photo basel is Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography-based art, just 700 meters from the Art Basel exhibition center.
The sector «Beyond Photography» is a curated selection of photographic positions that go far beyond photography with the use of various mixing techniques.
«Spotlight Africa»: For the first time, four of the 41 galleries are showing works exclusively by African artists .
photo basel welcomes 41 galleries from 15 countries to its ninth edition. Over 450 photographic positions (artworks) by 150 artists are on show, with this year's new galleries Anita Beckers (Frankfurt am Main), Doyle Wham (London), In The Gallery (Copenhagen & Palma de Mallorca), inside-out gallery (Brussels), nüüd.gallery (Berlin), POLARWIND (Zürich), SmithDavidson Gallery (Amsterdam, Mexico City & Miami), AN INC. (Seoul) as well as Window Fourteen (Geneva).
Denis Dailleux Dans la gare d’Alexandrie, 2005 C-Print, 120 x 120 cm Edition 6/6
Galerie—Peter—Sillem is delighted to participate in this year's edition of Photo Basel, featuring a solo presentation by two-time World Press Photo Award winner Denis Dailleux.
Denis Dailleux was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has published several books on Egypt (especially Cairo), his impressions of the "Arab Spring," and Ghana. Dailleux has received numerous international awards, including the Monographies Award in 1997, the World Press Photo Award in the Portrait category in 2000, the Hasselblad Award in 2000, the Fujifilm Award in 2001, and the World Press Photo Award in 2014 in the Staged Portraits category (2nd place), and the Prix Roger Pic in 2019. He is a member of the Agence VU and currently lives in Paris.
His work is part of numerous institutional and private collections, including the Agnès B. private collection, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and the Neuflize Vie collection.
Edward Burtynsky is considered one of the world's most important photographers. His impressive photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent his 40-year commitment to documenting the effects of human industrialisation on the planet. Iceland is particularly prone to soil erosion. A thousand years of deforestation to enable farming have left it vulnerable to the frequent high winds that scatter topsoil. As a consequence, arable land is dwindling. Flying over the Thjorsá, the country's longest river, you can see how the current shapes erosive silt into wispy patterns. Volcanic minerals are responsible for the surreal colours of the country's famous lakes and rivers. The newly released pictures from 2012 are part of Burtynsky's major series "Water". The photographs from the "Coast Mountains“ series were taken in the summer of 2023, during the devastating forest fires in Canada. They document the rapid melting of the glaciers.
Loredana Nemes White 04, 2024 Silbergelatineabzug, 93 x 70 cm
Loredana Nemes White 01, 2024 Silbergelatineabzug, 93 x 70 cm
The "White" series by Loredana Nemes was created in January of this year. The artist then works a relief relevant to the image into the gelatin silver prints.
»There are days when heaven and earth disappear and what remains is beautiful. There are days when you can cut firs from clouds and look at them for a long time. Then the now glows so alone. There are days when world becomes picture and one can be part of it. And also the camera is there and it marvels and it freezes, too. And when the freezing is so huge that the laughter sets in, and the luck, then fear and war vanish and everything is white.« Loredana Nemes
The artists presented at photo basel each explore the theme of "naked human beauty" in a very different way and using a different visual language. The result is an aesthetic symbiosis that combines modern digital photography and techniques with antiquity and the art of the 16th/17th century.
In his life-size photographs of scenes from everyday life, Deni Horvatić (*1991) minimises the distance between the environment and the people portrayed by choosing a particular angle of view: Shot from below, the images hide as much as they reveal, denying the viewer a glimpse of the part of the body we most immediately associate with identity – the face. The way they are shot, the lighting and the black background make the works reminiscent of a modern interpretation of old masters, especially Caravaggio, and one wonders whether they are photographs or paintings. In his AR work, Deni explores the multifaceted journey of self-discovery during the process of growing up, navigating the complexities of conforming to societal expectations while striving for universal acceptance. The project incorporates a dual dimension—both tangible and augmented—allowing viewers to delve deeper through augmented reality by scanning a wool carpet with a QR code linked to the printed image.
Daniel & Geo Fuchs will be showing a selection of works from their latest series "Greeks & Romans" as a world premiere. These works focus on the aesthetics of Greek and Roman sculptures that were once created to perfectly represent human beauty, strength and heroism. We live in a time in which, on the one hand, nudity is on public display, but on the other, a prudery is awakening that censors nudity even in art, such as Michelangelo’s David in Dubai, Florida or even Scotland. Nevertheless, the depiction of nudity remains something special and attractive, which is also what makes sculpture collections so appealing. By taking digital photographs of the antique sculptures, modifying the images and, above all, altering the colours, the artists change the message, modernise the view and thus the impressiveness for the viewer.
