The Frieze Los Angeles honest will return to Santa Monica Airport for its fifth version (29 February-3 March 2024), albeit with a pared-down roster of exhibitors in comparison with its fourth version. On Thursday the honest’s organisers revealed a lineup of greater than 95 exhibitors, a drop of greater than 20% from its 2023 outing, which featured 124.
That iteration was the honest’s largest to this point, making the most of Santa Monica Airport’s sprawling campus by making use of its historic Barker Hangar and erecting one of many bespoke mega-tents which have turn out to be the honest’s calling card. In 2024, the honest will happen fully inside a tent construction designed by Kulapat Yantrasast’s architectural agency, Why. It will resolve a circulation situation from the 2023 version, which required attendees to stroll (or trip in electrical carts) between the honest’s two most important areas. Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director for the Americas, mentioned in a press release: “Each guests and exhibitors will profit from our expanded footprint, centralised structure and redesigned exterior areas.”
As in years previous, the main mega-galleries will all have stands on the honest, together with David Zwirner, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Tempo Gallery and White Dice. The honest will as soon as once more boast an particularly sturdy contingent of native galleries, with greater than half of exhibitors having areas in Southern California. The honest’s Focus part, usually its most thematically compelling, can be organised by Essence Harden, visible arts curator on the California African American Museum; it’s going to showcase shows across the matter of ecology by galleries from throughout the US which have been in operation for 12 years or fewer.
“I used to be deeply fascinated with the potential for stretching the time period ecology to incorporate place, geography, materials and theoretical issues inside artwork making,” Harden mentioned in a press release. “The shows chosen for this yr’s Focus part mirror that winding impulse, highlighting a collection of dynamic rising galleries and artists.”
The Focus part will function seven of the 13 first-time exhibitors at Frieze Los Angeles, together with intently watched native galleries Babst Gallery and Shulamit Nazarian, the Oakland-based pt. 2 Gallery and the New York-based Lyles & King. Additionally making their debuts on the honest, in different sections, would be the New York-based galleries Kasmin, Petzel and Rachel Uffner Gallery, in addition to the Shanghai-based areas Financial institution and MadeIn Gallery, plus the Manila-based gallery Silverlens.
As in 2023, the honest will make the most of Santa Monica Airport’s giant expanses of out of doors house, bringing tasks to the location’s athletic fields and group park. Earlier editions of the honest came about at Paramount Studios in Hollywood (in 2019 and 2020) and the Beverly Hilton resort in Beverly Hills (in 2022). The 2024 version of Frieze Los Angeles can even mark a slight calendar shift for the honest, from the mid-February opening of years previous to the very finish of the month, giving globe-trotting fairgoers who could also be in Mexico Metropolis for Zona Maco (7-11 February 2024) earlier within the month a little bit extra time to get better from fair-tigue.
