The 2015 edition of Art Basel opens Tuesday, June 16, to invited guests. This year’s fair includes a reorganization of the gallery booth layout, with many of those presenting work that dates from 1900 to 1970 grouped together on the lower level of Hall 2.
The fair will include 284 galleries from 33 countries, showing work by more than 4,000 artists. Among the highlights are Carrie Mae Weems at New York’s Jack Shainman, Danny McDonald at New York’s Maccarone, Joris van de Moortel at Galerie Nathalie Obadia of Paris and Brussels, and video by Julieta Aranda, which will be shown in the film section by Mexico City’s Galeria OMR.
Jack Shainman, New York
Carrie Mae Weems, You Became a Playmate to the Patriarch/And Their Daughter, 1995–96, C-print with sandblasted text on glass.
©CARRIE MAE WEEMS/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK
Victoria Miro, London
Sarah Sze, Stone Series, 2013–15.
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Thilo Heinzmann, O. T., 2014, oil and pigment on canvas behind plexiglass cover.
ROMAN MÄRZ/COURTESY GALERIE GUIDO W. BAUDACH, BERLIN
Maccarone, New York
Danny McDonald, The Thirst, 2014, mixed media.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
William Klein, Club Allegro, Fortissimo, Paris, 1990, gelatin silver print.
©WILLIAM KLEIN/COURTESY HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY, NEW YORK
Petzel, New York
Thomas Eggerer, Grey Harvest, 2013, acrylic and oil on canvas.
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Rosângela Rennó, from the series “Insólidos – Untitled (bacia),” 2014, digital print on pure silk organza with aluminum structure and other objects.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CRISTINA GUERRA CONTEMPORARY ART, LISBON
A arte Invernizzi, Milan
Mario Nigro, Spazio totale, 1955: divergenze simultanee drammatiche, 1955, varnished tempera on canvas.
Kicken ,Berlin
Sibylle Bergemann, Gummlin, Usedom, from "Das Denkmal," 1984, gelatin silver print.
©OSTKREUZ/COURTESY KICKEN BERLIN
Galeria OMR, Mexico City
Julieta Aranda, What Right?, 2014, video.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Christian Marclay, Silence (The Electric Chair), 2006 silkscreen ink on paper.
©CHRISTIAN MARCLAY/COURTESY FRAENKEL GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Georges Braque, Compotier aux trois pommes, 1941, oil on canvas.
Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Oliver Laric, Untitled.
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Yayoi Kusama, Untitled, 1952, pastel on paper.
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Tony Cragg, Stroke, 2014, bronze.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin and Paris
Thomas Struth, Vacuum Chamber, JPL, Pasadena, 2013.
Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Francesco Gennari, Autoritratto nello studio, 2014, Rosa Portogallo marble.
FRANCESCO GENNARI/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND TUCCI RUSSO STUDIO PER L'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Mircea Cantor, The world belongs to those who set it on fire, 2015, candle smoke on paper.
Casey Kaplan, New York
Haris Epaminonda, Untitled #385, 2008, Polaroid.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND CASEY KAPLAN, NEW YORK
Moeller Fine Art, New York
Alexander Archipenko, Flat Torso, n.d.
COURTESY MOELLER FINE ART
vera munro, Hamburg
Janis Avotins, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas.
COURTESY GALERIE VERA MUNRO
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Victor Burgin, Office at Night, 1986, 7 triptyches and one text panel and gelatin silver prints and vinyl film.
©VICTOR BURGIN/COURTESY GALERIE THOMAS ZANDER, COLOGNE
Fergus McCaffrey, New York and St. Barths
Tatsuo Ikeda, Oval Space No. 3, 1963-64, oil on board.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels
Joris van de Moortel, Amplified vocals (the Ur Gerausch), 2014, wood, plexiglass, neon, tube light (green and white), gouache, bronze, steel, and photographic print.
COURTESY GALERIE NATHALIE OBADIA, PARIS/BRUXELLES
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Jay DeFeo, White Water, 1989, oil on linen.
©2015 THE JAY DEFEO TRUST/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/COURTESY MITCHELL-INNES & NASH, NY
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, B.C.
Ian Wallace, The Constructor (VI, VII, VIII), 1976, 3 hand-colored silver gelatin prints.
Galerie Hopkins, Paris
Jean Dubuffet, Chapeau à rayures, 1955.