ART FAIRS:Liste Showtime 2020
As a not-for-profit-oriented fair, LISTE Art Fair has consistently advocated for the promotion of new galleries since its founding in 1996. The fair strives to provide reasonable terms and conditions to galleries, thus easing their entry into the international art market. Due the COVID-19 health crisis Liste Art Fair celebrates its 25th annivercary with the online Art Fair “Liste Showtime”.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Liste Art Fair Archive
On the digital platform “Liste Showtime”, 72 galleries from 35 countries, each present one artist who is an out-standing representative of their generation, collectively showcasing the latest developments and trends in contemporary art. The concept behind “Liste Showtime” follows in the footsteps of Liste’s primary concern, which is to present new artistic positions in great depth year after year. As such, each gallery showcases one artist and is able to individualize and independently design their online presentations through the use of various modules and media. Visitors to “Liste Showtime” are able to select specific galleries and artists as well as allow themselves to drift through the presentations and discover artists by chance. In addition to the digital platform for galleries, “Liste Showtime” also encompasses a poster project titled “Rewriting Our Imaginations”, which was inspired by an essay written by science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson for The New Yorker magazine and was created in collaboration with artists selected by the participating galleries. For the project, each selected artist designed a poster at a time when life as we knew it was disrupted and what had previously existed only in imaginations became reality; thus, “Rewriting Our Imaginations” asks what new imaginations and new futures might look like when what was previously fictional is transformed into something real. While posing questions about shifting imaginations and realities, the project is also about exploring new modes of production, presentation and distribution that are in-dependent of physical travel and shipment. Thus, the posters are showcased on Liste Showtime in its new online shop and can be purchased as PDFs for CHF 30 each. Buyers can then print the files in their preferred size and with their preferred technique. The original works can also be requested and purchased directly from the galleries. Furthermore, there is the possibility to develop “Rewriting Our Imaginations” into an exhibition series that can easily be shown anywhere around the world, as the PDFs can be sent digitally and produced on site as posters. The series will begin in Basel, where the posters are displayed on public billboards throughout the city from 2-15 September.
Participating Galleries: 80m2 Livia Benavides , A Thousand Plateaus, Adams and Ollman, Agustina Ferreyra, Allen, Antoine Levi , Balice Hertling, Bianca D’ Alessandro, Blank, Capsule Shanghai, Central Chapter NY, Crèvecœur, Crisis, Dastan’s Basement , Dawid Radziszewski, Drei, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Ermes-Ermes, Eugster II Belgrade, Exo Exo, Fanta-MLN, Frutta, Gianni Manhattan, Good Weather, Gregor Staiger, Gypsum, Instituto de Visión, Ivan, Jan Kaps, Kai Matsumiya, Laveronica, LC Queisser, Lodos, Lomex, Lucas Hirsch, MadeIn, Madragoa, Marcelle Alix, Marfa’, Maria Bernheim, Mor Charpentier, Mujin-to Production, Noah Klink, Nova Contemporary, Öktem Aykut, Osnova, Piedras, Piktogram, PM8, Project Fulfill, Proyectos Ultravioleta, ROH Projects, Sabot, Sandwich, Sans titre (2016), Sariev, Sé, Selma Feriani, Seventeen, Shore, Sophie Tappeiner, Sultana, Sundy, Super Dakota, Sweetwater, Tabula Rasa, The Sunday Painterm Vanguard, Veda, Weiss Falk and Wschód.
Info: Director: Joanna Kamm, Duration: 11-20/9/20, Days: Fri-Mon (11-14/9) VIP Preview (only with Access Code) , Mon-Sun (14-20/9/20), https://showtime.liste.ch
