“Frieze London 2025”
solo booth, with Nicoletti Contemporary
October 15-19, 2025


Gungrip #1, 2025. Painted and lacquered resin, silk flowers, ballpoint pen with silk flower Gungrip: 17 × 15 × 6.77 cmGungrip #3, 2025. Painted and lacquered resin, pencil, metal ruler, ballpoint pen with Pom Pom Gungrip: 17 × 15 × 6.77 cmGungrip #2, 2025. Painted and lacquered resin, pencil, ballpoint pen withPom Pom, Gungrip: 14.7 × 11.65 × 5 cmGungrip #4, 2025. Painted and lacquered resin, pencils, ballpoint pen with Pom Pom, Gungrip: 14.7 × 11.65 × 5 cmInstallation view: Gray Wielebinski, Solo presentation at Frieze, London with Nicoletti, 2025. Photo : Tom Carter

Spanning installation, video, sculpture and collage, Wielebinski’s practice explores the intersections between political history, power relations and gendered eroticism. Collage – both as medium and methodology – lies at the core of his practice, allowing him to fragment, reassemble, and subvert dominant iconographies and systems of beliefs rooted in American history, mythology and popular culture.

At Frieze, Wielebinski presents a new series of works that further his investigation into the aestheticization of violence. Alluding to a fairground shooting booth, the exhibition features a group of resin sculptures cast from existing gun grips. Both seductive and threatening, these objects are displayed on a gaming table whose shape evokes the infinity sign (or the number 8), suggesting a haunting parallel between American sports culture and the seemingly endless recurrence of high school shootings.

These ideas extends into a sequence of mosaic-style panels composed of ceramic tiles that are used in the production of ballistic armour. Mounted in custom walnut frames, these works can be seen as shooting targets, protective shields, or portals – antithetical functions through which Wielebinski explores the psychological and visual architecture of violence: how it is normalised, ritualised and aestheticised.

Employing the visual lexicon of minimalism and abstraction, Wielebinski’s presentation deconstructs the aesthetic of power through a nuanced interplay of play, spectacle, and threat, interrogating their function in the formation of Western mythologies and the perpetuation of imperial ideologies.

Prayers, 2025. Bulletproof silicon carbide tiles, bulletproof alumina tiles, custom walnut frame, 77.5 x 77.5 x 4 cm


Plate I, 2025. Bulletproof silicon carbide tiles, custom walnut frame, 72.5 x 68 x 4 cmPlate II, 2025. Bulletproof silicon carbide tiles, custom walnut frame, 72.5 x 68 x 4 cm
Thoughts, 2025. Bulletproof silicon carbide tiles, bulletproof alumina tiles, custom walnut frame, 77.5 x 77.5 x 4 cm