2026: Programm

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

Liste warmly invites visitors, artists, curators, and friends to celebrate the opening of the 2026 edition. Join us from 6–8 pm for the fair opening, with free entry and the first opportunity to experience this year’s galleries and artists.

The Monday programme continues with the Liste afterparty, this year in collaboration with the Swiss Art Awards at Basel Social Club. Located in the multi-storey former UBS training centre near Bahnhof SBB, the venue once again becomes a meeting point for Basel’s international art community late into the night. Free entry.
Address: Erdbeergraben 1, 4051 Basel

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

The performance "Runner-up“ by Sofía Durrieu shows a runner in starting position, holding tension while awaiting a signal that never comes. At intervals, the runner stretches, hydrates, and prepares again, only to return to waiting in a repeated cycle. It explores tension as both vital force and inhibiting fixation. Conceptually, it critiques the narrowness of competitive, individualistic systems within performance-driven paradigms.

Artist Kaspar Müller, in collaboration with Baloonsalon Peng, invites children to experiment with shape and color through creating their own floating balloons. Using foil, stickers, glitter, vinyl, and all sorts of colorful, sparkly materials, participants develop their own objects. The workshop, located on the mezzanine floor of the fair, provides an open studio setting where balloons gradually accumulate, turning the space into an evolving installation.

Meeting point: VIP Desk, in the Foyer (Level 0).

Rosa Aiello and Theresa Roessler present Room Tone, published by DISTANZ Verlag, a reflection on methods of documentary and experimental filmmaking as a relational and collaborative practice. What do filmmaking processes generate beyond stories told through images and sound—social and interpersonal dynamics, out-of-the-ordinariness, a hierarchy of roles, shifting states of observation, performativity, belonging, and resistance? Within the conceptual space of this question, Aiello has invited filmmakers Helin Çelik, Beatrice Gibson, and Ivana Mladenović to respond. An essay by Yaniya Lee contextualizes Aiello's ongoing interest in methodology and collaboration, and discusses her film works from her exhibition A Good Reputation at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster (2025/26).

Room Tone is part of KONTEXT, a series by DISTANZ, that brings together artists and writers for an exchange between the worlds of writing and contemporary art.

Chathuri Nissansala creates a new live work extending their ongoing research into ritual, inheritance, and the unstable figure of the “mother” as both intimate and political body. Drawing on southern Sri Lankan ritual traditions, the performance activates gesture, voice, and collective as embodied knowledge. The work forms a provisional ritual environment in which domestic elements become charged sites of address. Through repetition, it oscillates between mourning and collective calling. The maternal emerges as a shifting role, where authority, care, and violence remain entangled within shared memory and presence.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insight into selected galleries, their artists, and the thematic contexts presented across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

Pure Fiction (Rosa Aiello, Ellen Yeon Kim, Erika Landström, Luzie Meyer and Mark von Schlegell) presents a programme of performances combining monologue, song, sound, video, and theatre.

Since 2012, the group has worked across writing and performance between art and literature. With shifting constellations of members, it has produced exhibitions, publications, theatre, music, workshops, readings, and staged adaptations of classical theatre plays in international exhibition contexts, alongside eleven anthologies of poetic, experimental, and narrative writing.

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

In GEAR, two mic’d-up adolescent security guards monitoring a foyer drift through repetitive, mundane conversations and movements against the backdrop of a global art fair.

Artist Kaspar Müller, in collaboration with Baloonsalon Peng, invites children to experiment with shape and color through creating their own floating balloons. Using foil, stickers, glitter, vinyl, and all sorts of colorful, sparkly materials, participants develop their own objects. The workshop, located on the mezzanine floor of the fair, provides an open studio setting where balloons gradually accumulate, turning the space into an evolving installation.

Meeting point: VIP Desk, in the Foyer (Level 0).

Join us for an artist talk with Maryam Jafri, presented by Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen, at Booth 30, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Hyunjin Kim. The conversation opens up Maryam Jafri’s practice, exploring the themes that shape her work and artistic approach.

Join us for an artist talk with Sara Wu, presented by ssspacespace, New Taipei City, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Hyunjin Kim. The conversation opens up Sara Wu’s practice, exploring the themes that shape her work and artistic approach.

This panel discussion explores the position of the artist’s moving image today, focusing on its evolving modes of production and circulation. Chaired by Juliette Desorgues, Paris-based curator and writer, and responsible for the selection of Liste's Film Programme, the conversation brings together Attilia Fattori Franchini, Founder and co-Director of Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna and Raoul Klooker, Director of Fluentum, Berlin.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a special guided tour by artist Paulina Olowska and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and curatorial contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

The performance "Runner-up“ by Sofía Durrieu shows a runner in starting position, holding tension while awaiting a signal that never comes. At intervals, the runner stretches, hydrates, and prepares again, only to return to waiting in a repeated cycle. It explores tension as both vital force and inhibiting fixation. Conceptually, it critiques the narrowness of competitive, individualistic systems within performance-driven paradigms.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and thematic contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

In GEAR, two mic’d-up adolescent security guards monitoring a foyer drift through repetitive, mundane conversations and movements against the backdrop of a global art fair.

Artist Kaspar Müller, in collaboration with Baloonsalon Peng, invites children to experiment with shape and color through creating their own floating balloons. Using foil, stickers, glitter, vinyl, and all sorts of colorful, sparkly materials, participants develop their own objects. The workshop, located on the mezzanine floor of the fair, provides an open studio setting where balloons gradually accumulate, turning the space into an evolving installation.

