Emanuela Tarizzo has been chosen as the following 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 following 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labored as an impartial adviser and a director at Tomasso, a UK gallery with areas in London and Leeds that offers in Outdated Masters, European sculpture and historical artwork.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 a press release. “From its inception, the truthful has stood out for its modern narrative—one which invitations recent views on historic artwork and dialogue with modern audiences. Rooted in London, a metropolis with a very worldwide outlook and a longstanding fame as a centre for experience, Frieze Masters continues to be a dynamic assembly level for collectors, curators and galleries. I sit up for constructing on that founding imaginative and prescient as we form the truthful’s distinctive identification.”
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 take care of the funding agency Silver Lake, which is anticipated to take Endeavor personal on 24 March.
In her function at Frieze Masters, Tarizzo will even be tasked with “deepening relationships with main museums and collectors whose perception and ambition form the sphere”, mentioned Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s govt director of festivals, in a press release.
