List Art Fair Basel 2024

»Mythic Beings«: current trends in art

Since 1996, Liste Art Fair Basel has repeatedly presented special positions in contemporary art. This year, too, it will be presenting a high-quality program from 10 to 16 June.

June 09, 2024
Matti Sumari, The baker’s oven bakes itself, 2023
Courtesy of the artist.
Coulisse: Matti Sumari, The baker’s oven bakes itself, 2023, 250 cm x 56 cm (per panel), stainless steel from illegal catering operation, copper, bronze, aluminium, cast with metals from dump sites in Malmö.

Over 100 artists will be on show at Liste Art Fair Basel in 2024. They will be showing their latest works in 65 solo stands, 16 group presentations and five joint stands. Year after year, the Basel art fair lives up to its reputation for presenting outstanding positions in contemporary art. Known in specialist circles as the »discovery fair«, it has been an integral part of the art calendar for almost 30 years. 91 galleries from 35 countries will be traveling to Basel from 10 to 16 June in Hall 1.1 on the exhibition grounds. In addition, the Liste Showtime has been available since 2020, a digital edition of the fair that opens at the same time and is available until June 23. 90 up-and-coming artists and their work practices will be presented separately here. Art Basel, which opens on June 13, will take place at the same time.

This year's Special Project is entitled Mythic Beings and is dedicated to performance art. Elise Lammer curated the program, which consists of commissioned works that deal with the potential of disguise and camouflage. The highlight of the show is a performance with sound installation by Wren Cellier (*1997), which shows ways to free oneself from oppressive systems. The special guest 2024 is the painter Bisso Yann Stéphane (*1998), who won the Helvetia Art Prize last year, which accompanies this solo exhibition at the fair. In his hybrid dream worlds, different times and places exist in parallel. Stéphane reflects on the meaning of origin and identity and questions our conventional linear understanding of time.Art.Salon

Hannah Taurins, Study for Affection, 2024
Courtesy of artist and Theta.
Theta: Hannah Taurins, Study for Affection, 2024, 7x10 in, marker and colored pencil on paper mounted to panel.

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