300 galleries from 36 countries features works by over 2,500 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Art Feature sector focuses on curatorial projects presented by galleries. This year's Art Unlimited features 62 projects representing a cross-section of the leading figures from several generations of today's art scene. The Art Parcours presents site-specific works and performances in the historical quarters of Basel.
Art 43 Basel: The Premier International Art Show
Taking place in Basel, Switzerland from June 14 to June 17, 2012, Art 43 Basel
will again present a premier selection of the most influential and cutting-edge
galleries from across the world. Every June, Art Basel marks the summer
reunion of the international artworld, hosted by the city of Basel, which has
been a cultural capital for centuries.
This year, more than 300 galleries from 36 countries on 6 continents will show
works by over 2,500 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Selected from nearly 1,000
applications by the Art Basel Committee, an international jury of renowned gallerists,
the galleries include 73 from the United States; 55 from Germany; 31 from Switzerland;
30 from Great Britain; 27 from France; 15 from Italy; 9 from Belgium; 7 from Austria; 6
each from Japan and Spain; 4 each from Brazil, China and the Netherlands; 3 each
from Mexico, Norway and Poland; 2 each from Canada, Denmark, Dubai, India and
South Africa; and 1 each from Argentina, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Iceland,
Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South
Korea and Sweden. A full list of exhibitors is available at artbasel.com/sectors.
Art Galleries Sector
Once again, more than 99 percent of last year’s exhibitors reapplied for the Art
Galleries sector. This year’s strong roster of returning galleries will be enhanced by
an international range of new exhibitors. Showing for the first time in the Art Galleries
sector are Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York), Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai),
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Thomas Dane Gallery (London), David Kordansky
Gallery (Los Angeles), Long March Space (Beijing), maccarone (New York) and
ProjecteSD (Barcelona). After a brief hiatus, Eigen+Art (Berlin) and Galerie Susanne
Zander (Cologne) rejoin Art Basel’s exhibitors in the Art Galleries sector. See a full list
of exhibitors at artbasel.com/galleries.
Art Statements Sector
Continuing its proven track-record as a place to discover exciting young artists,
Art Statements will this year spotlight 27 international galleries, including Arratia Beer
(Berlin), Balice Hertling (Paris), Laura Bartlett Gallery (London), Cherry and Martin
(Los Angeles), Fonti (Napoli), Gandy Gallery (Bratislava), Green Art Gallery (Dubai),
Harris Lieberman (New York), hunt kastner (Prague), Lautom Contemporary (Oslo),
Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin), Michael Lett (Auckland), Lullin + Ferrari (Zurich),
Proyectos Monclova (Mexico), Motive Gallery (Amsterdam), Peres Projects (Berlin),
RaebervonStenglin (Zurich), Raster (Warsaw), Gallery Side 2 (Tokyo), Galerie Diana
Stigter (Amsterdam), Tilton Gallery (New York), Upstream Gallery (Amsterdam),
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde (Dubai), Galerie VidalCuglietta (Bruxelles),
Vilma Gold (London), Wentrup (Berlin) and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris). A full list
of galleries and artists is available at artbasel.com/statements.
Art Feature Sector
Now in its third year, Art Feature will again focus on precise curatorial projects. For
this year's edition, 20 galleries will present a mix of artistic dialogs, solo shows and
exceptional art-historical material. The exhibiting galleries are: A Gentil Carioca (Rio de
Janeiro), Applicat-Prazan (Paris), Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Berlin), Boers-Li Gallery
(Beijing), Galerie Andrea Caratsch (Zurich), D'Amelio Gallery (New York), Alexander
Gray Associates (New York), Galerie Henze & Ketterer (Wichtrach/Bern), Herald St
(London), Hotel (London), In Situ Fabienne Leclerc (Paris), Krobath (Vienna),
McCaffrey Fine Art (New York), Galerie Mezzanin (Vienna), Murray Guy (New York),
Galeria Plan B (Cluj), Galerie Micky Schubert (Berlin), Sorry we're closed (Bruxelles),
Stevenson (Cape Town) and Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois (Paris)
A full list of galleries is also available at artbasel.com/feature.
