ART FAIRS: Liste Art Fair 2023

For 27 years, Liste Art Fair has been the place for young galleries from all over the world to present the most important emerging artists to an international audience in Basel. These new voices in the international art discourse try not only to understand our present but also help create it. This makes it all the more important, in times of the local and virtual, to give these artists the best possible international platform beyond a physical presence at the fair.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Liste Archive

Since 2021, Liste Art Fair has consisted of three formats: Liste Art Fair Basel, Liste Showtime Online and Liste Expedition Online. Founded in 1996, Liste Art Fair Basel is the international fair for discoveries in contemporary art. Every year in Basel, a younger generation of galleries shows artists who are outstanding representatives of the latest developments and trends in contemporary art. Many of today’s most significant galleries for contemporary art laid their foundations at Liste.  One of Liste’s special concerns is to give new galleries the opportunity to present their programmes to our international audience every year. This year, 20 galleries are exhibiting for the first time at Liste Art Fair Basel, including Parc Offsite, Eli Kerr from Montreal, Petrine from Paris, E.A. Shared Space from Tbilisi, Schiefe Zähne from Berlin, Blindspot and PHD Group from Hong Kong, wanda from Warsaw, Blue Velvet Projects from Zurich, Afriart Gallery from Kampala, Ginny on Frederick from London, Margot Samel and Theta from New York, and Regards from Chicago.  Equally, Liste looks forward to reuniting with 68 galleries that have exhibited in previous year(s), especially Nova from Bangkok and ROH Projects from Jakarta, who will return after pandemic-related hiatuses. We would also like to specifically mention the return of two galleries from Kyiv, The Naked Room and Voloshyn, as well as the Ukrainian collective Understructures (presented this year by the gallery wanda), all of whom also exhibited last year at Liste as part of our solidarity support. Liste Showtime Online, the fair’s digital format, was launched in 2020 and offers the galleries participating in Liste Art Fair Basel the opportunity to expand their presentations in the digital space.  The digital edition of the fair, launches this year with a VIP/press preview from 7–11 June and runs until 25 June. With media-rich presentations, our galleries not only offer works for sale on the platform but also provide deeper in-sights into the practices of one artist who they are presenting at the fair. You will receive an access code for Liste Showtime shortly before the preview starts. Liste Expedition Online was launched in December 2021 as a non-commercial re-search forum. The platform features a continuously growing artist index with the world’s most important new positions in contemporary art as well as special pro-jects carried out in collaboration with artists and magazines. Liste Expedition is permanently available throughout the year.

Info: Liste Art Fair Basel, Messe Basel, Hall 1.1, Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113, Base, Switzerland, Duration: 12-18/6/2023, Days & Hours: Mon (12/6) 18:00-20:00, Tue-Sat (13-17/6) 12:00-20:00, Sun (18/6) 11:00-16:00, Admission: Regular CHF 25, Reduced* CHF 12.50 – scholars / students / seniors, From 19:00- / scholars / students / seniors for free, https://www.liste.ch/en/home.html
Liste Showtime Online, Duration: 12/-25/6/2023,  https://showtime.liste.ch/
Liste Expedition Online, Permanently accessible, https://expedition.liste.ch/