Art Basel

For its return to Art Basel, Xavier Hufkens presents a curated selection of artists distinguished by current and upcoming solo institutional exhibitions taking place around the world this year:

These include Louise Bourgeois’ landmark solo exhibition I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful at Fubon Art Museum in Taipei, and a forthcoming show at Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin—marking the first major museum exhibition on the artist in Korea in 25 years; Thierry De Cordier’s critically acclaimed site-specific monographic exhibition NADA at Fondazione Prada in Milan; Tracey Emin’s two major solo exhibitions—Sex and Solitude at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and I Loved You Until The Morning at Yale Center for British Art in New Haven; and Giorgio Griffa’s monographic exhibition Dipingere l’invisibile at Palazzo Ducale in Genova.

Further institutional highlights include a long-term exhibition dedicated to early work by Roni Horn at Dia Beacon in New York, and Roni Horn: Pair Field at De Pont in Tilburg; Robert Mapplethorpe’s Le forme del classico at Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice, bringing together over 200 works—some exhibited in Italy for the first time; and forthcoming solo exhibitions by Mark Manders at Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar and Constantin Nitsche at Collection Lambert in Avignon; Tatiana Trouvé’s The Strange Life of Things at Palazzo Grassi in Venice—her most expansive exhibition to date and her first institutional solo show in Italy; Cecilia Vicuña’s upcoming exhibition Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and a long-term exhibition by Danh Vō at M+ in Hong Kong.

This edition of the fair also marks the first time Xavier Hufkens presents works by Charline von Heyl, who will hold her debut exhibition with the gallery in September 2025, and by Tatiana Trouvé, who recently joined the gallery programme and will present her first solo exhibition at the gallery in September 2026.