impressed at how the Frieze Art Fair established itself in its first year as London’s truly international contemporary art fair,” comments Pierre de-Weck, Global Head of Private Wealth Management and Executive Committee member, Deutsche Bank. “What makes this fair exceptional is the quality of the galleries taking part and the focus on young, emerging artists. We are proud to be associated with such an unquestionably dynamic and exciting event, and continues Deutsche Bank’s global commitment to new art and ideas.” 
The Guardian Newspaper Group has been announced as media sponsors of the fair. 
“We are delighted to sponsor the Frieze Art Fair 2004,” Comments Sara Rhodes, Head of Sponsorship & Events at Guardian Newspapers. “The partnership demonstrates the Guardian’s commitment to the arts and new cultural initiatives.”

Editors Notes

Galleries List
 
1301PE, Los Angeles
303 Gallery, New York
The Approach, London
Arndt & Partner, Berlin
art futura Galerie, Zurich
Art & Public – Cabinet P.H., Geneva
aspreyjacques, London
Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galerie Bernier/Eliades, Athens
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Tanja Bonakdar Gallery, New York
BQ, Cologne
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Cabinet, London
Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens
Luis Campaña Galerie, Cologne
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
carlier l gebauer, Berlin
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
James Cohan, New York
Sadie Coles, HQ, London
john connelly presents, New York
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Corvi-Mora, London
Cosmic Galerie, Paris
Counter Gallery, London
CourtYard Gallery, Beijing
CRG Gallery, New York
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gagosian Gallery, London
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
GBE (Modern), New York
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Greene Naftali, New York
greengrassi, London
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Galleria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Haunch of Venison, London
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Jablonka Lühn, Cologne
Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Georg Kargl, Vienna
Galleri Magnus Karlson, Stockholm
galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Klosterfelde, Berlin
Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
Johann König, Berlin
Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Lehmann Maupin, New York
LFL Gallery, New York
Lisson Gallery, London
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
maccarone inc., New York
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Giò Marconi, Milan
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Hamish McKay, Wellington
Metro Pictures, New York
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
Massimo Minini, Brescia
Victoria Miro, London
mobile home, London
Modern Art, London
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
MW Projects, London
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
galerie bob van orsouw, Zurich
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Parker’s Box, New York
peres projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
pkm gallery, Seoul
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
The Project, New York
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Rivington Arms, New York
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
Salon 94, New York
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Brent Sikkema, New York
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Galeria Luisa Strina, San Paulo
Sutton Lane, London
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
Vilma Gold, London
Waddington Galleries, London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
White Cube, London
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
The Wrong Gallery, New York
XL Gallery, Moscow
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
David Zwirner, New York

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14/04/03

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