Art Basel Paris 2024

This curated selection brings together diverse yet harmoniously interconnected works by The Haas Brothers, Tony Cragg, Isaac Julien, Idris Khan, Barbara Kruger, Alicja Kwade, Doron Langberg, Marilyn Minter, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, and Flora Yukhnovich, spanning various artistic disciplines. Together, these artists explore recurring themes such as materiality, identity, desire, and the manipulation of time and space.

The Haas Brothers create whimsical paintings and sculptures that blend art, design, and craft, celebrating biomorphic forms. Similarly, Tony Cragg explores organic abstraction through his fluid sculptures, transforming materials into unpredictable, seemingly organic structures. Idris Khan and Alicja Kwade investigate time and perception. Khan’s layered paintings suggest the passage of time through repetition, while Kwade’s installations challenge linear concepts of time and reality, blending science with poetic forms. Barbara Kruger’s text-based works deploy provocative slogans to confront issues of power, consumerism, and identity. Isaac Julien integrates film and photography to tell visually rich, narrative-based stories about migration, queerness, and cultural histories. Marilyn Minter’s seductive images explore the allure and toxicity of beauty standards, while Doron Langberg uses lush, expressive painting to depict emotional scenes of the landscape. Michaela Yearwood-Dan adds a lyrical layer to this discourse, incorporating playful gestures on organic ceramic forms. Flora Yukhnovich reinterprets 18th-century Rococo aesthetics with a contemporary lens, blending classical references with abstraction, evoking dream-like sensuality that resonates with the surreal tones of the broader selection.

This group of artists exemplifies a bold use of form, material, and meaning, offering dynamic commentary on contemporary life while challenging traditional boundaries between art and design, abstraction and narrative, and beauty and critique. Each artist, in their own way, engages viewers by manipulating perceptions of reality, encouraging reflection on personal, social, and historical themes.