Art Basel 2024
Booth R1
Hall 2.1
Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel

Preview days: June 11-12,2024
Public days: June 13-16, 2024

Returning to our customary location at R1, Hall 2.1, this year we have invited Ryan Gander, Annette Kelm, and David Claerbout to present their works on the booth's large-scale Feature Wall.

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Marek Obara obara@estherschipper.com

Ryan Gander’s series Phantom Ambition presents posters for fictional exhibitions that never occurred, but that in the mind of the artist, probably should have. Displayed, layered and pasted over the other forty-nine different posters from the same series, with only the last poster pasted on top ever being visible.

Each of the 50 posters in the series represents an exhibition Gander has conceived for us to imagine. He has selected artists or groups of artists, writers, designers, even athletes, conceived of a title, picked a venue and chosen a date and duration, some in the past, others in the future. He designed the poster marking this imaginary event as it might have been produced by that institution in the period.

The works will be on view June 11-12.

Annette Kelm’s series of works entitled Die Bücher (The Books) depicts individual books banned during the National Socialist rule in Germany. Many of them were burned at public events in May 1933.

Kelm’s series commemorates the censorship, condemnation and removal of books from German life during Nazi rule which found an early culmination in the nationwide public book burnings in May 1933 but continued through 1945. While photographs documenting the book burnings generally show pyres with an indiscriminate mass of papers or unidentified books being flung into the flames, Kelm’s photos present each book individually, with a studied care and attention akin to portrait photography.

The works will be on view June 13-14.

David Claerbout's film Birdcage is included in this year's Art Basel Unlimited program. The third Feature Wall presentation will exhibit 4 gouaches that the artist made during the preparation of the video work.

David Claerbout's gouaches are an integral part of his practice. Claerbout creates a small number of them with each of his film projects as notes or preparatory studies. Claerbout, who describes his filmic work as “sculpting in duration," references early Flemish painting as influence, among other sources. Discover more about his filmic and painterly practice in this video interview with the artist, realized for his last solo exhibition at Esther Schipper, Berlin in 2022.

The works will be on view June 15-16.