Frieze Los Angeles Shrinks to 95 Exhibitors for 2024
That's down from 124 galleries this year. Instead of being distributed across two buildings, participants will all share one tent.
Rendering of Frieze Los Angeles' 2024 structure. Credit: WHY Architects.
Frieze has announced details of the fifth Frieze Los Angeles, which will take place at Santa Monica airport from 29 February to 3 March 2024.
Despite shrinking in size from 124 galleries this year to 95 in 2024, the world's biggest galleries—including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, and Pace Gallery—are taking part.
Following complaints about access between the two exhibition buildings this year, next year's Frieze Los Angeles will take place in a new structure designed by Kulapat Yantrasast's architectural studio WHY. The overall footprint of the fair will increase.
'The layout for 2024 is streamlined and efficient but designed with good sight lines and discoveries at every corner,' Yantrasast said.
'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.'
'Both visitors and exhibitors will benefit from our expanded footprint, centralised layout, and redesigned exterior spaces,' claimed Christine Messineo, Frieze's Director of Americas.
Essence Harden, a curator at the California African American Museum, will curate the fair's Focus section dedicated to young U.S. galleries. Galleries participating for the first time include Babst Gallery, Lyles & King, and Shulamit Nazarian.
Focus galleries will present solo presentations that use ecologies as a framework for artmaking.'I was deeply interested in the possibility of stretching the term ecology to include position, geography, material and theoretical concerns within art making,' Harden said. —[O]
