Artwork honest season has arrived in Los Angeles. Each February the town is full of festivals, new exhibitions, performances and different occasions. This yr’s celebration comes with an surprising backdrop: the aftermath of the Palisades and Eaton fires, which destroyed hundreds of properties, together with these of artists who additionally misplaced their work and their workspaces. Organizers at Frieze, the L.A. Artwork Present and the Different Artwork Present up to date their programming and are creating area for the group to heal and assist each other.
Right here’s a rundown of among the week’s greatest occasions:
Frieze Los Angeles
Feb. 20-23Santa Monica Airport, 3233 Donald Douglas Loop S., Santa Monica$10-$202frieze.com
Frieze Los Angeles is the marquee occasion of artwork week, bringing to the Santa Monica Airport the work of artists from throughout the globe. This yr’s honest has greater than 95 galleries from 20-plus international locations, a tighter group in contrast with the over 120 galleries in 2023. About 40% of the presenting galleries have a Los Angeles presence, mentioned Christine Messineo, director of Americas at Frieze.
“Octopus” is a 2024 oil-on-linen portray by Liang Hao, an artist displaying with Financial institution gallery at Frieze Los Angeles 2025.
( Liang Hao / Financial institution)
South L.A. artist Lauren Halsey will do a pop-up with the group heart Summaeverythang. Chris Burden, the late artist behind L.A.’s beloved street-lamp sculpture at Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, will showcase a large-scale set up with Gagosian that invitations spectators right into a world of plush pillows, braided ropes and jewel-toned glass. L.A.’s Betye Saar, identified for her assemblage work, will present a site-specific piece with Roberts Initiatives.
Victoria Miro Gallery will make area in its sales space for donated artwork, and a few proceeds will go towards the Los Angeles County Aid Fund. In the meantime, Artwork Made Between Reverse Sides, which runs a ceramics program for refugees and asylum seekers, will give a few of its proceeds to home employees affected by the fires.
A few of Frieze’s core programming — the Focus part for rising galleries and the Influence Prize — goals to spotlight contemporary expertise. Focus curator Essence Harden, who is also the co-curator of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. biennial this yr, compiled a sequence of solo displays from 12 galleries together with Bel Ami, Nonaka-Hill and Make Room. And the Frieze Influence Prize goes to … Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, the primary avenue artist to win the award. Quiñonez is increasing his apply and showcasing a brand new sculptural sequence at Frieze.
L.A. Artwork Present
Feb. 19-23Los Angeles Conference Middle, 1201 S. Figueroa St., downtown$35-$250laartshow.com
The artist Antuan along with his “Left or Right Installation,” on view on the 2025 L.A. Artwork Present.
(L.A. Artwork Present)
Kassandra Voyagis, the producer and director of the L.A. Artwork Present, is organizing this yr’s occasion to rejoice the resilience of Los Angeles. The honest will open its thirtieth version with L.A. artist Robert Vargas making a reside mural titled “Heroes” on opening evening as a tribute to first responders. He’ll be portray the 24-by-30-foot work all through the run of the honest with the intention of auctioning the work or gifting items of it to firehouses. The present is offering free admission to firefighters and their households, and a newly added area will current artwork that survived the fires.
The honest will proceed with its standard programming, together with DIVERSEartLA, which highlights new artists, and an opening-night celebration hosted by actor Jenna Dewan.
Felix Artwork Honest
Feb. 19-23Hollywood Roosevelt Resort, 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles$35-$250felixfair.com
A scene from the Felix Artwork Honest, held yearly on the Hollywood Roosevelt Resort.
(Casey Kelbaugh / Felix Artwork Honest)
Felix returns to L.A. for its seventh yr. Whereas many of the week’s main festivals are arrange in areas that really feel like a conference heart, Felix’s shows are on the Hollywood Roosevelt Resort, the place artwork is proven in lodge rooms and round the out of doors pool.
