switzerland´s first international art fair
solely dedicated to photography.
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final spurt.
in 12 days photo basel opens its doors for the very first time. we're proud to have over 100 works of art from 20 international galleries (from 3 continents) exhibited. Switzerland’s first art fair solely dedicated to photography opens takes place from June 17th to 20th – parallel to Art Basel.
the ink is still wet.
we're so excited: today we were at our printing plant and we were live on-site when the first sheets of our catalogue came out of the printing machine.
highlights.
Some highlights from the fair and its exhibiting galleries:
Paris based Galerie Esther Woerdehoff shows works of the Swiss photographer Fabian Unternährer (born 1981)– winner of the Prix Photo 2015. In addition, Esther exhibits the danish-swiss duo PutPut whose „popsicle“ is also this year’s photo basel keyvisual.
Bildhalle’s Mirjam Cavegn has works of Carmen Mitrotta and Douglas Mandry (born 1989) on display at her booth.
Another outstanding Swiss Gallery is widmertheodoridis, the duo exhibits works of the young Swiss artist Sebastian Stalder (born 1988) – winner of the Swiss Art Award 2013 and the Austrian born photographer Marko Zink.
1976 born documentary photographer Jeroen Hofman gets a dedicated solo show from Kahmann gallery.
French Gallery Baudoin Lebon, itself specialised on finding fresh talent will also show a solo position of the American artist Ayana V. Jackson. The artist will be present at photo basel. Berlin and Stockholm based Grundermark Nilsson gallery presents Inca & Niclas, the duo puts nature in the context of their entire work (Inka Lindergård was born 1985 and Niclas Holmström 1984). A real shootingstar is Swiss born architect turned artist, Nicolas Feldmeyer. His imposing art work can be seen at mc2gallery from Milan.
list.
The following exhibitors are also present at photo basel:
Cohen Gallery - Los Angeles
PH Neutro – Italy
cubus-m - Berlin
PHOTO EDITION BERLIN - Berlin
amanasalto - Tokyo
Stieglitz 19 - Belgium
David Guiraud - Paris
Carlos Caamaño - Lima, Peru
Sabrina Raffaghello - Milan
Degen Gallery - Basel
MACK - London
Aluägä - Lausanne
Capricious - New York
cultural partners.
Official cultural partner of photo basel is the German “gute aussichten” foundation.
Another photo basel partner institution is the “association of creative photographers – vfg” whose youth award turns 19 this year and is amongst the most respected in the country.
FOCUS photo l.a. – presents the 20 finalists of the award – this year’s winner Arden Surdam is present at the fair.
Special exhibition – „Drive In“
Drive In is an exhibition about cars, showing the approach of this subject by numerous photographers, from the fifties to nowadays. Curated by Esther Woerdehoff and Mirjam Cavegn. With works of René Burri, Lillian Birnbaum, Nicolas Dhervillers, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, René Groebli, Maurice Haas, Léon Herschtritt, Thomas Hoepker, Claudia Imbert, Simone Kappeler, Jason Langer, Xavier Lambours, Tobias Madörin, Gérard Musy, Axel Martens, Inge Morath, Hans Peter Riegel, Emil Schulthess, Paul Senn, Louis Stettner, Sam Shaw, Arthur Tress, Burk Uzzle, Raffael Waldner and Bruno Augsburger.
book signings.
Baudoin Lebon – Ayana V. Jackson
widmertheodoridis – Andreas Fux
greets from basel.
we are happy to welcome you at photo basel 2015 -
your photo basel team
for more information please visit www.photo-basel.com.
