Frieze

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.

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SEATING CHART • Your table is ready

Skeleton Crew • Max Andrews considers Teresa Solar Abboud’s haunting installation as her exhibition opens at Lehmann Maupin, London

Lived in Bars • Play: The paintings of Salman Toor – on view at the Courtauld Gallery – reckon with queer vitality and loneliness

Scavenger Hunt • Play: Jill Magid probes the absurd networks of power undergirding the US government

Social Climbers

Unspeakable World • Play: How Ryan Gander’s transdisciplinary practice taps into the unstable and unknown

New Action Stars • Play: For Wakaliga Uganda, Hollywood tropes become vehicles for re-imagining African sovereignty

After Susan • On the occasion of Susan Hiller’s survey at KW in Berlin, novelist Lynne Tillman elegizes her late friend

‘Painting allows me to work subconsciously, while also engaging with the real world.’ • Interview: Marking the opening of her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, Lorna Simpson speaks with Zoë Hopkins about archives, materiality and the ideas that underpin her collages

Urban Island • Dossier: As Cubitt Gallery navigates the loss of its long-term home, Polly Staple, Amal Khalaf, Nicole Wermers and Michelle Cotton reflect on the co-operative’s vital role in London’s creative scene

Amar Kanwar • Profile: Ahead of his Serpentine exhibition, the artist considers how ambiguity and ‘half-stories’ can resist a world increasingly shaped by violence and authoritarianism

SPECTACULAR SOCIETY • Contemporary artists are fascinated by the theatre. Does the stage represent an escape – or an impasse?

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Manifesta 16 • Various venues across the Ruhr region, Germany

Mooni Perry

Tanya Lukin Linklater

Thoughts in No Particular Order, Given the Circumstances

Shuang Li

Labouring Bodies

Hannah Perry

Asad Raza

Suleman Aqeel Khilji

Leah Dixon

Reggie Burrows Hodges

The Way We Live Now • The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece

Yein Lee

Vibeke Tandberg

Lindsey Mendick • A slowed-down version of Patience and Prudence’s ‘Tonight You Belong to Me’ (1956) plays on loop in Carl Freedman Gallery. This unsettling song sets the tone for Lindsey Mendick’s solo exhibition ‘Where You End and I Begin’, which charts the experience of long-term love from its honeymoon period through a clinical dissection, before ending in full-blown psychological and body horror.

Andrew Heard

Mandy El-Sayegh

Japanese Women Photographers: From 1950s to Now

Roy Claire Potter

Chitra Ganesh

Pope.L

Rara

Marilou Schultz

2026 Medina Triennial • Various venues, Medina, USA

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA

Arch Connelly

John Sparagana

Oliver Osborne

Vivian Caccuri

Youth Palace: or, some small acts of self-making • Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

TECHNO WORLDS – FINAL SAMPLING • Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Threads of Kinship • The He Art Museum, Foshan, China

Isaac Chong Wai

Postcard from Skiathos • Out of Office: Voyaging in the simulacra