Watchlist: The Moving Pieces in Gallery Representations Ahead of Art Basel

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The start of another European summer means Art Basel’s flagship fair is on the way. We’ve kept tabs on the key changes at leading galleries so you can know what’s what and who’s where come fair week.

Cristina Iglesias Joins Hauser & Wirth

Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias is now represented by mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, who will bring Iglesias’ work to Art Basel (19–22 June 2025) and stage her debut exhibition in London on 14 October. Iglesias’ landmark structures have ranged from latticed panels and pavilions to tidal pools and deep wells, combining traditional and unexpected materials like water and sound. President Marc Payot said the gallery was ‘honoured’ to welcome the artist and praised Iglesias’ ‘rare sensitivity to the poetic potentials of natural and architectural space’.

Christopher Le Brun joins Almine Rech 

British painter and former Royal Academy president Christopher Le Brun will now work with Almine Rech in conjunction with Lisson Gallery and Albertz Benda. 

Founder Almine Rech said the artist’s approach to abstraction attracted her: ‘His paintings can be called abstract, but evoke day or night phases, the cosmos’, Rech said, linking the painter’s work to gallery artists associated with the Light and Space and ZERO movements.

Le Brun’s first exhibition with Almine Rech will be open in Paris this October and the gallery will bring his work to Art Basel later this month.

Walter Price Joins Modern Art

Painter Walter Price has joined the roster of Modern Art. The Parisian gallery will work with the New York-based artist alongside David Zwirner, Greene Naftali (New York), Barbara Wien (Berlin), and The Modern Institute (Glasgow). 

The Georgia-born artist and former U.S. navy veteran is known for his precise yet evocative paintings that rest at the edge of the familiar, resonant in arrangement of figure, colour, and signs. The gallery will stage an exhibition of the artist’s work in Paris this October.

Friedrich Kunath joins Pace 

German painter Friedrich Kunath has joined the ranks of mega-gallery Pace. An exhibition of the Los Angeles-based artist’s work is planned for New York this autumn, along with new work at Art Basel in June.

Pace president Samanthe Rubell praised the artist’s ability to ‘translate historical imagery into a language that resonates today’, citing his myriad influences from German Romanticism and the Hudson River School to American popular culture. 

‘Kunath imbues his art with a myriad of seemingly disparate references and resonances, navigating the murky spaces between irony and sincerity, tragedy and comedy,’ she said.

Lindsay Adams Joins Sean Kelly 

American painter Lindsay Adams is now represented by Sean Kelly Gallery. The gallery said the Chicago-based artist will bring a ‘powerful’ voice to its programme, citing her ‘deeply thoughtful, formally rigorous, and profoundly moving’ work. 

Adams held her first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles in January. She called the move a pivotal moment that will allow her to ‘deepen the questions [she is] asking, expand the scope of the work, and grow within a dynamic community that challenges and inspires’. —[O]

Main image: Cristina Iglesias, Deep Fountain (1997–2006). Polychrome concrete, resin, and water. 1,372 × 3,288 cm. Permanent installation, Leopold de Waelplaats, Antwerp. © Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Kristien Daem.