Art 42 Basel Venue
Art Basel takes place in Halls 1 and 2 of Messe Basel, Messeplatz, 4005 Basel, Switzerland. Hall 1: Built in 1999 by the Swiss architect and art collector Theo Hotz, this hall hosts Art Unlimited, Art Statements, Art Basel Conversations, Art Salon, Artists Books, Artists Records and Off Press.
Hall 2: A landmark building from the 1950s, built by Hans Hoffmann, the building hosts Art Galleries, Art Feature, Art Edition and Art Magazines.

Duration and daily hours
Opening for invited guests:
Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 11am until 9pm
General Public:
Wednesday, June 15, to Sunday, June 19, 2011.
Daily from 11am to 7pm

Guided Tours
Guided Tours of Art 42 Basel are available daily in German, English, French and Italian. The tours are subsidized by Art Basel and operated by gcc gmbh. To book tours contact:
Nicole Reber
+41 61 701 20 77
info@culture-consulting.ch
www.culture-consulting.ch
Cost: Adults CHF 20, children/students CHF 10, and groups (up to 15 participants) CHF 400 plus admission.

Guided Tours Art Parcours
For more information on Guided Tours at Art Parcours please see www.artbasel.com/parcours

AXA Art VIP Tours
AXA Art VIP Guided Tours of Art 42 Basel are available daily in German, English, French and Italian. The VIP guided tours are subsidized by Art Basel and operated by AXA Art Versicherung AG.
Tours contact:
Susanne Kelmes, AXA Art
+41 79 614 03 99
Kelmes.InfoBooking@axa-art.it
For VIP Card holders only.

Art Kids
Art Basel offers a free kindergarten and playroom for children aged 3-13, who are introduced to art while their parents visit
Art 42 Basel. The children are supervised by professionals, and food and drink are likewise provided free of charge.
Location: 1st floor of Hall 1, access via Art Unlimited.

Mandatory bag check
For safety reasons, all bags larger than 30 x 30 cm, briefcases and backpacks must be deposited at the coat check before entering the exhibition halls.
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Art Parcours

This year's Art Parcours sector for Art 42 Basel will present artworks at various historical locations in the city of Basel. After the introduction of Art Parcours in 2010 on the Münsterhügel, the 2011 edition will use different venues in the St. Alban Tal area along the Rhine. From Wednesday, June 15 until Sunday, June 19, ten locations will be transformed by site-specific artworks and performances created by a number of renowned international artists including Ai Weiwei, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Anne Chu, Federico Herrero, Chris Johanson, Joan Jonas, Kris Martin, Yinka Shonibare, MBE and Gabriel Sierra.

This array of high-calibre works, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, will engage with Basel's past and present, weaving artistic interventions into the fabric of the city. Venues in Basel's St. Alban Tal area include fishing houses along the river, a large cargo ship, sections of the old city wall, the Haus Zum Hohen Dolder (known for one of the oldest mural depicting the myth of Wilhelm Tell), the St. Alban church, and the Brunnenwerk St Alban, an old water reservoir, as well as various public sites throughout the area.

Art Parcours is newly open to the public and free of cost from Wednesday June 15 until Saturday June 18, from 2pm to 10pm daily, (from 2pm to 7pm on Sunday, June 19). On Thursday June 16, from 8pm to midnight, the new 'Art Parcours Night,' featuring various performances and concerts, will be held on the river bank. Food and drinks will also be served. Chris Johanson's band, 'Sun Foot,' (Ron Burns, Brian Mumford) will be performing on a stage specially designed for the purpose. The program will be complemented by the dance performance “bodies in urban spaces” by Willi Dorner in cooperation with Kaserne Basel and with a special event featuring bands and DJs in connection with the Henrik Olesen exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The titles of all the projects are below. For further information on the artworks, please visit www.artbasel.com/parcours.

Ai Weiwei

Fairytale People, 2007
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing - Lucerne; neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Courtesy: Leister Stiftung, Erlenmeyer Stiftung, Meile Kunst AG
Old City Wall

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Blue Hawai Bar, 2011
Luhring Augustine, New York; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Brunnwerk - Lower Reservoir

Anne Chu

A resting place with William Tell, 2011
303 Gallery, New York
Hohen Dolder House

Federico Herrero

Vibrantes, 2011
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen River Bank

Chris Johanson and Sun Foot

An Evening of Going Through Things and Looking at Each Other with Each Other, 2011
Baronian_Francey, Bruxelles; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Wien; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; The Modern Institute/Toby Webster, Glasgow; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen in collaboration with Altman Siegel, San Francisco; The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York
Cargo Ship

Joan Jonas

Under the Glacier, 2010/2011
Yvon Lambert Paris, Paris; Wilkinson Gallery, London
Pavilion Christoph Merian Stiftung

Kris Martin

Festum II, 2010
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; White Cube, London
St. Alban Church

Ugo Rondinone

We run through a desert on burning feet, all of US are glowing our faces look twisted, We run through a desert on burning feet, all of us ARE glowing our faces look twisted, We run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing OUR faces look twisted, 2011
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
St. Alban Churchyard

Yinka Shonibare, MBE

500 Kites, 2011
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
St. Alban Rheinweg

Gabriel Sierra

Untitled, Estructures for transition # 9, 2011
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien; Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
in collaboration with Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá
Raum 33

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