More than 110 of the world’s leading galleries will participate in the fair, with sections for emerging talent and historical art, the Frieze Artist Award commission, Frieze Film, talks and a Frieze Week festival of culture
Isaac Julien is a filmmaker and artist. He curated the current exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, ‘Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty’ (23 February – 13 April 2008), which features his new film Derek. His film installation Fantôme Afrique (2005) is also on show at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara until 11 May 2008.
Born in 1972, Ján Mancuska is a conceptual artist who explores the materiality of language and film. Here he interviews Jirí Kovanda about his pioneering work of the 1970s – an encounter between two generations of artists
Matthew Brannon is an artist based in New York. His work is included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial (6 March – 1 June), and a comprehensive monograph of his work, To say the very least, will be published in May 2008 by the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, with a text by Philip Monk.
Enrico David is an artist based in London. In 2008 his work will be included in a survey of Italian art and design of the last 40 years at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist, writer, curator, explorer, paranormal researcher, Visiting Assistant Professor in New Genres at UCLA and Special Correspondent for Fortean Times. He lives in Los Angeles.
The first major retrospective of Canadian artist Stan Douglas opens this September in Stuttgart. He talks about history and landscape, puzzles and storytelling
Damián Ortega’s exhibition ‘Nine Types of Terrain’ is at White Cube, London until 8 September 2007. He is also nominated for the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, on show at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin from 14 September – 4 November 2007. He lives and works in Berlin.
Mark Wallinger lives and works in London. His solo show ‘State Britain’ at Tate Britain runs until August 2007. This year he will also have solo shows at Kunstverein Braunschweig and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. His work is also included in Muenster Sculpture Projects.
An interview sociologist Saskia Sassen about the role of women today – from cleaners and mothers, to professionals and politicians – in newly emergent social structures, from the US to Japan and Dubai
Eleanor Antin, who lives and works in San Diego, California, is a conceptual and multidisciplinary artist who has been creating narrative images in photography, video, film, performance and installation for more than 35 years. Her exhibition at Galerie Erna Hécey in Brussels is on view until April 7, 2007.
Since the 1970s Canadian artist Rodney Graham has worked with film, photography, painting, writing and music. In 2006 he was included in the Whitney Biennial and awarded the Kurt Schwitters Prize, had a solo show at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany, exhibited at the Kunsthalle in Bergen, Norway and at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, Switzerland. His exhibition at the Centro José Guerrero in Granada, Spain will open in February 2007.
Pawel Althamer lives and works in Warsaw. In 2004 he was awarded with the Vincent Prize and his work was included in the Carnegie International with Real Time Movie, a performance with Peter Fonda. He recently participated in the 4th Berlin Biennale with the project Fairy Tale, which followed the story of Besir Olcay, a Kurdish immigrant to Berlin. His exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, entitled ‘At the Centre Pompidou’ is on until 27 November, 2006.
