Mitre Galeria Wins the Focus Stand Prize


Mitre Galeria from Belo Horizonte in Brazil has been introduced because the recipient of this 12 months’s Focus Stand Prize at Frieze New York. The gallery was chosen for its presentation of Luana Vitra’s solo mission. 

Honourable mentions went to Gordon Robichaux (New York) for its presentation of labor by Jenni Crain, and Yeo Workshop (Singapore) for its set up by Citra Sasmita. 

This 12 months’s jury comprised Katherine Brodbeck (Hoffman Household senior curator of up to date artwork on the Dallas Museum of Artwork), Pablo Leon de la Barra (Curator at massive for Latin America on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) and Dan Byers (curator of contemporary and modern artwork at Williams Faculty Museum of Artwork). 

Mitre Gallery, Winner of the 2025 Focus Prize at Frieze New York

About Mitre Galeria’s Focus Presentation

Luana Vitra’s sculptures, ceramics and works on paper reply to the panorama of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. That includes works from her sequence ‘The Beads of My Rosary Are Artillery Bullets’, ‘Giro’, ‘Abraçadeiras’, ‘Amulets’ – additionally on view at New York’s Sculpture Middle – and ‘Vanishing with a Blow or Furrow of the Floor’, Vitra’s solo mission at Frieze New York displays on the bodily, sociopolitical and non secular significance of iron and soot.

Discover Luana Vitra’s work at Mitra Galeria, Stand F1, at Frieze New York 2025, and on the Frieze Viewing Room, till 16 Could. 

Luana Vitra, Série Giro, 2024. Ceramic, copper and iron ore, 105 × 105 × 25 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Mitre Galeria

Luana Vitra, Série Giro, 2024. Ceramic, copper and iron ore, 105 × 105 × 25 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Mitre Galeria

‘Luana Vitra: Amulets’ is on the Sculpture Middle, New York, till 28 July. 

About Focus

The Focus part at Frieze New York 2025 is a platform for probably the most modern voices in artwork right now. Curated by Lumi Tan, 12 younger galleries present solo displays, with new worldwide names making their Frieze honest debut alongside a vibrant contingent of New York areas. Focus is supported by Stone Island.

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Most important Picture: Mitre Galeria, Frieze New York 2025. Photograph: Casey Kelbaugh