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Dec 10, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Marko Gluhaich |Vanessa Peterson |Lou Selfridge |Chloe Stead
Marko Gluhaich What trends have you noticed this year? Chloe Stead Every year, I express disappointment in the performances I’ve seen, but this year, I finally encountered an example of the gritty body art performance I’d been missing. I didn’t think I cared for Young Boy Dancing Group because they seemed gimmicky – something for Instagram. But this August, I attended a self-titled performance they did in the courtyard of an empty apartment block in Berlin and was blown away.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Francesco Manacorda |Vanessa Peterson
Vanessa Peterson How have you found your first year as director of Castello di Rivoli? Francesco Manacorda For me, it’s been a homecoming. I grew up in Turin, but moved away in 2001 and have mostly lived abroad since – although I reconnected with the city when I was director of Artissima between 2010 and 2012.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
In his 2023 book Affinities, Brian Dillon, seeking to fathom his frequent use of the titular word in relation to artworks, defines it as the way ‘images and ideas sidled up to each other, seemed to seduce one another, in ways I could not (or did not want to) explain’. At Leonor Antunes’s Lisbon homecoming, ‘the constant inequality of leonor’s days’, the artist generously offers viewers an insight into her own affinities.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Mati Diop, Dahomey (2024)Last year, I was invited to Accra to participate in a conference on cultural restitution, ‘The Global Convening for the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage’.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
This piece will appear in the columns section of frieze 246, DanceAt the age of 21, after damaging her lungs through prolonged exposure to toxic materials at art school, Rebecca Horn spent a year convalescing. Confined to her sick bed, she began experimenting with prosthetics and restrictive choreographies, eventually going on to develop the series ‘Body Extensions’ (1968–ongoing).
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
Frieze Editor’s Picks is a fortnightly column in which a frieze editor shares their recommendations for what to watch, read and listen to. Inventory Art Book FairLondon has been spoilt for choice in recent months when it comes to programming celebrating printed matter and artists’ publishing practices. I recently visited the Offprint book fair at Tate Modern.
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May 31, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
Vanessa Peterson You launched Le Consortium in 1977 in a room above a bookshop, before later relocating to a hardware store. Your first exhibitions had a focus on minimalism and conceptualism, with works by the likes of Dan Graham, Hans Haacke and Sol LeWitt. How did these collaborations come about? Le Consortium* My cofounder, Xavier Douroux, and I both grew up in the fan club of constructivism, minimalism and conceptual art.
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May 15, 2024 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Vanessa Peterson
Loughborough, a market town in the East Midlands, is thronged with students thanks to its university. Comprising a third of the place’s 65,000-odd residents, they stand out on the streets. This was one reason why Pamela Clarkson Kwami decided to settle here with her husband, Atta Kwami. The pair first met in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city, in the early 1990s at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), home to the country’s prestigious art school.
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May 3, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
Sinéad Gleeson’s debut novel, Hagstone, is a beautifully evocative ode to the natural world – at its best, a poetic dialogue with the landscape and a moving communion with the sea. We are introduced to Nell, an artist, who walks in ‘concentric circles, marking a kind of solar system’ on Banshla beach on an island located away from other communities and the mainland.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Vanessa Peterson
Given the vast array of national pavilions, group exhibitions, solo shows, interventions and ad-hoc street performances on offer, it is advisable to accept from the outset that you will never get to see everything you want to during the opening week of the Venice Biennale. From this lingering feeling of frustration, however, emerges a new way forward: of coincidences, of stumbling upon things that unexpectedly move you.
