Unlimited: Presenting 71 premier works in a unique setting

Unlimited, Art Basel's unique platform for large-scale projects, provides galleries with the opportunity to showcase installations, monumental sculptures, video projections, wall paintings, photographic series and performance art that transcend the traditional art-fair stand. For Unlimited in 2007, Daniel Buren transformed the escalators leading to the upper floor of Hall 1 into a kinetic sculpture titled 'Passage de la Couleur, 26 secondes et 14 centièmes'. The work was bought by Messe Schweiz and today forms an integral part of the exhibition hall. With Unlimited this year taking place on the upper floor of Hall 1, Buren's work from 2007 will form part of the entrance area for this year's edition. Responding to this earlier work, Unlimited will open with Buren's 'Una cosa tira l’altra', an aerial walkway decorated with stripes similar to those that have been used on the escalator in 2007. The extensive platform made up of scaffolding will create new ways to navigate the space, allowing visitors to view the surrounding works from unique and unexpected points of view.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt’s monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase ‘I miss Socialism, maybe’; and Yu Hong's large-scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives. The work focuses on how the Socialist narrative still perseveres in Chinese society and explores the ways its ideology corresponds to the visual legacy of Soviet Socialist Realist heritage.

Full list of artists presented in Unlimited:

Ai Weiwei, Lisson Gallery, neugerriemschneider

Francis Alÿs, David Zwirner

Polly Apfelbaum, Frith Street Gallery

Uri Aran, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sadie Coles HQ

Rodolfo Aricò, A arte Invernizzi

Arman, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Matthew Barney, Sadie Coles HQ, Gladstone Gallery, Regen Projects Yto Barrada, Pace Gallery

Robert Barry, Alfonso Artiaco, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Galerie Greta Meert, Galleria Massimo Minini, Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Katherine Bernhardt, Canada, Xavier Hufkens McArthur Binion, Massimo De Carlo, Lehmann Maupin Barbara Bloom, Galerie Gisela Capitain Carol Bove, David Zwirner

Frank Bowling, Alexander Gray Associates

Candice Breitz, Goodman Gallery, kaufmann repetto, KOW Daniel Buren, Galleria Continua Alberto Burri, Luxembourg & Dayan

Paul Chan, Greene Naftali

Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery

Horia Damian, Galeria Plan B

Edith Dekyndt, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Galerie Greta Meert Lara Favaretto, Galleria Franco Noero

General Idea, Mai 36 Galerie, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Maureen Paley, Esther Schipper Sam Gilliam, David Kordansky Gallery

Douglas Gordon, Gagosian, Galerie Eva Presenhuber Dan Graham, Hauser & Wirth

Josep Grau-Garriga, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Salon 94 He Xiangyu, White Space Beijing

Camille Henrot , König Galerie, kamel mennour, Metro Pictures Carmen Herrera, Lisson Gallery Jim Hodges, Massimo De Carlo

Jenny Holzer, Sprüth Magers

Alfredo Jaar, Goodman Gallery, Galerie Lelong & Co., kamel mennour, Galerie Thomas Schulte

Rashid Johnson, Hauser & Wirth

Jürgen Klauke, Galerie Thomas Zander

Guillermo Kuitca, Hauser & Wirth

Wolfgang Laib, Buchmann Galerie, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Sperone Westwater

Mark Leckey, Gavin Brown's enterprise

Lee Ufan, Pace Gallery

Richard Long, Lisson Gallery

Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Ana Lupas, P420

Ibrahim Mahama, White Cube

Inge Mahn, Galerie Max Hetzler

Georges Mathieu, Applicat-Prazan

Richard Mosse, carlier gebauer, Jack Shainman Gallery