Yasuhiro Ogawa: Into the Silence & The Dreaming Yasuhiro Yasuhiro Ogawa is considered one of the new and strong voices in Japanese photography. His work is in an area that takes up the classic motifs and contemplative attitude of Japanese landscape photography and combines them with contemporary photographic means such as abstract compositions, unusual perspectives or blurs. His almost cinematic-like images transport the viewer to another reality, transforming our environment into dream landscapes. Through his unique perspective and emotional depth, Ogawa captures the beauty and mystery of travel and creates images that are both timeless and impressive. The artist has received the Taiyo Award and the New Comer Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for his images, among others, and is one of the most important contemporary new photographers in Japan.
Thomas Hoepker: Muhammad Ali, Lovers Lane and Children playing at Berlin Wall Thomas Hoepker's humanistic documentations shaped the understanding of artistic author photography and have themselves become part of the history of photography. In 1989, Hoepker became the first german photographer to become a full member of the Magnum Photos agency and led it as president from 2003 to 2007. His portraits of Muhammad Ali are world famous and part of numerous book publications. His photographs are represented in the most important collections and museums. The photographer lives and works in New York. This year, in addition to the "classics" (Muhammad Ali, New York) from Hoepker's work, we are also showing a series of vintage prints that were created at the Berlin Wall in 1963. In their correspondence with each other, this compilation creates a photographic period through history and with those who shaped this history.
Michael Wolf: In the Corner Houses The internationally renowned german photographer Michael Wolf continues his visual search for overlooked and underestimated urban phenomena. These residential and commercial buildings from the 1950s and 1960s are an expression of local Chinese pragmatism and practicality in the economic austerity of the first post-war decades. The photographic presentation captures the inherent paradoxes of their architectural character: the quiet prominence, the attractive banality and the tectonic chaos - all integral to Hong Kong's urban qualities and development. Michael Wolf's photographs already stand alongside the works of Andreas Gursky and Candida Höfer, have struck a chord with a wide audience and have now also become part of our collective memory. With his images, Michael Wolf has added a contemporary contribution to the genre of the cityscape in fine art and photography. The photographs are part of Michael Wolf's major retrospectives, are shown worldwide and are in relevant international collections.
The new pictures by the Milan-based artist Maurizio Sapia are a further exploration of the theme of identity. Through the photographic medium, he has sought his own personal mode of expression, free from the rules of commercial photography: first using traditional photography and then computers, he has explored areas on the border between photography and painting, resulting in a very personal style. His experience in the field of digital environments then extended his interest to interactive installations.
Oreste Monaco, based in Catania (Sicily), is an art director who has lived between Milan, Barcelona and Madrid for almost 10 years. His passion for art led him to take a degree in Art Direction (Advertising) at the European Institute of Design. His nudes, created in Mediterranean locations and sometimes set in baroque light, open up a discussion about personal and social gender perception.
Andrea Christl's works are for the most part created in connection with nature. For the Freiburg-based artist, photography is like meditation, an absolute presence in the present moment.
Tereza Kozinc (1985) is a Slovenian author and photographer, who finished her studies at the Institute and Academy for Multimedia in Ljubljana. At the heart of her work is the search for and questioning of a utopian home, emotionally as well as geographically. Tereza’s work stretches between diary and documentary photography, characterised by a minimalist reality that grows into surreality. She is the winner of the Fotofever prize in Paris, a Futures platform artist and is a part of the Reflexions 2.0 community. The Guardian chose her photograph as one of the best works presented at Photo Basel 2023, and in the same year the artist's photography book 7AM was published by the French publishing house IIKKI, in which she and the co-author, Klavdij Sluban, present work dedicated to their son. She is nominated for the Maurice de Mauriac x photo basel award.
Hannah Schemel (*1994) is a German-born artist, who studied communication design at the University of Mannheim and is currently finishing her MA in Milan, Italy. In her photography practice, Schemel focuses on the passing of time and its interaction with subjects from the natural world, such as the sea, the sky and the forest. She has been developing two long-term projects, kigen (the origin) and umi (the sea), in which she traces the origin of places either through provenance in the Black Forest or the sea of Quiberon. The photographer works with an analogue large format camera and creates her photographs using hand-made paper especially developed for her, into which she lets her motives sink using a platinum-palladium mixture technique with a delicate Japanese paint brush made of goat hair.
