Messeplatz

Nairy Baghramian: ‘Who wants to be established? I want to remain emerging’

The artist, who won a medal in the 2025 Art Basel Awards, discusses the work she has created for the Messeplatz, and why she wants it to have an “afterlife” after the fair

Katharina Grosse: ‘Imagination doesn’t have a scale’

The artist discusses the trajectory of her practice and her vast, unmissable commission for Art Basel, which covers the entire Messeplatz

'People may not be prepared': Latifa Echakhch brings experimental classical music to Basel's Messeplatz

Artist aims to elicit both catharsis and discomfort from audiences for her music performances outside the Art Basel fair

Art meets dance in Alexandra Pirici's living time capsule at Art Basel

Sixty dancers will enact "performative environment" on the Messeplatz in Basel every day this week

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Claudia Waldner causes a stir with ball at Art Basel 2011

The artist held nothing back as calamity was narrowly avoided