Lineup announced for Frieze Art & Architecture Conference 2018

To what extent are cultural buildings public spaces? What function do museums and galleries have beyond exhibiting art? The third edition of the Frieze Academy Art & Architecture Conference looks at recent projects from architects around the world to consider how the form and function of cultural institutions are evolving, and presents long-term works by artists who are reassessing how and where we live.

Organised by Frieze Academy on Tuesday, October 2, from 10am–4:30pm at The Royal Institution in London, this full-day conference will be hosted by Alice Rawsthorn and will welcome leading architects and artists including Shigeru Ban, Jamie Fobert, Joseph Grima, Ellen van Loon, Richard Rogers, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Kulapat Yantrasast, Andrea Zittel and more.

Book before July 22 and save with our early bird tickets.

Programme

Shigeru Ban, Pritzker Architecture Prize winner in 2014, will discuss recent and upcoming cultural projects, including Fujinomiya’s Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre and La Seine Musicale.

Jamie Fobert will speak about his major commissions for cultural institutions such as the extension to Tate St Ives in Cornwall, which was recently awarded the Art Fund’s annual Museum of the Year prize, a reconfiguration of Cambridge’s Kettle’s Yard and a £35.5m redevelopment of the National Portrait Gallery. He will be in conversation with NPG director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan.

Artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas and critic and curator Joseph Grima will talk about Kulendran Thomas’s New Eelam, an ongoing work in the form of a real-estate start-up, which proposes a flexible, global housing subscription based on collective co-ownership rather than private property.

OMA partner Ellen van Loon will focus on a selection of the firm’s cultural projects—including the recent addition to Milan’s Prada Foundation and the Danish Architecture Center’s new home on the Copenhagen waterfront, as well as revisiting her now-iconic Casa da Música in Porto.

Richard Rogers and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will speak about Paris’s iconic Centre Georges Pompidou, designed by Rogers and Renzo Piano, which redefined museum typology when it was built 41 years ago.

wHY founder and creative director Kulapat Yantrasast will discuss his designs for commercial galleries, institutional spaces and private museums—including David Kordansky Gallery, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and the Marciano Foundation, which opened last year in a former masonic temple.

Artist Andrea Zittel discusses A–Z West with frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock. An evolving collection of workshops, studios, sleeping pods, cabins and permanent sculptural installations on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, California, A–Z West is part of the artist’s long-term enquiry into how we live and how we might live differently.

Tickets
Early bird offer: book by July 22 and save.
Student tickets are available.
Lunch and refreshments included.

Further information and tickets: frieze.com