| | | | | | | | | © PUTPUT Popsicles 2012 - Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | | | | | photo basel 2022 | | | | June 14 – 19, 2022 | | | | | | photo basel, Switzerland’s first and only artfair dedicated to photography, returns for its 7th edition. The fair runs coinciding with the international modern and contemporary fair Art Basel.
Private view (by invitation only): Monday, 13 June, 6-8pm
Tickets: here | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Atong Atem: Sahara, 2020
MARS Gallery | | | | | | From its inaugural edition in 2015, photo basel has cemented its profile as the most prominent photography fair in the German-speaking region. Bringing together galleries from around the world, the fair fosters a dialogue between members of the photographic and broader art world communities, attracting collectors, visual art experts and international media at a key moment in the annual art world calendar (Art Basel week).
photo basel welcomes around 40 international exhibitors - coming from 18 countries. Over 550 photographic positions by 130 artists will be exhibited.
As for the 7th edition, photo basel welcomes Sonia Voss as Artistic Director. Sonia is an author and curator. Her exhibitions include Isabelle Le Minh: Cristal réel. After Alfred Ehrhardt (Goethe Institut Paris & Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation Berlin, 2019-20); Restless Bodies: East-German Photography 1980-89 (Rencontres d’Arles, 2019), Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021 (Rencontres d’Arles, 2021) and two exhibitions at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris: Sophie Calle, Serena Carone: Beau doublé, Monsieur le marquis! (2017–18) and George Shiras: In the Heart of the Dark Night (2016–17). In addition, Sonia is the editor of publications at Éditions Xavier Barral, Koenig Books, Filigranes, and Kehrer. | | | | | | | | | Hommage Anita Neugebauer
Édouard Boubat, Paris, 1980 | | | Homage Anita Neugebauer
Anita Neugebauer (1916 – 2012) founded her gallery photo art basel in 1976 – and was one of the first if not the first art gallery with the sole focus on fine art photography. Not only was she the meeting point for collectors and enthusiasts, but she also became a pioneer and advocate beyond the Swiss boarders. Her own collection, centers around her childhood friend, Gisèle Freund’s oeuvre whom she met while her family immigrated from Nazi Germany to Argentina. The exhibition Anita’s point of view is curated by her daughter, Claudia Neugebauer, and Alessa Widmer. | | | | | | | | | Melanie Issaka: Black Skin White Mask (1)
Galerie Peter Sillem | | | African Photography
As in previous years, photo basel will again focus on photography based art from the African continent and its diaspora. The Sudanese artist Atong Atem, born in Ethiopia, winner of the La Prairie Art Award, will be presenting a solo show of spectacular portraits and self-portraits that explore the relationship between the intimate and the political, as well as the history of immigration (Mars Gallery, Melbourne, Australia).
Melanie Issaka, born in Ghana in 1994 and a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, is showing her first solo show at a fair. Her Blueprints: performative self-portraits in the form of cyanotypes that explore the position of the black woman's body in the history of photography and its techniques (Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, Germany).
The Burkinabe Saïdou Dicko returns with a selection of his works from the series The Shadowed People. The motif of the shadow, the artist's main source of inspiration, is both a metaphorical and a political symbol. (Artco Gallery, Aachen, Berlin and Cape Town). | | | | | | Jürgen Schadeberg: The Three Jazzolomos, 1953
Bonne Esperance Gallery | | | The Paris-based Galerie Bonne Espérance, which specializes in South African art, is exhibiting represented for the first time at photo basel. The gallery is showing a retrospective of the artist Jürgen Schadeberg (1931-2020), whose work is closely linked to South Africa's recent history from the 1940s to post-apartheid.
The CAP Prize (International Prize for Contemporary photography), is awarded annually to five outstanding photographers. The CAP Prize is aimed at photographers whose work is concerned with the African continent continent and/or its diaspora. The CAP Prize increases the international visibility and exposure of the winners and builds a high-caliber network for future projects. The 5 winners will be announced again at photo basel on Friday 17 June 2022. | | | | | | | | | Gianfranco Chiavacci
Galleria die Mauer | | | Concrete Photography
Concrete photography refers to an aesthetic movement and an approach that focuses on the photographic process and all of its components - the light, the camera, the paper or surface and the phenomena that creates the image. While Alwin Langdon Coburn is credited in 1917 with the first example of concrete photography it experienced its boom in the 1960s. In 2021, photo basel honored one of its masters, legendary Swiss artist Roger Humbert (1929). The artist returns this year with some of his most recent works (Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich).
Since the 1960s italian artist Gianfranco Chiavacci (1936-2011) has conducted numerous xxperiments with photographic tools and optical phenomena, especially in connection with the movement of objects in space and time. He summarised the group of works the title Ricerca Fotografica (die Mauer, Prato, Italy).
The influence of this movement on contemporary photography can be seen and explored in the work of the Swiss artist Patrick Fuchs, who with his series Songs of Darkness Songs of Light pushes the representation to its limits and plays with the visual potential of the moving object. (Gallery 94, Baden, Switzerland).
Also, in body of the works of the Dutch artist Marleen Sleeuwits, whose work on the perception of public spaces emphasizes the contradictory effects of light on the volume (Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, Holland) also reflects concrete photography. | | | | | | | | | Feng Li: White Night
Migrant Bird Space | | | | | | Partnerships
photo basel will continue the partnership with Jaguar and Land Rover to provide VIPs with transport for the duration of the fair. This service must be booked in advance and RSVP is essential. In addition, photo basel’s Lounge is equipped with the finest furniture by French Design brand Roche Bobois. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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