Biennials & Group Shows 2009
Looking Back
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant biennials and group shows of 2009
Music
Music
Dan Fox and David Grubbs look back at the highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’
Film
Film
Stuart Comer and Rajendra Roy reflect on the best motion pictures and moving images of 2009
Design
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film by Eugenia Bell
Architecture
Architecture
Unemployment, the tallest building in the world, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs by Douglas Murphy and Oliver Elser
Current Issue
January-February 2010
Spirit Guide
The many uses of the Zeitgeist
Talk, Talk
The trials and tribulations of the international lecture circuit
Made in Berlin
Being a foreigner in Germany’s capital
Reality Check
Philosophy in 2009: The Invisible Committee; speculative realism; an all-star conference on communism; new books from Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek
Books
Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman
Film
The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009
Design
Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film
Music
The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, Trembling Bells, Luc Ferrari and ‘Lust for Life’
Looking Forward 2010
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they’re looking forward to in 2010
Emerging Artists 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose who they felt to be the most significant emerging artists of the year
Solo Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant solo shows of 2009
Biennials & Group Shows 2009
frieze asked 13 critics and curators from around the world to choose what they felt to be the most significant group shows and biennials of 2009
Auckland & Sydney 2010
Two antipodean exhibitions, ‘Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon’ and ‘The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, will explore ideas ranging from the role of risk-taking to the complexities of geo-politics in making art
UNP and The Building
Maria Lind and Dieter Roelstraete talk to Anton Vidokle about the informal, ‘free school’ initiatives for art that operated for two years in Berlin
Whitney Biennial 2010
Simply titled ‘2010’, and curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, New York’s famous biennial is in its 75th year. Bonami talked to Dan Fox about ‘American-ness’ – and how, for the first time, the show will include more women artists than men
3rd Moscow Biennale
Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition sought to mix Russian art with work from other cultures and different times
10th Biennale de Lyon
Curator Hou Hanru turns to everyday spectacle for inspiration
10th Baltic Triennial
Turning to Vilnius for inspiration, ‘Urban Stories’ built complex narratives from fraught histories
Editors’ Blog
BHL falls for Neo-Kantians of Paraguay
It’s almost too good to be true. France’s (self-)declared national philosopher-as-action-man, Bernard-Henri Lévy – known by his initials BHL, both to adherers and…
Current Shows
Wysing Arts Centre
Mark Aerial Waller by Kathy Noble
Kunstverein Salzburg
Michaela Frühwirth by Manuela Ammer
Peep-Hole
Ahmet Öğüt by Barbara Casavecchia
Galerie Balice Hertling at Galerie Neu, MD 72
Isabelle Cornaro, Luca Frei, Falke Pisano by Mark Prince
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Ellipse / Eclipse by Anna Altman
Spacex
Emily Wardill by Paul Teasdale
Galerie Grita Insam
Roland Kollnitz by Helen Chang
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina
Manipulating Reality by Sam Thorne
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Breaking Forecast by Sam Thorne
RENTAL
Brendan Fowler by Katie Kitamura
Triple Base
Todd Bura by Melissa E. Feldman
Ceri Hand Gallery
Samantha Donnelly by Ellie Nicholls
Johan Berggren Gallery
Lina Viste Grønli by Wojciech Olejnik
Comment
Berlin–Paris 2010
by Anna Altman
Thirteen exhibitions by Parisian galleries open in Berlin
Moderna Museet Malmö
by Christine Antaya
The second branch of the Stockholm museum opens with exhibitions from Luc Tuymans and Astrid Svangren
1st Former West Congress
by Vivian Rehberg
Utrecht, Holland
From the Archives
From May 2003
West End Boys
First published in issue 75 of frieze, May 2003: Dan Fox and Polly Staple talk to Oliver Payne and Nick Relph
Listings Jan–Feb 2010
Podcasts
John Baldessari in conversation with Matthew Higgs Added on 16/10/09 John Baldessari in conversation.
Publications
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-10 UK £19.95 The latest edition of the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