Further Art Basel Programming
Details of Art Unlimited, Art Parcours, Art Film, Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon
panels will be announced during the coming months as details are finalized.
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Art Unlimited: 62 ambitious, large-scale art projects
This year’s Art Unlimited sector will for the first time be curated by Gianni Jetzer,
Director of the Swiss Institute in New York. The sector will feature 62 projects by
artists representing a cross-section of the leading figures from several
generations of today’s international art scene. Many pieces have been created
especially for Art Unlimited and are marked both by their ambition and the
relative youth of the artists creating them. The new curation will also be
expressed in a very new design and architecture for the sector.
In the 17,000-square-meter exhibition space of Hall 1, Art Unlimited offers artists and
galleries a platform for works that surpass the possibilities of the conventional gallery
booth, showcasing outsize sculptures, video projections, installations, wall paintings,
photographic series, and performance art.
Since its launch in 2000, many of the world’s leading contemporary artists have
exhibited in the Art Unlimited sector, which is generously supported by UBS. The
number of projects proposed by gallerists for this edition increased significantly,
signaling the importance of these works and the sector. A third of those proposals were
selected for this year's edition.
This year, works by artists including Jeremy Deller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Hamish
Fulton, Gilbert & George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera, Douglas
Gordon, Roni Horn, Anthony McCall, Ryan McGinley, Bruce Nauman, Mike Nelson,
Olaf Nicolai, Walid Raad, Ugo Rondinone, Sterling Ruby and Franz West will be on
show.
Projects by the following artists have been chosen by the Art Basel Selection
Committee:
Ricci Albenda | Andrew Kreps Gallery | New York
Art & Language | Lisson Gallery | London
Phyllida Barlow | Hauser & Wirth | Zurich
Nina Beier | Laura Bartlett Gallery | London; Proyectos Monclova | Mexico City.;
Standard (OSLO) | Oslo
Walead Beshty | Thomas Dane Gallery | London; Regen Projects | Los Angeles
Chris Burden | Galerie Krinzinger | Vienna
Tom Burr | Bortolami | New York; Stuart Shave / Modern Art | London; Galerie Neu |
Berlin; Galleria Franco Noero | Torino; Almine Rech Gallery | Paris
Pier Paolo Calzolari | Bernier/Eliades | Athens; Marianne Boesky Gallery | New York;
Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea | Torre Pellice (Torino)
Valentin Carron | 303 Gallery | New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber | Zurich
David Claerbout | Hauser & Wirth | Zurich; Yvon Lambert | Paris; Galerie Micheline
Szwajcer | Antwerp
Hanne Darboven | Kewenig Galerie | Cologne
Verne Dawson | Gavin Brown's enterprise | New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber |
Zurich
Jeremy Deller | Art : Concept | Paris; Gavin Brown's enterprise | New York;
The Modern Institute | Glasgow
Brice Dellsperger | Air de Paris | Paris; Team Gallery | New York
Philip-Lorca diCorcia | David Zwirner | New York
Jimmie Durham | kurimanzutto | Mexico City
Melvin Edwards | Alexander Gray Associates | New York
Hamish Fulton | Galleri Riis | Oslo; Galerie Tschudi | Zuoz
Nikolas Gambaroff | Balice Hertling | Paris
Gilbert & George | Lehmann Maupin | New York; White Cube | London
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera | 303 Gallery | New York; Gallery
Koyanagi | Tokyo; Jan Mot | Bruxelles; Esther Schipper | Berlin
Douglas Gordon | Gagosian Gallery | New York; Yvon Lambert | Paris; Galerie Eva
Presenhuber | Zurich
Roni Horn | Hauser & Wirth | Zurich
Robert Irwin | The Pace Gallery | New York
Runa Islam | White Cube | London
Richard Jackson | Hauser & Wirth | Zurich; Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie
Vallois | Paris
Jitish Kallat | Chemould Prescott Road | Mumbai
