The Armory Present has lined up greater than 200 galleries for its subsequent version (4-7 September), which is able to kick off the autumn artwork season in New York Metropolis. That features greater than 135 returning galleries and round 55 first-time exhibitors taking over stands on the Javits Heart. The preliminary listing of exhibitors launched at present (12 June) options simply over 200 galleries, however organisers say the ultimate variety of members can be greater than 230, in keeping with final 12 months’s tally.
The honest, the primary absolutely underneath the management of director Kyla McMillan, will embrace a brand new sector dedicated to design and, for the primary time, a large-scale sculpture sector led by a non-profit, the Souls Grown Deep Basis. Souls Grown Deep’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 honest’s Focus sector, which is being curated this 12 months by Jessica Bell Brown, the chief director of the Institute for Modern Artwork at Virginia Commonwealth College, and can spotlight works by artists from the South.
The honest may even embrace a brand new sector, Operate, highlighting artists working with (and generally 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 honest may have a powerful US contingent, and greater than 75 taking part exhibitors function an area in New York Metropolis. Amongst these are returning native heavyweights equivalent to Kasmin, Sean Kelly, 303 Gallery, James Cohan and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Worldwide galleries returning to the honest embrace 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 honest after a hiatus, together with Marianne Boesky Gallery, White Dice, The Pit, Andrew Kreps, Esther Schipper, Uffner & Liu and Instituto de Visión.
The honest’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 honest’s Gramercy Worldwide Prize, named in tribute to The Armory Present’s authentic title on its founding in 1994, is the Tribeca-based gallery Silke Lindner, which may have its stand prices coated for its inaugural presentation on the honest.
“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 supply expanded factors of entry for a variety of collectors. Via newly imagined codecs, the honest 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 honest absolutely underneath her course. It would even be the primary version of the honest 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.)
