Returning to New York’s Pier 90 for its 10th anniversary edition, the Armory Week satellite fair VOLTA has announced its participating exhibitors for this year’s edition.
Taking place from March 1-5, the fair will welcome 96 galleries, non-profits, and artist-run spaces from 40 nations. Focusing primarily on solo presentations, the fair attracts participants from cities ranging from New York to Tokyo. Participation is down only slightly from last year’s fair, which featured 100 exhibitors.
In a statement, fair director Amanda Coulson highlighted the solo booth format. “We credit our loyal and longtime exhibitors and our many distinguished collecting patrons for believing in this whole ‘solo project thing’ from the get-go,” she said. “We thank our 2017 exhibiting galleries and our tremendous ‘alumni’ from the past 10 years for trusting in this ‘artist-focused’ solo format and for making VOLTA NY an inspiring force for artistic discovery during Armory Arts Week and beyond.”
First-time exhibitors include high-profile spaces such as Brooklyn’s A.I.R. Gallery, the first all female artist-run non-profit in the United States. Some of the 37 other new participants include Samuel Freeman (Los Angeles), Joshua Liner Gallery (New York), as well as Cape Town’s Barnard Galley, and Hong Kong’s Galerie Ora-Ora.
“VOLTA for us is a great fair for a lot of reasons,” a spokeswoman for Joshua Liner Gallery told artnet News on the phone, “but one of the biggest reasons—and I think a lot of the other galleries would agree—it has the unique opportunity to showcase one artist, and it gives the artist a vision and a stronger voice, and it gives the opportunity to make a big project for one artist.”
As a demonstration of the fair’s strengths, 15 participants from VOLTA’s inaugural New York edition in 2008 returned—a group of galleries that includes Michael Janssen (Berlin), Pablo’s Birthday (New York), and New Art Projects from London.
Caroline Tilleard of the New York gallery Cuevas Tilleard is among the dealers deciding not to return to VOLTA in 2017 after participating in last year’s edition. She explained that internal changes in the gallery prompted her and partner Anna Maria Cuevas to forgo VOLTA this year. “For us the decision is purely based on all we have going on at the gallery,” Tilleard told artnet News in an email. “We are currently moving spaces in New York, plus starting an artist residency program in Lamu, Kenya.”
VOLTA was founded in Basel in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta of Chicago, Friedrich Loock of Berlin, and Ulrich Voges of Frankfurt. The fair will hold its 13th edition in June 2017, coinciding with Art Basel.
Here is the full list of exhibitors, with the artists they’ll be showing (new participants are indicated in bold):
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel (New York) / José Angel Vincench
A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn) / Shannon Forrester
Angell Gallery (Toronto) / Adam Lee + Bradley Wood
** Danielle Arnaud (London) / Polly Gould
Project ArtBeat (Tbilisi) / Lado Pochkhua
ART FRONT GALLERY (Tokyo) / Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
ARTCOURT Gallery (Osaka) / Yasuyoshi Botan
ARTLabAfrica (Nairobi) / Beatrice Wanjiku
Martin Asbæk Gallery (Copenhagen) / Sofie Bird Møller
Barnard Gallery (Cape Town) / Ryan Hewett
Beers London (London) / Andy Dixon
Galerie Simon Blais (Montréal) / Éliane Excoffier
Rutger Brandt Gallery (Amsterdam) / Jan de Vliegher + Carlos Sagrera
C24 Gallery (New York) / İrfan Önürmen
CES Gallery (Los Angeles) / Scott Anderson
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON (London) / Emma Bennett + Dominic Shepherd
The Chemistry Gallery (Prague) / Tomáš Nĕmec
Chimento Contemporary (Los Angeles) / Sandeep Mukherjee
Civilian Art Projects (Washington DC) / Jason Gubbiotti
Coates & Scarry (London) / Henry Hussey
Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York) / Alexander Kosolapov
