NYC’s artwork world is gearing up for a busy season of gala’s anchored by Frieze New York 2025. Happening 7 to 11 Might at The Shed, the truthful will showcase greater than 65 main up to date artwork galleries from over 25 nations. The buzzy occasion presents collectors entry to coveted blue-chip works by the most important names in artwork right this moment, in addition to items by rising stars of the business.
As at all times, Frieze will characteristic a variety of facilities for guests, together with the US debut of Korean luxurious magnificence model The Whoo, which is showcasing art work by three rising South Korean feminine artists: Okay Kim, Subin Seol, and Jian Yoo. Close by, guests can sip crisp champagne from Ruinart. Persevering with its ‘Conversations with Nature’ sequence, Ruinart has commissioned artist Sam Falls to discover the maison’s dedication to the atmosphere, creating vibrant work with an assortment of flora that commemorate biodiversity.
That will help you navigate one of the best of the truthful, listed below are the highest cubicles and happenings to see at Frieze New York 2025.
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Mendes Wooden DM
Kishio Suga, Sliced Stones, 2018
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wooden DM, São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York. Copyright The Artist. Images by EstudioEmObra.)
To tease Sonia Gomes’ first institutional solo presentation at Storm King Artwork Heart (7 Might to 10 November 2025), Mendes Wooden DM is exhibiting a brand new sculpture by the Afro-Brazilian artist. Made in fibre and bronze, the work will provide a glimpse of what guests can anticipate from the colorful site-specific set up and survey, ‘Ó Abre Alas!’.
Becoming a member of Gomes’ piece within the sales space can be Sliced Stones (2018), an set up of minimize stones by Kishio Suga, who will even be the topic of an upstate solo present, opening 25 July at Dia Beacon. ‘In 1968, Suga started to make installations from pure and industrial supplies,’ Audrey Smith, director of the gallery’s New York location tells Wallpaper*. ‘It was a technique to subvert and examine the “actuality” of issues at a time of speedy industrialisation and international social turmoil in Japan, but additionally all through the world. His work has a selected subversiveness at an artwork truthful.’
Apalazzogallery and Emalin
Augustas Serapinas, Homer and the corporate, 2025
(Picture credit score: © Augustas Serapinas Courtesy of the artist; APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia; and Emalin, London Picture by Julian Blum)
For his or her joint presentation, Apalazzogallery and Emalin will characteristic artists on every gallery’s roster, in addition to one they co-represented, Vilnius-based Augustas Serapinas. Recontextualising on a regular basis objects and supplies, Serapinas uncovers latent complexities of social hierarchy, reminiscence, and economic system. He’s notably occupied with highlighting how the design and methods of public areas can decide how individuals work together. Serapinas’ works on view will embody a blackened roof panel put in onto the sales space wall and a ground sculpture consisting of functioning health gear the place the artist has changed the weights with replicas of classical sculptures.
Tina Kim Gallery
(Picture credit score: Picture by Emma Baker. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery.)
In a refreshing break from the traditionally male-dominated artwork business, Tina Kim Gallery is presenting a multigenerational, worldwide collection of ladies artists. ‘With its roots in post-war Korean artwork, my programme has advanced to deal with broader gaps within the discipline, recognising that there are such a lot of ladies artists which were neglected of their contributions to artwork historical past,’ the gallery’s founder, Tina Kim, tells Wallpaper*.
Included within the sales space can be a number of works incorporating textiles in modern methods, equivalent to Maia Ruth Lee’s Bondage Baggage sequence (2018-ongoing), which explores migration, displacement, and reminiscence. To make these, Lee first creates net-like bundles of cloth that take inspiration from the non-public belongings carried by Nepali migrants, which she paints and dyes with ink. The bundles are then opened to disclose stunning, summary designs.
James Cohan
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Tremor, 2025
(Picture credit score: Copyright Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2025. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Picture by Dan Bradica.)
Choosing a solo presentation is James Cohan, which is showcasing sculptures by Tuan Andrew Nguyen that discover the ability of reminiscence and narrative to find out historical past. The works on view incorporate items of unexploded ordnances (UXOs) from the Quảng Trị area of central Vietnam, an space that noticed the most important aerial bombardment in historical past.
