Frieze Los Angeles returns to Santa Monica Airport with reimagined public spaces and a line-up of leading local and international galleries
Today, Frieze revealed initial details of the fifth edition of Frieze Los Angeles, returning to Santa Monica Airport from February 29 to March 3, 2024. Frieze Los Angeles is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank, continuing over twenty years of a shared commitment to artistic excellence.
Steered by Christine Messineo, Frieze’s Director of Americas, and housed in a bespoke structure designed by Kulapat Yantrasast’s architectural studio WHY, Frieze Los Angeles 2024 will see a reconfigured site plan across the airport campus that expands the signature Frieze tent and reimagines the outdoor space as a central gathering point. This year’s fair will bring together over 95 exhibitors from 21 countries, all under one roof, with nearly 50 percent of the fair dedicated to galleries operating in the Greater Los Angeles region. The much-celebrated Focus section of the fair will be overseen for the first time by Essence Harden (Visual Arts Curator, California African American Museum) and explore the idea of ecology to highlight a diverse selection of US galleries that have been in operation for 12 years or less.
Christine Messineo (Director of Americas, Frieze) said: ‘Frieze Los Angeles 2024 will be a destination for an international audience, coming together to celebrate the continued growth of the Los Angeles art scene. Both visitors and exhibitors will benefit from our expanded footprint, centralized layout and redesigned exterior spaces. We look forward to welcoming galleries from around the globe (including leading art spaces across Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America), from Korea to Mexico, Japan to Germany, alongside a strong core of exhibitors from across California, to provide an unparalleled snapshot of today’s most compelling artists and galleries.’
Kulapat Yantrasat stated: ‘After several years in this creative city, Frieze Los Angeles has become an anchor for all creative minds. The layout for 2024 is streamlined and efficient but designed with good sight lines and discoveries at every corner. Inside is a focused art experience with uplifting filtered natural light while the outside courtyard is full of art and cultural activities for friends to linger and connect.’ Describing the exterior space, Mark Thomann (Director, WILDING X WHY) added, ‘Amidst the vibrant installations and pop-ups, imagine a welcoming sanctuary centered on food, culture, and community as a prelude to the Frieze LA experience.’
Frieze Los Angeles will also welcome the return of the critically acclaimed program of site-specific artworks situated throughout the Santa Monica Airport airfield, with public activations across the athletic fields and sculpture exhibited throughout the community park. Additionally, the fair will continue to provide a platform for local non-profits and see the latest installments of two longstanding initiatives: the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, now in its fifth year, and the Frieze Impact Prize — a collaboration between Frieze and Endeavor Impact in partnership with the Center for Art & Advocacyand its fellowship program, Right of Return.
WORLD LEADING GALLERIES
The fair’s list of exhibiting galleries features a concentrated group of Los Angeles-based spaces including Blum, The Box, Château Shatto, François Ghebaly, David Kordansky Gallery, L.A. Louver, Night Gallery, Nonaka-Hill, Regen Projects, Parrasch Heijnen, Hannah Hoffman, Marc Selwyn Fine Art and Various Small Fires. Parker Gallery and Anat Ebgi, both hailing from Los Angeles and having previously participated in the Focus section, have this year graduated to the fair’s main section. Major international exhibitors, many of which have opened locations in Los Angeles, include 303 Gallery, Canada, Clearing, Pilar Corrias, Dastan Gallery, Gagosian, Gladstone, Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Max Hetzler, Xavier Hufkens, Gallery Hyundai, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Mendes Wood DM, OMR, Ortuzar Projects, Pace Gallery, Maureen Paley, Proyectos Monclova, Sprüth Magers, Welancora Gallery, White Cube and David Zwirner.
Frieze Los Angeles 2024 will see 13 first-time participants, with a strong representation from Asia including Shanghai-based galleries Bank and MadeIn as well as Silverlens, hailing from Manila. Further new participants include Kasmin, Petzel Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery.
FOCUS, A PLATFORM FOR YOUNG US GALLERIES
Focus, the celebrated section for young US galleries, is curated for the first time by Essence Harden(Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager, California African American Museum). An anchor of Frieze’s contemporary fairs, Focus provides a valuable platform for emerging and underrepresented voices. Supported by Stone Island, whose grants promote participation in Focus alongside Frieze’s existing subsidies, the section features 12 galleries. Each showcases a solo presentation that considers ecologies as a vibrant framework for art making.
Essence Harden (Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager, California African American Museum) said: ‘I’m honored to curate the 2024 Focus section for the LA fair and to work alongside Christine Messineo. I was deeply interested in the possibility of stretching the term ecology to include position, geography, material and theoretical concerns within art making. The presentations chosen for this year’s Focus section reflect that winding impulse, highlighting a series of dynamic emerging galleries and artists.’
This year, the Focus section sees seven galleries making their Frieze Los Angeles debut: Babst Gallery, Matthew Brown, Dominique Gallery, Quinn Harrelson, Lyles & King, Shulamit Nazarian and pt. 2 Gallery; alongside returning exhibitors Make Room, Chela Mitchell Gallery, Ochi, Sow & Tailor and Hannah Traore Gallery.
MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS THROUGHOUT FRIEZE WEEK
In celebration of Frieze Week, the city’s preeminent museums including Getty, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad, Hammer Museum, LACMA, ICA LA and Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will host a series of dedicated events and activations, offering local and international visitors alike with opportunity to discover the world-class collections found in Los Angeles.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Early-bird tickets are available from November 30 on frieze.com.
