Basel

The Show

Art Basel invites you to meet a selection of gallerists participating in our Basel show through a series of video potraits that tell the story and vision of the people behind the gallery.&nbsp;

Meet the Gallerists

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The anchor of Art Basel’s show is its Galleries sector. Visitors will discover a breadth of Modern and contemporary works including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations, prints, photography, video and digital art by more than 4,000 artists.

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Galleries

Projects from established and historical artists are precisely curated by gallerists in the Feature sector. Projects may include solo presentations, juxtapositions, and thematic exhibits from artists representing a wide range of cultures, generations, and artistic approaches.

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 Feature

Statements presents exciting new solo projects by emerging artists, who are eligible to receive the prestigious Baloise Art Prize. The Baloise Group also acquires artworks by the award-winning artists, which it then donates to important European art institutions.

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Statements

Leading publishers of editioned works, prints, and multiples exhibit the results of their collaboration with renowned artists, providing visitors the opportunity to see significant, and rare publications.

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Edition

Curated by curator Giovanni Carmine, Unlimited is Art Basel’s pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show stand, including massive sculpture and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and live performances.

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Unlimited

The Parcours sector engages the public and fairgoers by placing site-specific sculptures, interventions, and performances in the city’s neighborhoods. Artworks by renowned established artists and emerging talents will be on display on and around Basel’s Münsterplatz. Parcours is&nbsp;curated by Samuel Leuenberger of SALTS exhibition space.

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Parcours

Art Basel’s week-long program of films by and about artists is curated by Filipa Ramos and Marian Masone. Ramos and Masone plan a diverse and&nbsp;challenging program of works that reflects on the complex role of media in today’s global world.

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Film

Art publications from around the world display their magazines in single-magazine stands or the collective booth. Editors and publishers often attend the show and many magazines contribute presentations to Conversations, our series of lectures and discussions by prominent members of the artworld.

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Magazines

Watch some of the most memorable moments from our 2019 show.

Highlights from our 2019 show

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Art Basel hosts a series of conversations on topics concerning the global contemporary art scene. Conversations offers a platform for dynamic dialogues between prominent members of the international artworld, each offering their unique perspective on producing, collecting, and exhibiting art. The series include artist talks, panels, and discussions with a range of speakers including artists, gallerists, curators, collectors, architects, art lawyers, critics, and many other cultural players.&nbsp;

Relive the 2019 Conversations program here

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Giovanni Carmine will curate Unlimited for the first time in 2020. A curator and art critic, Carmine has been Director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland since 2007. He has previously curated a number of international projects, including the Swiss Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 with a presentation by Valentin Carron.

Giovanni Carmine

Julieta Aranda is an artist whose work spans installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making. She is editor of e-flux journal and co-director of the online platform e-flux, together with Anton Vidokle.

Conversations

Julieta Aranda

Independent curator Samuel Leuenberger has run the exhibition space SALTS since 2009. The not-for-profit program, located in Birsfelden, Switzerland, promotes young Swiss and international artists. Basel-born Leuenberger was the associate curator of '14 Rooms' in 2014, a major live art exhibition by Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theater Basel.

Samuel Leuenberger

Filipa Ramos will curate Film for the first time in 2020, taking over from Maxa Zoller.&nbsp;Ramos is a writer and editor based in London, where she is Editor-in-Chief of art agenda. She is also a founding curator of the online video platform&nbsp;Vdrome.&nbsp;Interested in the relationships between contemporary art and cinema, Ramos’ research often focuses on how moving images address environmental and ecological topics.

Filipa Ramos

Marian Masone is a film curator, lecturer and writer based in New York. For over 25 years Masone has worked at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, one of America’s pre-eminent film organizations, where she sat on the selection committees for 'New Directors/New Films', produced with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and 'The New York Film Festival'.

Marian Masone

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