Highlights of Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires

Art Basel Cities Week (September 6-12, 2018) ushered art into the public sphere in neighborhoods across the city of Buenos Aires. Artistic Director Cecilia Alemani’s multi-venue exhibition ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ invited visitors to discover artworks in surprising places: viewers queued up for overnight screenings of an immersive moving-image collage by Stan VanDerBeek at the city's planetarium, and hundreds paid their respects at a pop-up cemetery for the living conceived by Maurizio Cattelan. In Costanera Sur, Vivian Suter unfurled new draped canvases on the terrace of a former German beer hall, while Santiago de Paoli remixed a sculpture museum’s collection with sly additions of his corporeally themed paintings. The programming also featured museum openings, a gallery weekend, performances, and events at 22 Cultural Partner institutions throughout the city, as well as a full slate of artist talks and masterclasses. Click through the slideshow to catch up on the Week’s happenings.

Top image: Eduardo Basualdo, Perspective of Absence, 2018. Detail of installation at the Asociación Argentina de Pesca, where the artist's mysterious interventions drew visitors down the length of an 800-meter fishing pier to a surprising finish.