Press Release

For its return to Art Basel, Xavier Hufkens presents a curated selection of artistsdistinguished by current and upcoming solo institutional exhibitions taking placearound the world this year:

These include Louise Bourgeois’ landmark solo exhibition I have been to hell andback. And let me tell you, it was wonderful at Fubon Art Museum in Taipei, and aforthcoming show at Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin—marking the first majormuseum exhibition on the artist in Korea in 25 years; Thierry De Cordier’scritically acclaimed site-specific monographic exhibition NADA at FondazionePrada in Milan; Tracey Emin’s two major solo exhibitions—Sex and Solitude atPalazzo Strozzi in Florence and I Loved You Until The Morning at Yale Center forBritish Art in New Haven; and Giorgio Griffa’s monographic exhibition Dipingerel’invisibile at Palazzo Ducale in Genova.

Further institutional highlights include a long-term exhibition dedicated to earlywork by Roni Horn at Dia Beacon in New York, and Roni Horn: Pair Field at DePont in Tilburg; Robert Mapplethorpe’s Le forme del classico at Le Stanze dellaFotografia in Venice, bringing together over 200 works—some exhibited in Italyfor the first time; and forthcoming solo exhibitions by Mark Manders at MuseumVoorlinden in Wassenaar and Constantin Nitsche at Collection Lambert inAvignon; Tatiana Trouvé‘s The Strange Life of Things at Palazzo Grassi in Venice—her most expansive exhibition to date and her first institutional solo show in Italy;Cecilia Vicuña’s upcoming exhibition Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey at theIrish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and a long-term exhibition by Danh Vōat M+ in Hong Kong.

This edition of the fair also marks the first time Xavier Hufkens presents works byCharline von Heyl, who will hold her debut exhibition with the gallery in September2025, and by Tatiana Trouvé, who recently joined the gallery programme and willpresent her first solo exhibition at the gallery in September 2026.

Additional highlights include works on view by Lynda Benglis, Alice Neel, andSterling Ruby, alongside new and recent works by Thomas Houseago, LesleyVance, Cathy Wilkes, Qiu Xiaofei, and Zhang Enli.

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