Conversations and Art Salon

Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon
June 15–19, 2011

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Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon take place in the Hall 1 Auditorium

WEDNESDAY | June 15 | Premiere | Artist Talk | Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg, Artist, New York/Los Angeles

THURSDAY | June 16 | Public/Private | How Will Museums Be Able to Collect?
Speakers | Chris Dercon, Director, Tate Modern, London
Martin Roth, Director General, Dresden State Art Collections/Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Incoming Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Moderator | András Szántó, Author and consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York

FRIDAY | June 17 | Collector Focus | Patronage and Politics
Speakers | Dr. Farhad Farjam, Collector and Patron, The Farjam Collection, Dubai
Dana Farouki, Collector and Patron, Dubai and New York
Omar Saif Ghobash, Patron, UAE Ambassador to Russia
Moderator | Payam Sharifi, Artist and Essayist, Co-Founder of Slavs and Tatars, Moscow

SATURDAY | June 18 | The Future of Artistic Practice | The Artist as Urbanist
Speakers | Luc Deleu, Artist and Architect, Antwerp
Momoyo Kaijima, Architect, Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo
Anri Sala, Artist, Berlin
Stephen Willats, Artist, London
Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London

SUNDAY | June 19 | What is Alternative – Alternative to What?
Speakers | Julieta Aranda, Artist and Co-Founder of e-flux, Berlin/New York
Stefan Kalmár, Director, Artists Space, New York
Marta Kuzma, Director, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), and member of the curatorial team for documenta 13
Anton Vidokle, Artist and Co-Founder of e-flux, New York/Berlin
Moderator | Vincenzo de Bellis, Co-Director Peep-Hole, Milan, and Curator-in-residence Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome

Art Salon takes place daily Wednesday, June 15 to Sunday, June 19, 2011

WEDNESDAY | June 15

1pm | Talk
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tino Sehgal with Prof. Dr. Hans Christoph Binswanger

2pm | Talk | Museum And Biennale, The Incredible Everyday
Susanne Gaensheimer and Tobias Rehberger

3pm | Talk | The Future of the Physical Gallery in the Digital and Global Age
Josh Baer and James Cohan

4pm | Book Launch | Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné
Jonas Storsve, Achim Hochdörfer, Dr. Nicholas Cullinan and Mirta d’Argenzio

5pm | Artist Talk | Andreas Siekmann – The Potosí Principle
Chris Dercon and Andreas Siekmann

6pm | Collector Talk | Africa and Beyond
Artur Walther and Markus Mueller

THURSDAY | June 16

1pm | Artist Talk | Art Parcours
Joan Jonas, Yinka Shonibare and Jens Hoffmann

2pm | Book Launch | ‘Cellar Door’
Loris Gréaud, Giovanni Carmine, Gerald Matt, Pablo del Val and Lionel Bovier

3pm | The Global Art World | M+: An Update on the Future Museum of
Hong Kong
Lars Nittve, Tobias Berger and Philip Tinari

4pm | Art Lives | Louise Bourgeois
Dr. Ulf Küster and Prof. Elisabeth Bronfen

5pm | Talk | Thinking Historical In The Present
Okwui Enwezor, Claire Staebler, Nicolas Bourriaud

6pm | Artist Talk | Mai-Thu Perret
Mai-Thu Perret and Madeleine Schuppli

FRIDAY | June 17

1pm | Talk | documenta13 – What is so political about a note?
Chus Martinez

2pm | Book Launch | ‘Molla Nasreddin: The magazine that would’ve, could’ve, should’ve’
Slavs and Tatars, Adnan Yildiz

3pm | Talk | Art & Parallel Economies
Julieta Aranda, Hu Fang, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jan Verwoert, Anton Vidokle

4pm | Public Art Talk | The Neon Parallax – Geneva
Ami Barak, Pierre Bismuth and Simon Lamunière

5pm | The Global Art World | Focus on Marrakech
Princess Alia Al-Senussi, Vanessa Branson, Carson Chan and Abaseh Mirvali

6pm | Art Film Talk | DIRTY EYES – On the filmic works of Lawrence Weiner
Gregor Stemmrich and Marc Glöde

SATURDAY | June 18

1pm | Talk | Display of Art: Calm, Volupty but lux limitation
Bertrand Lavédrine and Dr. Stefan Horsthemke

2pm | Talk | The (Artistic) Meaning Of The Art Market Value
Paola Nicolin, Marta Kuzma, Prof. Stefano Baia Curioni

3pm | Talk | Istanbul Biennial
Jens Hoffmann and Adriano Pedrosa

4pm | Artist Talk | The Project of Urban Arcadia
Zhan Wang and Shin-Yi Yang

5pm | Lecture Performance | ‘I Am a Laser/Scream Like a Baby,’ in correlation with the ‘based in Berlin’ exhibition
Jeremy Shaw

6pm | Art Law Talk | Tainted Art and Cross-Border Market – Fetters and Incentives
Norman Palmer, Lawrence Kaye and Dr. Peter Mosimann

SUNDAY | June 19

1pm | Talk | How Is Art History Made?
Seth Siegelaub, Monika Szewczyk, Adam Szymczyk

2pm | The Curatorial Today | Launch of The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making, Issue #4
Jens Hoffmann and Hans Ulrich Obrist

3pm | Talk | Matisse Acanthes Conservation Project
Dr. Ulf Küster

4pm | Presentation | Arts Flanders 2012 – A Cluster of Visual Art Events
Hedwig Fijen, Mirjam Varadinis, Menno Meewis and Lissa Kinnaer

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