Kimsooja | Kukje Gallery | Seoul
Ragnar Kjartansson | i8 Gallery | Reykjavik; Luhring Augustine | New York
Germaine Kruip | The Approach | London
Alicja Kwade | Johann König | Berlin
Anthony McCall | Sean Kelly Gallery | New York; Sprüth Magers | Berlin; Galerie
Thomas Zander | Cologne
Ryan McGinley | Team Gallery | New York
Tony Morgan | Thomas Dane Gallery | London
Robert Morris | Sprüth Magers | Berlin
Olivier Mosset | Galerie Andrea Caratsch | Zurich
Bruce Nauman | Donald Young Gallery | Chicago
Mike Nelson | 303 Gallery | New York; Galleria Franco Noero | Torino
Olaf Nicolai | Galerie Eigen + Art | Berlin
Damián Ortega | Gladstone Gallery | New York
Laura Owens | Gavin Brown's enterprise | New York; Galerie Gisela Capitain GmbH |
Cologne; Sadie Coles HQ | London
Richard Phillips | Gagosian Gallery | New York
Walid Raad | Anthony Reynolds Gallery | London
Raqs Media Collective | Frith Street Gallery | London
Ugo Rondinone | Galerie Eva Presenhuber | Zurich
Sterling Ruby | Xavier Hufkens | Bruxelles; Sprüth Magers | Berlin
Thomas Ruff | Mai 36 Galerie | Zurich
Michael Sailstorfer | Johann König | Berlin
Ariel Schlesinger | Yvon Lambert | Paris
Andreas Schulze | Sprüth Magers | Berlin; Team Gallery | New York
Shirana Shahbazi | Galerie Bob van Orsouw | Zurich
Shimabuku | Air de Paris | Paris; ZERO... | Milan
Rudolf Stingel | Paula Cooper Gallery | New York
Joëlle Tuerlinckx | Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder | Vienna;
Galerie Christian Nagel | Berlin
Günter Umberg | Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder | Vienna;
Galerie Nordenhake | Berlin; Galleri Riis | Oslo
Danh Vo | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Berlin
Cosima von Bonin | Friedrich Petzel Gallery | New York
Clemens von Wedemeyer | Galerie Jocelyn Wolff | Paris
Wang Jianwei | Long March Space | Beijing
Richard Wentworth | Peter Freeman, Inc. | New York; Galerie Nelson-Freeman | Paris
Franz West | Gagosian Gallery | New York
Thomas Zipp | Baronian_Francey | Bruxelles; Galerie Guido W. Baudach | Berlin;
Harris Lieberman | New York; Galerie Krinzinger | Vienna
For further information, please see artbasel.com/unlimited.
A limited-edition catalog accompanies the exhibition and includes descriptive texts
about each artwork presented in Hall 1.
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Art Parcours
The Art Parcours sector at Art Basel presents site-specific artworks and
performances in the historical quarters of Basel. In its third year, the 2012 edition
of Art Parcours has moved to the St. Johann neighborhood of Basel. From
Wednesday, June 13 to Sunday, June 17 thirteen locations will be transformed
by renowned international artists, including Pawel Althamer, Abraham
Cruzvillegas, Rodney Graham, Aleksandra Mir, Maria Nordman, Pedro Reyes and
Dieter Roth.
The array of high-caliber works, again curated by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA
Wattis Institute, San Francisco, will engage with Basel’s past and present, weaving
artistic interventions into the fabric of the city. Venues in Basel's St. Johann area
include Druckerei Ackermannshof, which once was a medieval printing shop; Dieter
Roth's former studio; a hidden water-pumping station; Predigerkircher (Preacher's
Church), one of the first Gothic churches in the Upper Rhine region; opulently
decorated Renaissance dining rooms at the Philosophicum; and the Restaurant Zur
Mägd, where in 1538 a banquet was held in honor of the painter Hans Holbein the
Younger, as well as various public sites throughout the area.
On Wednesday June 13, from 8pm to midnight, the Art Parcours Night presents an
evening of performances conceived by Los Angeles based artist Kathryn Andrews.
During "Voix de Ville" performances by clowns, acrobats, musicians, jugglers and
various Vaudevillian acts will take over the banks of the River Rhine.
The full list of Art Parcours projects is listed below. Further information on the artworks,
will be available at artbasel.com/parcours soon.
