Frieze will return to Santa Monica Airport subsequent February for the sixth version of its Los Angeles truthful, with 101 exhibitors organising stands in a bespoke tent designed by Kulapat Yantrasast’s architectural studio, Why. The variety of collaborating galleries represents a 6% bump from the 95 that happened in Frieze Los Angeles’s 2024 version earlier this yr, and an 18.5% drop from the 124 that took half in 2023 (when the truthful spanned two websites, a Why-designed tent and the airport’s historic Barker Hangar).
Returning exhibitors embrace world galleries which might be regulars at Frieze festivals, amongst them Gagosian, Gladstone, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Tempo Gallery, White Dice and David Zwirner. As ever, the truthful can even characteristic a powerful native contingent—nearly half of collaborating galleries function areas in Los Angeles—together with Charlie James, David Kordansky Gallery, Regen Tasks, Blum, Nazarian / Curcio, Matthew Brown and extra.
Fourteen galleries will make their Frieze Los Angeles debuts in 2025, together with Southern Guild (the South African gallery opened a location in East Hollywood final yr), Mariane Ibrahim, Linseed, Moniquemeloche, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill and Timothy Taylor. The curator Essence Harden, who’s co-curating subsequent yr’s version of the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA Biennial, will return to organise the truthful’s Focus sector for rising galleries, whose 12 exhibitors will embrace Bel Ami, Dominique Gallery, Make Room, Sow & Tailor and Superposition Gallery.
“We’re thrilled to welcome returning and first-time exhibitors to Frieze Los Angeles, with a particular emphasis on solo and twin shows, underscoring our dedication to curatorial excellence,” Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s government director of festivals, stated in an announcement. “It’s thrilling to collaborate with a dynamic vary of galleries—from prime worldwide programmes to driving native areas—all serving to to form the way forward for the artwork world.”
This would be the first version of Frieze to be staged because the British truthful and media agency’s mother or father firm, Endeavor—the Beverly Hills-headquartered sports activities and leisure conglomerate—revealed late final month that it’s exploring the potential sale of Frieze in addition to two tennis tournaments it owns. Endeavor has been the bulk proprietor of Frieze since 2016 and went public on the New York Inventory Trade in 2021. Beforehand, Frieze’s founders Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp had retained a 30% stake, however now the corporate is totally owned by Endeavor.
Frieze Los Angeles was the primary new truthful launched beneath the Frieze banner after Endeavor’s 2016 acquisition, adopted in 2022 by Frieze Seoul. In 2023, Frieze acquired festivals within the two different greatest cities within the US: The Armory Present in New York and Expo Chicago.
Frieze Los Angeles, 20-23 February 2025, Santa Monica Airport
