Art Basel

Art Basel 44 will run June 13 - 16, 2013, with VIP previews today, June 11, 11am - 8pm and June 12, 11am - 3pm. Vernissage: June 12, 3pm - 8pm, Hall 2, Booth B5. Art Unlimited Basel runs today, June 11 - 16, 2013, with a preview on June 10, 4 - 7pm in Hall 1. This year Andrea Rosen Gallery is thrilled to announce David Altmejd's inclusion in Art Unlimited with his monumental piece "The Orbit," 2012.

Art Basel stages the world's premier Modern and contemporary art shows, held annually together in some of the world's most exciting venues: Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Three annual shows bring the artworld together in some of the world's most exciting venues. Together, nearly 200,000 visitors view works of art presented by over 500 of the world's leading galleries. Founded by gallerists in 1970, Art Basel has been a driving force in supporting the role that galleries play in the nurturing of artists, and the development and promotion of visual arts.

In addition to showing exciting works by world-renowned artists, Art Basel is always innovating, thus expanding its platform for new artists who represent the vanguard of the visual arts. Its worldwide reputation – earned over the last forty years – for showing work of the highest merit, and attracting the world's leading gallerists and collectors, has made Art Basel the place where the art world meets.

Especially during the last decade, art fairs have become a key venue in this international promotion of artists, and in the general expansion of the artworld. Today, fairs function as the primary global promotional platform for galleries, allowing them access to a massive number of collectors and curators, people who come to fairs not only to discover new artists and new galleries, but also to deepen their engagement with those that they already know.

The dynamic relationships between art galleries, their artists, private collectors and public institutions play an essential role in today's artworld, and connecting the international art community has been Art Basel's goal since its beginning. Now, over forty years later, it ranks as the premier show of its kind, presenting 20th and 21st century art with a strong curatorial perspective. Its tradition of excellence across a wide range of genres offers visitors the most vital art that the world's best galleries can offer.

Each show, in Basel, Miami Beach and in Hong Kong, is defined by its host city, with participating galleries showing artworks unique to the region, and parallel programming produced in collaboration with the region's local institutions. Every artistic medium is represented: paintings, sculpture, installations, videos, multiples, prints, photography and performance. Special sectors structure the show, providing different presentation formats for galleries and artists, alongside special sectors overseen by leading international curators.

Dusan Rozic