COHJU contemporary art (Kyoto) / Mio Yamato
CONNERSMITH. (Washington DC) / Erik Thor Sandberg
DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary (Brooklyn) / Ruth Hardinger
dc3 Art Projects (Edmonton) / Tammy Salzl
De Chiara Projects (Kingston NY/Berlin) / Ernest Jolicoeur
LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles) / Federico Solmi
Galerie Jan Dhaese (Ghent) / Max Razdow
Galerie Dix9 (Paris) / Nermanja Nikolić
Tamar Dresdner Art Projects (Tel Aviv) / Batia Shani
Galerie Dukan (Paris/Leipzig) / Rosa Maria Unda Souki
Galleri Fagerstedt (Stockholm) / Anneè Olofsson
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY (New Orleans) / E2 – Kleinveld & Julien
Foley Gallery (New York) / Martin Klimas
Samuel Freeman (Los Angeles) / Danny Jauregui
Freight + Volume (New York) / Ezra Johnson + Michael Scoggins
frosch&portmann (New York) / Magnolia Laurie
Gabinete de Arte k2o (Brasilia) / GALENO
Galerie Thomas Fuchs (Stuttgart) / Rudy Cremonini
GE Galería (San Pedro Garza Garcia) / Generoso Villarreal
GALERIE LOUIS GENDRE (Paris) & MORI YU Gallery (Kyoto) / Sakae Ozawa
Green On Red Gallery (Dublin) / John Cronin
Muriel Guépin Gallery (New York) / Yongjae Kim + Joshua Smith
Gallery H.A.N. (Seoul) / Mija Choi + Ryung Kal
HilgerBROTKunsthalle (Vienna) / Ian Burns
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (London) / Sebastian Helling
Elizabeth Houston Gallery (New York) / Andy Mattern
Michael Janssen (Berlin) / Frédéric Bruly Bouabré + Ouattara Watts
Knight Webb Gallery (London) / Joseba Eskubi
GALLERY KOGURE (Tokyo/New York) / Hidenori Yamaguchi
Richard Koh Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) / Haffendi Anuar
Galerie Kornfeld (Berlin) / Tamara Kvesitadze + Tina Schwarz
George Lawson Gallery (San Francisco) / Susan Mikula
Joshua Liner Gallery (New York) / Andrew Schoultz
Litvak Contemporary (Tel Aviv) / Itamar Freed
The Lodge Gallery (New York) / Levan Mindiashvili
LUMP (Raleigh) / George Jenne
Magic Beans (Berlin) / Abetz & Drescher
Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona/San Juan) / Quisqueya Henríquez
Meno parkas (Kaunas) / Jonas Gasiūnas
PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY (Montréal/Ottawa) / Natasha Mazurka
GALLERY MoMo (Tokyo) / Naomi Okubo
New Art Projects (London) / Robin Footitt
New Image Art (Los Angeles) / Alex Gardner
Nunu Fine Art (Taipei) / Rodney Dickson
OCP (Brooklyn) / Sandra Muss
Claire Oliver Gallery (New York) / Lauren Fensterstock
Galerie Ora-Ora (Hong Kong) / Yanzi Zhang
Pablo’s Birthday (New York) / Thorsten Brinkmann
Pan American Art Projects (Miami) / Ruben Millares + Carolina Sardi
Planthouse (New York) / Robert Olsen
PRIVATEVIEW (Turin) / Jesse Hickman + Bret Slater
robert henry contemporary (Brooklyn) / Liz Jaff
ROCKELMANN & (Berlin) / Kathleen Vance
RoFa Projects (Potomac) / Lester Rodriguez
Rubber Factory (New York) / Pacifico Silano
Samsøñ (Boston) / Carlos Jiménez Cahua
Sapar Contemporary (New York) / Faig Ahmed
SEASON (Seattle) / Anthony Palocci Jr.
Semjon Contemporary (Berlin) / Marc von der Hocht
Galería Senda (Barcelona) / Anthony Goicolea + Yago Hortal
Slag Gallery (Brooklyn) / Tirtzah Bassel + Dan Voinea
SODA Gallery (Bratislava) / Lucia Tallová
MARC STRAUS (New York) / Todd Murphy + Liliane Tomasko
taubert contemporary (Berlin) / Adrian Esparza
TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka) / Yuuki Tsukiyama
Timebag (Medellín) / Juan Obando
VICTORI + MO (Brooklyn) / Langdon Graves
WHATIFTHEWORLD (Cape Town) / Mohau Modisakeng
Mark Wolfe Contemporary (San Francisco) / Antonio Adriano Puleo
X Contemporary (New York) / Rachel Rampleman
Y Gallery (New York) & Galería Isabel Aninat (Santiago) / Manuela Viera Gallo
Yellow Peril Gallery (Providence) / Toby Barnes
YOD Gallery (Osaka) / Takehito Fujii
Galerie Youn (Montréal) / Osheen Harruthoonyan + Scarlett Rouge
Zorzini Gallery (Bucharest) / Szilard Gaspar