20 – 23 February 2025
Stand B9
Santa Monica Airport
3027 Airport Avenue
Los Angeles, USA
Open by invitation only:
Thursday 20 February: 10am – 7pm
Friday 21 February: 11am – 1pm
Open to the public:
Friday 21 February: 1pm – 7pm
Saturday 22 February: 11am – 7pm
Sunday 23 February: 11am – 6pm
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Selected Press
Frieze, Billy Cotton’s Top Picks from the Frieze Viewing Room: Merlin James, 13 February 2025
Frieze, Frieze Los Angeles 2025: A Celebration of Creative Resilience and Community Rebuilding, 12 February 2025
image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 235, 2017, inkjet print mounted on Dibond in artist’s frame

FRIEZE LA

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Talks and lectures: Princeton University and CREATIVE TIME – CTHQ
The Sonics of Self Determination
Faber Lecture
Tuesday 11 February 2025, 5:00 – 7:00 pm EST
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
USA
Building on over a decade of audio investigations and sonic research, Abu Hamdan will explore how sound can be used as a tool to repurpose and reorient struggles for autonomy and justice.
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Listening with Politics with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Thursday 13 February 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 pm EST
Creative Time – CTHQ
59 E 4th St, Floor 7
New York, NY 10003
USA
Reflecting on one year since the founding of Earshot, an organisation using sound for the defence of human and environmental rights, this talk will focus on Abu Hamdan's latest project Zifzafa and use it to explore the concept and the struggle for a sonic self-determination.
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image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifzafa, 2024, still from virtual reality audio platform

Anne Hardy
Artist Talk: Edinburgh College of Art
Monday, 10 February, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
E.22, Main Lecture Theatre
ECA Main Building
Edinburgh College of Art
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Anne Hardy will deliver an artist talk at Edinburgh College of Art on Monday, 10 February, as part of the School of Art's Monday Lectures series.
This public lecture series features leading national and international artists and thinkers, exploring innovative, practice-led research. The series critically examines new dimensions of contemporary art while rearticulating the processes and practices associated with established artistic media.
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image: Anne Hardy, Being (Immaterial), 2023-2024. artists' clothes, rusted wire, shells, welded steel, jesmonite, jewellery, cast concrete, bronze, pewter, white metal, dried plant, earth

Olivia Plender
Sharjah Biennial 16: To Carry
6 February – 15 June 2025
Opening week: 6 – 9 February 2025
Sharjah City, Al Hamriyah, Al Dhaid, Kalba, Al Madam and various locations across the Emirate of Sharjah
Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz
Olivia Plender is participating in Sharjah Biennial 16: To Carry, which will feature works by more than 190 participants, including over 200 new commissions, presented across the Emirate of Sharjah.
‘The constellation of diverse methodologies that the five curators have gathered offers audiences the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking dialogues bridging the local context with global narratives about identity, movement, change and collectivity. By centering the act of carrying, Sharjah Biennial 16 offers a space for imagining new collective futures while recognising the weight of shared histories and experiences.’ – Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation.
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Felipe Baeza
Winner of a 2025 Vilcek Foundation Prize in Visual Arts
Felipe Baeza has been announced as one of the winners of the 2025 Vilcek Foundation Prizes in Visual Arts alongside Guadalupe Maravilla, Selva Aparicio, and Jeffrey Meris.
The Prizes for Creative Promise in Visual Arts are awarded in recognition of artists under 40 whose work demonstrates exceptional creativity and outstanding potential.
The Vilcek Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation for the arts and sciences. The foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek,
immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia.
image: Felipe Baeza in his studio, courtesy the Vilcek Foundation

Hannah Collins
12th Lanzarote Biennale: Between Volcanoes
31 January – 22 March 2025
La Casa Amarilla
Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Curated by: Alicia Chillida
Entre Volcanes is the title of Hannah Collins’s presentation at the 12th Lanzarote Biennial. This ongoing project explores the Mexican volcano Paricutín (in Purépecha, Parhíkutini, meaning "place on the other side"), on which the artist has been working in situ for the past two years. For the Biennial, Paricutín enters into dialogue with the volcanic landscape of the Canary Islands.
The project reflects on themes of ecology, sustainability, and the future of the Earth, while also exploring the mythical significance of fire and the observation of the sky, connecting Lanzarote and Michoacán. An accompanying essay by Collins, inspired by 19th-century European travel literature, delves deeper into these themes and could serve as a prologue to the project’s exhibition.
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Peter Hujar
Eyes Open in the Dark
opening: Wednesday, 29 January, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Curated by John Douglas Miller, Gary Schneider, and Alex Sainsbury.
This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his work was largely unknown to a broader art world. Now it is widely admired for its austere elegance and emotional charge. Eyes Open in the Dark concentrates on his later work, when his emergence from a debilitating depression in 1976 brought about a new expansiveness.
As well as lifetime prints it will include prints of little-known works specially prepared by Gary Schneider, working closely with the artist’s Estate.
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Selected Press
Ocula, Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz: More Than and Less Than Lovers, Will Ferreira Dyke, 14 February 2025
The Guardian, Condoms, cows and contortions: Peter Hujar’s astonishing vision – in pictures, Mee-Lai Stone, 12 February 2025
The Guardian, Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark Review – Five Stars, Adrian Searle, 30 January 2025
The Guardian, ‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar, Lanre Bakare, 28 January 2025
The Observer, Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark review – visions of a vanished world, Sean O’Hagan, 2 February 2025
The Art Newspaper, Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle, Ben Luke, 31 January 2025
Dazed Digital, The dA-Zed guide to Peter Hujar, Sam Moore, 29 January 2025
AnOther Magazine, A Deep-Dive into Peter Hujar’s Vast London Retrospective, Will Ferreira Dyke, 31 January 2025
TimeOut, Things to do in London this weekend, 10 February 2025
Hero, Peter Hujar’s retrospective, Led Zeppelin and a Greek tragedy, 7 February 2025

Alexandra Bircken
Public Sculpture: PS (Horsepower), 2024
Kunstareal
Munich, Germany
Im Galopp zum Stillstand / Galloping to a Standstill
Alexandra Bircken’s new public sculpture, PS (Horsepower), 2024, has recently been unveiled in Munich’s city center.
Positioned in a high-traffic area, the sculpture invites reflection on new beginnings and suggests a pause for machines. Drivers passing by are met with the image of a broken horse, a powerful symbol of the combustion engine's decline. The once-dominant relationship between humans and machines, envisioned in the 20th century, is receding. What comes next remains uncertain, perhaps the nearby State Ministry for Digital Affairs is already working on the answer. During the installation, employees from the ministry were seen giving the sculpture a thumbs-up from their windows, a gesture of approval for this evocative new addition to the cityscape.
image: Alexandra Bircken, PS (Horsepower), 2024, steel, stainless steel, varnish, 400 x 900 x 160 cm - 157 1/2 x 354 3/8 x 63 in