This year, 285 leading international galleries will present works ranging from the Modern period of the early 20th century to the most contemporary artists of today. The Basel show, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will present a geographically diverse selection of galleries from 34 countries. This year Statements, Art Basel's sector for emerging galleries, will move into Hall 2 alongside the Galleries sector, giving this younger generation a more prominent placement within the show.

With Statements being located in Hall 2 this year, the extension of Hall 1, designed by renowned Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron, will house Unlimited, a redesigned space for the Magazines sector and the auditorium for the Conversations and Salon series.

While galleries from Europe will continue to be strongly represented, the show presents exhibitors and artists from across the globe. This year’s edition will once again see a strong selection of exhibitors with spaces in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region. The participating galleries have exhibition spaces in: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, China, Mexico, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

GALLERIES, the main sector of the show, will feature 232 galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and editioned works. A strong list of returning exhibitors is joined, following a hiatus, by Van de Weghe Fine Art (New York), while a number of galleries will exhibit within the sector for the first time, having previously shown in Statements or Feature. These galleries are: A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro), Galeria Pedro Cera (Lisbon), Herald St (London), Tanya Leighton (Berlin), Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City), Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York) and GallerySKE (Bangalore).
The full gallery list is available from artbasel.com/basel/galleries.


UNLIMITED: PRESENTING 78 AMBITIOUS AND LARGE-SCALE ARTWORKS FROM FIVE GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS
Since first being introduced at Art Basel in 2000, Unlimited has become a key element of the show, providing galleries with an opportunity to showcase large-scale sculptures, video projections, installations, wall paintings, photographic series and performance art which cannot be displayed within the limitations of an art fair stand. The sector will take over the exhibition space in Hall 1 as Statements, the sector for younger galleries, moves into Hall 2.

Alfonso Artiaco - Ann Veronica Janssens | Niels Borch Jensen Gallery and Editions - Tacita Dean | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi - Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys | carlier gebauer - Ming Wong | Sadie Coles HQ - John Bock | Galleria Continua - Pascale Marthine Tayou | Paula Cooper Gallery - Christian Marclay | Galleria Raffaella Cortese - Ana Mendieta | Galeria Fortes Vilaça - João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva | Marc Foxx Gallery - Guido van der Werve | gb agency - Ryan Gander | Marian Goodman Gallery - Yang Fudong | Goodman Gallery - Mikhael Subotzky | Alison Jacques Gallery - Ana Mendieta | Anton Kern Gallery - John Bock | Yvon Lambert - Markus Schinwald | Lehmann Maupin - Alex Prager | Galerie Lelong - Ana Mendieta | Lisson Gallery - Ryan Gander | Luhring Augustine - Yasumasa Morimura, Guido van der Werve | Maccarone - Alex Hubbard, David Lamelas, Rodney McMillian | Gió Marconi - John Bock, Markus Schinwald | kamel mennour - Ann Veronica Janssens | Metro Pictures - Trevor Paglen, Jim Shaw | Meyer Riegger - Melvin Moti | Victoria Miro - Kara Walker | Regen Projects - John Bock | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Harun Farocki | ShanghART - Yang Fudong | Sies + Höke - João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva | Sprüth Magers Berlin London - John Bock, Sterling Ruby, .. | Christian Stein - Jack Pierson | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer - Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Ann Veronica Janssens | Vitamin Creative Space - Ming Wong | White Cube - Zhang Huan | Galerie Thomas Zander - Trevor Paglen | ZERO... - João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva | David Zwirner - Bruce Nauman


The FEATURE sector presents galleries with precise curatorial projects, showing both historical and contemporary work. This year's edition will feature 24 galleries from 12 countries, out of which 15 galleries are completely new to the show. Highlights of Feature include a presentation by KOW (Berlin) of Santiago Sierra’s early works from 1990-92, some of which have never been exhibited before, giving particular insight into Sierra’s appropriation of minimalism. Further highlights include Galleria Lorcan O'Neill Roma's (Rome) presentation of work by Luigi Ontani from the late 1960s to the early 1990s focusing on his early experimental films while Bitforms Gallery (New York) will present Beryl Korot’s landmark multi-channel installation ‘Dachau’ (1974) timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the work. A full list of exhibitors in Feature is available from artbasel.com/basel/feature.


Solo presentations in the relocated STATEMENTS sector offer visitors and collectors the opportunity to discover the work of emerging artists and young galleries. This year, nine of the 14 galleries exhibiting within Statements will be new to the show.
RaebervonStenglin - Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs | Pilar Corrias - John Skoog | Ramiken Crucible - Lucas Blalock


FILM This June, Art Basel will present a premier program of over 30 film and video works drawn from the show’s participating galleries, including works by Maria Anwander, Jan Peter Hammer, Harun Farocki, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, David Shrigley and Jane and Louise Wilson. The program is presented for the seventh consecutive year by Berlin-based curator Marc Glöde and Zurich collector This Brunner. Highlights of this year’s program include the world premiere of ‘Sequenza’ by Manon de Boer and George van Dam; Aïda Ruilova’s new film ‘Head and Hands: My Black Angel’; a short film program by Los Angeles filmmaker Pat O’Neill; the European premiere of ‘Tim’s Vermeer’; and a special screening curated by Vdrome. Screened at Stadtkino Basel, the Film program will run from Monday, June 16 to Saturday, June 21. A number of artists from the program will attend the screenings and will be taking part in Q&A sessions.


14 ROOMS Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theater Basel are delighted to announce ‘14 Rooms’, a major live-art exhibition to be staged in Basel from June 14 to 22, 2014. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition will feature performative works by artists including Marina Abramović, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Ed Atkins, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Damien Hirst, Joan Jonas, Laura Lima, Bruce Nauman, Otobong Nkanga, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, and Xu Zhen.