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MONDAY, JUNE 16 - SUNDAY, JUNE 22 | REBGASSE 31
4th Floor, with its distinctive character as a reimagined retailer’s warehouse, will spotlight the premier NFT galleries, platforms, and projects. This venue also hosts the Tezos lounge in an inviting space for visitors to relax and enjoy refreshments amidst the buzz of innovation.
MONDAY, JUNE 16 – SUNDAY, JUNE 22 | MESSE BASEL, MESSEPLATZ 10, 4058 BASEL
Liste celebrates its 30th edition with around 100 galleries from 32 countries showcasing pioneering positions in contemporary art at Messe Basel. This anniversary edition features a dynamic mix of returning exhibitors and over 40 first-time participants shaping the future of the field.
JUNE 15 - 21, 2025 | RITTERGASSE 25
Basel Social Club returns for its fourth edition, inhabiting a former private bank in the center of Grossbasel. The event will span more than 100 rooms of this iconic building, transforming the vast location into an immersive tableau vivant. Basel Social Club is the first to open the doors of these historic premises to the public, marking the beginning of the building’s activation by FOR ART, a project by Klaus Littmann to revitalize the vacant property on Rittergasse through artistic and cultural interventions until the end of 2028.
DIGITAL ART MILE: Creating Value in Digital Art Collecting: Perspectives from Collectors, Curators & Community Builders
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 | 12:15-1PM
Speakers: Sebastien Borget, Sandbox, Maurine Sigg, Sigg Foundation, Viola Lukács, 0xCollection and John Karp, NFC SUMMIT, Moderator: Kate Vass
Description: This panel brings together collectors, curators, and community leaders who are actively building ecosystems around digital art. This panel aims to explore how personal and institutional collecting practices shape value, the role of community in supporting cultural legitimacy, and innovative curatorial projects that redefine engagement and preservation. Drawing from diverse experiences—including gallery-building, foundation-backed collecting, decentralized curation, and event-driven community-building—this discussion will shed light on what truly drives meaningful and lasting value in digital art today.
DIGITAL ART MILE: The Canons of Digital Art
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 | 1-2PM
Speakers: Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum, Melanie Lenz, V&A Museum, Marcella Lista, Centre Pompidou and Kevin Abosch, moderated by Alex Estorick, Editor-in-Chief, Right Click Save
Description: Museums play a key role in the canonisation of new and emerging art forms, including digital art. This conversation with curators and artists from around the world considers how museums determine which artists and practices get to be included in exhibitions and collections. As history unfolds across a panoply of social media platforms, institutions (including on-chain institutions) continue to play a vital role in archiving new histories in real time. This session explores the distributed authorship and architecture of art history today.
ART BASEL: Sasha Stiles: Official Art Basel Poster with Iconic Moments - Launch and Signing
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 | 3-3:30PM
Join artist and poet Sasha Stiles for a special signing of WORDS BEYOND WORDS, the official Art Basel poster created in collaboration with Iconic Moments in a limited-edition release alongside her critically acclaimed book Technology. This exclusive event offers an exciting opportunity to meet the artist and acquire signed copies these collectible works. Available in limited quantities.
ART BASEL: Premiere artist talk: Katharina Grosse and Natalia Grabowska
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 | 11:30AM-12:30PM
DIGITAL ART MILE: Digital Art in Corporations: A Shift in Cultural Investment and Company Patronage
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 | 10:50-11:30AM
Speakers: Milko Hensel, Maerki Baumann & Co. AG, DooEun Choi, Hyundai Motor, Prof. Dr. Thomas Girst, BMW Group, Ulrich Schrauth, UBS Digital Art Museum, Moderator: Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou, designboom
Description: As new technologies reshape cultural production, what role does digital art play in corporate investment and patronage? What challenges and opportunities does this shift represent for private companies when it comes to collecting, commissioning and exhibiting new media?
