Damien Hirst, Do Ho Suh, Nam June Paik, James Turrell and more than 130 galleries converge at Frieze Seoul 2026. Beyond the headline names, the real story is the changing balance of power between Seoul and the global art world.

Elham Etemadi’s paintings transform memory, Persian storytelling and female experience into an imaginative freedom that resists political and cultural simplification.

Behjat Sadr’s black surfaces resemble oil, water, bark and machinery without becoming any of them. This essay reads her abstraction, kinetic blinds and later collages through feminism, Iranian petromodernity and the politics of controlled visibility.

At the Venice Biennale 2026, Angelo Orazio Pregoni turns ten days of live painting into a public meditation on illness, care and memory. NATURA VIVA is an artwork to encounter before it is finished.