Frieze, cover of first issue, 1991
Frieze / Happy 30th Birthday
Issue 220
Frieze / Summer 2021
International

In the 30th anniversary issue of Frieze, Hilton Als, Sadie Coles, Pauline Daly, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gregor Muir and Cerith Wyn Evans remember The Shop, the artists’ short-lived project space in Bethnal Green, London, which closed on Emin’s 30th birthday with a party titled “Fuckin’ Fantastic at 30 and Just About Old Enough to do Whatever She Wants.” Also, the artistic director of Serpentine Galleries, Hans Ulrich Obrist, speaks with the 2021 Frieze Artist Award recipient, Precious Okoyomon. And Korakrit Arunanondchai answers our questionnaire.

Dossier: Remembering Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas’s “The Shop”
“It was a wild night. It was fucking fantastic.” The Shop marked an important turning point in Emin and Lucas’s careers at a moment when London itself was on the cusp of transformation from a parochial art scene to today’s commercial powerhouse. frieze spoke with Hilton Als, Sadie Coles, Pauline Daly, Emin, Lucas, Gregor Muir and Cerith Wyn Evans for a brief history of what The Shop was and what it meant.

Interview: Precious Okoyomon and Hans Ulrich Obrist
“Everything goes back to love.” After a major exhibition at Performance Space New York and installation at The Shed this past spring, the 2021 winner of the Frieze Artist Award, Precious Okoyomon, speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist about poetry, plants and planning for a precarious future.

Also featuring
Frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin profiles painter Alvaro Barrington, whose exhibitions at South London Gallery and Emalin, London, open later in the year. In 1,500 words, Annie Ernaux reflects on a brief love affair in Venice that prompted her to write her masterpiece, The Years (2008). Frieze co-founder Matthew Slotover discusses a project by Angus Fairhurst from the magazine’s inaugural issue and Isabel Waidner offers an alternative version of the 1990s, the decade that defined British contemporary art.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS
  • John Bock: PARA-SCHIZO, ensnarled
    Oct 26 – Dec 13, 2023
    Anton Kern Gallery
    New York, USA

    After a five-year hiatus, German artist John Bock is returning to New York to inaugurate his eleventh exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery with a “lecture” (performance) on the night of the opening. Bock’s universe is a bold, even daring synthesis of different genres including sculpture, performance, and film. In it, material objects, language, and the human body are given equal value; their interactions are powered by the logic of the collage principle, the combination of disparate entities to create a new thing. (more…)

  • Reuben Gordon: You Already Know
    Nov 4 – Dec 16, 2023
    Baert Gallery
    Los Angeles, USA

    Baert Gallery is pleased to present You Already Know, an exhibition of new paintings by Reuben Gordon, his second solo show with the gallery. In this series, Gordon’s painterly range in oil, pastel, and charcoal limns processes expressionistic and mathematical, photographic and gestural. Images emerge from a period of transition and experimentation that meander from the Pacific Coast Highway to the Florida Everglades and Seoul, South Korea, as the artist makes his way home to New York City. (more…)

  • METAmorphosis / OGR Award
    May 17, 2023
    Artissima / OGR
    Turin, Italy

    Launched during the 2022 edition of Artissima, the METAmorphosis project is the second episode of Beyond Production – a conceptual platform born from the collaboration between Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT and Artissima, in dialogue with the OGR Award, with the aim of stimulating and promoting reflections on the most innovative trends in contemporary art. (more…)