White Cube returns to Switzerland for the 2023 edition of Art Basel with works by artists including Doris Salcedo, Georg Baselitz, Noah Davis, Julie Mehretu, Tracey Emin and Danh Vo. Coinciding with Doris Salcedo's first solo presentation in Switzerland at Fondation Beyeler (until 17 September 2023), highlights from the booth include a new sculpture from the artist's Tabula Rasa series, which involves a painstaking process of the destruction and reconstruction of furniture.
The presentation also features Georg Baselitz's new bronze sculpture Dresdner Frauen – Elke (1989 – 2023), whose current solo exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, runs until 25 June 2023, as well as Julie Mehretu's Chromatic Light Paintings (sphinx) (2021 – 2022), which will be showcased in her upcoming solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London (15 September – 5 November 2023).
The June edition of White Cube Salon, a monthly programme showcasing outstanding examples of postwar and contemporary art, will also be on view at the booth. Robert Ryman's Page (1998) comprises a perfectly square canvas animated by white pigment, epitomising the artist's philosophy of 'process not picture'.
At Unlimited, White Cube is pleased to present Ibrahim Mahama's installation KWAKU MINOONA 2 (2012-19), which incorporates sections of material the artist collected over several years, through a process of exchanging cloth with traders, mostly women, working in markets across Ghana. Also on display, in collaboration with Paula Cooper Gallery and Fraenkel Gallery, is Christian Marclay's video Doors (2022), which was exhibited for the first time at Centre Pompidou, Paris last year.
