Join a guided visit through Statements, Art Basel’s sector dedicated to bold solo projects by emerging artists worldwide.  The visit combines with a guided tour through the UBS Art Collection presentation in the UBS Lounge. The UBS Art Collection is one of the world’s most important corporate collections of contemporary art, with over 40,000 artworks by influential artists of our time. The presentation during Art Basel features works in the Collection from the 1960s to the present by international artists, such as Claudia Comte, who engages with geometric abstraction, exploring harmony, rhythm and spatial relationships. 

Claudia Comte, Big Bob, his square friend and their diamond totem, 2013. UBS Art Collection. Courtesy of the artist.

Join Stefanie Hessler, curator of Parcours, for a guided walk through this year’s site-specific installations. Woven into Basel’s urban fabric, Parcours invites fresh perspectives on place, context, and contemporary practice—revealing how art animates the city in unexpected ways.

Enjoy a private visit to an exceptional exhibition on Art as Patronage in the Middle Ages, curated by Dr. Barbara Drake Boehm—renowned medieval art historian and Curator Emerita at The Met Cloisters. Explore rare manuscripts that illuminate the role of art and devotion in shaping medieval cultural life.