Fair Opening Times
• Thursday Preview, February 29: 11 am – 7 pm (by invitation only)
• Friday, March 1: 11 am – 7 pm
• Saturday, March 2: 11 am – 7 pm
• Sunday, March 3: 11 am – 5 pm
Accessibility
The fair is fully accessible for individuals with reduced mobility. Companion or carer tickets are available free of charge: after booking your ticket, please get in touch at frieze.seetickets.com/customerservice to arrange. Wheelchairs and hearing loops are available at the coat check, and ADA parking slots may be accessed via Donald Douglas Loop. The accessibility map for Frieze Los Angeles 2024, with further information for route planning, will be made available soon.
Christine Messineo is Director of Americas at Frieze. Previously she held positions at Bortolami Gallery in New York and Hannah Hoffman in Los Angeles. Messineo founded PLAN YOUR VOTE, a non-partisan cultural initiative designed to generate civic engagement through the electoral process. The campaign harnessed the power of art and brought together 70 recognized artists and 150 renowned institutions to encourage US citizens to exercise their right to vote in the 2020 elections. The initiative reached more than 28 million people.
Essence Harden is a visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum and an independent arts writer. Essence has curated exhibitions at the California African American Museum (CAAM), Antenna Gallery (New Orleans), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Oakland Museum of California, UTA Artist Space, El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA), Subliminal Projects, The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and Art + Practice amongst others. Essence is a 2018 recipient of The Creative Capital, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and a 2020 Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellow.
Frieze is the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art for scholars, connoisseurs, collectors, and the general public alike. Frieze comprises three magazines – frieze, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week – and five international art fairs – Frieze London, Frieze Masters, Frieze New York, Frieze Los Angeles and Frieze Seoul. In October 2021, Frieze launched No.9 Cork Street, a hub for visiting international galleries in the heart of Mayfair, London. Frieze is part of the IMG network.
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Deutsche Bank is the Global Lead Partner for Frieze Art Fairs, with 2024 marking the 21st year of the partnership. As part of its Art & Culture commitment, Deutsche Bank has supported and collected the work of cutting-edge, international artists for more than 40 years. A global leader in corporate art programs, the bank also runs an Artist of the Year program, as well as its own cultural center in Berlin, the PalaisPopulaire. Further collaborations include the Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award in the United States, the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curators Fellowship in the United Kingdom, The Art of Conversation global series, and digital platform Art:LIVE. Db.com/art. Instagram: @deutschebankart
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PARTICIPATING GALLERIES, FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2024
303 Gallery, New York
Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Bank, Shanghai
Blum, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Bortolami, New York
The Box, Los Angeles
Canada, New York
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Clearing, New York, Brussels, Los Angeles
James Cohan, New York
Pilar Corrias, London
Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Toronto
Massimo De Carlo, Milan, London, Hong Kong, Paris, Beijing
Jeffrey Deitch, New York, Los Angeles
Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, New York
galerie frank elbaz, Paris
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, New York
James Fuentes, Los Angeles, New York
Gagosian, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Geneva, Basel, Gstaad, Rome, Athens, Hong Kong
François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, New York
Gladstone, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, Rome, Seoul
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, Germantown
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, Somerset, Zurich, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Hong Kong, Menorca, Southampton, Monaco
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Paris, London, Marfa
Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Gallery Hyundai, New York, Seoul
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Kyoto, Maebashi
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
Casey Kaplan, New York
Karma, New York, Los Angeles
Kasmin, New York
kaufmann repetto, New York, Milan
Sean Kelly, New York, Los Angeles
Anton Kern, New York
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, Seoul
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, New York
Kukje Gallery, Busan, Seoul
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, London
Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, Paris
David Lewis, New York
Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles, London, New York, Beijing, Shanghai
MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Los Angeles
Anthony Meier, Mill Valley
Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York
Nino Mier Gallery, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, Marfa
Victoria Miro, London, Venice
Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
OMR, Mexico City
Ortuzar Projects, New York
Pace Gallery, New York, London, Seoul, Geneva, Hong Kong, Los Angeles
Maureen Paley, London
Parker Gallery, Los Angeles
Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles
Perrotin, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles
Petzel, New York
The Pit, Los Angeles, Palm Springs
Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Almine Rech, New York, Paris, Brussels, London, Shanghai, Monaco
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
Nara Roesler, New York, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
Thaddaeus Ropac, London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Esther Schipper, Berlin, Paris, Seoul
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Silverlens, Manila, New York
Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Craig Starr Gallery, New York
Tiwani Contemporary, London, Lagos
Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
VSF/ Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seoul
Vielmetter, Los Angeles
Welancora Gallery, New York
White Cube, London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Seoul
David Zwirner, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong
FOCUS SECTION GALLERIES
Babst Gallery, Los Angeles – Harry Fonseca
Matthew Brown, Los Angeles – Kent O’Connor
Dominique Gallery, Los Angeles – Mustafa Ali Clayton
Quinn Harrelson, Los Angeles – Ser Serpas
Lyles & King, New York – Akea Brionne
Make Room, Los Angeles – Yeni Mao
Chela Mitchell Gallery, Washington, D.C. – Siena Smith
Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles – Widline Cadet
Ochi, Los Angeles, Ketchum – Lilian Martinez
pt.2 Gallery, Oakland – Muzae Sesay
Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles – Javier Ramirez
Hannah Traore Gallery, New York – James Perkins
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