The 48th edition of Art Basel, 2017, was an exceptional fair with fantastic sales about modern and contemporary works across all sectors.
Running simultaneously with the Venice Biennale, Documenta 14 and Skulptur Projekte Münster, Art Basel drew a particularly strong turnout of both established and new collectors from over 100 countries, with strong attendance from the Americas and Asia.
The show attracted an attendance of 95,000 and once again proved itself to be a pivotal meeting point for the international art world.
The show, whose Lead Partner is UBS, brought together 291 premier galleries from 35 countries, presenting extraordinary contemporary and Modern works by over 4,000 artists.
Leading private collectors from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa attended this year, as well as representatives from over 300 museums and institutions, including:
- Art Institute of Chicago;
- Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo;
- The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach;
- Centre Pompidou, Paris;
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao;
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.;
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art; M+, Hong Kong;
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
- Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City;
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul;
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York;
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo;
- Palais de Tokyo, Paris;
- Serpentine Galleries, London;
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
- Tate, London;
- The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
Galleries
This year, Galleries, the fair's main sector, presented 226 exhibitors showing the highest
quality painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and editioned works
– with many galleries exhibiting work by artists from the summers' three other major art
events.
Overall, the gallery sector of the show was rejuvenated by 12 galleries showing
within the sector for the very first time.
On the ground floor, four secondary market dealers were brought in: Di Donna, Tornabuoni Art, Luxembourg & Dayan and Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois.
On the first floor, new exhibitors included Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Pilar Corrias, dépendance, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Salon 94, Campoli Presti, Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler and Canada. Additionally, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art returned to Basel following a brief hiatus.
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