ANTON CORBIJN is one of the world's most important portrait photographers. His photographs of musicians from the 80s and 90s, as well as those for bands such as U2, Depeche Mode, Metallica and others led to the actual image building of these bands. Personalities from the worlds of film, literature, art and fashion are a further component of his extensive oeuvre. Corbijn has also directed several Hollywood films, including the impressive film portrait CONTROL, about the late Joy Devision musician Ian Curtis. At the fair, we are exclusively showing lithographs from the STAR TRAK series, from which his extraordinary artistic visual language has developed significantly.
The focus will also be on three female artists from different generations who use the medium of photography for their work in their own way.
We are presenting early works by ANNEGRET SOLTAU (*1946, Lüneburg, GER) that have never been shown before. Since the beginning of her career in the 1970’s, Annegret Soltau (Germany, 1946) has explored body processes in various media like performance, video, photography and collage. Her experimental approach to depict the female body has challenged conventional forms of representation and has made her a key figure of the Female Avantgarde of the 1970’s.
CHRISTIANE FESER (*1977, Würzburg, GER) is known for her ongoing series of photo-objects: three-dimensional, photographic sculptures that behave like representational and optical experiments; simultaneously exploring the perceptions of a camera and a person. Her constructions begin as assemblages of simple materials—clay spheres, paper shapes or sewing pins—that are lit and photographed. The image is printed and then cut-open, folded, punctured or otherwise added to; transforming the flat print back into a dimensional object with its own sense of time and space, shattering the basic tenet that a photograph reproduces a scene existing elsewhere.
SUSA TEMPLIN (*1965, Hamburg, GER) questions the three-dimensional qualities of the medium of photography in ever new, expansive installations. In her artistic work she examines the contradiction of space and surface in the image, the temporality and the three-dimensionality in the photographic confrontation. In her expansive works and installations, the viewer is invited to walk around sculptural-photographic works and individually experience motivic, optical and contextual references of the works in relationship to their own body and point of view.
Patrik Fuchs is a photographic collector. Fascinated by the visual commons of our living worlds, by the trust towards the familiar. He traces the everyday, at home in Switzerland or on extended journeys across the continent. In the "ordinary" Fuchs searches for the typical, the aesthetic peculiarities, the beauty and the breaks.
For his series "Wetterseite" Fuchs portrayed barns which are part of everyday life in Switzerland. They stand by the roadside or alone in fields. As functional buildings for storing the harvest or agricultural implements, they point to an original economy that saw the land not as building land but as fertile land. The ongoing urbanisation of Switzerland has therefore given barns the ambivalent dignity of upright losers. As farm buildings, they are mostly buildings of low status, and yet with their simple and typical forms they have shaped the landscape and thus the self-image of Switzerland.
The land of red earth is the home of Zak van Biljon. Born in South Africa in 1981, the photographer spent his childhood and youth between Johannesburg and Cape Town. In 2003, he graduated top of his class from the National College of Photography in Pretoria. Ironically, he graduated with a degree in black and white prints - when he was influenced by the colors of the Rainbow Nation. In 2004, he moved to Europe. His main focus is on the staged use of light. In his latest art project he deals with infrared photography. The world seen in shades of red and pink offers a new and impressive insight into reality as we know it.
Sandro Livio Straube, born 1992 in Zurich, is an architect and photographer. Over a period of more than four years he photographed in the Val Lumnezia for the series "Mountains bleach". The limitation to an analog medium format camera and a fixed focal length, as well as the strict geographical perimeter, led to a sought-after narrowness and thus to a more intense perception. The photographs show what would otherwise soon disappear. As a silent observer, he dares to look reality in the eye for a fraction of a second- the moment of taking the picture.
Imaginario represents more than 30 Argentine and Latin American artists from the fields of the protograpy, the sculpture and the visual arts.
Diego Moreno is a visual artist and writer born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1975. He is a historian from the National University of Colombia and Magister in philosophy and History candidate, with a specialization in visual arts and aesthetic arts from the same University. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and France. His current minimalist work "South America: Vestiges of a Living World" is being displayed in galleries and international meetings of photography and contemporary art.
Jorge Llacay's photographs are, in a sense, a possible future of other pasts that allow the observer to find what is forgotten or blurred in their sensations. The portrayed scenes are inhabted by emptiness, absence and stillness and become an expression of that loss, until they are completed with the memory that appears in the observer releasing them into a new future.
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