Which New Galleries Will Show at Paris + par Art Basel 2023?
Sixteen new galleries will join the fair in its second edition, with three making their first appearance at an Art Basel fair.
Aurelien Potier, My edges are sharpening (2023). Installation view Jenine Marsh, Aurelien Potier, Iris Touliatou at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2023). Courtesy the artists and Gianni Manhattan, Vienna. Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com.
Paris + par Art Basel will feature 154 galleries—including 16 newcomers—when it returns to the Grand Palais Éphémère from 20 to 22 October.
Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe will present sculptures by Lonnie Holley, a self-taught African American artist known for his work with found materials, in a solo booth.
Bortolami will show works by textile artist Leda Catunda and abstract American painter Mary Obering, while P.P.O.W will present influential LGBTQ American artists Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz.
Other galleries participating for the first time include Landau Fine Art from Montreal, London's Richard Nagy Ltd., and Jan Mot.
'As a Brussels-based gallery, we have natural affinities with Paris, so Paris + by Art Basel is both a logical step and one that will enable us to reach new collectors and audiences,' said Jan Mot.
Nine new participants will also join Paris + in the Galeries Émergentes sector—described by Paris + Director Clément Delépine, as 'the fair's center of gravity'—dedicated to up-and-coming galleries, with three participating in an Art Basel fair for the first time.
Milan's Fanta-MLN will present a booth by American conceptual artist Noah Barker that explores surveillance, while Felix Gaudlitz will present a satirical video installation by American filmmaker Jenna Bliss.
'The film takes place within an art fair but is set in 2007, so the solo presentation at Paris + is the perfect context to introduce this new project along with Bliss's broader body of research,' said Felix Gaudlitz.
Vienna's Gianni Manhattan will feature French artist Aurélien Potier's explorations of queer desire (pictured top).
'Potier salvages some of his materials from the cliffs of Montrose, a gay cruising spot in his hometown Marseille,' explained the gallery's founder, Laura Windhager.
'This area of coastline is a scenery at odds with our comprehension of coastal beach, offering instead a stiff, dehydrated, calcified and rocky landscape that festers under blazing sunlight and is filled with overflowing desire and thirst.'
Other participants in the Galeries Émergentes sector include Lyles & King, who made a splash in the 10 years and younger sector of The Armory Show last year, Spanish gallery, PM8 / Francisco Salas, Warsaw's Galeria Stereo, and London's Emalin.
Shanghai gallery BANK will make their Paris + debut with a video work by Lu Yang, while Document, which has spaces in Chicago and Lisbon, will show a multimedia installation by Tromarama from Indonesia.
'We want to support galleries that promote emerging perspectives,' said Delépine.
'The artists whose work will be on view in the sector are united by their ability to tackle hyper-contemporary themes in a subtle and complex way,' he said. —[O]
