Frieze is an annual international contemporary art fair held in October in London's Regent's Park. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of frieze magazine. An arts festival (also art festival) or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts. ... This article is about Regents Park in London. ...

Background

Although staged for the purpose of selling work, the fair has become a cultural entertainment and out of its 47,000 visitors it has been suggested that 80% attend purely to spectate.^[1] The fair also commissions artist projects and holds a programme of talks.

In 2003 Liam Gillick received a joint commission from the Fair and London Underground Platform for Art programme to create a set of posters to be put in unused spaces at Great Portland Street tube station.^[2] Local Discussion Screen, 2001-02, by Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964) is a British artist associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs). ... The London Underground is an all-electric railway system that covers much of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ... Great Portland Street tube station Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regents Park. ...

A three-year sponsorship has been arranged with Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank AG NYSE: DB (German for German Bank) is a multinational bank operating worldwide and employing more than 67,500 people (December, 2005). ...

Frieze magazine is published 8 times a year and covers contemporary art and culture.

Tracey Emin launched her book Strangeland to coincide with the 2005 fair. Front cover of Tracey Emins memoir, Strangeland, published in 2005. ...

Facts

1st Frieze art fair 2003

• Space hire was £180 per meter.
• The fair made £990,000 from 5,500 square meters (2,250 rentable).
• Sales were £20 million.
• There were 124 galleries.
• There were 27,700 visitors.^[3]

2nd Frieze art fair 2004

• Space hire was £190 per meter.
• The fair made £1.5 million from 8,000 square meters (4,000 rentable).
• Sales were £26 million.
• There were 150 galleries.
• There were 42,000 visitors.
• Public admission price was £12.
• There were over 1,000 gallery applications for places.
• Booths were 24–120 square meters.
• The fair was sponsored by Deutsche Bank AG.
• US galleries included Gagosian, Zach Feuer Gallery Matthew Marks and Barbara Gladstone.
• British galleries included White Cube, Lisson Gallery and Victoria Miro Gallery.
• European galleries included Hauser and Wirth.
• Galleries came from Beijing, Melbourne, Moscow and Auckland.^[3]

The Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery, owned by Larry Gagosian, with branches in the United Kingdom and the US. There is an extensive list of exhibited artists, including Damien Hirst, Frank Stella, Rachel Whiteread, Jake and Dinos Chapman, John Currin, Jasper Johns, Gilbert and George and Nan Goldin. ... Zach Feuer Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in New York Citys Chelsea district. ... White Cube is a contemporary art venue in Hoxton in the East End of London. ... The Lisson Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Bell Street, Lisson Grove, London, founded by Nicholas Logsdail in 1967. ... The Victoria Miro Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in London, run by Victoria Miro. ...

3rd Frieze art fair 2005

• There were 160 galleries.
• There were 400 gallery applications.
• 38 exhibitors were American and 35 British.^[4]
• Celebrities at the opening included Claudia Schiffer, David Bowie and Alexander McQueen.^[5]

Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. ... David Bowie (David Robert Jones 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Alexander McQueen CBE (born Lee Alexander McQueen, 17 March 1969) is an English fashion designer. ...

4th Frieze art fair 2006

• The fair was 12–15 October, 2006.
• There was a preview for invited guests on October 11, 2006.

October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Outset Contemporary Art Fund

In 2003, in collaboration with the Tate and Frieze, the Outset Contemporary Art Fund was founded by Tate patrons Yana Peel and Candida Gertler to raise money for purchases from the fair for the Tate. The fund is administered by them with London collectors. Tate can refer to: Places Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States The Tate Gallery, London, named after founder Henry Tate. ...

In 2003, the Fund raised £100,000 for the Tate to purchase work. Four artists were selected: Fikret Atay, Olafur Eliasson, Anri Sala and Yutaka Sone. The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, 2003 Ólafur Elíasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an Icelandic artist, arguably most famous (at least in the UK) for his Weather Project exhibition at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. ... Anri Sala is a contemporary Albanian artist born in Tirana in 1974. ...

In 2004, the amount was £150,000 and the artists were: Pawel Althamer, Martin Boyce, Jeremy Deller, Alan Kane, Jesper Just, Mark Leckey, Scott Myles, Frank Nitsche, Henrik Olesen, Roman Ondák, The Atlas Group, Walid Raad and Pae White. Pawel Althamer (1967-) is a contemporary Polish sculptor, performance artist, action artist, and creator of installations and video art. ... Jeremy Deller (born 1966) is a British artist. ...

In 2005, £125,000 was raised with each donor giving £5,000 ("the donors all have a particular interest in supporting the Tate's acquisition of international contemporary art."^[6]) Work was bought from ten artists. These included Daria Martin, Jan Mot and Alexandre de Cunha. The selecting panel was Jan Debbaut, Director, Tate Collection, Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Suzanne Pagé, Director, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. One piece, which cost £20,000 was Time, a conceptual work by David Lamelas, which consisted of an idea—that people should stand in line and state the time to the adjoining person in the queue. Another purchase for £15,000 was a grey filing-drawer containing 1,000 blank index cards by Stanley Brown.^[5] MOCA, Downtown Los Angeles. ... The Musée National dArt Moderne is an art museum in Paris, France, located within the Centre Georges Pompidou. ... Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

References

1. ^ "With a View to Make More Profit", Financial Times, March 4, 2006
2. ^ "headache/phone card/soda/donuts/stereo" tfl.gov.uk. Accessed April 16, 2006
3. ^ ^{a b} "Frieze Action" by Joe La Placa, artnet.com Retrieved March 29, 2006
4. ^ "Frieze Show Puts the 'Art' into Party, The Guardian, October 23, 2005 Retrieved March 24, 2006
5. ^ ^{a b} "Time Really Is Money as Tate Coughs up £20,000 The Times, October 21, 2005 Retrieved March 24, 2006
6. ^ Tate fund on Frieze site Retrieved March 23, 2006

External links

• Frieze official site
• "Tate Acquires New Work at Frieze", Tate press release 2005
• Artkrush.com - feature on Frieze Art Fair, October 2006
• Interview with Amanda Sharp, part 1/2 Video at Vernissage TV.
• Interview with Amanda Sharp, part 2/2 Video at Vernissage TV.
• Interview with FRIEZE co-founder Amanda Sharp