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.
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.
She is a national heroine in Finland, but has only become known internationally in recent years: Helene Schjerfbeck fascinates with her original, simple style. For the first time, a major museum in the USA is presenting her work: Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck opens on December 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
From November 13 to 30, the Fremantle Biennale took place in Australia near Perth, focusing on site-specific contemporary art. Among the exhibiting artists was Raki Nikahetiya with a sensory installation about the intertwining of identity, displacement, and home.
