Artists Of The Future In Art Statements, Basel

Are these the artists of the future? Art Basel, which begins its 41st edition on June 15, thinks so. It has just released the names of 26 artists, all born since 1966, who will be featured in this year’s Art Statements section of the fair. They were selected from more than 300 applications by the Art Basel Committee, and they come from 17 countries: Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

Art Statements, now in its 11th year, has apparently had a fairly good track record of raising the profiles of participants with curators and collectors. “Many previous participating artists have been awarded major exhibitions as a result of being discovered at Art Statements,” the press release says.

Among them are Ghada Amer, Vanessa Beecroft, William Kentridge and Elizabeth Peyton.

Of course, since it’s dealers who make the choice, the artists’ galleries may figure in the choices. Nonetheless, here are this year’s artists, who will make new works for Art Basel. Art Basel lists them by their galleries:

A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro): Maria Nepomuceno, born 1976

Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York): Sam Lewitt, born 1981

Arataniurano (Tokyo): Takahiro Iwasaki, born 1975

Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris): Kerstin Brätsch, born 1976

Laura Bartlett Gallery (London): Elizabeth McAlpine, born 1973

Boers-Li Gallery (Beijing): Yang Xinguang, born 1980

Chatterjee & Lal (Mumbai): Nikhil Chopra, born 1974

Cortex Athletico (Bordeaux): Benoît Maire, born 1978

Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam): Lara Almarcegui, born 1972

Dépendance (Bruxelles): Benjamin Saurer, born 1977

Freymond-Guth & Co, Fine Arts (Zürich): Dani Gal, born 1975

Hollybush Gardens (London): Claire Hooper, born 1978

Hunt Kastner Artworks (Prague): Eva Kotatkova, born 1982

Galerie Iris Kadel (Karlsruhe): Adrian Williams, born 1974

Galerie Kamm (Berlin): Michelle Di Menna, born 1980

David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles): Rashid Johnson, born 1977

Michael Lett (Newton / Aukland): Sriwhana Spong, born 1979

Lullin + Ferrari (Zürich): Edit Oderbolz, born 1966

Proyectos Monclova (México): Nina Beier, born 1975

Monitor (Roma): Francesco Arena, born 1978

Neue Alte Brücke (Frankfurt am Main): Simon Fujiwara, born 1982

ProjecteSD (Barcelona): Iñaki Bonillas, born 1981

Rokeby (London): Bettina Buck, born 1974

Gallery SKE (Bangalore): Sreshta Premnath, born 1979

T293 (Napoli): Patrizio Di Massimo, born 1983

Sassa Trülzsch (Berlin): Dieter Detzner, born 1970

 

You can read the full press release here.

 

Photo Credit: two works by Maria Nepomuceno, Courtesy Steve Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles