As the art world descends on Venice, discover the artists featuring prominently during the 60th Biennale who will also be bringing work to Frieze New York at the Shed, May 1–5.
Artists include, among others, Julien Creuzet and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones representing France and Nigeria respectively; Beatriz Milhazes at the Applied Arts Pavilion; Pacita Abad, Beatriz Cortez, Abel Rodríguez in Adriana Pedrosa's main exhibition; and major shows with Alex Katz, Elias Sime and Sterling Ruby in the offsite institutions.
The central exhibition of the Biennale, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” is underpinned by curator Adriano Pedrosa’s exploration of otherness through “the foreigner, the stranger, the queer, the outsider, the Indigenous.” Among the 300 artists and collectives showing their work in the exhibition are three artists who also feature at Frieze New York. In Venice, Beatriz Cortez shows Stela XX (Absence) (2024), a deeply contoured steel sculpture, while in New York, Commonwealth and Council presents two of Cortez’s multimedia constructions of existing and imagined objetos antiguos; Abel Rodríguez’s detailed ink drawings, which revel in his intimate botanical knowledge and memories of the Amazon, are a highlight in Venice and also feature in Instituto de Visión’s booth at Frieze New York; and Pacita Abad’s socio-political approach to textile, interrogating the sutures of immigrant experiences, is platformed both in Venice and in Tina Kim Gallery’s Frieze New York presentation.
See “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” April 20–November 24, and discover these artists with Commonwealth and Council (C3), Instituto de Visión (D9) and Tina Kim Gallery (A9) at Frieze New York, May 1–5.
