Since 1970, Art Basel has featured the world’s leading galleries and thousands of artists from across five continents. This year’s fair in Basel – open to the public June 13–16, with preview days on June 11 and 12 – will include 287 participating exhibitors and citywide programming. Ten of them be showing at Art Basel in Basel for the first time. A diverse, global group, their programs represent an array of art histories, movements, and mediums, encompassing canonical mainstays, forgotten innovators, and contemporary artists pushing their fields to new limits.
MadeIn Gallery (Galleries sector, China)
Xu Zhen, the youngest artist to represent China at the Venice Biennale, started MadeIn gallery in 2014. Touted as ‘China’s Maurizio Cattelan,’ Zhen is known as a subversive conceptualist and the program at MadeIn follows suit. Located in Shanghai, the gallery’s strength lies in finding young, multidisciplinary talents such as Wang Ziquan, whose 2023 exhibition ‘Psycho Path’ featured a series of figures cast in transparent resin, their brightly-hued nervous systems visible within. MadeIn also represents artists including Li Hanwei, who creates digital images as well as playful foam installations – soft informational overloads. In Basel, MadeIn will share a booth with ShanghART Gallery, another mainstay of the Chinese metropolis’ art scene.
