Art Basel to celebrate 50th anniversary with intercontinental exhibition

Art Basel show recently announced an intercontinental exhibition to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020. Since its first edition in 1970, the show has become one of the artworld's most important events, attracting gallerists, artists, curators, journalists, and art lovers from all over the globe. In 2020, Art Basel will stage an ambitious contemporary art project across its three show locations, with artworks commissioned especially for the occasion. Curated by a multi-national and -generational team, led by Kasper König, former director of the Museum Ludwig and founder of Skulpturprojekte Münster; Christina Li, who will be curating this year's Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and Hamza Walker, the director of Los Angeles' LAXART exhibition space, will lead the effort on the continent they hail from: König in Basel, Li in Hong Kong, and Walker in Miami Beach. The project will focus on 'the marketplace as a historical site of exchange, trade and competition, and as an intersection of different actors and forces.' The works on view will also address the issues that inevitably arise in the lives of those who love and live art: value, infrastructure, success, failure, and authorship, among others. König, Li, and Walker hope to showcase 'a plurality of voices revolving around significant phenomena within the present neoliberal economy', states the trio of curators. For more information visit Art Basel website: https://www.artbasel.com/news/50-years