The fourth and largest version of Frieze Los Angeles will contact down at Santa Monica Airport subsequent yr (16-19 February 2023), with 24% extra exhibitors than the truthful’s 2022 version, which was held on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The truthful will embrace a bigger cohort of galleries providing Twentieth-century works than in years previous, which have tended to privilege modern artwork virtually solely.
The 124 collaborating galleries hail from 22 nations and embrace, as at earlier editions, a significant contingent of areas with Los Angeles areas, amongst them Commonwealth and Council, Gagosian, François Ghebaly, Blum & Poe, David Kordansky, Château Shatto, LA Louver, Evening Gallery, Regen Initiatives, Roberts Initiatives and extra.
Along with the sturdy hometown exhibiting, the truthful will characteristic stands from main world outfits together with David Zwirner, Gladstone Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Thaddaeus Ropac, Perrotin, Massimo De Carlo, Tempo Gallery, Lisson Gallery and extra. Following the launch of its South Korean truthful final September, Frieze’s West Coast truthful will characteristic 10 galleries primarily based in or with areas in Seoul, amongst them Kukje Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, and Hakgojae Gallery.
The truthful’s Focus part, dedicated to galleries based within the earlier 12 years and constantly its strongest curatorially, will broaden its purview from solely presenting Los Angeles galleries to showcasing areas from throughout the US. Will probably be co-curated by Amanda Hunt (previously of the under-construction Lucas Museum of Artwork, newly on the Walker Artwork Middle in Minneapolis) and impartial curator Sonya Tamaddon. Nonetheless, the majority of the sector’s galleries (12 of 16) are primarily based in or have areas in Los Angeles—together with Stars, Parker Gallery, Ochi Initiatives and Anat Ebgi. They are going to be joined by galleries from Minneapolis (Dreamsong), Chicago (Patron) and New York (regularnormal, Hannah Traore).
Frieze Los Angeles was held on the Paramount Studios backlot in its first two years (2019 and 2020), earlier than shifting to a vacant lot adjoining to the Beverly Hilton lodge in 2022. The truthful’s 2021 version was cancelled on account of Covid-19, and plans for a decentralised version unfold throughout historic Los Angeles properties that yr proved too advanced to tug off amid pandemic restrictions. The 2022 version’s off-site public artwork programme was cancelled on the final minute on account of logistical challenges in getting the large-scale works on-site in time.
This would be the truthful’s first outing at Santa Monica Airport, though constructions designed by the identical architects because the tents of years previous, Kulapat Yantrasast’s WHY studio, will present some structural continuity. The truthful will probably be concentrated primarily within the airfield’s southeast nook, with extra activations throughout the ability. The short-lived New Los Angeles Worldwide Modern Artwork Honest was beforehand staged on the airfield’s Barker Hangar, a preferred occasion house.
The transfer marks a significant shift for the truthful, beforehand held within the comparatively extra central areas of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, comparatively close to among the metropolis’s largest concentrations of artwork galleries. Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of the Americas, mentioned in an announcement that with the transfer to Santa Monica, “we can even push past the borders of the truthful and encourage our guests to discover the whole lot Los Angeles’s West Aspect has to supply, from main establishments to smaller areas that kind the material of the town’s artwork group”.
- Frieze Los Angeles 2023, 16-19 February 2023, Santa Monica Airport. A full checklist of exhibitors is accessible right here.
