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Frieze

Issue 252 - June/July/August 2025
Magazine

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.

CONTRIBUTORS

Editor's Letter

Frieze

Kaya Genç • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

Are We All Greeks? • One Take: A look at Charline von Heyl's collage work Athens (2024), ahead of her exhibition at the George Economou Collection by Jurriaan Benschop

A Promise of Return • Remapping: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's multi-disciplinary archive of Palestinian subjectivity by Shiv Kotecha

Island Treasures • Remapping: Renato Leotta's artwork places Sicily in the crosshairs of antiquity and nature by Saim Demircan

Alchemies of Place • Remapping: Nour Jaouda's textiles deconstruct slippery notions of home and belonging by Mariana Fernández

Beyond the Sea • Remapping: Artist and chef Rafram Chaddad pens an account of food across borders

Astral Planes • Remapping: Bouchra Khalili revisits ‘The Mapping Journey Project’, charting resistance and decolonizing the shape of the Mediterranean

Features

Mythic Shores • Essay: David Campany analyzes historical and contemporary photographic representations of the Mediterranean Sea

Lawrence Abu Hamdan • Profile: From drone strikes to wind turbines, the artist's latest works examine the weaponization of noise and the politics of listening by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

‘The work is about how history lingers in the present, how violence persists and why people identify with it.’ • Interview: Claudia Pagès Rabal talks to Kyle Dancewicz about her work tracing the surface of history across video, performance and sculpture

C'est Marseille, bébé • Dossier: Four love letters to Marseille – penned by curators and writers – celebrate the cultural and political spirit of France's second city

Against Despair • How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Reviews

Jack Whitten • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Xin Liu • Management, New York, USA

Laura Owens • Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA

Patty Chang • BANK NYC, New York, USA

Julien Creuzet • The Bell, Providence, USA

Sophie Calle • Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Ilê Sartuzi • Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil

In Our Own Backyard • Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong

Steph Huang • Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Tomokazu Matsuyama • Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Sadao Hasegawa • a. SQUIRE, London, UK

Tom Hardwick-Allan • South Parade, London, UK

JR • Perrotin, London, UK

Mahtab Hussain • Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Arpita Singh • Serpentine North Galley, London, UK

Julien Berthier • Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vailois, Paris, France

Berlinde De Bruyckere • Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

Typologien • Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Caught in a Landslide • Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and KINDL, Berlin, Germany

Leah Ke Yi Zheng • Layr, Vienna, Austria

Banu Cennetoğlu • Kunsthal Charlottcnborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

They Began to Talk • Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Postcard from Monaco • Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English