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Water bottles, pills and emergency blankets

Since the mid-1990s, Henrik Olesen has taken apart clichés about gay identity and turned the pieces into visceral installations, sculptures and collages

Is the activity of artists overshadowing their art?

Searching in the archives, Susanne Kriemann finds a new life for photography

Max Frisinger picks up what other people throw away and binds it into sculptural cartographies of the city

The hype around Berlin as a magnet for artists from all over the world has been discussed for years. But how do artists  as residents, citizens and German citizens  relate to the city? A roundtable discussion, led by Jennifer Allen and Jörg Heiser with Maja Bajevic, Carson Chan, Annika Eriksson and Olaf Nicolai

Biedermeier und Brasilien, Wallpaper Landscapes, Polaroids and Thoughtographs

21-hour days, eight-day weeks; ‘aesthetics acts’ and Polaroids

Equilibrium and tension; nature and vegetables

Since the 1970s Barbara Bloom has used photography, installation, film and books as a means of looking at issues of collecting, museology, design, taste and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves. In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’

Los Angeles, colour effects and the abstracted everyday

Childhood possessions, assembled tableaux, secret stories and studio walls

Consumerism, spatial confusions and dislocated images; volume, solidity and lobsters

Gilles Barbier speaks about his work in progress that will be shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris later this year.

The little-known photographs of a pioneering photography collector; an artist’s project

Moving between concealment and display, the artist treads a fine line between seduction and deception

Does Instituto Inhotim, a 240-hectare art park and botanical garden in south-east Brazil, represent a new kind of institutional operation?

The legacy of Guy Debord and the connections between terrorist strategies, the networked 21st century and historical avant-gardes

The complex relationship between science and the spirit – and how to represent it

Kai Althoff’s enigmatic installations, performances and paintings resist easy answers in their explorations of sexuality and spirituality