Two galleries at Frieze New York have won the fair’s prestigious Frieze Stand Prize: the established Cologne-based dealer, Galerie Gisela Capitain (B38), and the three-year-old gallery, Instituto de Visión of Bogotá, which is in the Focus section (D24).
Award jurors—including Suzanne Cotter, the director of the Serralves Museum, Porto, and Reto Thüring, the curator of contemporary art at Cleveland Museum of Art—said that “the quality of the works selected [at Galerie Gisela Capitain] was amplified by the curatorial sensibility bought to bear across the whole stand”. The gallery is showing works by Martin Kippenberger and Gillian Carnegie.
Instituto de Visión, which represents artists such as Pia Camil and Otto Berchem, was commended for its “sharp intelligence” and creating a sense of discovery.
Update: On 5 May, the inaugural Frame Stand Prize, supported by Stella Artois, was awarded at Frieze New York to the Geneva-based gallery Truth and Consequences, which is showing an installation by French artists Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, including a wall of clay titles embedded with pipes. The jury praised the "wonderful, ambitious stand, which demonstrated a commitment to working with a variety of materials," adding that it "enjoyed the injection of humour and collaboration between two artists". The also gave a special commendation to Shanghai's Leo Xu Projects, saying their colourful presentation of carpet tiles by Liu Shiyuan was "one of the most compelling" in the section.
All the galleries win £7,500.
