Frieze London

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Artist Céline Condorelli and curator Priyesh Mistry discuss Condorelli’s commission and how contemporary artists address the historical collection

The writer and curator meets the artists and gallerists exploring the freedom afforded by the Focus section of Frieze London

In Collaboration with Stone Island

The French artist explains how she realized her BMW Open Work commission LA POTION (EH), a transformative virtual journey staged inside a BMW i5 

In Collaboration with BMW

The Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts London revels in the intimacy Tanoa Sasraku’s pigment-based work, responds to Mark Barker’s reflections on the moon and finds a sense of home in Evgeny Antufiev’s mosaics

The China-born, London-based collector is a passionate about fostering dialogue between the work of her home country and the world through the Asymmetry Foundation

 

BY Zoé Whitley AND Yan Du |

The 20th anniversary edition of Frieze London has seen a wealth of awards and acquisitions, many of them new to the fair this year. Here’s a round-up of the winners

The two artists’ work has been selected by the Spirit Now London committee and will join the permanent collection at The Hepworth Wakefield

The four artists are the first recipients of the Arts Council Collection’s inaugural Acquisition Fund

BY Chris Waywell |

From a rare display of works by Anna Mendelssohn at Whitechapel Gallery to Ellie Pratt’s distorted female portraits at South Parade

BY Juliet Jacques |

A group of teenagers traverse a utopian city, their journey nuanced with poetic texts and motifs borrowed from 19th-century Sicilian fairy tales

A complex surreal tapestry that blurs the boundaries between science fiction, archaeology and youthful spontaneity

With nods to noir and German Expresionism, Strafer’s film is an intriguingly wonky piece of meta-cinema

Workers select 100,000 petals from 10,000 roses to create a generative algorithm in this meditation on nature, beauty and uniqueness

A film that champions the shipworm, a tiny marine creature that ate away at the vessels involved in the Atlantic slave trade

Referencing an iconic moment of frivolity in a time of revolution from art history, Kukama reinterprets a playful act into a critique of the power dynamics at play in contemporary Johannesburg

Notions of authenticity and performance are questioned in a distortion of the conventional frameworks of narrative cinema

20 years since the transformative debut Frieze Art Fair, discover a city and a community as vibrant as ever

In Collaboration with Deutsche Bank

An anthropological narrative of migration seen through a landscape that was frozen during the last ice age but is now jungly and equatorial

A deeply personal retrospection on the influence of US foreign policy on the decades-long civil war in Angola  

Two decades of the fair in moments, according to Cory Arcangel, Steven Cairns, Lubaina Himid, Mike Nelson, Sarah McCrory and others

BY Chris Waywell AND Matthew McLean |