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Frieze

Issue 261 - September 2026
Magazine

Frieze is a contemporary art magazine, published eight times a year. It was founded in London in 1991 and is renowned for publishing essays, profiles, interviews and reviews by today’s leading writers, artists and curators. Across all platforms and live events frieze elevates the provocative, brilliant and leading voices who shape and challenge today’s art world.

CONTRIBUTORS

Editor's Letter

JJJJJerome Ellis • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

A Glimpse of the Void • One Take: On the occasion of his exhibition at Gagosian, New York, a look at Brice Marden’s pulsating field painting

Something, Nothing

Zirkus Trick • Detritus: Nandi Loaf retools obsolete technologies to reflect on today’s digital dystopia

Ocean of Voices

Matter Out of Place

Left Behind • Detritus: In following the supply chain of American military waste, Aziz Hazara uncovers the hidden legacies of war

'I feel like I'm a young artist, but a 62-year-old young artist.' • Interview: Ahead of Lubna Chowdhary's inclusion in the upcoming British Art Show 10 and a solo show at Corvi-Mora, London, the artist discusses the politics of material and the evolution of her practice Interview by Amrita Dhallu

JJJEROME ELLIS • Profile: As the artist and musician prepares for forthcoming exhibitions at Secession and Index, Sasha Frere-Jones considers the role of time, Blackness and nature in Ellis’s expansive oeuvre

Like a Caress • Ahead of a solo show at David Zwirner, London, the artist reflects on memory, artistic inheritance and the enduring question of what makes a good painting

WORLDS AWAY • Exploring the philosophy of space science, artists are bringing the cosmos closer to home

Four Galleries to Watch in Seoul • Dossier: Four writers and curators – Wong Binghao (Bing), Jaeyong Park, Sejin Park and Andy St. Louis – present a guide to the galleries at the forefront of Seoul’s contemporary art scene

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Paul McCarthy

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Franco Vaccari

Lorna Simpson

Walter Pfeiffer

Vladislav Markov

Liesl Raff

QUEER ART IN THE GDR? • KVOST – Kunstverein Ost, Berlin, Germany

Emma Talbot

Olof Marsja

Afterimages

Nikita Kadan

Ayotunde Ojo

In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence • Efie Gallery, Dubai, UAE

Emergent Figures • Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand

Of Thread and Stone

YBA & BEYOND: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection • National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Anne Hardy

Lewis Hammond

Katharina Grosse

Wilhelm Sasnal

Camille Henrot

Greater New York 2026 • MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Ariel West

N. Dash

Bruce Nauman

Marianne Vitale

59th Carnegie International

Dynaton

Postcard from Santa Fe • Out of Office: A view from the top of the world

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  • English