Galleries, Basel
Group Exhibition
Selection
GagosianExtended Hours: Monday, June 16, 10am to 8pm Tuesday, June 17, 10am to 9pm Wednesday, June 18, 10am to 8pm Thursday, June 19, 10am to 7pm Friday, June 20, 10am to 7pm Saturday, June 21, 10am to 7pm Sunday, June 22, 10am to 7pm — Lauren Halsey, Adam McEwen, Sabine Moritz, Takashi Murakami, Kathleen Ryan, Jordan Wolfson Gagosian is pleased to present Selection, an exhibition of sculpture, paintings, and photographs, on view at its permanent gallery at Rheinsprung 1, a short walk from the Art Basel fair. The exhibition complements and extends Gagosian’s presentation at Art Basel, which is curated by Francesco Bonami, as well as four large-scale installations by gallery artists in the fair’s Unlimited sector. This eclectic presentation features works both by artists who have recently come to be represented by Gagosian and by longtime stalwarts of the gallery. Brimming with vibrant color and dynamic forms, this group of contemporary works unites visual excitement, disarming wit, and conceptual sophistication. A centerpiece of Selection is a new sculpture by Lauren Halsey that combines minimalist structure with maximalist color and graphic design. Framed in gold, its hand-painted signs are modeled after those of establishments in South Central Los Angeles and advertise declarations, aspirations, and references to her community’s past and present. Kathleen Ryan’s sculpture Bad Melon (Juicy) (2025) is a scaled-up representation of a decaying fruit peel composed with an abundance of colorful beads and minerals and the bumper of a 1969 Chevrolet Impala. Joining traditional craft with emblems of overconsumption, Ryan juxtaposes luxury and repulsion with a humorous edge. Adam McEwen’s Ticket Window (2017) is a wall-mounted relief that replicates the front of a kiosk in graphite, decontextualizing a fragment of urban infrastructure. A new work by Jordan Wolfson (2025) addresses memory, defensiveness, and trauma with an image of New York’s World Trade Center surrounded by a large metal frame flanked by spikes. Sabine Moritz’s painting Mars (2025) is an improvised “mental landscape” with flashes of red and emergent figures that resonate with the mythological themes invoked by its title. Magic Love (2025) by Takashi Murakami features a vibrant cluster of his iconic beaming flowers on a golden background.