Song Kun, It’s My Life, 2006, 27x35cm each (Courtesy Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing)
Thomas Struth, The Felsenfeld/Gold Family, Philadelphia, 2007, 140x179cm (Courtesy Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam)
Galerie Hans Mayer | Düsseldorf, at ART BASEL
Art Basel – El Dorado of the International Art World
The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works
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The 39th edition of Art Basel takes place in the museumrich city of Basel (Switzerland) from June 4 through June 8, 2008. As the world’s premier art show, Art Basel is the annual meeting place of the international art world. This year’s 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the world were selected out of a record number of over 1,000 applications and will be showing works by over 2,000 artists of the 20thand 21st centuries. The Art Unlimited hall, with its 60 largescale projects, and Art Basel Conversations, featuring internationally respected panelists, represent further highlights. The Art on Stage platform (presented in association with the Theater Basel) will provide the framework for the performance Drama Queens by artists Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (Norway). The local museums also have fascinating exhibitions (including Chaim Soutine, Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska, and Fernand Léger) and a broad range of events in store.
The 39th edition of Art Basel kicks off with a vernissage for invited guests on June 3 and is open to the general public from June 4 through June 8. This annual reunion of the international art world regularly attracts some 60,000 artists, collectors, gallerists, curators, and art enthusiasts from across the globe, who come to see the largest, most rigorously juried overview of what the international art market has to offer and to meet the stars and insiders of the international art scene. Covered by more than 2,300 media representatives, Art Basel enjoys a formidable reputation based both on the peerless quality and incomparable diversity of the exhibited art works and on the show’s international audience.
Once again, the world’s leading galleries will be exhibiting at the show, for which 99% of last year’s exhibitors reapplied. This year’s unrivaled roster of participants will be enhanced by a number of distinguished dealers of classical modern art and photography, and diverse young galleries. The galleries presenting contemporary art are joined this year by Beijing Art Now Gallery (Beijing, Shanghai), Ruth Benzacar Galeria de Arte (Buenos Aires), the Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), the Catriona Jeffries Fine Art Gallery (Vancouver), and the Jack Shainman Gallery (New York). The lineup of galleries showing 20th-century classics is augmented by Galerie Cazeau- Béraudière (Paris), Richard Green (London), Galleria Fumagalli (Bergamo), and Lorenzelli Arte (Milan). The specialists in art editions are joined by Galerie Edition Copenhagen (Copenhagen), and the roster of photographic galleries is enhanced by the addition of the Silverstein Gallery from New York. After a brief hiatus, Galerie Löhrl (Mönchengladbach), Galerie Praz-Delavallade (Paris), and Galerie Martin Janda (Vienna) also rejoin Art Basel’s exhibitors.
Art Basel is the art world’s most important annual marketplace and offers its visitors the most extensive temporary museum of our day. Art experts and enthusiasts alike can come here to find works they have been looking for, discover new talents, compare prices, and scent out trends. For the artists themselves, it is a prestigious platform with worldwide impact. The intimate atmosphere of the beautiful, art-loving city of Basel adds to the appeal of the event. Special exhibitions and social functions at the local museums provide further attractions and meeting places. And in the evening, the place to go is the Art Club at the Kunsthalle, featuring DJs flown in by Carhartt from all over Europe
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