Design Miami/Basel
June 11–16
Hall 1 Süd, Messe Basel
The eighth edition of the elite design fair encompasses 48 galleries, 8 of which will feature solo presentations. Object-based offerings this year highlight both the functional—such as a 2012 cabinet in iron and yellow-glazed lava stone by Christophe Côme, via New York’s Cristina Grajales—and the decorative, including Anish Kapoor’s square Atlas Ring, 2012, at Louisa Guinness of London. The complex design took London goldsmiths three weeks to execute. Also on view is Benjamin Graindorge’s Fallen Tree bench, 2011, the key piece from the young French designer’s first solo with Paris gallery Ymer & Malta, starting around $40,000.
Liste
June 11–16
Burgweg 15
This contemporary-focused fair retains its freshness by restricting itself to galleries founded within the past five years. Organizers sifted through more than 300 applications to select 66 galleries from 22 countries for this edition, the 18th. Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender of Berlin returns with a richly colored mixed-media collage by Stephen G. Rhodes. London’s Ancient & Modern presents work from Swiss Art Award winner Raphael Hefti’s 2012 glass-panel sculpture series, “Subtraction as Addition.” Paris gallery Mor Charpentier makes its debut with a maze-like installation piece from New York–based artist Julieta Aranda.
Scope
June 12–16
Uferstrasse 40
The contemporary showcase includes more than 80 international dealers, with an emphasis on Middle Eastern galleries and featuring comers from Tehran (Shirin Art Gallery), Ankara (Siyah Beyaz Galeri), and Abu Dhabi (Salwa Zeidan Gallery). Riyadh’s Lam Art Gallery will partner with the Switzerland-based AB Gallery to show Iranian mixed-media artist Samira Hodaei and Pop-influenced Saudi painter Bassem Al Sharqi, among others. With a new location on the Rhine, the sprawling pavilion has room for large-scale sculptures from three Latin American artists—Gastón Ugalde, Fernando Arias, and Sonia Falcone—while Bernardí Roig’s cascade of fluorescent lights, Der Italiener (The Cow), 2011, courtesy of Austria’s Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, occupies the entry.
The Solo Project
June 12–16
St. Jakobshalle
The dealer-run fair, spearheaded by Antwerp gallery owner Paul Kusseneers, privileges the building of new relationships between galleries and collectors. For the sixth edition, Amaury and Myriam de Solages, founders of the exhibition space Maison Particulière in Brussels, present Italian artist Angelo Musco in conjunction with Argentine art collective Mondongo. Luxembourg’s Galerie Nosbaum & Reding hangs its booth with manipulated architectural photographs by Maja Weyermann.
Volta
June 10–15
Dreispitzhalle
Unlike its New York counterpart, the Swiss edition of Volta, in its ninth incarnation, does not limit its 74 exhibitors to solo shows in their booths; still, many of the participants are mounting focused presentations to better introduce their emerging talents. Purdy Hicks Gallery, of London, is featuring tiny C-types by Bettina von Zwehl, such as Made Up Love Song Part 7, 2011. Spain comes out swinging, with Alarcón Criado of Seville juxtaposing the spatial investigations of Nicolas Grospierre and Alejandra Laviada; and Galería Visor of Valencia offers a four-way show of Hamish Fulton, Nil Yalter, Braco Dimitrijevic, and this year’s Hasselblad Award winner Joan Fontcuberta.
To preview images from the satellite fairs of Art Basel week, click on the slideshow.