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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Editor’s Letter

SEATING CHART • Your table is ready

String Theories • One Take: Ahead of a new Howardena Pindell exhibition opening at Dia Beacon, Mira Dayal looks at her flexible grid of padded canvas, Untitled (1968–70)

Camera as Body • Otherworldly: The films of Ana Vaz depict the sensorial legacy of colonial violence

The Dream Catcher • Otherworldly: Portia Zvavahera paints the psychic and spiritual outlines of her inner world

Blank Slate • Otherworldly: For Yoo Hyun Mi, the drama of the cosmos plays out like a jigsaw puzzle

Forgive Us Our Debts • Otherworldly: In Wong Kit Yi’s videos, ghosts, zombies and feng shui haunt global finance

Queer Necromancy • Otherworldly: Morgan Bassichis explores performance as a way of communing with the dead

DIANE SEVERIN NGUYEN

PICTURE PERFECT

Lecture Circuits • The artist considers how gossip, Ursula K. Le Guin and Instagram Stories influence her work

'Some beauty must emerge.'

The Unknown Masterpiece

Asia Pacific

Europe

Americas

Del LaGrace Volcano

Elisa Giardina Papa

Minne Kersten

Maren Karlson

Richard Maguire

Chris Zhongtian Yuan

Rafael Pérez Evans

The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance

Dora Budor

Zauri Matikashvili

Marie Schubert

Georgia Gardner Gray

Shamiran Istifan

Wolfgang Tillmans

A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art, and Models of Our World Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice, Italy

Simón Vega

Raqs Media Collective

Spirits Melt to Flesh

Camille Turner

Peter Hujar

Enrico David

Betty Parsons

2026 Converge 45 Triennial

Arnold J. Kemp

Tom of Finland

Postcard from Hastings