Issue 179
May 2016

The May issue of frieze is out now, with features on Sophia Al-Maria, Goshka Macuga and Tracey Rose, a roundtable discussion on artists & ceramics, as well as a specially commissioned artist’s project by Catherine Opie.

Also featuring: Evan Moffitt considers race and sexuality in the portraiture of Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Robert Mapplethorpe and Lorraine O’Grady; Patrick Langley looks at how increasing numbers of young artists—including Patrick Goddard, Marie Jacotey and Stuart Middleton—are exploring the possibilities of the graphic novel; and Jonathan Griffin on the relief paintings of Gina Beavers.

From this issue

The curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale, DIS, talkabout getting to know the German capital

BY DIS |

Race, sexuality and portraiture

BY Evan Moffitt |

Amy Sherlock chairs a discussion between Caroline Achaintre, Aaron Angell, Alison Britton and Richard Slee about their work in clay

BY Amy Sherlock |

The intertwining of life and death in poetry, art and nature

BY Olivia Laing |

The relief paintings of Gina Beavers

BY Jonathan Griffin |

South Afrian artist Tracey Rose's searing performances raise tough questions around history and race

BY Sean O'Toole |

Ahead of her upcoming solo show at the Whitney Museum in New York, Sophia Al-Maria talks shopping malls, war, climate change and Gulf futurism

BY Jennifer Kabat |

Q: If you could live with only one piece of art, what would it be? A: ‘Probably my old Schimmel upright piano.’

BY Jóhann Jóhannsson |

In the first of a new series of columns, Negar Azimi reflects on trash aesthetics

BY Negar Azimi |

How plants can help teach us to live ethically

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

What does ‘Chinese’ mean as an artistic category in Britain today?

BY En Liang Khong |

Ben Eastham delves into Goshka Macuga's exploration of art, power and history

BY Ben Eastham |

Dallas Contemporary, USA

BY Anne Dresden |

James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

BY Noah Dillon |

Union Pacific, London, UK

BY Holly Corfield Carr |

A number of young artists such as Patrick Goddard, Marie Jacotey and Stuart Middleton are exploring the possibilites of the graphic novel

BY Patrick Langley |

Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland

BY Aoife Rosenmeyer |

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

BY Wes Hill |

The Kitchen, New York, USA

BY Sam Korman |

The importance of an artist's biography

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Remembering Umberto Eco (1932–2016)

BY Gianfranco Marrone |

Man Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai goes to China in search of sorrow and destruction in his latest book

BY Michael Barron |

‘The photographer was born in Jamaica in 1960 and grew up in Dalston, east London; he was given a Leica camera and taught darkroom techniques by a patron of his local church’

BY Brian Dillon |

mumok, Vienna, Austria

BY Max L. Feldman |

Various venues, Morocco

BY Jens Hoffmann |

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

BY Matthew McLean |

Artists Space, New York, USA

BY Orit Gat |

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA

BY Brian Karl |

David Zwirner, London, UK

BY Martin Herbert |

Sexauer, Berlin, Germany

BY Louisa Elderton |

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

BY Dan Fox |

Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

BY Laura Smith |

Páramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico

BY Sophie J. Williamson |

356 Mission, Los Angeles, USA

BY Travis Diehl |

The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK

BY Eleanor Clayton |

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

BY Johan Deurell |

The changing landscape of the French capital’s gallery scene

BY Vivian Sky Rehberg |

The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

BY Jon Davies |

Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK

BY Robert Barry |

Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, France

BY Lauren Elkin |

 Vitrine, London, UK

BY Paul Carey-Kent |

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

BY Laura Herman |

David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

BY Lizzie Lloyd |

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

BY Max Andrews |