Annet Gelink GalleryD2, main section
Annet Gelink is seen by many artists asthe most wanted contemporary art dealerin Amsterdam, thanks to her stable ofhot, young international up-and-comers,many of whom are plucked fromAmsterdam’s prestigious Rijksakademieart residency programme. Among newnotables are David Maljkovic, BarbaraVisser, Carlos Amorales and RyanGander. Since opening in 2000 she hasbeen unafraid to embrace work withunnerving resonances, from Americanartist Virgil Marti’s stoned spiderwallpaper and Alicia Framis’s photo of a lost astronaut wandering aimlesslyaround New York to Visser’s stark,futuristic installations, featuring smallbuildings teetering on the edge of a desk.The past five years have seen Gelink’sinfluence rise to the point where she isnow one of the most powerful voices inthe Dutch art scene. Nina Siegal, editor,Time Out Amsterdam
Project 88 F19, main section
Project 88 has built a reputation forshowcasing edgy, emerging contemporaryartists from the Indian subcontinent who work with video, photography,installation, graphic and multimedia art.This is the gallery’s second time at theFrieze Art Fair – in 2009 it brought overartists including Neha Choksi, who useschildlike forms in her metallic sculptures.Choksi will be seen once again this year in the fair’s outdoor sculpture park. Thegallery’s booth will also present RohiniDevasher’s videos and prints, featuringintricate organic patterns, SandeepMukherjee’s abstracts on duralene (a translucent paper-like film), TejalShah’s coverage of a performance andRaqs Media Collective’s photographs and installation that explore capitalismand the life of Rosa Luxemburg. Zeenat Nagree, Art writer, Time Out Mumbai
Contemporary Fine Arts C15, main sectionTo be a true maverick in a city of aspiring mavericks is something of an
achievement yet Berlin’s elegantly edgy Contemporary Fine Arts gallery has earned itself a reputation for doggedly doing its own thing, unswayed by the vagaries of fashion or thenotorious political ferment of the city’s gallery scene. Founded in 1992 by Bruno Brunnetand Nicole Hackert, CFA is known for its mighty, multi-disciplinary roster of talent,representing or dealing artists including Georg Baselitz, Chris Ofili, Daniel Richter (norelation to Gerhard), Peter Doig and Zhivago Duncan – as well as for its consistently strongrecord of sales and artist promotion. Arsalan Mohamed, Art editor, Time Out Berlin
Rampa R21, FrameRampa is crucial to the art scene in Istanbul, having opened a
year-and-a-half ago with an exhibition by elder statesman of the nationalscene, Cengiz Çekil, and premiering solo exhibitions by important Turkishartists Vahap Avsar and Ergin Çavusoglu. The gallery also represents AyseErkmen and Nilbar Güres, whose ‘Open Phone Booth’ project looks at issuesof Turkish female identity. Merve Arkunlar, Art editor, Time Out Istanbul
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise B11, main sectionIn his 15-year career as a dealer, Brown has fostered such superstars as
Elizabeth Peyton, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Urs Fischer, amongothers. He even resuscitated the career of famous early-’90s flameout, Rob Pruitt.And now he’s expanded his gallery to include young-ish talents Kerstin Brätsch andJoe Bradley and old art-world pros like the painter Alex Katz. But that’s Brown’s style:deliver the best in art with attitude. Howard Halle, Art editor, Time Out New York
GlobalFriezeLike Time Out’s global network,Frieze represents more than 30of the most vibrant cities in theworld. Our team of internationalexperts pick their fair highlights
Galeria VermelhoH6, main section
One of the most interesting galleriesin São Paulo, the ten-year-old GaleriaVermelho sits atop the imposingAvenida Paulista, behind a blankfacade which itself is often deployedas a canvas. Inside, in a set of spacesdesigned by architect Paulo Mendesda Rocha, the gallery has a well-earnedreputation for championing emergingtalent.Young artist Jonathas deAndrade, also showing at the IstanbulBiennial, uses found imagery toexplore themes of memory andpolitical amnesia. At Frieze he’ll beshowing the photo installation‘Yesterday Today’, in which he replacesthe heavy-handed imagery of apropaganda pamphlet from Chile’smilitary dictatorship with the work‘Midnightsun’ (1950) by EmilSchultess, exchanging the crudelymanipulative political images withphotos of a sun that dips, but neversets. Claire Rigby, editor, Time Out São Paulo
Ancient& Modern
R5, FrameCertainly one of the capital’s smallesthothouses of contemporary art, in itscurrent corridor-like configuration onWhitecross Street, Ancient & Moderndoesn’t lack grander ambitions. For hissolo booth in Frieze’s Frame section –dedicated to single artist presentations –Paul Johnson presents an immersiveenvironment of papier-mâché sculptureand collage in the form of a walk-in secularchapel or mausoleum, inspired by Hindutemples and jerry-built religious shrines.It’s sure to be a hit with collectors worriedabout their philanthropic reputations inthe afterlife. Ossian Ward, Art editor,Time Out London
Take Ninagawa R18, Frame
Japanese art was known as radical andunique between the 1950s and 1970schiefly because of its dramaticperformance art and paintingmovements, such as Gutai and Mono-Ha.The Take Ninagawa gallery is renownedfor its curatorial continuation of thosegood old days, not least in representingone of the most important artists of thepast 30 years, Shinro Ohtake. His mottoof ‘working with what’s already there,’ is enthusiastically adopted by the youngmultimedia artist, Aki Sasamoto, who willcombine spontaneous live performancewith her training in dance and theatreproduction for this one-personpresentation. If Japanese art is to carryforward some of its art historical contextinto the future, it will be galleries such asTake Ninagawa passing on the torch.Daisuke Nishimura, Art writer, Time Out Tokyo
The 2011 Frieze Art Fair takesplace ThurOct 13-Sun Oct 16,Regent’s Park, Chester Rd, NW14NR (www.friezeartfair.com). See www.timeout.com/frieze.
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