Frieze London & Frieze Masters (London, United Kingdom — October 15 to 19, 2025)
This twin-fair in Regent’s Park merges contemporary (Frieze London) and historic/20th-century work (Frieze Masters), bringing some 270 galleries from 40+ countries and tens of thousands of visitors. As one of the global art-fair landmarks, it offers high-profile exhibitions, talks and curated projects — a crucial moment in the autumn calendar for networking, collecting and surveying global art trends.
Premiere at Art Basel
Something new happened at Art Basel (Switzerland) this year. For its 2025 edition in Basel, a new sector called “Premiere” was launched. By showcasing works by artists made in the past five years and limiting it to three artists per gallery, “Premiere” curates a dialogue between emerging galleries and newly recognized voices in contemporary art—those operating at the intersection of [...]
A Personal Amalgam of Past and Present, East and West, Conflicts and Resolutions
Chun Kwang Young is best known for a series of work titled Aggregation that focusses on one central theme: the remembrance of the past and the rebirth of the new. Growing up in South Korea, he remembered seeing medicinal herbs wrapped in mulberry paper, tied into small packages and hung from the ceiling at the local doctor’s office. Mulberry paper [...]
Space. Lights. Water. Sounds. My Heartbeat…
by Elena Chow An immersive art experience ignites all your senses. Your vision sharpens, your hearing tries to capture the most miniscule sounds, your sense of touch is more sensitive, you are fully invested in everything that surrounds you. At the hands of sophisticated artists, you let them lead you to many worlds of wonder. Superblue “Every Wall is [...]
Timeless
By Elena Chow When I visited the National Museum of Reina Sofia in Madrid this summer, I had to pause when I passed by Rosario de Velasco’s “Adam and Eve”. The oil painting made in 1932 portrays a relaxed couple lying on thick foliage, barefoot, fully dressed, looking at each other in the eyes, comfortable in each other’s company. The [...]
Art from Hidden Spaces
By Jairo Dueñas What am I doing here? There is a place in the womb of Bogota, capital of Colombia, where night clubs open at all hours, where prostitutes and transvestites cross their paths, they turn around and collide into each other as if they were atoms on some psychedelic high heels. There, on the 23rd Street down the Caracas [...]