Art Basel, the mother of all art fairs, has released its 2012 exhibitor list. What can we glean from the crop of approximately 300 galleries selected? The fair, which runs from June 14 through 17, will feature a selection of fresh Paris galleries, as well as a handful of promising names from Dubai. The pugnacious Eigen + Art, whose owner accused the selection committee of collusion when he was passed over last year, has been welcomed back into the fold. As for those who were left out? By our count, 39 galleries included in last year’s edition of Art Basel will not be returning this time around, including big names like Maureen Paley of London and Christine König Galerie of Vienna.
The majority of the turnover — 26 of the 39 names — participated in Basel’s “Feature” and “Statements” sections, which typically have a higher turnover rate because galleries are selected on the basis of specific projects rather than the overall strength of their program. This year, 13 galleries who previously exhibited in the more established “Galleries” section won’t be returning (a turnover rate fairly similar to that of last year, when 12 galleries who participated in 2010 stayed home).
The pruning made room for 41 galleries who didn’t participate in the fair last year. Among them is a crop of new Paris names, such as Applicat-Prazan (Art Feature), Balice Hertling (Art Statements), In Situ Fabienne Leclerc (Art Feature), and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Art Statements). Two rising stars in the Dubai art scene will participate in the fair for the first time in the Art Statements section. Green Art Gallery will present work by Shadi Habib Allah while Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde will show work by Rokni Haerizadeh.
One of the more amusing elements of the list is the return of Eigen + Art, who set off a national furor when he went to the German papers in outrage over his exclusion from last year’s fair. (“They messed with the wrong person,” owner Gerd Harry Lybke memorably told ARTINFO.) The two other Berlin galleries that joined him in his crusade, Giti Nourbakhsch and Mehdi Chouakri, were not welcomed back.
Other notable exclusions include popular, edgier spaces like Dublin’s mother’s tankstation, Los Angeles’s Overduin & Kite, and New York’s Reena Spaulings, which participated in the Features and Statements sections last year. The shuffling made room for some welcome new names, however, including L.A.’s Cherry & Martin, Berlin’s Peres Projects, Madrid’s Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, and London’s Hotel, which co-founded New York’s Independent fair. New York additions include Alexander Gray Associates, McCaffrey Fine Art, and D’Amelio Gallery, Christopher D'Amelio's forthcoming offshoot of the recently closed D’Amelio-Terras Gallery.
See a copy of the full list, in alphabetical order, below.
303 Gallery | New York
Miguel Abreu Gallery | New York
Acquavella Galleries, Inc. | New York
Air de Paris | Paris
Galería Juana de Aizpuru | Madrid
Alexander and Bonin | New York
Galería Helga de Alvear | Madrid
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG | Zürich
Andréhn-Schiptjenko | Stockholm
Galerie Anhava | Helsinki
The Approach | London
Art: Concept | Paris
Alfonso Artiaco | Napoli
Baronian_Francey | Bruxelles
von Bartha Collection | Basel
Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte | Buenos Aires
Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière | Genève
Galerie Berinson | Berlin
Bernier/Eliades | Athens
Fondation Beyeler | Basel
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger AG | Zürich
Galerie Daniel Blau | München
BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services | Genève
Peter Blum Gallery, Blumarts Inc. | New York
Blum & Poe | Los Angeles
Marianne Boesky Gallery | New York
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | New York
Bortolami | New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Berlin
BQ | Berlin
Gavin Brown's enterprise | New York
Galerie Daniel Buchholz | Köln
Buchmann Galerie | Agra / Lugano
Cabinet | London
Galerie Gisela Capitain GmbH | Köln
carlier gebauer | Berlin
Galerie Carzaniga | Basel
Cheim & Read | New York
Chemould Prescott Road | Mumbai
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri | Berlin
Sadie Coles HQ | London
Contemporary Fine Arts | Berlin
Galleria Continua | San Gimignano (Siena)
Paula Cooper Gallery | New York
Galerie Chantal Crousel | Paris
Stephen Daiter Gallery | Chicago
Thomas Dane Gallery | London
Massimo De Carlo | Milano
Dvir Gallery | Tel Aviv
John M Armleder – Ecart | Genève
Galerie Eigen + Art | Berlin
Richard L. Feigen & Co. | New York
Konrad Fischer Galerie | Düsseldorf
Foksal Gallery Foundation | Warszawa
Galeria Fortes Vilaça | São Paulo
Fraenkel Gallery | San Francisco
Peter Freeman, Inc. | New York
Stephen Friedman Gallery | London
Frith Street Gallery | London
Gagosian Gallery | New York
Galerie 1900-2000 | Paris
Galleria dello Scudo | Verona
gb agency | Paris
Annet Gelink Gallery | Amsterdam
Gerhardsen Gerner | Berlin
Gladstone Gallery | New York
Galerie Gmurzynska | Zug
Galería Elvira González | Madrid
Marian Goodman Gallery | New York
Goodman Gallery | Johannesburg
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin | Frankfurt am Main
Richard Gray Gallery | Chicago
Greene Naftali | New York
greengrassi | London
Galerie Karsten Greve AG | St. Moritz
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art | Lisboa
Galerie Michael Haas | Berlin
Hauser & Wirth | Zürich
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert | London
Galerie Max Hetzler | Berlin
Galerie Hopkins | Paris
Edwynn Houk Gallery | New York
Xavier Hufkens | Bruxelles
Leonard Hutton Galleries | New York
i8 Gallery | Reykjavik
A arte Studio Invernizzi | Milano
Jablonka Galerie | Köln
Bernard Jacobson Gallery | London
Galerie Martin Janda | Wien
Catriona Jeffries Gallery | Vancouver
Johnen Galerie | Berlin
Annely Juda Fine Art | London
Galerie Kamm | Berlin
Casey Kaplan | New York
Georg Kargl Fine Arts | Wien
Sean Kelly Gallery | New York
Kerlin Gallery | Dublin
Anton Kern Gallery | New York
Kewenig Galerie | Köln
Galerie Kicken Berlin AG | Berlin
Galerie Peter Kilchmann | Zürich
Klosterfelde | Berlin
Galerie Bernd Klüser | München
Johann König | Berlin
David Kordansky Gallery | Los Angeles
Tomio Koyama Gallery | Koto-ku, Tokyo
Gallery Koyanagi | Tokyo
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs | New York
Andrew Kreps Gallery | New York
Galerie Krinzinger | Wien
Galerie Krugier & Cie | Genève
Nicolas Krupp | Basel
Kukje Gallery | Seoul
kurimanzutto | México D.F.