Opening Times Art Parcours:
Wednesday, June 13, 10am – 12 midnight
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, June 14–16, 11am – 10pm
Sunday, June 17, 11am – 7pm
Open to public, free of charge
Art Parcours Night:
Wednesday, June 13, 8pm – 12 midnight
St. Johanns-Rheinweg, Basel and Art Parcours locations
Open to public, free of charge, bars and food vendors on-site
Guided Tours:
Individuals: CHF 20 per person
Guided Tours for individuals are available daily at 4pm in English, 2pm & 6pm
in German.
Groups: CHF 400 for groups up to 20 participants
Register directly onsite at the Guided Tours Desk at the entrance of Hall 1 or call
+41 76 509 44 45.
About Art Basel
Founded by a group of local gallerists, the first Art Basel edition took place in 1970 and
has long ranked as the most prestigious annual art show worldwide. The quality and
diversity of the artworks exhibited regularly attracts more than 60,000 artists, collectors,
gallerists, museum directors, curators, and art enthusiasts. Art Basel showcases
every form of artistic expression, including paintings, drawings, editions, sculptures,
installations, photography, performances, and video art. Inexpensive works by
emerging artists are on offer alongside museum-quality masterpieces. Art Basel is a
member of Top Events of Switzerland.
Art Basel’s Sponsors
UBS, the show's main sponsor since 1994, continues its longstanding and successful
partnership. Davidoff, the prestigious Swiss cigar brand, joins Art Basel at Associate
Sponsor level. NetJets and AXA Art also extend their valued partnership with Art Basel.
Additional partners can be found at artbasel.com/partners. The VIP Car Service will
again be provided by BMW.
Museums in Basel
The exceptional line-up of shows during Art 43 Basel will include: 'Jeff Koons' and
'Philippe Parreno' at Fondation Beyeler; 'Renoir. Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie'
at Kunstmuseum Basel; 'Hilary Lloyd' at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst and
'Vladimir Tatlin - new art for a new world' at Tinguely Museum. For a complete list
of museum exhibitions, go to museenbasel.ch.
Additionally, Theater Basel will present 'The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic', a
Manchester International Festival and Teatro Real Madrid production with Theater
Basel and the Holland Festival, whose Swiss performances are presented in co-
operation with Art 43 Basel. Further information is available at theater-basel.ch.
Design Miami/Basel
Design Miami/Basel, the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing, and creating
design, runs June 12 – 17, 2012, from 11am to 7pm and is again this year located in
Hall 5 of the Basel exhibition grounds. For more details, please visit designmiami.com.
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel’s sister event in the United States, will takes place
December 6 – 9, 2012, in Miami Beach, Florida.
Image: Jeremy Deller | Exodus, 2012 | Image courtesy of the artist & Art : Concept, Paris; Photographer: Jeremy Deller | Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Information on Art Basel is available from:
Dorothee Dines, PR / Media Manager, Art Basel & Art Basel Miami Beach
Tel. +41 58 206 27 06, dorothee.dines@artbasel.com
Art Basel, CH-4005 Basel
US Office Art Basel:
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423 West 14th Street, 2nd Fl / Suite 429, New York, NY 10014
For the UK:
Sutton PR, Catherine McClelland
Tel. +44 20 7183 3577, catherinem@suttonpr.com
Somerset House, Strand, UK - London WC2R 1LA
New opening times of Art 43 Basel for accredited media representatives:
Tuesday, June 12, 11am – 8pm (Art Unlimited and Art Statements in Hall 1)
Tuesday, June 12, 3 – 8pm (Art Galleries, Art Feature, Art Editions, Art Magazines in Hall 2)
Wednesday, June 13, 11am – 8pm (Halls 1 and 2)
Public Show Days: Thursday, June 14, 2012 to Sunday, June 17, 2012, 11am to 7pm.
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10 - Basel
Thursday, June 14, 2012 to Sunday, June 17, 2012, from 11am to 7pm
Day Pass, Art 43 Basel 40.00 CHF
Permanent Pass, Art 43 Basel 95.00 CHF
Evening Pass, Art 43 Basel, after 5 pm 20.00 CHF
Two Day Pass, Art 43 Basel - for two consecutive days 70.00 CHF