As is frequent in Nguyen’s research-based observe, he labored intently with native communities in Vietnam to contemplate the tales of resilience that land and objects maintain. Reconfiguring the UXOs, Nguyen positioned them as objects of therapeutic versus proof of violence and conflict. Of observe, kinetic sculptures on view will use sound vibrations and air movement to play palliative frequencies the artist decided with a sound healer. Included in these is Tremor (2025), a floor-based cell that options elements of artillery shells repurposed into a chic stability of brass medallions and a windchime that dangle within the air.
Madragoa
Rodrigo Hernández, Untitled, 2025, oil on wooden
(Picture credit score: Picture credit score by Bruno Lopes. Courtesy the artist and Madragoa, Lisbon)
Within the Focus Part, younger galleries will current solo cubicles of works by under-appreciated names within the business. Overseen by curator and author Lumi Tan and subsidised by Frieze and clothes model Stone Island, the part helps broaden the scope of the truthful with brisker faces and newer names. Among the many 12 galleries featured this yr is Lisbon’s Madragoa, which is able to present new oil work on wooden by Rodrigo Hernández that draw inspiration from Aesop’s ‘The Bat, the Birds and the Beasts’ fable, a narrative of the bat’s identification disaster by which it should select between the worlds of beasts and birds. Hernández provides one other issue to the equation, introducing flowers to the story.
Along with serving to subsidise sales space prices, Stone Island has additionally created the shirts worn by Frieze workers, which characteristic a design by Tahir Karmali, whose works are on view within the Focus Part with Administration gallery.
Artist Plate Mission
Julian Schnabel, Victory at S-chanf II, 2021
(Picture credit score: Picture courtesy of Artist Plate Mission and Coalition for the Homeless)
On the philanthropic entrance, a spotlight of Frieze can be Artist Plate Mission, an thrilling collaboration that includes 50 famend artists’ work on fine-bone china plates produced by Atelier Eighty Eight. Providing guests an opportunity to buy a murals at an reasonably priced value whereas additionally elevating funds for Coalition for the Homeless, the plates can be bought for $250 every in editions of 250. 100 of every version can be on the market at Frieze, with the remainder accessible by Artware Editions starting 13 Might at 10am EST. This yr’s taking part artists embody Rashid Johnson, Religion Ringgold, and Julian Schnabel. Funds from only one plate can feed over 100 hungry New Yorkers and supply further sources equivalent to rental help and disaster providers. The initiative has raised over $7 million since its founding in 2020.
‘This venture emerged from a determined want to boost funds for homeless and low-income New Yorkers throughout Covid,’ says Michelle Hellman, co-founder and curator of the Artist Plate Mission. ‘Sadly, the scenario has worsened considerably. Tonight, roughly 350,000 people will go to mattress with out a dwelling, in distinction to 58,000 in 2020, after we launched the venture. The necessity is extra urgent than ever, and it’s because of the artists who generously comply with take part that we’re capable of make a significant impression.’
Performances
(Picture credit score: © Pilvi Takala 2022. Courtesy the artist; Carlos_Ishikawa, London; and Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam.)
Coinciding with the truthful, guests can expertise day by day performances as a part of Frieze’s sturdy schedule. ‘Efficiency has at all times had a robust presence at Frieze New York, and this yr we’ve put it proper on the centre – not simply throughout the truthful, however throughout its public areas,’ Christine Messineo, Frieze’s director of Americas tells Wallpaper*. ‘It feels particularly becoming in a metropolis like New York, which has such a wealthy and radical efficiency historical past.’
Among the many highlights can be Finnish artist Pilvi Takala’s new piece co-commissioned by Frieze and Excessive Line Artwork, which was curated by Taylor Zakarin and can happen on the Excessive Line and at The Shed. Particulars of what audiences will encounter with Takala’s efficiency, The Pin, will stay a shock, however the piece, we’re advised, can be directly playful and spontaneous, pushing the boundaries of social conventions. Messineo calls the efficiency, ‘a pointy, quietly disruptive piece that questions the unstated guidelines that form public behaviour’.
A full schedule of Frieze’s programming will be discovered right here. Frieze New York 2025 runs 7-11 Might
Supply: Wallpaper
