Daily from Wednesday, June 10, until Saturday, June 13, 2009 10 – 11 a.m. | Panel Discussion 11 – 11.30 a.m. | Meet the Panelists WEDNESDAY | June 10 | Premiere | Artist Talk Jeff Koons, Artist, New York In conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts London 1977 – 2007, and now freelance curator, London THURSDAY | June 11 | Artistic Production | Collecting Performance Speakers | Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director and Curator Performa, New York Anri Sala, Artist, Berlin/Paris, co-director, ‘Il Tempo del Postino’ Robert Wilson, Theater and Visual Artist, New York Moderator | Jens Hoffmann, Director, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco FRIDAY | June 12 | The Future of the Museum | Digital Frontiers Speakers | Cory Arcangel, Artist, New York Anne Faggionato, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BlueLabel, London Hu Fang, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou and the shop, Beijing Martin Roth, Director General, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London SATURDAY | June 13 | Public/Private | Institutions: A Time of Crisis – and Opportunity? Speakers | Iwona Blazwick, OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London Christine Macel, Chief Curator, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris Lars Nittve, Director, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm Nicolaus Schafhausen, Director, Witte de With, Rotterdam Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Moderator | András Szántó, Author, consultant for arts and philanthropic organizations, New York http://www.artbasel.com/conversations Art Lobby Daily from Wednesday, June 10, until Sunday, June 14, 2009 Location | Art Unlimited | Hall 1.0 WEDNESDAY | June 10 1 p.m. | Artist Talk | Joan Jonas and Sung Hwan Kim 2 p.m. | Presentation | Catherine David about ADACH Platform for Visual Arts in Venice 3 p.m. | Market Talk | Josh Baer and Allan Schwartzman 4 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘A Brief History of Curating’ Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix, and Hans Ulrich Obrist 5 p.m. | Talk | Art and Age Massimiliano Gioni, Dorothy Iannone, and Stephen G. Rhodes 6 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘Paul Thek: Artist’s Artist’ Harald Falckenberg, Peter Weibel and Robert Wilson THURSDAY | June 11 1 p.m. | Quinquennial Talk | Utopics: the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne Fabrice Gygi, Simon Lamunière and Nedko Solakov 2 p.m. | Talk | Curating The Collectors Elmgreen and Dragset 3 p.m. | Talk | Gender, Wars and Chadors Bashar Al-Shroogi, Maryam Eisler, Maya Rasamny with Abaseh Mirvali 4 p.m. | Talk | Art and the Spectacle of the Everyday Hou Hanru and Gerhard Mack 5 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘Sterling Ruby’ Lionel Bovier, Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby 6 p.m. | Presentation | Winy Maas about After the Crisis – A Cultural Change in Taste? FRIDAY | June 12 1 p.m. | Discussion | Changes in Representation in Art and Science Rosina Gómez Baeza, Michael Doser, Don Foresta with Macu Morán 2 p.m. | Discussion | Analyzing the Current Chinese Art Market Lu Jie, Sylvain Levy, Chen Yang with Zheng Shengtian 3 p.m. | Artist Talk Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina with Hans Ulrich Obrist 4 p.m. | Performance and Book Launch Charlotte Posenenske’s ‘Corrugated Series’ ‘Charlotte Posenenske: The Catalogue Raisonné. 1930 – 1985′ with Burkhard Brunn 5 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘The China Interviews’ Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philip Tinari 6 p.m. | Artist Talk | Pieces and Parts Lucy Skaer and Adam Szymczyk SATURDAY | June 13 1 p.m. | Discussion | Legal Issues in Contemporary Art Collecting Paula Cooper, Daniel McClean and Seth Siegelaub 2 p.m. | Talk | Biennials and Nationality VALIE EXPORT, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Tirdad Zolghadr with Sylvia Chivaratanond 3 p.m. | Artist Talk | Good Words, Good Thoughts and Good Deeds: Art Practice in the Time of Crisis and War Lida Abdul, Fereydoun Ave with Sara Raza 4 p.m. | Talk | Giacometti Today Ulf Küster and Not Vital 5 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘Gabriele Di Matteo. Jackson Pollock’ Gabriele Di Matteo, Federico Luger and Giorgio Verzotti SUNDAY | June 14 1 p.m. | Book Launch | ‘Looking back at Art Basel’ Guido Magnaguagno and Kurt Wyss 2 p.m. | Artist Talk J. J. Charlesworth, Nikola Dietrich and Mark Leckey 3 p.m. | Talk| Beyond Multiculturalism Bernd M. Scherer, Susanne Stemmler and Christian Philipp Müller 4 p.m. | Discussion | Art Education Martin Blum, Haimo Ganz, Janine Schmutz, Martina Siegwolf, Bruno Steiner 5 p.m. | Presentation | Gabriela Salgado about the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale http://www.artbasel.com/lobby