09 May Art Basel in Basel 2023: What’s Showing in Unlimited?

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Art Basel has announced highlights of this year’s fair in Switzerland, including the large-scale works in its most impactful sector.

Art Basel returns to Basel from 15 to 18 June. In addition to presentations by 284 galleries, the fair will include conversations with artist Lubaina Himid and Liverpool Biennial 2023 curator Khanyisile Mbongwa, public art projects situated around Basel, curated exhibitions located inside exhibitors’ booths, and large-scale installations in the fair’s Unlimited sector.

Curated by Giovanni Carmine, Director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen in Switzerland, Unlimited will feature 76 literally and figuratively unmissable installations this year.

Among the highlights is Anne Imhof‘s Jester (2022), pictured top. The two channel video work features dancers moving violently at times and emitting inaudible screams. The work was presented at the shuttered Ichinomiya City Ice Skate Rink as part of the fifth Aichi Triennale (30 July 2022 to 10 October 2023).

Diamond Stingily, How Did He Die (2016). Video, black-and-white, sound, chain-link fence. 8’38”. Dimensions variable. Exhibition view: Diamond Stingily, Elephant Memory at Ramiken Crucible, New York, 2016. Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Diamond Stingily’s How Did He Die (2016) is a projection of young Black girls playing call and response songs and dances. The projection is separated from the viewer by a chain-link fence, implying cultural and structural distance. The work is presented by Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi and Cabinet.

Monica Bonvicini, Never Again (2005). Galvanized steel pipes, chains and clamps, leather, rivets. 350 x 1600 x 1,100 cm. Exhibition view: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst, 2005. Photo by Jens Ziehe. © Monica Bonvicini and VG Bild-Kunst.

Monica Bonvicini‘s Never Again (2005) is a collection of swings made of steel pipes, black leather, belts, and chains. Presented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, and Galerie Krinzinger, the work incorporates research on psychoanalysis and sexuality to address how spaces dictate behaviour.

Olaf Nicolai, Ménage de la maison (2022). A performance by Olaf Nicolai at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, 2022. Photo: Manfred Thomas; Uwe Walter, Berlin. Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022.

In Olaf Nicolai‘s Ménage de la maison (2022), people sweep with a plastic broom while speaking, humming, or singing. Presented by Galerie Eigen + Art, the performance invites visitors to more closely attend to what happens around them.

Khalil Rabah, Relocation, Among Other Things (2018). Mixed media installation, variable dimensions. Exhibition view: Kunstverein Salzburg 2022. Photo: Andrew Phelps © 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg.

Presented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Khalil Rabah’s Relocation, Among Other Things (2018) consists of assemblages addressing nomadism, of life suspended across different countries and homelands.

Firelei Báez, the vast ocean of all possibilities (19°36’16.9″N 72°13’07.0″W / 41°30’32.3″N 81°36’41.7″W) (2022). Exhibition view: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT International, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (16 July–2 October 2022). Photo: David Brichford. Courtesy James Cohan.

Firelei Báez‘s vast ocean of all possibilities (19°36’16.9″N 72°13’07.0″W / 41°30’32.3″N 81°36’41.7″W) (2022) is part of an ongoing series in which the artist reimagines the archaeological ruins of Germany’s San-Souci Palace in northern Haiti. The work is presented by James Cohan.

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Environnement Chromointerférent (Paris) (1974/2008). Site specific video installation. Dimensions variable. © Carlos Cruz-Diez / Bridgeman Images 2022.

Presented by Galleria Continua, Carlos Cruz-Diez‘s Environnement Chromointerférent (Paris) (1974) is an immersive environment, created with projections that are constantly in motion, that aims to reveal the ambiguous nature of colour.

On Thursday 15 June, Art Basel will hold Unlimited Night, when visitors can encounter the Unlimited works alongside performances during extended opening hours.

The full list of artists and galleries presenting in Unlimited can be viewed on Art Basel’s website. —[O]

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