“Felix has always been and was created to be local,” co-founder Dean Valentine mentioned. “The galleries all have rooms with windows that look out over Hollywood and all of Los Angeles, so the air of Los Angeles filters through everything we do.”
L.A. contributors embody Babst Gallery, Fernberger Gallery and Timothy Hawkinson Gallery. In response to Valentine, about 30% of the galleries are new to the honest every year. He and co-founder Mills Morán are trying ahead to Megan Mulrooney Gallery’s presentation of Nick Taggart’s works on paper chronicling the Hollywood scene of the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.
The Different Artwork Honest
Feb. 20-232800 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles$17.02-$36.47theotherartfair.com/la/
Photographer Xan Padron’s “Time Lapse” sequence contains this work taken in Havana’s Los Sitios neighborhood. Padron is among the many artists with work on view on the Different Artwork Honest.
(Xan Padron / The Different Artwork Honest and Saatchi Artwork)
The thirteenth iteration of the Different Artwork Honest, introduced by Saatchi Artwork, has left Barker Hangar this yr and can inhabit a brand new spot in Atwater Village. One spotlight is a brand new 10-by-22-foot mural by Judy Baca created as a part of the L.A. artist’s collaborative challenge, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles.”
Different highlights embody a sales space the place Anna Marie Tendler will take photograph portraits that seize patrons’ astrological first home, a brand new part known as “MFA’s of LA” that highlights new work by rising artists from the town’s prime graduate packages, and Friday Late tickets that can profit the L.A. Arts Neighborhood Fireplace Aid Fund.
The Different Artwork Honest will showcase about 140 impartial artists, together with these initially scheduled within the halted Spring/Break Artwork Present in addition to artists affected by the wildfires.
“Our highest commitment is to support artists, and many of the situations in the aftermath of the fires have left some artists without a place to showcase their work, so we’re happy to welcome them into the fair,” mentioned Nicole Garton, world honest director of the Different Artwork Honest.
‘Helmut Lang: What Remains Behind’
Feb. 19-Might 4MAK Middle for Artwork and Structure, Schindler Home, 835 N. Kings Street, West Hollywood$7-$10makcenter.org
Helmut Lang, “first I and first IV,” 2015-17
(Helmut Lang)
Helmut Lang will open his first solo institutional exhibition within the L.A. space throughout artwork week. Lang’s human-size freestanding sculptures will unfold throughout Rudolph Schindler’s landmark home in West Hollywood, complementing the minimalist structure.
“I think he [Lang] has a real sensitivity to that space and its history, and also the history of the inhabitants there, that I think this work will very intentionally be in dialogue with,” MAK Middle director Beth Stryker mentioned.
Lang’s work performs with the canvas created by Schindler, whose design stands as an necessary experiment in communal residing. Into this area, curator Neville Wakefield welcomes sculptures full of stress, sexuality, humor and corporeal spirit.
Hauser & Wirth
Feb. 18-June 1Hauser & Wirth DTLA, 901-909 E. third St., Los AngelesFreehauserwirth.com
“Bodysuit” brings to life the work of George Rouy via the choreography of Sharon Eyal.
(Damian Griffiths / Hannah Barry Gallery / Hauser and Wirth)
Along side artwork week, Hauser & Wirth in downtown L.A. presents two new exhibitions: George Rouy’s “The Bleed, Part II” and David Hammons’ “Concerto in Black and Blue.” Hammons’ presentation is a restaging of a groundbreaking work from greater than 20 years in the past: Viewers members traverse the pitch-black area with blue lights, and within the course of, they create the sunshine sculpture filling the exhibition area. Rouy’s exhibition continues his sequence, “The Bleed,” by infusing the themes of his work with extra stress but in addition pairing the artwork with dance by choreographer Sharon Eyal. The exhibition opens with performances of “Bodysuit,” which brings work to life with our bodies transferring over a mirrored floor.
