The thirtieth version of The Armory Present, New York’s largest artwork truthful, will return to the Javits Heart in autumn with greater than 235 exhibitors and a newly redesigned ground plan. The truthful shall be open to the general public from 6 to eight September, with a VIP preview on 5 September.
With greater than 235 stands from greater than 30 nations, the scale of the truthful is in step with latest years. This shall be The Armory Present’s second version since its July 2023 acquisition by London-based Frieze and its fourth 12 months on the sprawling Javits Heart. The lineup of exhibitors represents a slight uptick from final 12 months’s 225. The variety of collaborating exhibitors peaked in 2022, when round 250 galleries took half within the truthful. American Specific has come on this 12 months as The Armory Present lead associate.
Greater than 145 of this 12 months’s exhibitors are returning galleries, together with acquainted names like 303 Gallery, Sean Kelly, Almine Rech, Kasmin and Silverlens, which all have areas in New York, together with Vielmetter Los Angeles and Jessica Silverman from Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, and Victoria Miro from London and Tehran’s Dastan Gallery.
Greater than 25 galleries are additionally returning to The Armory Present after a hiatus, the truthful mentioned in an announcement, together with New York galleries Marianne Boesky Gallery, Cristin Tierney and Sperone Westwater, in addition to New York and Los Angeles supplier Jeffrey Deitch.
Hannah Traore Gallery, based mostly in New York, is amongst this 12 months’s greater than 55 first-time exhibitors, in keeping with organisers, together with main Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey and Los Angeles’s Commonwealth and Council. Mignoni from New York, Labor from Mexico Metropolis and Experimenter from Kolkata, India can even stage their first Armory Present stands this 12 months.
Like final 12 months, not one of the so-called world mega-galleries headquartered in New York—Gagosian, David Zwirner and Tempo—are participating within the truthful, nor are Hauser & Wirth or White Dice, the latter of which opened a gallery on New York’s Higher East Facet final October.
This 12 months’s Focus part, for solo- and dual-artist displays, is being curated by The Kitchen’s senior curator Robyn Farrell. Eugenie Tsai, a former curator of up to date artwork on the Brooklyn Museum, will lead the Platform part, made up of site-specific works and large-scale installations all through the truthful. The annual Gramercy Worldwide Prize—named for the unique iteration of the truthful, first held within the Gramercy Park Resort—has been awarded to Blade Research, a New York gallery based mostly within the Decrease East Facet.
The truthful can even characteristic a brand new ground plan, reoriented truthful sections, an on-site theatre for programming and “reimagined assembly areas”, Frieze’s Americas director Christine Messineo mentioned in an announcement. The Armory Present’s former govt director Nicole Berry introduced in March she was leaving the truthful after eight years on the helm for a improvement place on the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
