ART BASEL 2026

Gabrielle Goliath’s practice interrogates the ways in which identities — particularly black, brown, femme and queer bodies — are seen, heard, held, and remembered. Her work unsettles inherited structures of representation; it affirms bodies that hold themselves together and hold each other, opening spaces of mourning, relation, and care.

During the 61st Biennale di Venezia, Goliath presents Elegy at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, following the cancellation of the South African Pavilion. The project will travel to Ibraaz (London) and ICA Milano. Goliath has presented major projects at institutions including MoMA PS1, (NY); Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv); Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel); Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris).

Unfolding across an entire wall of the booth with a composition designed for the fair, Silvia Bächli extends this reflection into a more interior register. Taking movement and bodily perception as a starting point, her practice opens onto the realm of feeling, where line becomes a way of inhabiting space, memory, and perception.

Bächli has had major solo exhibitions at institutions including Museo Morandi (Bologna); Centro Botín (Santander); Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Musée Barbier-Müller (Geneva); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.

Roni Horn’s practice complicates the relationship between identity, perception, and change. Across photography, drawing, and language-based works, Horn constructs situations in which looking becomes a temporal and spatial experience. Faces, bodies, words, and forms appear through subtle variations, resisting the idea of a fixed or identical encounter.

Horn has had major solo exhibitions at institutions including Museum Ludwig (Cologne); Centro Botín (Santander); Fondation Beyeler (Basel); Whitney Museum (NY); Tate Modern (London); Centre Pompidou (Paris); Dia Center for the Arts (NY); Museu Serralves (Porto). Her work has also been included in Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and several editions of the Whitney Biennial.

Simone Forti’s work brings the discussion back to movement, gesture, and kinesthetic awareness. Across her practice, the performing body appears as a living field of relation: suspended, responsive, and capable of activating materials, images, and spaces through movement.

Forti has presented solo exhibitions and performances at institutions including MOCA (LA); Centro Pecci (Prato); ICA Milano; Moderna Museet (Stockholm); Louvre (Paris); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); Castello di Rivoli (Turin); MoMA PS1 (NY). She was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale Danza 2023 and participated in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

Anna Maria Maiolino’s sculpture brings language into its most physical and concrete dimension. The molded elements act as traces of a gesture, evoking writing without fully resolving into words. Between matter and language, emptiness becomes a pause in which form retains the memory of the body that produced it.

Maiolino has exhibited at institutions including Whitechapel Gallery (London); PAC (Milan); MOCA (Los Angeles); MALBA (Buenos Aires); Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo). Her works are held in major public collections, and she has taken part in Documenta 13, the Gwangju Biennale, the Lyon Biennale, and the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2024.

Liliana Moro’s sculptures shift the language of the monument toward instability and contradiction. Conceived as an ideal project for a public square, the work does not celebrate triumph or permanence, but rather damage, rupture, and precarious balance.

Moro has exhibited at institutions including PAC (Milan); GNAM (Rome); MAXXI (Rome); Triennale di Milano; MAMbo (Bologna); MoMA PS1 (NY); Moderna Museet (Stockholm); and Castello di Rivoli (Turin). Her works are held in major public collections, and she represented Italy at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, and taken part in Documenta IX.

Marcello Maloberti engages directly with the imagery of Western art history. His figure — a young man captured in the act of cutting fragments from reproductions of Caravaggio’s works — stages a gesture that is at once playful and critical. The canon is not simply cited, but handled, interrupted, and transformed into a new visual language.

Maloberti has held solo exhibitions at institutions including PAC (Milan); MAXXI (Rome); Triennale di Milano; Kestner Gesellschaft (Hannover); MACRO (Rome); Generali Foundation (Vienna); and GAMeC (Bergamo). His work has been presented at the 55th Venice Biennale, the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, Bangkok Art Biennale, Manifesta, and Performa New York.

Francesco Arena’s work often begins from a measure: a distance, a weight, a proportion, a physical limit. Through sculpture, these elements become matter, form, and language. In his practice, bodily scale becomes a unit of reletion, a way to translate experience, memory, and history into precise material structures.

Arena has had solo exhibitions and projects at institutions and contexts including Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio (Rome); Palazzo Borromeo (Milan); BASE / Progetti per l’arte (Florence); Art Basel Unlimited; TRA – Treviso Ricerca Arte; Olnick Spanu Art Program, Garrison (NY); Frac Champagne-Ardenne (Reims); Museion (Bolzano); and De Vleeshal (Middelburg).

Monica Bonvicini’s Hurricanes and Other Catastrophes series brings the body into the unstable space of disaster, reflecting on man-made catastrophes and the effects of global warming. Here, line and space become instruments of excavation, exposing unstable relationships between architecture, control, resistance, and collapse.

Bonvicini has had major solo exhibitions at institutions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Secession (Vienna); SculptureCenter (NY); Kunstmuseum Basel; Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel); Belvedere 21 (Vienna); OGR Torino; Kunsthaus Graz; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Bauhaus Dessau; and Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin). Her work has also been featured in numerous international biennials, including Venice, Berlin, Istanbul, Gwangju, New Orleans, and Busan.