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welcome.

Humbled and proud to have had a successful second edition of photo basel in 2016. See you in 2017, June 14 - 18, for the third edition of Switzerland's first and only artfair solely dedicated to photography based art.
 
 
 

fact sheet.

download here photo basel's factsheet 2015/2016:

@news: 20/09/2016

motion picture.

photo basel 2016 - making of and retrospection:

@news: 15/09/2016

catalogue 2016.

You didn't have a chance to grab one of our limited fair catalogues? Well we still have it electronically - please have a look, happy reading:


@news: 10/08/2016

photo basel 2016 - end of show report.

Despite the tense political climate in Europe and the rest of the world, the second edition of photo basel was a true success. photo basel’s new location "Volkshaus" was widely perceived as an ultimate advantage – photo basel now being in walking distance of Art Basel.
 
The second edition of photo basel attracted a little less than 10’000 visitors – a new record! Attendance from international collectors and institutions included*:
 

• Fotofocus Cincinnati
• Davidoff Art Initiative
• Centre de la photographie Genève
• Musée d’Orsay
• Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung
• Kunstmuseum Thun
• Haus der Elektronischen Künste
• Swiss Art Market Association (SAMA)
• Herzog & de Meuron
• Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona
• Fondazione Brodbeck
• Sotheby’s Institute of Art
• Vitra
• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Chicago
• Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (Mudac)
• Castello di Rivara – Museo d’arte contermporaneo
• Swiss National Bank
• Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Switzerland
• Fotomuseum Winterthur
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York
• Fondation Carminiac
• Musée de L’Elysée
• Department of Economics, Social and Environmental Affairs of the Canton of Basel-Stadt
• Kiki Kogelnik Foundation
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (Musac)
• M+M+amis de la foundation Auer Ory pour la photographe
• Artforum
• Palazzo Grassi – Francois Pinault Foundation
• Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
• Lisser Art Museum
• Rijks Museum
• Centre Culturel Suisse – Paris
• Fundacion Museo Reina Sofia
• Kunstmuseum Bern
• Art Institute Chicago
• Fondation Beyeler
• Fondation Herzog
• Schaulager
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

                                           

Strong sales were reported and over 74% of the participating galleries sold at photo basel 2016 (many of them grossing several ten thousand Swiss Francs), giving photo basel the definite «raison d’être».
The media echo was overwhelming, the Basler Zeitung called photo basel «one of the few fairs next to Art Basel to be established».
Many global art newspapers and magazines such as Artforum, Artreview, Frieze and Blouin reported about photo basel’s success.
 
photo basel is currently composing a new board of experts for the curating and selection of the 2017 edition.
 
PS: The ink on the contract with the Volkshaus might still be wet but we are happy to announce that our presence in this superb location has been confirmed up to 2018, leaving us the hopes to be able to expand.
 
photo basel comes back for its third edition on June 14th – 18th 2017.
 
@news: 19/06/2016