ART BASEL IN BASEL 2026

Created especially for the fair, this new body of work comprises a series of large-scale abstract paintings and works on paper that build on themes explored in Moritz’s 2025 exhibition The Sleep of Tomorrow (Pilar Corrias, 2025), in which the artist first brought together two distinct strands of her practice: figurative and abstract painting.

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Sabine Moritz’s (b. 1969, Quedlinburg) work explores the dynamics of how memory is constituted and the way in which it is subject to a continual process of deformation and reformation. Described by Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013 as “memories made visual – the fleeting impulses of the past rendered concrete in art”, Moritz’s paintings, by turns abstract and figurative, activate an awareness of time. They are records of specific, highly personal experiences that open out onto the general horizon of a collective history, from the artist’s childhood in the East German town of Jena, to the abstract notions of transience, decay and seriality. Mortiz’s work may be interpreted, above all, as a protest against forgetting, while also stating in no uncertain terms the inherent fragility, mutability and immateriality of memory.

Pilar Corrias is participating in Basel Exclusive, a new Art Basel initiative that will unveil a work not featured in the digital preview on 16 June 2026.