Frieze Week: Friday

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Frieze London is open from 12–7pm and Frieze Masters is open from 11am–7pm today. All visitors are invited to ‘Social Work’, a curated section at Frieze London featuring eight feminist and activist women artists from the 1980’s and ’90s. Artists include Tina Keane at England & Co., London, and Sonia Boyce at Apalazzogallery, Brescia.

At Frieze Masters, be sure to visit ‘Spotlight’, a selection of solo shows by 20th century artists. The 2018 programme includes Lenore Tawney, one of the most significant innovators in weaving practice, at Alison Jacques Gallery; Key Hiraga, a radical self-taught painter at Galerie Loevenbruck; and Annegret Soltau, whose sewn photographs are on display at the Richard Saltoun booth.

The talks programme continues across Frieze London and Frieze Masters. In the Frieze London Auditorium at 12.30pm, novelist Alexander Chee will deliver this year’s Keynote Lecture. The author, whose essay collection How to Write An Autobiographical Novel (2018) was praised by Eileen Myles, will address this year’s Frieze Talks theme of autobiography.

After lunch, don’t miss the screening of the Frieze Film commissions, with work by The Otolith Group, Paul Pfeiffer and Lucy Raven in the Frieze London Auditorium at 3pm. At 4.30pm, legendary artist and musician Laurie Anderson will present multimedia storytelling, followed by an ‘in conversation’ with Frieze Talks co-curator Lydia Yee.

Over in the BMW Lounge at 4.30pm there will be a talk on art, design and engineering. BMW Open Work artist, Sam Lewitt, will be in conversation with curator Attilia Fattori Franchini and Dr. Thomas Girst, Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW.

Throughout the day, our ‘Live’ programme continues. Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, recipient of the Frieze artist award, will present a choreographed performance between booths B1 and B2. A neon sign outside the space will indicate when the performance is on.

If you choose to walk between Frieze London and Frieze Masters, why not stop off at Frieze Sculpture and tune into the audio guide led by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park?

At Frieze Masters, the programme of talks continues. This year, to commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK, we will be hosting a programme of all-women speakers. At 12pm, sculptor Doris Salcedo is in conversation with Rachel Thomas, Head of Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Tim Marlow, Artistic Director, Royal Academy. Later in the afternoon at 3pm, Jennifer Higgie, Editorial Director of frieze magazine, will host a panel to discuss what place contemporary art has in historical museums – and vice versa. The entertaining talk, titled ‘Gods and Monsters’ will include an all-women panel of museum directors.

The fair programme continues into the evening with East End Night. Ten galleries across London’s East End will participate in the programme with late night openings. At Parasol unit, Heidi Bucher’s large latex works will be on display, while over at Modern Art, you can see the first UK solo show of paintings by Forrest Bess.

Click here for tickets to Frieze London 4-7 October

Click here for tickets to Frieze Masters 4-7 October

_{Main image: Frieze London 2018. Courtesy: Linda Nylind/Frieze}