David Zwirner
Frieze Seoul booth B09
The gallery is thrilled to debut powerful new work by Francis Alÿs and Rose Wylie, anchored by a striking selection of pieces from artists like Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, Ruth Asawa, Alice Neel, Mamma Andersson, and Lucas Arruda. Seeing these particular practices in dialogue brings an unexpected, visceral energy to the space, highlighting how distinctly different material histories can push against one another.
Gallery Chosun
Frieze Seoul booth C11
A constellation of sharp, urgent perspectives comes together in this presentation, featuring compelling works by Jeong Jeong-Ju, Min Sung-Hong, Ahn Sang-Hoon, Bona Park, Fay Shin, Woo Min-Jung, Choe SooRyeon, and Axl Le. Bringing these distinct voices into the same room creates an electric friction, mapping out how contemporary Korean practices continue to interrogate space, identity, and the built environment with striking nuance.
Dirimart
Frieze Seoul booth B14
Stepping into Karin Kneffel’s solo booth feels like entering a quiet, multi-layered architectural dream, anchored by a mesmerizing new series of paintings inspired by London’s legendary Isokon Flats. Kneffel has an uncanny way of capturing the ghosts of modernist history, turning these iconic Bauhaus-inspired walls into slippery reflections on time, memory, and domesticity.
Esther Schipper
Frieze Seoul booth B12
This cross-section of the gallery’s program brings together powerful new pieces by Tauba Auerbach, Rosa Barba, Norbert Bisky, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Ceal Floyer, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Pierre Huyghe, Hyunsun Jeon, Lotus L. Kang, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Philippe Parreno, and Julia Scher. Seeing these disparate conceptual threads collide in one space opens up entirely new ways to think about materiality, time, and system-building. It’s a dynamic snapshot of the roster that feels both urgent and deeply anchored.
Gladstone
Frieze Seoul booth C20
This ambitious presentation brings together an incredible cross-section of practices, featuring works by Joeun Kim Aatchim, Richard Aldrich, Ed Atkins, Matthew Barney, Kasper Bosmans, George Condo, Maureen Gallace, Keith Haring, Jim Hodges, Alex Katz, Yayoi Kusama, Seung Ah Paik, Philippe Parreno, Celia Paul, Robert Rauschenberg, Ugo Rondinone, Rachel Rose, David Salle, Salvo, Peter Saul, Andro Wekua, Anicka Yi, and Arisa Yoshioka. Letting these distinct generational voices and material languages bounce off one another creates a crackling energy in the room. It’s a fascinating exercise in seeing how historical weight and contemporary urgency can completely recontextualize each other.
Hauser & Wirth
Frieze Seoul booth A21
This powerhouse presentation bridges generations by placing historic masterworks by Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Lee Lozano, and Jack Whitten in direct, magnetic conversation with leading international contemporary voices like Frank Bowling, George Condo, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Angel Otero, Qiu Xiaofei, Lorna Simpson, Avery Singer, and Ambera Wellmann. Watching these heavy-hitting practices collide in the space creates a powerful tension between raw archival weight and current material critique. It’s a generational clash that somehow feels entirely inevitable and electric.
Galerie Lelong
Frieze Seoul booth C12
This rich dialogue across generations brings together striking works by Etel Adnan, Francis Bacon, Sarah Cain, Marc Desgrandchamps, Jean Dubuffet, June Edmonds, Hyunsun Jeon, David Nash, Pablo Picasso, Jaume Plensa, Christine Safa, Pinaree Sanpitak, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Marion Verboom, Fabienne Verdier, Wang Yan Cheng, and Guy Yanai. Letting these poetic, materially diverse practices rub shoulders opens up an unexpected rhythm across the room. It’s a compelling study in how radically different approaches to surface and abstraction can quietly speak the same language.
Sprüth Magers
Frieze Seoul booth B22
This sweeping group presentation spans six decades, charting the deep breadth of the gallery’s international program through sharp, unexpected dialogues between conceptual art, painting, sculpture, and installation. By pairing foundational historical positions with leading contemporary voices, the installation strips away chronological distance to let these distinct material investigations speak directly to one another. It’s a fascinating way to watch how past and present frameworks continuously rewrite each other.
Galerie Kandlhofer
Frieze Seoul booth A14
For its debut presentation at the fair, the gallery brings together an arresting lineup of works by Paulina Aumayr, Marc Henry, Harminder Judge, Paco Koenig, Nana Mandl, Hermann Nitsch, and So Young Park. Letting these charged, visceral practices share a room creates an intense material friction, mapping out how divergent approaches to ritual, surface, and structure can aggressively feed off one another. It’s an unapologetically bold statement for a fair debut.