Since being established 21 years ago, Frieze London has garnered an impressive reputation. Now considered one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, Frieze celebrates and promotes the work of living artists. Taking place each October in Regent’s Park, the art fair welcomes a large number of guests annually.
This year, Inside Frieze London 2024, the event welcomed 90,000 visitors and brought together more than 270 galleries from 43 countries. Oscar Murillo’s “A balancing act between collapse and spirit” proved to be a particularly popular show. Taking place at David Zwirner gallery, the exhibition features a series of Murillo’s mixed media works, focusing on themes of darkness, hostility, and despair. Guided by his fascination with identity, community, and binaries, the Colombia-born artist continues to provoke and excite with his distinctive style.
Meanwhile, another highlight from Frieze London 2024 was Anna Weyant’s “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves?”. On show at Gagosian’s Davies Street venue until December 20th, the exhibition showcases Weyant’s figure paintings, portraits, and still-life compositions. Unsettling, ambiguous, and surreal, Weyant’s first presentation in London certainly made its mark.
Continuing in the same vein, Haegue Yang’s “Leap Year” exhibition at Hayward Gallery taps into a similar sensorial experience. From paper collages to performative sculpture, Yang’s work combines East Asian traditions and folklore with modernism, contemporary art history, and nature. Finally, Frieze Music London 2024 was a huge success, with Mercury-Prize-winning Arlo Parks performing an exclusive one-night-only show at Koko. Describing Frieze London as a “beautiful creative soup”, Parks’ surprise participation was a charming inclusion to the city-wide celebration.
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