The PhotoPhore is a proud partner of VOLTA12, Basel’s renowned art fair for new international positions, that returns to Markthalle for Art Basel Week, June 13-18, 2016. In the fair’s twelfth Basel edition, exhibitors from 21 nations and 34 cities assemble within Markthalle’s iconic cupola structure to present dynamic projects by artists from over 40 distinct nations.
“As a ‘pre-teen’ and having moved into our grown-up digs, VOLTA is maturing along with the years,” notes VOLTA Artistic Director Amanda Coulson, on the fair’s progression following its decade in Basel and ongoing residence at stately central venue Markthalle. “While we still represent emerging positions, the exhibitor base has also adapted organically to include positions of global relevance, in some cases regardless of decade conceived. Going forward, we subtitle the Basel fair with ‘new international positions’ to encapsulate the breadth and level of our range of galleries and their projects.”
Though this edition refects VOLTA’s highest brand retention yet, with 90% of exhibiting galleries having participated in prior VOLTA Basel and New York fairs, a very carefully considered selection of seven entirely new exhibitors contributes further depth to VOLTA’s ongoing efforts to highlight the global arts community’s diverse voices. VOLTA’s commitment to presenting new international positions includes acknowledging specifc and localized artistic efforts from decades past and re-contextualizing their signifcance within a contemporary global context.
Solo projects remain a fundamental component to VOLTA’s platform for focused artistic discoveries. Echoing the fair’s solo-format American edition, which hosted a critically lauded ninth New York fair at Pier 90 this past March, 16 galleries will stage solo projects in Basel and another 20 will position two artists “in dialogue”, totaling over half the booths at VOLTA12.
VOLTA12
13.06.2016 – 18.06.2016
Dustin Yellin, Psychogeography Study 102, 2016. Courtesy of Richard Heller Gallery
Ulu Braun, Sonnenmilch, 2016. Courtesy of krupic kersting galerie || kuk
Derek Lerner, Asvirus 62, 2016. Courtesy of robert henry contemporary
Irene Grau, NCS S 2370-R 112 cm, 2016. Courtesy of Ponce+Robles
Ángel Marcos, En Cuba #18, 2004. Courtesy of Hilger BROTKunsthalle
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