Art Basel Announced Intercontinental Exhibition to Celebrate 50th Anniversary

<p class="p3">In 2020, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Art Basel will stage an ambitious contemporary art project, with individual facets unfolding at all three fairs — beginning in Hong Kong next March, continuing in Basel in June, and concluding in Miami Beach in December 2020.

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<p class="p3">The international project will be organized by an intergenerational curatorial team with different cultural backgrounds and perspectives, under the artistic direction of renowned Berlin-based curator Kasper König. Christina Li, curator of Hong Kong’s presentation at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019, will curate the Hong Kong presentation; König will take the lead for the Basel intervention, where the fair was initially founded in 1970; and Hamza Walker, the Executive Director of LAXART in Los Angeles, will direct the Miami Beach edition.

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<p class="p3">In the coming months, the curators will commission international and local artists to develop interventions around the topic of the fair as a marketplace and as a historical site for exchange, trade and competition, addressing the production, circulation, mediation, and consumption of contemporary art in a global world. Further details on the project, including the artist list will be announced in the fall of 2019.

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