ANNOUNCEMENT:New Director & Organizing Institution for LISTE-Art Fair Basel
For 23 years Peter Bläuer has led LISTE Art Fair Basel and developed it into the world´s most acclaimed promotion- and discoverer fair for young art. He has now decided to retire and to hand over LISTE to a foundation. We are seeking a new director who will ensure continuity, strengthen LISTE – but also develop new models for the promotion of young galleries and emerging art.
66-year old Basel curator Peter Bläuer, founder and owner of LISTE Art Fair Basel, is retiring after 23 years and intends to hand over his fair to a non-profit foundation that is in the process of being established. The foundation will guarantee the continuity of the fair´s highly successful concept: In the future, the fair will remain not-for-profit oriented and will continue to employ strict standards of quality to support new international galleries and their as yet relatively unknown artists reasonable conditions for a multi-year fair presence. The fair will hence remain an internationally significant platform for artists, art lovers, museums and collectors. At the same time, under the new organizing institution and director, Basel as the site for the fair will be strengthened and new models for the promotion of young galleries and artists will be developed in order to continue to enhance LISTE. Basel´s Werkraum Warteck pp will remain the site of the fair and LISTE´s seasoned team will continue working under the new director.
The designated president of the foundation board is Dr. iur Urs Gloor, lawyer and banker. Peter Bläuer will serve the fair as the board´s vice-president. E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers, Basel, will continue in their role as LISTE´s main partner. The Helvetia Art Prize will also be presented annually at LISTE.
In the near future, the advertisement for the position of new director will appear on traditional platforms and in select media. A six-person search committee will be appointed to direct the search for a highly qualified new director of LISTE. We expect the selection of the new director to take place at the end of August 2018.
More information is available: Peter Bläuer, peter.blaeuer@liste.ch
Since its inception in 1996, LISTE – Art Fair Basel has dedicated itself to the active promotion of galleries and artists of mostly a new and to some extend middle generation and to introducing new highly promising galleries from all over the world to an international audience each year.