Stone Island enters multi-year global partnership with Frieze

Stone Island enters multi-year global partnership with Frieze

Stone Island is entering a multi-year global partnership with Frieze, commencing at Frieze London 2023 with its 20th anniversary. Stone Island will become the Official Partner of Focus, the section dedicated to younger galleries at all of Frieze’s contemporary art fairs – London, Los Angeles, New York and Seoul. Stone Island will also become Official Partner of Frieze 91, the global membership programme that provides access to the communities and art shaping contemporary culture.

As the Official Partner of Focus, Stone Island will offer each of the participating galleries a bursary, equivalent of up to 30% of each exhibitor’s stand fee. The support, combined with Frieze’s existing subsidies for the section, will aid the chosen emerging galleries in Focus, each founded twelve years ago or less, to participate in the fair. Stone Island will also amplify visibility with a dedicated content series about Focus and its participating galleries, made in collaboration with Frieze Studios, Frieze’s in-house creative team.


“We are delighted to enter this global partnership with Frieze, with which we have so many values in common. Stone Island is built on community and creative energy inspired by research and innovation, characteristics that define the Focus section of Frieze’s art fairs, as well as the Frieze 91 programme. Through this partnership, Stone Island will offer foundational support to some of the world’s most significant emerging galleries and artists for years to come,”
says Robert Triefus, CEO of Stone Island.


Simon Fox, CEO, Frieze:
“We’re delighted to announce our exciting new partnership with Stone Island, set to launch at Frieze London 2023: a pivotal moment as we commemorate the fair’s 20th anniversary. Stone Island’s role as the Official Partner of Focus across our global art fairs – in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Seoul – underscores our shared commitment to supporting young galleries and their artists, and to showcasing them at our fairs alongside the world’s leading galleries.”

 

Frieze London 2023 will take place from October 11-15, 2023 in The Regent’s Park, London.