ART BASEL 41ST JUNE 2010 |
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More than 300 galleries from 36 countries on six continents will show works by over 2,500 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Furthermore, our exhibitors will present major works in the Art Unlimited sector, featuring 56 ambitious projects, and in the Art Public sector on Messeplatz.
A special event at Art 41 Basel will be the Art Parcours program, which will transform a variety of locations throughout Basel with site-specific artworks and performances. Complimenting Art Basel’s extensive offerings, the city’s museums and institutions once again feature fascinating exhibitions, with a particularly strong focus this year on stars of the recent decades, such as Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham and Gabriel Orozco. A frequent site of discovery by those seeking emerging artists, Art Statements this year features 26 single-artist projects from younger galleries worldwide. The projects on display are new and created specifically for presentation in Art Statements. Since 1999, the Bâloise Insurance Group has awarded its annual Bâloise Art Prize to two outstanding Art Statements projects. This year, the prize stands at CHF 30,000 for each artist, in addition to which Bâloise will also acquire works by the prize-winning artists and donate them to two important museums in Europe.
The newly introduced Art Feature focuses on the curatorial aspects of the gallerist’s practice. This year 20 gallery projects - featuring artistic dialogues, solo shows and exceptional art historical material - will be presented on both floors of Hall 2 alongside the Art Galleries sector.
Art Unlimited will spotlight 56 ambitious works, many of them created especially for Art 41 Basel. With the accent on innovative and large-scale works, everything from outsize sculptures and installations to video projections, wall paintings, and performances will be on show. This year works by legendary artists such as Dan Flavin, Yona Friedman, Yoyoi Kusama, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Sigmar Polke are joined by pieces from younger stars such as Latifa Echakhch, Urs Fischer, Mario Garcia Torres and Heague Yang. The exhibition concept has once again been elaborated in collaboration with Geneva curator Simon Lamunière.
The exhibition area on Messeplatz, in front of the two halls hosting Art Basel, will again serve as an arena for Art Public, placing art in the urban context and encouraging interaction with the general public. It features 14 works, by the renowned artists Ai Weiwei, Micol Assaël, Dora Garciá, Eric Hattan, Hanspeter Hofmann, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Ernesto Neto, Bettina Pousttchi, Ugo Rondinone, Alberto Tadiello, Oscar Tuazon, Lawrence Weiner and Heimo Zobernig. The sector is again curated by Basel curator Martin Schwander.
For Art Parcours, site-specific artworks and performances by the artists John Bock, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Buren, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Aurélien Froment, Ryan Gander, Damián Ortega, Martha Rosler and Cerith Wyn Evans will transform a variety of unique locations throughout the historic center of Basel. This array of high-caliber pieces, selected by San Francisco-based curator Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, will engage with today's Basel and with its long history, weaving artistic interventions into the fabric of the city. Staged every morning (June 16 to June 20), Art Basel Conversations bring together prominent members of the international art scene. The Premiere of the Art Basel Conversations features an Artist Talk with Paul McCarthy. Further topics include ‘A Life in Art: Irving Blum’, ‘The Future of the Museum: Art and Architecture,’ ‘Public/Private: Crossing the Atlantic’ and ‘In Honor of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.’ Additionally, a daily program of six artist conversations, book signings, discussion forums, and other presentations will take place in the Art Salon forum every afternoon, featuring artworld personalities such as Massimiliano Gioni, Beatrix Ruf, Richard Phillips, Harald Falckenberg, Adam Lindemann, Thomas Grässlin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Douglas Fogle, Jens Hoffmann, Chus Martinez, Peter Weibel, AA Bronson, Jonathan Monk, Douglas Gordon and many more. Art Basel's week-long program of films by artists, Art Film, is again curated by Berlin film scholar Marc Glöde (Berlin) and This Brunner, the Zürich collector with profound knowledge of the international film scene. Marc Glöde's program presents films by artists sub-divided into four evenings with different themes. On Saturday evening This Brunner will present "Women Without Men" by Shirin Neshat, winner of the Best Director Award at the last Venice Film Festival. On the weekend of June 18 to June 20, 2010, Art 41 Basel will celebrate the second Art Basel Weekend, highlighting special activities (solo shows, performances, book signings etc.) from the participating galleries. A variety of panels and presentations geared to art professionals will also be held during the weekend in the context of Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon. And the museums and institutions in Basel will feature a broad range of special events such as guided tours and talks. The exceptional lineup of museums and institutions shows this year during Art 41 Basel includes: ‘Matthew Barney – Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail’ at the Schaulager; Gabriel Orozco and ‘Rosemarie Trockel – Drawings’ at the Kunstmuseum Basel; Jean-Michel Basquiat and ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Specific Objects without Specific Form’ at the Fondation Beyeler; ‘Rodney Graham – Through the Forest’ at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst; ‘Robot Dreams’ at the Tinguely Museum; ‘Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession)’ and Moyra Davey at the Kunsthalle Basel; and at the Vitra Design Museum, ‘The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction.’ Additionally Vitra will launch their exceptional Herzog and De Meuron showroom during Art Basel. Design Miami/Basel, the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing, and creating design, runs June 15 – 19 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is again this year located in Hall 5 of the Basel exhibition grounds. For more details, please visit http://www.designmiami.com/. For the latest updates on Art Basel, visit http://www.artbasel.com/
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