Announcing Artlyst’s 2016 Frieze Week Guide, a tried and tested lyst of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar. This events guide is one of the most respected Frieze and Frieze week collateral Art Fair guides produced. We update it on a daily basis adding new events as they ‘Pop-Up’! This includes important information about the main fair and the satellite events launching the week of 3 October 2016. Please make sure you return again and again over the next two weeks.
Each year Artlyst curates an indispensable information lyst covering the best exhibitions and events on offer during Frieze week. Frieze and Frieze Masters promises to showcase an up to date overview of the current art market allowing art lovers to pay homage to the best (and some of the worst) in visual art. Like Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, these fairs make no bones about being massive art trade shows. The galleries involved are there to sell and this year the main Frieze fair showcases 160 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries. Whatever you do, don’t miss the smaller art fairs and events that are springing up like dandelions all around the capital next week.
Frieze London 2016
South of The Regent’s Park
6-9 Oct
Taking place a week earlier this year, Frieze London brings together over 160 of the world’s leading galleries from New York to Berlin and Shanghai to São Paulo, to showcase works by newly discovered artists alongside some of the most respected names in contemporary art.
Sections include:
– The Nineties – in which galleries will revisit seminal exhibitions from the 1990s such as Wolfgang Tillman’s first exhibition at Daniel Buchholz’s gallery in 1993.
– Live – the section for performance and participatory art
– Focus – where you can discover emerging talent from around the globe
– Frieze Projects – the non-profit programme of new artist commissions
– Frieze talks – Taking place daily at the Frieze London, the 2016 programme is curated by Christy Lange (Associate Editor & Curator of Public Programming, Frieze) and Gregor Muir (Executive Director, ICA, London and incoming Director of Collection, International Art, Tate).
For the first time, Frieze Talks presents a special daily series of lunchtime discussions focusing on a single, urgent theme—’Borderlands’. From the recent ‘Brexit’ to Donald Trump’s plans for a border wall, from the ongoing refugee crisis to debates over ‘safe spaces’, artists and others have been invited to discuss the geographic, social and psychological borders that we construct and fight to break down. What role can art play in this process? Speakers include Fatima Al Qadiri, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Hannah Black, Josh Kline, Jill Magid, Ben Rivers, and much more.
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Frieze Sculpture Park
The Regent’s Park
Until 8 January 2017
Selected by Clare Lilley (Yorkshire Sculpture Park), the Frieze Sculpture Park will feature 19 major artists including Conrad Shawcross, Claus Oldenburg, Nairy Baghramian, Ed Herring, Goshka Macuga and Lynn Chadwick. World-leading galleries participating in Frieze London and Frieze Masters will extend their shows beyond the fair, dramatising the landscape of The Regent’s Park, with 19 large-scale sculptures and installations remaining on view until 8 January 2017.
Frieze Masters 2016
6-9 October 2016
northeast corner of The Regent’s Park near London Zoo
Frieze Masters brings together several thousand years of art in a unique, contemporary context.
See and buy art from over 130 of the world’s leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th Century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer.
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SUNDAY 2016
Ambika P3
6-9 October 2016
SUNDAY Art Fair is London’s emerging art fair. The fair supports galleries who are nurturing and supporting artists at the early to mid-stage of their careers. This year SUNDAY will showcase approximately 24 international galleries exhibiting solo or curated group presentations. This year will also include the second edition of the SUNDAY Art Fair Print Portfolio.
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The Other Art Fair 2016
Old Truman Brewery
6-9 October 2016
130 emerging artists handpicked by a committee of art industry experts.
Celebrated for its unique visitor experience, The Other Art Fair’s 15th edition has a distinctive programme of fair features that will create a platform for the ‘unexpected’ at the fair.
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Moniker Art Fair 2016
Old Truman Brewery
6-9 October 2016
Moniker Art Fair returns for its seventh year on October 6–9 at the iconic Old Truman Brewery in London’s Shoreditch. Building on the foundations of six years experience and its continued success, Moniker Art Fair has firmly established itself as London’s premier event for contemporary art with its roots embedded in urban culture.
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Crossroads: The London Art Show 2016
Old Truman Brewery
6-9 October 2016
CROSSROADS is a new art fair that showcases the best of contemporary art from around the world, and which provides the chance to experience the most current trends and works by established and emerging artists.
CROSSROADS is the natural convergence of two projects that share core values and principles. It expands on the concept of Pinta London, Europe’s only modern and contemporary art fair dedicated to exhibiting and promoting art from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, which firmly established itself as one of the key events in London’s cultural calendar. At the same time, it merges with the concept of ‘The Immigrants’, an independent project that began life in Venice in 2013.
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Cultural Traffic
Juju’s Bar & Stage
Old Truman Brewery
7-8 October 2016
CULTURAL TRAFFIC is the UK’s first annual fair for dealers in counter culture and independent producers of zines, prints, catalogues, vinyl and tapes.
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PAD London 2016
Berkeley Square
3-9 October 2016
Set in the vibrant heart of Mayfair, PAD is London’s leading fair for 20th Century art, design and decorative arts and this year is its 10th year.
Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomises how modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and staggering interiors.
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1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Somerset House
6-9 October 2016
The leading international art fair dedicated to Contemporary African Art will return to London for its fourth edition, from the 6-9th of October 2016.
With biannual editions in London and New York, 1:54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1:54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.
1:54 London 2016 will showcase about 40 exhibitors, presenting over 135 African and African diasporan artists across the East, South and West Wings of Somerset House.
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Drive Thru
Q Park L3 Cavendish Square
5-9 October
A multimedia exhibition located in a central London underground car park during Frieze week) Drive Thru brings together more than 50 artists in an exhibition at the lowest level of the QPark underground car park in Cavendish Square, London. The work exhibited encompasses sculptures, photographs, film, painting, live performances, happenings, staged works, installations, synchronised car radio transmissions and sound works. Curated by Roger Clarke and Peter Fillingham artists include Cedric Christie, Mark Woods, Rebecca Scott, Vanya Balogh, Edward Chell, Stephane Blumer, Kate Renwick.
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Exhibitions
Major Museum Shows
If you haven’t seen the Georgia O’Keeffe it’s on until 30 Oct
You Say You want a Revolution? Records & Rebel 1966-70 at the V&A
Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy
The Infinite Mix Hayward Gallery offsite at 180 The Strand
Turner Prize 2016 at Tate Britain
Galleries
Fortnum’s X Frank AW16 at Fortnum and Mason until 15 October
Jarvis Cocker’s Journeys Into the Outside at the Gallery of Everything until 25 November
Yinka Shonibare at Stephen Friedman opening 28 September
Paula Rego at Marlborough Gallery opening 28 September
Donna Huanca and Luke McCreadle at Zabludowicz Collection opening 29 September
Antony Gormley at White Cube Bermondsey Street opening 30 September
Bonnie Camplin at Camden Arts Centre opening 30 September
Cindy Sherman and David Salle at Skarstedt Gallery opening 1 October
Richard Serra at Gagosian Britannia Street and Davies Street Opening 1 October
Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery opening 1 October