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
Art Basel Conversations take place daily Wednesday, June 15 to Sunday, June 19, 201110–11am Panel Discussion
11–11.30am Meet the Panelists
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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