Pace Gallery Booth Highlights for Frieze Seoul 2025
Installation view of Pace Gallery at Frieze Seoul(A10), COEX, 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, 06164, Seoul. September 3-6 Photo: Sangtae Kim, courtesy Pace Gallery
Pace’s presentation at Frieze Seoul explored international histories of abstraction through works by 20th century and contemporary artists alike. Historic works by Adolph Gottlieb and Yoo Youngkuk anchored the gallery’s presentation. New paintings by Friedrich Kunath and Lauren Quin—both of whom joined Pace’s program this year— figured prominently on the booth.
The gallery also spotlighted the works by Mary Corse, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pam Evelyn, Alicja Kwade, Kylie Manning, Kenjiro Okazaki, Adam Pendleton, Michal Rovner, and Mika Tajima at Frieze Seoul. During the run of the fair, an exhibition by James Turrell will continue at Pace’s Seoul gallery.
From L to R: Adolph Gottlieb, Expanding, 1962 © Adolph Gottlieb / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Yoo Youngkuk, Water, 1979 © Yoo Youngkuk Art Foundation, courtesy Pace Gallery; Friedrich Kunath, We’ll Be Here Soon, 2025 © Friedrich Kunath, courtesy Pace Gallery; Lauren Quin, Saline, 2024 © Lauren Quin, courtesy Pace Gallery.
Highlights on Pace’s booth at Frieze Seoul include:
• Expanding, a large-scale 1962 painting by the late American artist Adolph Gottlieb—a key figure of Abstract Expressionism—will anchor the booth ahead of the gallery’s exhibition of his work in Seoul in October
• Water, a 1979 painting by the pioneering Korean abstractionist Yoo Youngkuk, will be shown publicly for the first time as part of Pace’s presentation at the fair
• An evocative new landscape painting, We’ll Be Here Soon (2025), by Friedrich Kunath, who will open his first solo exhibition with Pace in New York this November
• Saline (2024), a new, intimately scaled painting by Lauren Quin, who joined the gallery’s program this summer and will have her debut solo show with Pace in Los Angeles next year
• A new sculpture, Hong Kong – Seoul (2025), by the duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who, following their recent presentations at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, will open their first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Pace on September 13
• A selection of paintings by Kenjiro Okazaki, who investigates time, space, and perception through his unique language of abstraction and recently presented a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• Michal Rovner’s new video work Reflection (2025), which, inspired by Korean landscapes, meditates on the passage of time and collective memory through layered images and rhythmic patterns
Installation view of Pace Gallery at Frieze Seoul(A10), COEX, 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, 06164, Seoul. September 3-6 Photo: Sangtae Kim, courtesy Pace Gallery
Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.
Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.
Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.
During the run of Frieze New York, solo exhibitions of work by Robert Indiana and Robert Mangold will be on view at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery, and a solo show by Alicja Kwade will be presented at the gallery’s 508/510 West 25th Street space. On May 17, an exhibition of works on paper by Joan Jonas, curated by Pendleton, will open at Pace’s Tokyo gallery— this presentation will shed light on the relationship between drawing and performance in Jonas’s practice.
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