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Jun 16 – Jun 22, 2025
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Jun 16 – 22, 2024

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Pace is pleased to announce booth highlights for Art Basel 2025.

As part of its 65th anniversary programming, Pace will present landmark works by major 20th century figures—an ode to the gallery’s history as a champion of abstraction. Highlights from the gallery’s contemporary program will spotlight new approaches to abstraction in painting, sculpture, and photography. Friedrich Kunath, who joined Pace’s program in May, will debut a new painting at Art Basel. At Pace in Geneva, a group show celebrating the gallery’s history over the last six-and-a-half decades is on view through August 9.

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Art Basel include:

Landmark works by 20th century figures—including Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Hermann Nitsch, Isamu Noguchi, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Tony Smith, Antoni Tàpies, and Paul Thek—that underscore Pace’s commitment to artists working in abstraction

A new painting by Friedrich Kunath—now represented by Pace—ahead of his first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York this fall

Works by contemporary artists with pioneering new approaches to abstraction, including Yto Barrada, Nigel Cooke, Torkwase Dyson, Pam Evelyn, Loie Hollowell, Lee Ufan, Li Hei Di, Li Songsong, Kylie Manning, Adam Pendleton, Lauren Quin, and Marina Perez Simão

Important works by Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, and Alfred Stieglitz, artists who expanded the boundaries of photography

Works by two artists—Robert Indiana and Alicja Kwade—with exhibitions on view at Pace’s New York galleries during the fair

Paintings by artists with major institutional exhibitions across Europe this summer: Sam Gilliam at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (opening June 13); Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, London (opening July 10), and who is also the subject of a solo presentation at Pace in London, opening June 6; and Richard Pousette-Dart at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (through September 14)

Pace’s booth will also feature works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Dan Flavin, Matthew Day Jackson, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, William Monk, Yoshitomo Nara, Kohei Nawa, Julian Schnabel, and Hank Willis Thomas

At Art Basel Unlimited: three ambitious, large-scale works by Arlene Shechet, Latifa Echakhch, and Robert Longo, who will take over Pace's New York flagship with a monumental multi-floor exhibition this September

Featured Works

Joan Mitchell

b. 1925, Chicago, Illinois
d. 1992, Paris, France

Helen Frankenthaler

b. 1928, New York
d. 2011, Darien, Connecticut

I think of my pictures as explosive landscapes, worlds and distances held on a flat surface.

Helen Frankenthaler

Louise Nevelson

b. 1899, Kiev
d. 1988, New York

Mark Rothko

b. 1903, Dvinsk, Russia
d. 1970, New York

Pablo Picasso

b. 1881, Malaga, Spain
d. 1973, Mougins, France

Richard Pousette-Dart

b. 1916, Saint Paul, Minnesota
d. 1992, New York

Art for me is the heavens forever opening up, like asymmetrical, unpredictable, spontaneous kaleidoscopes.

Richard Pousette-Dart

Paul Thek

b. 1933, Brooklyn, New York
d. 1988, Manhattan, New York

Robert Indiana

b. 1928, New Castle, Indiana
d. 2018, Vinalhaven, Maine

Colin Sargent: So Ahab, your beautiful black and white piece (1962), was a breakthrough?

Robert Indiana: I think so. That happened back when I was at Coenties Slip in New York. I might be the first modern artist to attempt to be both a painter and a sculptor at the same time, working both mediums into one piece. I think of painting as a feminine object and a statue as a masculine object, and the complete display of Ahab, which included a painted backdrop for context [The Melville Triptych (1962)], worked in those terms. Of course, it’s a variation on the Moby Dick theme. When I did that construction, I did it because the words Coenties Slip appear on the first page of Melville’s Moby Dick. [1]

1. Robert Indiana and Colin Sargent, “Interview,” Greater Portland, Winter 1984, pp. 14–15.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold

b. 1938, New York

Adolph Gottlieb

b. 1903, New York
d. 1974, New York

Torkwase Dyson

b. 1973, Chicago, Illinois

In this moment of environmental precarity we will need to be both liquid and mountains, bird and lava. And it is the density of Black grace that will always be the thing that keeps us in our own humanity.

Torkwase Dyson

Loie Hollowell

b. 1983, raised in Woodland, California

Sam Gilliam

b. 1933, Tupelo, Mississippi
d. 2022, Washington, D.C.

Julian Schnabel

b. 1951, Brooklyn, New York

In the summer of 1968, I drove through Mexico. I was 16 and in the Museo de Arte Moderno |I came upon a life-size double portrait of a painter named Frida Kahlo. I’d never seen her work before; I’d never heard of her or seen anything like it. She was an unsung hero.

Julian Schnabel

Alicja Kwade

b. 1979, Katowice, Poland

Emily Kam Kngwarray

b. ca. 1914, Alhalker, Utopia, Australia
d. 1996, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia

Antoni Tàpies

b. 1923, Barcelona
d. 2012, Barcelona

Arlene Shechet

b. 1951, New York

Adam Pendleton

b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia

Friedrich Kunath

b. 1974, Chemnitz, Germany

I approach painting as a site where the world of pop culture intertwines with a philosophical contemplation of history. In We See Things They’ll Never See, the image of a figure gazing out on a misty mountainscape is borrowed from Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer, a painting which famously stages a confrontation with the unknown—a finite moment of gazing into the infinity of the sublime. In my painting, two ideas of ‘the icon’ collide. The British pop musician Liam Gallagher steps into the vista in place of Friedrich’s archetypal figure, acting as a Wanderer for a contemporary generation.

Friedrich Kunath

Marina Perez Simão

b. 1980, Vitória, Brazil

Triple Flood by Hei Di Li — Hei Di Li, *Triple Flood*, 2025, oil on linen, 65 cm × 55 cm (25-9/16" × 21-5/8")

Li Hei Di

b. 1997, Shenyang, China

Kylie Manning

b. 1983, Juneau, Alaska

Pam Evelyn

b. 1996, Surrey, United Kingdom

Lauren Quin

b. 1992, Los Angeles

There is a point when an image can become more than itself—when I am truly entangled with it and will never be the same after it. Painting is like blowing on the embers of that moment.

Lauren Quin