Frieze

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.

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Jennie C. Jones • To Do: What's on the agenda for the art world's most booked and busy?

Magic Words • One Take: Megan Nolan looks at Louise Bourgeois's 2007 etching, I Love You, on the occasion of her exhibition at Kukje Gallery

Musica Mundana • Music: What it means when the planets sing to us by Johanna Hedva

Sound Check • Music: Jennie C. Jones composes with space and colour as told to Lauren Rosati

Bait and Switch • Music: Punk, girlhood and the raw energy of Emily's Sassy Lime by Simon Wu

DJ > Artist • Musk: McKenzie Wark defends the DJ as artist par excellence

Song of Myself • Music: Helen Cammock's practice counters colonial history through sound Interview by Juliet Jacques

Features

4 ARTISTS TO WATCH AT SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL • Dossier: Shaped by migration, memory and the many forms of human movement, these four artists stand out for the ways they reimagine relation, resistance and the poetics of belonging

Of Humanity as Practice • Echoing the biennial's theme of collective care, Forugh Farrokhzad's 1963 short film envisions poetry and survival as political acts by Ela Bittencourt

Anatomies of Power • Berenice Olmedo reworks biomedical tools into sculptural provocations about repair, survival and fabricated humanity by Yina Jimenez Suriel

To See in the Dark • For Pol Taburet, painting becomes a fugitive practice rooted in ritual, rupture and a cosmology born of Black Atlantic memory by Fernanda Brenner

A Critical Voice from Brazil's Heartland • For decades, Gervane de Paula has created a fiercely visual language from the Mato Grosso region, skewering environmental destruction and racial exclusion by Raphael Fonseca

‘For some, Mozart and fluxus don't belong in the same sentence. For me, that contradiction is exactly where the art happens.’ • Interview: Ahead of his MoMA survey ‘A Lick and a Promise’, artist and composer Stephen Prina reflects on how he blurs the lines between concert and exhibition Interview by David Grubbs

LEE BUL • Profile: On the eve of her major survey at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art, the artist reflects on a career shaped by fractured utopias, existential absurdity and the architectural language of desire and disillusionment by Andy St. Louis

Destination: Tashkent • How a contemporary restaging of a film festival sought to understand Central Asian artistic histories

Portrait of a Self-Potrait on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown • Essay: What are the psychoanalytical implications of creatying a second self? by Paul Chan

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On View • International listings of galleries for September 2025 - For more information, visit frieze.com/on-view/galleries

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Review

Liverpool Biennial • Various venues, Liverpool, UK

Maia Ruth Lee • Primary, Nottingham, UK

Nazanin Noori • Auto Italia, London, UK

CAConrad • Champ Lacombe, London, UK

Kofi Perry • Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK

TM Davy • Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK

Ferocity at Home • Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France

Tirdad Hashemi • Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France

Lebohang Kganye • Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels, Belgium

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