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Frieze Magazine - Issue 252 - June, July, August 2025

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In this issue

The summer issue of frieze magazine is dedicated to the artists and writers working and living across the Mediterranean. David Campany contributes an essay on the historical and contemporary photographic representations of the region. Plus, Taous Dahmani, Oriane Durand, Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva and Wilson Tarbox each share a personal postcard from Marseille

Are We All Greeks?

One Take: A look at Charline von Heyl's collage work Athens (2024), ahead of her exhibition at the George Economou

2 mins

A Promise of Return

Remapping: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's multi-disciplinary archive of Palestinian subjectivity

4 mins

Island Treasures

Remapping: Renato Leotta's artwork places Sicily in the crosshairs of antiquity and nature

3 mins

Alchemies of Place

Remapping: Nour Jaouda's textiles deconstruct slippery notions of home and belonging

3 mins

Beyond the Sea

Remapping: Artist and chef Rafram Chaddad pens an account of food across borders

3 mins

Astral Planes

Remapping: Bouchra Khalili revisits 'The Mapping Journey Project', charting resistance and decolonizing the shape of the Mediterranean Interview by Marko Gluhaich

4 mins

Mythic Shores

Essay: David Campany analyzes historical and contemporary photographic representations of the Mediterranean Sea

9 mins

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Profile: From drone strikes to wind turbines, the artist's latest works examine the weaponization of noise and the politics of listening

9 mins

‘The work is about how history lingers in the present, how violence persists and why people identify with it.

Interview: Claudia Pagès Rabal talks to Kyle Dancewicz about her work tracing the surface of history across video, performance and sculpture

8 mins

C'est Marseille, bébé

Dossier: Four love letters to Marseille – penned by curators and writers – celebrate the cultural and political spirit of France’s second city

10+ mins

Against Despair

How Istanbul's contemporary artists have created pockets of resistance in the heart of the city

6 mins

Jack Whitten

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

5 mins

Xin Liu

Just two works make up ‘The Permanent and the Insatiable’, Xin Liu’s solo show at Management in New York.

2 mins

Laura Owens

Amid the visual overwhelm on display in Laura Owens’s eponymous exhibition, which spans two of Matthew Marks Gallery’s Manhattan spaces, an abiding image is the candy cigarette.

2 mins

Patty Chang

BANK NYC, New York, USA

2 mins

Julien Creuzet

The Bell, Providence, USA

2 mins

Sophie Calle

At Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, the French photographer and conceptual artist Sophie Calle presents an assortment of projects deferred or abandoned over the course of her 40-year career.

2 mins

Ilê Sartuzi

During my visit to Ilê Sartuzi’s current exhibition, ‘Trick’, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, an alarm went off, blaring for what felt like an eternity.

2 mins

In Our Own Backyard

‘How many feminists do you need to change an electric bulb?’ asked Indian writer and activist Kamla Bhasin and author and illustrator Bindia Thapar in their book Laughing Matters (2004).

2 mins

Steph Huang

In 'Lili Deli', Steph Huang's exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan-born, London-based artist sticks a candle in the wine bottle, so to speak, clinging to the remnants of delightful indulgence.

2 mins

Tomokazu Matsuyama

When Bijutsu Techo, Japan's authoritative art journal since 1948, devoted its entire June 2021 issue to Japan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, critics erupted, questioning the decision to spotlight someone they deemed insufficiently Japanese, even inauthentic.

2 mins

Sadao Hasegawa

A naked, muscled youth appears to rocket into space in Sadao Hasegawa’s That Floating Feeling (1980). His body throbs magenta, while his face - impassive as a mask - is crowned by flamelike hair. Both human and ethereal, he exhales a stream of starry breath, while the tips of his fingers sparkle: flesh becoming cosmic.

2 mins

Tom Hardwick-Allan

The works in Tom Hardwick-Allan’s current exhibition at South Parade are exact reflections of its title, ‘Low Relief and Foil’: a foil is both the trail that a hunted animal leaves as it passes through its environment and a plot device by which a character is defined by its inverse.

2 mins

JR Perrotin, London, UK

In 2017, the French street artist JR staged a giant installation at the US-Mexico border wall, with guests enjoying a meal on either side.

2 mins

Mahtab Hussain

In August 2024, at a time when British cities were blighted by racist riots, Birmingham's Muslim community braced itself as rumours spread of a far-right rally.

2 mins

Arpita Singh

A cluster of small, lemon-yellow islands - each shaped exactly like Cuba - hovers in a milky body of water.

2 mins

Julien Berthier

Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

2 mins

Berlinde De Bruyckere

A few months ago at a gallery dinner, I asked a German collector about the last work of art that had wowed him.

2 mins

Typologien

In the age of AI deep fakes and disinformation, dissecting the context and influence of image production is more important than ever.

2 mins

Caught in a Landslide

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and KINDL, Berlin, Germany

2 mins

Leah Ke Yi Zheng

In ‘Machine(s)’, her first solo exhibition at Layr, Wuyishan-born, Chicago-based artist Leah Ke Yi Zheng continues to confront the conventional role of canvas as passive support in works whose physical shape is integral to their meaning and whose mutable, translucent surfaces are imbued with an almost-bodily presence.

2 mins

Banu Cennetoğlu

In ‘BEING SAFE IS SCARY’, Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu reflects upon the adversities of the migrant experience, hinting at the extraordinary powers that governments can wield in the guise of protection.

2 mins

They Began to Talk

Against the background of an endless vibra-tion, birds chirp as trains rumble by.

2 mins

Postcard from Monaco

Out of Office: Ivana Cholakova spins the wheel of chance

1 mins

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Frieze Magazine Description:

Publisher: Frieze-Publishing

Category: Art

Language: English

Frequency: 45 Days

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.