Art Basel 2022: Conversations

Art Basel’s renowned Conversations series offers a platform for the exchange of ideas on topics concerning the global contemporary art scene. This year’s program features 46 speakers across 12 panels, bringing together leading artists, gallerists, collectors, curators, museum directors, and critics. They will discuss diverse issues from the changing roles and responsibilities of collectors in the NFT art market to the challenges facing museums when addressing climate change, as well as offer a perspective on decolonial and ecological life in collaboration with the 12th Berlin Biennale. Conversations is curated by Emily Butler, Conversations Curator, Art Basel and guest curator at Whitechapel Gallery.

Highlights include:

• Representing France and Switzerland respectively at the Venice Biennale in 2022, artists Zineb Sedira and Latifa Echakhch in conversation with Zoé Whitley, Director, Chisenhale Gallery, London about their pioneering practices, common interests, and shared friendship. In collaboration with Kunsthaus Baselland.
• Collectors and philanthropists Füsun Eczacıbaşı and Marguerite Hoffman discuss their contributions to their local art scenes in Istanbul and Dallas, respectively, with Jane Morris, Editor-at-Large, The Art Newspaper.
• Writer and filmmaker Manthia Diawara and artist Ellen Gallagher speak to their passions and concerns in the ‘Artists’ Influencers’ panel with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London.

The Conversations program will run from Wednesday, June 15 to Saturday, June 18 in the Auditorium in Hall 1. All events are free to the public and will be streamed on Art Basel’s Facebook channel.