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
Including the work of 53 artists and artist-groups and held in spaces as varied as a vacant office building, a former tobacco warehouse and a run-down apartment block, the low-key and locally engaged 9th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, was simply titled ‘Istanbul’