The Armory Present has lined up greater than 200 galleries for its subsequent version (4-7 September), which can kick off the autumn artwork season in New York Metropolis. That features greater than 135 returning galleries and round 55 first-time exhibitors taking on stands on the Javits Heart. The preliminary record of exhibitors launched as we speak (12 June) options simply over 200 galleries, however organisers say the ultimate variety of individuals can be greater than 230, consistent with final 12 months’s tally.
The truthful, the primary absolutely beneath the management of director Kyla McMillan, will embody a brand new sector dedicated to design. And Platform, its large-scale sculpture sector, can be led for the primary time by a non-profit, Souls Grown Deep. The inspiration’s chief curator, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, will choose the artists for the sector. The inspiration’s dedication to championing Black artists from the American South will resonate with the truthful’s Focus sector, which is being curated this 12 months by Jessica Bell Brown, the chief director of the Institute for Up to date Artwork at Virginia Commonwealth College, and can spotlight works by artists from the South.
The truthful will even embody a brand new sector, Operate, highlighting artists working with (and typically towards) the rules of design. It’s being curated by Ebony L. Haynes, a senior director at David Zwirner and 52 Walker, and can characteristic round ten exhibitors from throughout the US and Mexico, together with Corbett vs. Dempsey, Móran Móran and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.
As ever, the truthful can have a robust US contingent, and greater than 75 taking part exhibitors function an area in New York Metropolis. Amongst these are returning native heavyweights comparable to Kasmin, Sean Kelly, 303 Gallery, James Cohan and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Worldwide galleries returning to the truthful embody Victoria Miro, Nature Morte and Dastan. Among the many galleries partaking for the primary time are Timothy Hawkinson Gallery and Megan Mulrooney from Los Angeles, Saatchi Yates from London, and Home of Gaga from Mexico Metropolis. A number of exhibitors are returning to the truthful after a hiatus, together with Marianne Boesky Gallery, White Dice, The Pit, Andrew Kreps, Esther Schipper, Uffner & Liu and Instituto de Visión.
The truthful’s non-profit sector will characteristic stands by greater than a half-dozen arts organisations, amongst them the Tamarind Institute from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tierra del Sol Gallery from Los Angeles, and native stalwarts together with the New York Academy of Artwork, the Decrease East Facet Printshop and this 12 months’s Armory Highlight honoree, Storefront for Artwork and Structure. The truthful’s Gramercy Worldwide Prize, named in tribute to The Armory Present’s authentic identify on its founding in 1994, is the Tribeca-based gallery Silke Lindner, which can have its stand prices lined for its inaugural presentation on the truthful.
“The 2025 version of The Armory Present will construct on our legacy with a programme rooted in New York’s cultural vitality and formed by dialogue between American and worldwide views,” McMillan mentioned in a press release. “This upcoming version seems to be to supply expanded factors of entry for a variety of collectors. By newly imagined codecs, the truthful will foster deeper connection and discovery.”
McMillan, who was beforehand a director at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and David Zwirner, was introduced on to steer The Armory Present in July 2024, however this would be the first version of the truthful absolutely beneath her path. It is going to even be the primary version of the truthful following Ari Emanuel’s buy of Frieze from his earlier firm, Endeavor, for round $200m, which was introduced on 1 Could. (Frieze bought each The Armory Present and Expo Chicago festivals in 2023.)