ART BASEL: The artist as visionary: Cecilia Vicuña in conversation with Elena Filipovic
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 | 12-12:30PM
ART BASEL: Radical reimaginings: Ibrahim Mahama and Lydia Ourahmane talk to Hans Ulrich Obrist
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 | 1:30-2PM
DIGITAL ART MILE: Conversation with Patrick Tresset and Eleonora Brizi
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 | 11:30AM-12PM
Speakers: Patrick Tresset, Artist, Eleonora Brizi, 100 collectors
Description: This one-on-one conversation between a pioneering artist and a digital art curator explores intersections of machine creativity, human emotion, and curatorial practice in the context of generative and AI-based art. Through shared reflections, the session reveals how artists and curators are building new frameworks to understand and exhibit computational aesthetics.
ART BASEL: Digital Dialogues Talk Series
SATURDAY, JUNE 21 | 1-5:30PM
Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 1pm - 1:45pm: Seeing like a machine: The hidden costs of Artificial Intelligence with Kate Crawford, author, artist, and Professor, University of Southern California and Alistair Hudson, ZKM Center for Art and Media - RSVP
Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 2:15pm - 3pm: From Nature to Networks: Algorithmic ecosystems with Sofia Crespo and Feileacan Kirkbride McCormick, artists, Entangled Others, Linda Douniea, artist and designer, Moderator: Dr. Jeni Fulton, Head of Editorial, Art Basel - RSVP
Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 3:30pm - 4:15pm: Language, identity and AI futures with Sasha Stiles, poet and artist, New York, Iskra Velitchkova, artist, Moderator: Alex Estorick, Editor-in-Chief, Right Click Save - RSVP
Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 4:45pm - 5:30pm: Collecting in an expanding art world with B (@beautyandpunk), entrepreneur and advisor, Elle Anastasiou, Cofounder and Director, 0xCollection, Ryan Zurrer, Founder, Dialectic Group & 1OF1 Collection, Moderator: Eli Scheinman, Art Advisor - RSVP
HEK - Haus der Elektronischen Künste
WED & FRI, 12-6PM; THURS, 12-8PM; SAT & SUN, 12-5PM | FREILAGER-PLATZ 9
Open Decks at HEK
DJ and drinks until on Thursday 12th and 19th until 8 PM
Public Guided Tour at “Other Intelligences” exhibition
June 15th and 22nd, 3PM
Exhibition “The 6TH VH Award” with works by finalists Lena Bui, Huda x Mungomery, Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, Wendi Yan and Inhwa Yeom
Opening reception on June 17th. Panel discussion with finalists starting at 5.30 PM
Book Launch of “Other Intelligences”
Curators Sabine Himmelsbach and Marlene Wenger gather with participating artists to offer fascinating insights into the exhibition of the same name on Wednesday, 18th.
DAILY, 10 AM-6 PM | CHARLES-EAMES-STRASSE 2
Exhibition “Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse”
A dialogue between science fiction and design supplemented by selected works from the realms of film and literature
MON TO SUN 10 AM-6 PM; WED 10 AM-8 PM | BASELSTRASSE 101
“Little Room” is the new virtual installation by American artist Jordan Wolfson which examines the darker aspects of the human experience while raising profound existential questions about consciousness, identity, and physical and intellectual negation.
RUCHFELDSTRASSE 19, 4142 MÜNCHENSTEIN
The foundation will exhibit Bass (2024), one of the most recent works
created by Steve McQueen. The world-renowned artist and Academy
Award-winning filmmaker is returning to Schaulager in June 2025, with
his most abstract work to date and 12 years after the groundbreaking
exhibition. Specifically attuned to the architecture of Schaulager, Bass is
largely inspired by McQueen’s keen interest in the effect of light, colour
and sound on our physical perception of space and time.
On this 75-minute tour, you’ll track down digital artworks that are spread all around the city.
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Horburgstrasse 105
During Art Basel, Tanzhaus Basel transforms into a creative lab for dance, technology, and digital art. As part of the Laboratory Dance & Media, we present an exciting program featuring motion capture, AI, and virtual realities.
Autonomous Avatar: An immersive performance at the intersection of human and machine on June 18th and 19th
Redefining Reality: Brigitte Fässler explores dance and AI in an experimental performance on June 20th and 21st
Klybeckstrasse 1b
Independent venue for contemporary theatre, dance, performance and popular music scene
Sound performance “Cilio Minella/ Cie la Secouse” from June 12th to 15th
