What to Expect on Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition

Frieze Viewing Room, Los Angeles Edition, taking place July 27 – August 1, brings together 47 leading galleries from Los Angeles and around the world. The initiative will run concurrent to the first-ever Gallery Weekend Los Angeles and offer a city-wide program of events and activations for Frieze members and audiences.

Venus Lau curates a new section dedicated to digital art featuring commissions by artists Liu Chuang, Nik Kosmas, Peng Ke, aaajiao and Lu Yang. All works in the curated section will also be available to purchase as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

This edition’s scale, refined features, and, most importantly, outstanding list of participating galleries, makes this Frieze Viewing Room a must-see. For those of us in Los Angeles this July, there is much to see around town, and we look forward to welcoming many more faces next February. – Rebecca Ann Siegel, Director of Americas and Content

Digital Art

This new section curated by Venus Lau on Frieze Viewing Room is intended to showcase artists who have made digital media central to their practice in recent years. The section includes five commissions by artists Liu Chuang, Nik Kosmas, Peng Ke, aaajiao and Lu Yang. 

All the works will also be available to purchase as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and will be delivered on RNDR, a blockchain GPU computing and 3D marketplace developed by pioneering Los Angeles-based company OTOY. RNDR leverages Layer 2 technology to reduce carbon emissions.

The platform will reflect recent developments in this sphere, and is intended to explore how NFTs could be a useful tool for artists, directly connecting the work they make with the market in digital space.

Digital and virtual existence is more than what appears on a screen, it is no longer opposed to the real, instead it is a part of, or an anamorphosis, of reality. Artists aaajiao, Nik Kosmas, Liu Chuang, Lu Yang and Peng Ke rethink the mechanisms of digital existence in the artworks presented in the digital section of Frieze Viewing Room, Los Angeles 2021 Edition. – Venus Lau, independent curator and writer

Galleries on Frieze Viewing Room

The fourth edition of Frieze Viewing Room will feature 47 leading galleries and reflect the vibrant cultural landscape of Los Angeles with a line-up of the city’s defining spaces: Blum & Poe, Château Shatto, Jeffrey Deitch, Kayne Griffin, David Kordansky Gallery, L.A. Louver, Regen Projects and Various Small Fires (VSF), alongside major international exhibitors: Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Karma, Lehmann Maupin, Nara Roesler, Thaddaeus Ropac, Venus Over Manhattan and White Cube. The Viewing Room platform will benefit from enhanced search, filter, navigation and content curation features, elevating visitor experience and promoting discovery.

303 Gallery

Miguel Abreu Gallery

Gallery Baton

Blum & Poe

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

The Breeder

Cardi Gallery

Château Shatto

James Cohan

Jeffrey Deitch

Anat Ebgi

Fredericks & Freiser

Gagosian

Gladstone Gallery

Grimm

Haines Gallery

Hauser & Wirth

Galerie Max Hetzler

Ingleby

Charlie James Gallery

Karma

Kasmin

Kayne Griffin

König Galerie

David Kordansky Gallery

Andrew Kreps Gallery

Kukje Gallery

L.A. Louver

Lehmann Maupin

Nino Mier Gallery

Nature Morte

Night Gallery

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill

Overduin & Co.

P.P.O.W

Park View / Paul Soto

Parker Gallery

Peres Projects

The Pit

Almine Rech

Regen Projects

Nara Roesler

Thaddaeus Ropac

Various Small Fires (VSF)

Venus Over Manhattan

Vermelho

White Cube

Watch the Digital Preview

Watch an exclusive, virtual preview of Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles Edition featuring Venus Lau, independent curator and writer, and digital artist Nik Kosmas, with an introduction by Rebecca Ann Siegel, Director of Americas and Content at Frieze.

Viewing Room Opening Times

Tuesday Preview, July 27, 8am PST – Invitation only

Wednesday Preview, July 28, 8am PST – Invitation & Frieze members only

Thursday, July 29, 8am PST - Sunday, August 1, midnight PST – Free access to all