Frieze New York Programme to Spotlight Performance

Frieze New York 2026 13–17 May 2026

Frieze New York will emphasise performance in a series of collaborations when it returns to The Shed from 1 to 5 May, 2024.

‘I look forward to our new partnerships with the High Line, with whom we have co-commissioned a site-specific work by Matty Davis, and Performance Space New York, presenting a video work by artist Chella Man,’ said Christine Messineo, Frieze’s Director of Americas.

In Die No Die (The High Line), artist and choreographer Matty Davis and five collaborators will accompany the audience as they traverse the High Line from the southern entrance to the Spur, performing four choreographed pieces on the way. The performance will take place on the evenings of 30 April, 1 May, and 2 May.

Chella Man’s film The Device That Turned Me Into A Cyborg Was Born The Same Year I Was (2023) teases out the genderqueer artist’s relationship with their cochlear implant.

‘We also continue long-standing relationships with Artists Space and Art Production Fund this year,’ Messineo added.

Ellen Fullman will perform on a string instrument that spans an entire gallery at Artists Space, while Frieze will mount Sharif Farrag‘s interactive Gotham Grinders: Hamster Wheel in the Rock’s skating rink.

Frieze’s focus on performance art comes during an off year for New York’s prominent performance art biennial, Performa, which last took place in 2023.

Frieze said ‘more than 60 galleries’ will take part in the fair this year, comparable to the 69 that showed in 2023. —[O]

Main image: Courtesy Friends of the High Line and Frieze. Photo: Jonah Rosenberg.