The Frieze Los Angeles truthful 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 truthful’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 truthful’s largest up to now, profiting from 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 into the truthful’s calling card. In 2024, the truthful will happen completely inside a tent construction designed by Kulapat Yantrasast’s architectural agency, Why. This may resolve a circulation subject from the 2023 version, which required attendees to stroll (or journey in electrical carts) between the truthful’s two principal areas. Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director for the Americas, mentioned in an announcement: “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 truthful, together with David Zwirner, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Tempo Gallery and White Dice. The truthful will as soon as once more boast an particularly robust contingent of native galleries, with greater than half of exhibitors having areas in Southern California. The truthful’s Focus part, typically its most thematically compelling, will likely be organised by Essence Harden, visible arts curator on the California African American Museum; it would showcase shows across the subject of ecology by galleries from throughout the US which were in operation for 12 years or fewer.
“I used to be deeply occupied with the opportunity of stretching the time period ecology to incorporate place, geography, materials and theoretical considerations inside artwork making,” Harden mentioned in an announcement. “The shows chosen for this 12 months’s Focus part replicate that winding impulse, highlighting a sequence 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 truthful, 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 truthful will benefit from Santa Monica Airport’s massive expanses of outside house, bringing initiatives to the location’s athletic fields and neighborhood park. Earlier editions of the truthful happened at Paramount Studios in Hollywood (in 2019 and 2020) and the Beverly Hilton lodge in Beverly Hills (in 2022). The 2024 version of Frieze Los Angeles may even mark a slight calendar shift for the truthful, 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 well from fair-tigue.
