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The international leading fair for new discoveries in contemporary art. Next edition: 15–21 June 2026.

31/07/2025

Highlights Adam Christensen

Lene is a tender tribute by Adam Christensen to his mother, who passed away last spring. Using sound recordings from her final weeks—texts and songs—Adam performs live on accordion while creating drawings on paper taped to large windows. As he tears holes in the paper, light streams through, transforming loss into presence.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

28/07/2025

Highlights

Cafe Zero by Søren Aagaard is a sci-fi cooking ritual exploring the New Nordic movement and an uncertain future.

Performed in a campsite setting with two tents—one for storage, the other a fermentation chamber, oven, and smoke sauna—Søren Aagaard, Holger Hartvig, and Markus Oxelman prepare and share a menu of local ingredients. Microbe songs and scripted kitchen conversations blend themes of dystopia and utopia, while uniforms by Anne Sofie Madsen complete the immersive experience.
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Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel

Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

25/07/2025

Highlights

Under the title Painting Grateful Dead Bears, Basel-based artist Tina Braegger invited children aged 6 to 12 to create their own take on the iconic Grateful Dead bears. Across five fun and hands-on workshops, kids explored ideas of originality and repetition while painting their own colourful bears.

Swipe to see the final results—playful, thoughtful, and proudly presented during the vernissage at the fair hall.

Images: Silke Briel
Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

22/07/2025

Highlights

In Lesions, Jules Fischer looped a scene of emotional saturation and loss of control.

As Susanne Sachße’s voice recited a text drawn from Testo Ju**ie and 80s sitcom Designing Women, performer Lydia Östberg Diakité lipsynced beneath a rotating spotlight—part stage light, part oncoming threat.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

19/07/2025

Highlights

After Party A/W 25/26 moved through space and time in a 12-minute durational performance.

Set to a specially commissioned soundtrack by Wayne Binitie & Art Lewy, dancers Sarafina Beck and Harumi Mumenthaler activated Blightman’s House Party paintings and garments in midsummer light. Movement, sound, architecture, and fashion intertwined to evoke the shifting energies of an after-party—between presence, memory, and transition. The installation itself framed urban landscapes from London, New York, Basel, and Turin—paintings as luminous beacons marking moments of time and place.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

16/07/2025

Highlights

In MANSHIN, Hyeji Nam becomes host to a procession of shifting identities.

Drawing from Korean shamanic ritual, she channels a series of “heads” through breath, noise, and glitch—each flickering into presence before dissolving again. The space is cleansed and claimed, over and over, as body and code entangle in a loop of transformation.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel

Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

13/07/2025

Highlights

This year’s panel programme at Liste created a space for shared reflection, curatorial insight, and critical conversation—situated right at the heart of the fair.

From a lively anniversary roundtable on Liste’s 30-year history with figures such as Peter Bläuer, Francesca Pia and Eva Presenhuber, to urgent questions around contemporary collecting, each session offered distinct perspectives on artistic and institutional futures. Thanks to all who joined us at the Fair Hall Plaza!

Slide 1–2: 30 Years of Liste
With Peter Bläuer, Wilfried Cooreman, Ann Demeester, Francesca Pia, Eva Presenhuber, moderated by Matylda Krzykowski

Slide 3: On Curating São Paulo 2025 with Anna Roberta Götz, in conversation with Pablo Larios

Slide 4–5: Notes on Kim Lim with Katalin Deér, Daiga Grantina, Stefanie Gschwend
Moderated by Matthias Kliefoth

Slide 6–8: Collecting the Art of Our Moment with Eleanor Cayre, Lukas Jakob, Sigit Nugroho, moderated by Robert McKenzie

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

10/07/2025

Highlights

Two bodies in the dark—searching, circling, hesitating. In And Now It Is Night, Enad Marouf staged a duet of desire and distance, danced by strangers who may never meet.
Fragmented movement, shifting sound, and poetic pauses evoke a space where grief, memory, and uncertainty quietly unfold. A nonlinear choreography of presence and disappearance.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

07/07/2025

Highlights

Across four public talks, curators and writers including Hyunjin Kim, Chus Martínez and Robert McKenzie engaged in conversation with artists presented at Liste 2025.
With Joana Escoval, Trinidad Metz Brea, Mary Pakinee, and Inuuteq Storch, the talks offered space for reflection, context, and exchange.

Slide 1: Trinidad Metz Brea
Slide 2: Inuuteq Storch
Slide 3:
Slide 4: Mary Pakinee

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

04/07/2025

Highlights

In Ceremonial Recurrence, Yujin Jung invited us into a multisensory ritual where cooking becomes storytelling, and soup becomes a song.

Drawing from her encounters with haenyeo—free-diving sea women of Korea—Jung prepares seaweed soup live on stage. As it simmers, the sounds of cooking merge with voice, memory, and marine myth, evoking cycles of care, loss, and ecological transformation. The performance culminated in the sharing of soup, offered as a gesture of nourishment and interconnection.

Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

01/07/2025

Highlights

Melting, molding, dissolving – Éva Mag’s durational performance Operation Analysis – One Waxes a Body unfolds as a quiet ritual of transformation.

Over three hours, two performers carefully fill a human-sized casting mold with hot wax. Once cooled, the figure is extracted, laid on the floor – and then melted down again. The cycle repeats, form and formlessness in constant flux.

Working across sculpture, performance, film, and textiles, Mag explores the body through materials in transition – tension, care, and repetition shaping her process.

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Images: Silke Briel

Liste 2025, Hall 1.1, Messe Basel
Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

22/06/2025

Liste 30 is a wrap!
Our heartfelt thanks go to all the galleries and artists who made this edition so strong and inspiring — to the partners who supported our vision, and the media partners who helped bring it out into the world.

A huge thanks also goes to the entire team behind the scenes: from construction workers to security staff, from assistants to coordinators across all areas — it takes many hands to make a fair like this happen.

See you all next year:
15–21 June 2026

Yours truly,
Liste

Main Partner
E. Gutzwiller & Cie Banquiers, Basel

Supporters
Christoph Merian Stiftung, Helvetia Art Prize, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G, Swisslos-Fonds Basel-Stadt

Partners
Aesop, Atelier ALINEA, Basel Tourism, BWT Best Water Technology, B&O Basel, Carhartt WIP, Confiserie Bachmann, Kaserne Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Ramstein Optik, Ricola, Ruinart, Steudler Press, Theater Basel, Volta Bräu

1: New Architectural Layout, Image: Gina Folly
2–9: Programme during Liste 30, Images: Silke Briel

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