Emanuela Tarizzo has been chosen as the subsequent director of Frieze Masters, the London truthful based in 2012 for artwork made earlier than the twenty first century. She begins in April and can lead the subsequent version of Frieze Masters, scheduled to happen between 15 to 19 October 2025 in Regent’s Park, alongside Frieze London.
Tarizzo has beforehand labored as an unbiased adviser and a director at Tomasso, a UK gallery with areas in London and Leeds that offers in Previous Masters, European sculpture and historic artwork. The gallery has exhibited at Frieze Masters quite a few instances.
“I’m honoured to affix Frieze Masters at such a pivotal time,” Tarizzo mentioned in an announcement. “From its inception, the truthful has stood out for its progressive narrative—one which invitations contemporary views on historic artwork and dialogue with up to date audiences. Rooted in London, a metropolis with a really worldwide outlook and a longstanding repute as a centre for experience, Frieze Masters continues to be a dynamic assembly level for collectors, curators and galleries. I look ahead to constructing on that founding imaginative and prescient as we form the truthful’s distinctive id.”
Tarizzo succeeds Nathan Clements-Gillespie, who introduced his departure in January after main the truthful for 4 years. Her appointment comes at an unsure time for the Frieze occasions and media firm, which is being floated on the market by its proprietor, Endeavor. The sale is a part of a cope with the funding agency Silver Lake, which is predicted to take Endeavor personal on 24 March.
In her position at Frieze Masters, Tarizzo may even be tasked with “deepening relationships with main museums and collectors whose perception and ambition form the sector”, mentioned Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s government director of gala’s, in an announcement.
