Miriam Cahn, Prinz Gholam, Francisco Tropa, Katinka Bock, Santiago de Paoli, Isa Melsheimer Frieze Seoul 2024

Booth A22 - joint presentation with Meyer Riegger

For the 2024 edition of Frieze Seoul, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff is pleased to continue its collaboration with the German gallery Meyer Riegger to present a wide selection of artworks from both galleries’ programs. Valorizing artistic partnerships, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Meyer Riegger have been working together for over fifteen years to promote the works of artists such as Miriam Cahn and Katinka Bock. This year, the two galleries are pleased to announce a further collaboration with the artist Santiago de Paoli.

A selection of emblematic works by these three co-represented artists will be on view in the shared section of the booth, alongside works by Prinz Gholam, Isa Melsheimer, and Francisco Tropa from Galerie Jocelyn Wolff’s program. This diverse selection will invite the audience to explore a broad spectrum of pieces from conceptual to figurative, fundamental to extrinsic, minimal to maximal.

Miriam Cahn’s slightly more subdued drawings, multi-media series, and canvases from the 90’s and early 2000’s will interact with more recent works by Santiago de Paoli, which boast warm red and brown tones, and surrealist sensibilities that embrace fragmented objects and references to the body.

Katinka Bock’s predilection for modest and natural materials like terracotta, wood, plaster, ceramic, leather and fabric will be showcased through a selection of sculptures from over the last ten years. Bock’s sculptures will directly dialogue with her photographic works, mostly taken in domestic, urban or natural environments and demonstrating the artist’s 'sculptural view' on objects, spaces, bodies, and life. Simultaneously the gouaches by Isa Melsheimer exhibited on the walls will interact with her glazed ceramics. Continuing this sculptural approach within the booth, the work of Francisco Tropa fuses together art and technology, developing a complex spatial discussion.

Through their recent works including sculpture series made of collected stones and a wide range of works on paper, Prinz Gholam explore the hybridity and performativity of bodies. Since 2020, the artists have been giving an important role to their colored pencil drawings, involving different formats in which figures seem to come alive in their environments.