Frieze London Press Release 28 April 2015 Rachel Rose wins Frieze Artist Award 2015, Supported by LUMA Foundation The winner of the 2015 Frieze Artist Award is New York-based artist Rachel Rose. Supported by the LUMA Foundation, the Frieze Artist Award allows an emerging artist to realise a major commission at Frieze London as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. Frieze London will take place 14 17 October 2015 and is sponsored by Deutsche Bank. At Frieze London 2015, Rose will create a scale-model of the fair structure. Inside, lighting and sound design will simulate the sonic and visual sense frequencies of animals inhabiting the Regent s Park. Drawing attention to the park s multiple layers of communication and perception, Rose will open up a spectrum of sensory worlds for fair visitors to inhabit and experience. This commission invites Rose who has previously worked in film to pursue an ambitious installation-based project. Rachel Rose (b. 1986) lives and works in New York. Her forthcoming solo exhibitions include those at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Castello di Rivoli, Turin and the Aspen Art Museum. Now in its second year, the Frieze Artist Award is a high-profile initiative from Frieze Projects, inviting an artist to create a site-specific artwork at Frieze London under the auspices of Frieze Projects. Rose s proposal was selected from over 1,200 applications by artists from all over the world. The selection committee for the Frieze Artist Award 2015 was Bonnie Camplin (artist), Raimundas Malasauskas (curator and writer), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London) and Nicola Lees, (Curator, Frieze Projects), with Frieze Artistic Director Jo Stella-Sawicka acting as chair. The calibre of applications was phenomenal this year said Nicola Lees. Rachel s project stood out for the jury as proposing an elegant and complex engagement with the fair s architecture and its surrounding context. Frieze Press Release, Page 1 of 5
Hans Ulrich Obrist commented, Rachel s films are truly captivating. She is one of the great artists of her generation. Maja Hoffmann said: The LUMA Foundation is thrilled to be an active supporter over the next three years of the Frieze Artist Award and Frieze Projects, Frieze London s non-profit commissioning programme. This partnership underlines LUMA s commitment to produce, present and promote contemporary art projects in new and inspiring ways. The Frieze Artist Award winner will be presented at Frieze New York in a special panel moderated by Tom Eccles who will introduce Rachel Rose in conversation with Tony Oursler and Hans Ulrich Obrist. This panel will take place in the Frieze Auditorium at 2pm on Thursday 14 May, and is presented in partnership with the LUMA Foundation. Full details on the Frieze Artist Award 2015 are available at: friezeprojects. org/faa-award. To keep up to date on all the latest from Frieze London follow @friezelondon on Twitter, @friezeartfair on Instagram and become a fan on Facebook. End. Press Contacts: UK, Europe & ROW Scott & Co Selina Jones scott-andco.com tel: + 44 (0)20 3487 0077 selina@scott-andco.com US & Americas Black Frame Tyler Mahowald Frieze Press Release, Page 2 of 5
framenoir.com tel: + 1 212 226 2196 tmahowald@framenoir.com Frieze Office: frieze.com tel: +44 (0)20 3372 6111 info@frieze.com Notes to Editors: Rachel Rose (b. 1986) lives and works in New York. Her work explores concepts of mortality, with subjects ranging from zoos to Philip Johnson s Glass House, to the American Revolutionary War and 19th-century park design. Her forthcoming exhibitions include solos at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin and the Aspen Art Museum. She was the recipient of the 2014 Illy Prize. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Cloud Cover, CCS Hessel Museum, New York (2015). The Importance of Being a (Moving) Image, National Gallery, Prague (2015); Taipei Biennial The Great Acceleration, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei (2014); Phantom Limbs, Pilar Corrias, London (2014); Geographies of Contamination David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2014); and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn (2014). Frieze Projects: Established in 2003, Frieze Projects is a non-profit programme of artist commissions, films and music events, curated by Nicola Lees since 2013 and taking place annually at Frieze London. In 2014, Frieze commissioned artists including Jérôme Bel, Sophia Al Maria, Jonathan Berger, Isabel Lewis, Tobias Madison, Nick Mauss, Cally Spooner and Cerith Wyn Evans. The winner of the 2014 Frieze Artist Award was French artist Mélanie Matranga. LUMA Foundation and LUMA Arles: The LUMA Foundation was established in 2004 to support the activities of independent artists and pioneers, as well as institutions working in the fields of art and photography, publishing, documentary, and multimedia. The foundation specializes in challenging artistic projects combining a particular interest in environmental issues, human rights, education, and culture in the broadest sense. Frieze Artist Award Supported by Frieze Press Release, Page 3 of 5
The LUMA Foundation and LUMA Arles, founded in 2014 in support of its the Arles project, are currently developing an experimental cultural centere in the Parc des Ateliers in the city of Arles, France, working with a core group of artistic consultants (Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Beatrix Ruf) and the architects Frank Gehry and Annabelle Selldorf. This ambitious project envisions an interdisciplinary center dedicated to the production of exhibitions and ideas, research, education, and archives and is supported by a growing number of public and private partnerships. Construction started after the ground-breaking ceremony in April 2014; the opening of the main building on campus is scheduled for 2018, while an artistic programme is already presented every summer in the refurbished former railway warehouses. For more information see: luma-arles.org. Nicola Lees has been the curator for Frieze Projects since 2013. Currently Lees is also Associate Curator at Malmö Konsthall and curator of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Lees was previously Senior Curator of Public Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery (London), where she oversaw interdisciplinary, time-based and performance projects and artist commissions as well as initiating Park Nights, the Serpentine Cinemaseries, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist). In 2007 Lees curated the exhibition Left Pop Bringing it Home at the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. At the Irish Museum of Modern Art she worked on key solo exhibitions by Alex Katz, Miroslaw Balka, and a group exhibition with Philippe Parreno. Nicola Lees lives and works in London. Frieze London: Established in 2003 by the founders of frieze magazine, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, Frieze London is one of the world s leading art fairs. In 2015, Frieze London is sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the twelfth consecutive year. In 2012 Frieze established two further art fairs, Frieze New York, which takes place on Randall s Island, Manhattan each May, and Frieze Masters, which coincides with Frieze London and offers a contemporary perspective on historical art. Frieze fairs are sponsored by Deutsche Bank. Further information is available at frieze.com. Frieze Press Release, Page 4 of 5
Further Information Frieze London 2015 public opening dates: Wednesday 14 October Thursday 15 October Friday 16 October Saturday 17 October Frieze London 2015 preview: Tuesday 13 October Further information is available at frieze.com Frieze Press Release, Page 5 of 5