Frieze 2016 recommendations, Oct 6 – 9

3 October 2016

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London’s Frieze Art Fair 2016 is opening October 6 and running to October 9. The event will be host to a range of curated exhibitions, talks, performances and events, with a keynote presentation by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

See below for our recommendations of the main event, and here for offsite and fringe events:

FRIEZE TALKS

A daily series of lunchtime discussions will focus this years’ attention on ‘Borderlands’, inviting artists such as Hannah Black, Fatima Al Qadiri, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Josh Kline, Jill Magid and Lauren Cornell among others to discuss “the geographic, social and psychological borders that we construct and fight to break down.”

THE READING ROOM

Bringing together editors, writers and special guests, the reading room will host Stephanie Bailey in conversation with Sophia Al-Maria and Lawrence Lek, as well as conversations with Keren Cytter, Jon Rafman and Donna Huanca.

FRIEZE LIVE

A programme of performances will take place every day from October 5 to 9, including ‘Jõusaal (Gym)’ by Augustas Serapinas —who is currently showing Housewarming with Emalin in London —as well as Lloyd Corporation, and Mahmoud Khaled who will explore themes of censorship and surveillance.

PROJECTS

This years Frieze projects, curated by Raphael Gygax, looks at ‘transformation’ through sound, theatre, dance and literature, with work by Coco Fusco, Martin Soto Climent, and Frieze Artist Award-winner Yuri Pattison and more.

EXHIBITORS

We recommend checking out the all-woman booth at Dubai’s The Third Line, as well Liz Magic Laser at Various Small Fires (VSF), Los Angeles.

See a more booth picks below:

303 Gallery, New York
47 Canal, New York
Antenna Space, Shanghai
The Approach, London
Arcadia Missa, London
The Breeder, Athens
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Birmingham
Callicoon Fine Arts, New York
Chewday’s, London
C L E A R I N G, New York
Pilar Corrias Gallery, London,
dépendance, Brussels
Exile, Berlin
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Herald St, London
High Art, Paris
Ibid Gallery, London + Los Angeles
Jan Kaps, Cologne
König Galerie, London
Koppe Astner, Glasgow
Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Limoncello, London
Martos Gallery, New York
Galerie Neu, Berlin
Night Gallery, Los Angeles
P.P.O.W, New York
Peres Projects, Berlin
Galeria Plan B, Berlin
Seventeen, London
Silberkuppe, Berlin
Sprüth Magers, London
Société, Berlin
The Sunday Painter, London
Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Truth and Consequences, Geneva
David Zwirner, London.**

Header Image: Liz Magic Laser, ‘Primal Speech’ (2016). Single-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist + VSF

Augustas Serapinas @ Emalin, Sep 27 – Oct 29

26 September 2016

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Augustas Serapinas is presenting solo exhibition Housewarming at London’s Emalin, opening September 27 and running to October 29.

Run by Leopold Thun and Angelina Volk, the show will open the doors to their new and first permanent space after two years of nomadic projects that moved around the world. To coincide with the exhibition, the Vilnius-based artist will also perform ‘Jõusaal (Gym)’ as part of London’s Frieze Art Fair live programme everyday from October 5 to 9 at the Live Platform.

Serapinas’ practice is concerned with the phenomenon of objects and spatiality and is “invested in recomposing socially engaged spaces in order to foreground and problematize the assumptions that shape them.” He recently exhibited Dusting the Grounds (2016) as part of at London’s David Roberts Art Foundation residency program and Double Bind (2015) at Vilnius’s Rupert.

See the Emalin website for details.**

Augustas Serapinas, 'Dusting the Grounds', (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Emalin @ DRAF Studio. Photo: Mark Blower — Augustas Serapinas, ‘Dusting the Grounds’, (2016). Installation view. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy the artist + Emalin @ DRAF, London.

If in One’s Own Time @ Emalin, Jul 10 – 17

8 July 2016

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Nomadic curatorial project, Emalin is presenting the If in Ones Own Time group exhibition in Naples, opening July 10 and running to July 17.

Taking the form of an show that incorporates an event programme based around San Giuseppe delle Scalze, a church in the centre of Naples, some of the invited artists will give talks, tours, guides, and screen videos that relate to the overarching notion outlined in the press release that “the new begins in observations of the old”.

Included are works: ‘A walk with Antirrhinum majus’, a performance by Augustas Serapinas on the discovery of the wildflowers of San Giuseppe delle Scalze; a tour through the architecture of the Sanità district guided by Fabrizio Ballabio of artist collective, åyr; a library by BeckBooks and other contributions from several more artists including Rob Chavasse, Isabel Lewis, Hannah Weinberger and Maria Loboda.

Emalin have previously curated large group show Folly, that occupied an old stone building in Scotland known as the Dunmore Pineapple after the fruit it mimics, and the intimate installation, Honeymoon in Pickle Paradise in 2014 in a London hotel by London-based artist Athena Papadopoulos.

See the Emalin website for more details.**