Art Basel
art basel 2024: designboom’s guide to the swiss art event
WHAT TO CHECK OUT DURING ART BASEL 2024
Art Basel 2024 – which takes place at Messe Basel from June 13th to 16th, 2024 – is set to bring over 285 international galleries and artists to present artworks and exhibitions spanning from painting and sculpture to photography and digital works, from early-twentieth-century Modern pioneers to emerging contemporary practitioners. Maike Cruse, Director of Art Basel in Basel, says that there will be 22 galleries joining Art Basel 2024 for the first time, with five of them directly participating in the main sector of the show. Our designboom guide to Art Basel 2024 lists the exhibitions and events not to miss during its course.
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What should everyone have in their bag when visiting an art fair?
Aileen Agopian: An iPhone, one extra charger, and definitely mints.
Sabrina Buell: I wear a small cross-body bag. It’s the Art Olympics and you don’t want to carry unnecessary weight all day. In it is my phone, which I use to take pictures of the works I acquire for my clients. I always have a fair map circled with galleries and works of interest noted.
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Organisers of more than 40 art fairs, including Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf, have pledged to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in a new alliance formed by Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC). The commitment coincides with Climate Week NYC, the largest annual event of its kind (to September 29). Data provided by GCC found that, for a typical, midsize commercial art gallery, one-third of annual carbon emissions related to activities around art fairs. Air travel (of art and people) accounts for the bulk, while these pop-up events, many held in temporary structures, have specific issues of their own, including single-use materials and energy consumption.
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Art Basel recently announced its program and exhibitor list for the upcoming Miami edition next December. The 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will be the first headed by Bridget Finn, who assumed the directorship of the event last year, taking over from Noah Horowitz, now Art Basel’s CEO, during a period in which the mega fair brought on several new faces, including Maike Cruse (director of Art Basel Basel), Clément Delépine (director of Art Basel Paris) and Angelle Siyang-Le, Director (director of Art Basel Hong Kong). Observer caught up with Finn to discuss how her vision for Art Basel Miami Beach has evolved and where she hopes to take the fair in the future.
Read more: https://observer.com/2024/08/interview-bridget-finn-on-her-first-art-basel-miami-beach/