L & M Arts | New York
L.A. Louver | Venice, CA
Galerie Lahumière | Paris
Yvon Lambert | Paris
Landau Fine Art, Inc. | Montreal
Margo Leavin Gallery | Los Angeles
Simon Lee Gallery | London
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann | Dresden
Lehmann Maupin | New York
Galerie Lelong | Paris
Galerie Gisèle Linder | Basel
Lisson Gallery | London
Galerie Löhrl | Mönchengladbach
Long March Space | Beijing
Luhring Augustine | New York
Galerie m Bochum | Bochum
Jörg Maass Kunsthandel | Berlin
Maccarone | New York
Magazzino | Roma
Mai 36 Galerie | Zürich
Gió Marconi Gallery | Milano
Matthew Marks Gallery | New York
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. | London
Barbara Mathes Gallery | New York
Galerie Hans Mayer | Düsseldorf
The Mayor Gallery | London
McKee Gallery | New York
Galerie Greta Meert | Bruxelles
Anthony Meier Fine Arts | San Francisco
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing - Lucerne | Luzern
kamel mennour | Paris
Metro Pictures | New York
Meyer Riegger | Karlsruhe
Galeria Millan | São Paulo
Galleria Massimo Minini | Brescia
Victoria Miro | London
Mitchell-Innes & Nash | New York
Stuart Shave / Modern Art | London
The Modern Institute | Glasgow
Moeller Fine Art | New York
Jan Mot | Bruxelles
Galerie Mark Müller | Zürich
Galerie Vera Munro | Hamburg
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder | Wien
Galerie Christian Nagel | Berlin
Richard Nagy Ltd. | London
Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art LLC | New York
Helly Nahmad Gallery | New York
Nature Morte | New Delhi
Galerie Nelson-Freeman | Paris
Galerie Neu | Berlin
neugerriemschneider | Berlin
New Art Centre | Wiltshire, Salisbury
Galleria Franco Noero | Torino
David Nolan Gallery | New York
Galerie Nordenhake | Berlin
Galerie Georg Nothelfer | Berlin
Galerie Nathalie Obadia | Paris
Galería OMR | México D.F.
The Pace Gallery | New York
Galerie Alice Pauli | Lausanne
Galerie Françoise Paviot | Paris
Galerie Perrotin | Paris
Friedrich Petzel Gallery | New York
Galerie Francesca Pia | Zürich
Galerija Gregor Podnar | Berlin
Galería Joan Prats | Barcelona
Galerie Eva Presenhuber | Zürich
ProjecteSD | Barcelona
Galleria Raucci / Santamaria | Napoli
Almine Rech Gallery | Paris
Regen Projects | Los Angeles
Regina Gallery, London & Moscow | Moscow
Galerie Denise René | Paris
Anthony Reynolds Gallery | London
Galleri Riis | Oslo
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | Paris
Andrea Rosen Gallery | New York
Sage Paris | Paris
SCAI The Bathhouse | Tokyo
Aurel Scheibler | Berlin
Esther Schipper | Berlin
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle | München
Galerie Thomas Schulte | Berlin
Galerie Natalie Seroussi | Paris
Sfeir-Semler | Beirut
Tony Shafrazi Gallery | New York
ShanghART Gallery | Shanghai
ShugoArts | Tokyo
Sies + Höke Galerie | Düsseldorf
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | New York
Bruce Silverstein Gallery | New York
Skarstedt Gallery | New York
Skopia Art Contemporain | Genève
Sperone Westwater | New York
Sprüth Magers Berlin London | Berlin
Galerie St. Etienne | New York
Nils Staerk |Copenhagen
Stampa | Basel
Standard (OSLO) | Oslo
Starmach Gallery | Krakow
Christian Stein | Milano
Galeria Luisa Strina | São Paulo
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer | Antwerpen
Taka Ishii Gallery | Tokyo
Timothy Taylor Gallery | London
Team Gallery | New York
Galleria Tega | Milano
Galerie Daniel Templon | Paris
Galerie Thomas | München
Galerie Tschudi | Zuoz
Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea | Torre Pellice (Torino)
Galerie Bob van Orsouw | Zürich
Annemarie Verna Galerie | Zürich
Vitamin Creative Space | Guangzhou, Beijing
Waddington Custot Galleries | London
Galleri Nicolai Wallner | Copenhagen
Washburn Gallery | New York
Galerie Barbara Weiss | Berlin
Michael Werner | New York
White Cube | London
Donald Young Gallery | Chicago
Galerie Susanne Zander, Delmes & Zander Gbr | Köln
Galerie Thomas Zander | Köln
Zeno X Gallery | Antwerpen
Zero... | Milano
David Zwirner | New York