Meeting point: VIP Desk, in the Foyer (Level 0).

Join us for an artist talk with Margherita Moscardini, presented by Gian Marco Casini, Livorno, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Robert McKenzie. The conversation opens up Margherita Moscardini’s practice, exploring the themes that shape her work and artistic approach.

Join us for an artist talk with Prateek Vijan, presented at Liste by Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, in conversation with Chus Martínez and Robert McKenzie. The conversation opens up Prateek Vijan’s practice, exploring the themes that shape his work and artistic approach.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a special guided tour by artist Paulina Olowska and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and curatorial contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

The second volume of the Basel Dialogues critical book series, published by the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (HGK Basel) and Christoph Merian Verlag, launches at Liste 2026 with a series of conversations: an introduction to the book series by editors Claudia Perren and Quinn Latimer, followed by a panel discussion with Pauline Julier and Quinn Latimer on the Political Desires of Moving Images, and concluding with a conversation between Jacqueline Loekito, and Matylda Krzykowski on Waves of Theory and Practice in Fashion and Publishing.

Activated through performance, the work approaches sound as a spatial, almost sculptural presence, expanding beyond the visual into a three-dimensional experience. It is part of my ongoing research, The Look That Listens, which seeks to dissolve the boundaries between image and sound, proposing new languages for composing and interpreting music in space.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and thematic contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

Monologues on a Treadmill deals with the present and future dystopian topics.
​In the first monologue, we meet a rich boy who just lost a million on a scam, being upset he realizes that it doesn’t matter too much as we are more and more part of an unequal society where his dad is lucky enough to be part of the 1% and has many more millions to spare. The second one is a mix between Molière’s ”Tartuffe” and an investor who becomes extremely rich having wealthy people put their money into dubious fonds to avoid paying taxes. Last person is ”an artist” that you see on instagram short videos where he talks about his practice.

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

The performance "Runner-up“ by Sofía Durrieu shows a runner in starting position, holding tension while awaiting a signal that never comes. At intervals, the runner stretches, hydrates, and prepares again, only to return to waiting in a repeated cycle. It explores tension as both vital force and inhibiting fixation. Conceptually, it critiques the narrowness of competitive, individualistic systems within performance-driven paradigms.

Artist Kaspar Müller, in collaboration with Baloonsalon Peng, invites children to experiment with shape and color through creating their own floating balloons. Using foil, stickers, glitter, vinyl, and all sorts of colorful, sparkly materials, participants develop their own objects. The workshop, located on the mezzanine floor of the fair, provides an open studio setting where balloons gradually accumulate, turning the space into an evolving installation.

Meeting point: VIP Desk, in the Foyer (Level 0).

A conversation on artist-run spaces and project-driven initiatives, expanding the spaces presented in the ‘Wall’ section of the fair. Moderated by Quinn Latimer, the discussion brings together Helena Papadopoulos, Radio Athènes, Athens, Niina Ulfsak, galerina, London, and Philémon Otth, sentiment, Zurich, to reflect on how such spaces evolve, how context shapes their direction, and which artistic and commercial models feel most relevant today.

What becomes visible when you shift your perspective from looking at artworks to observing the systems that frame them? ‘LOOKING FOR?’ invites you to become an investigator and move through the art fair against the grain. ‘LOOKING FOR?’ asks questions in the form of a list of lists, made for Liste. What power structures are embedded in this space? Whose work is present but never seen? What will remain afterwards? Engage with these questions silently, through dialogue, or by documenting your reflections. Participation is free.

‘LOOKING FOR?’ is also a printed booklet, available upon request at the VIP Desk. Conceived by Hybrid Project Space, this mediation tool grants free entry to the fair and invites visitors to explore its visible and hidden structures through a series of prompts and observations. Pick up your copy at the VIP Desk from Tuesday 16 June to Sunday 21 June.

Meeting point: Foyer, VIP Desk (Level 0)

Imagine you're a gym teacher at a middle school in Paris. Nineteen years later, one of your least talented students writes poems about you to get revenge.

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and thematic contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

Brought together by Paris-based curator and writer Juliette Desorgues for Liste Art Fair Basel 2026, this programme comprises artists’ moving-image works selected from proposals submitted by participating galleries.

Spanning a range of genres and narrative registers, the works inhabit the precarious threshold between fiction, fantasy and reality, unsettling dominant constructions of the real while envisioning alternative worlds into being. In tracing the porous boundary between the imagined and the lived, the works presented consider what kinds of futures, fears, desires, and forms of freedom emerge when reality itself begins to feel unstable.

With works by (in order of appearance): Valentina Vaccarella (sentiment, Zurich), Augustine Paredes (Paulina Caspari, Munich), Jihye Rhii (Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne), Lizzy Deacon (243 Luz & Co, London/Margate), Tornike Gognadze (Commune, Vienna), Kumar Muniandy & Madalina Zaharia (with poetry by Avrina) (Ivan, Bucharest), Zazou Roddam (Brunette Coleman, London).

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insight into selected galleries, their artists, and the thematic contexts presented across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).

Explore the 2026 edition of Liste through a guided tour and gain insights into selected galleries, their artists and thematic contexts across the fair. Participation is free with a fair ticket.

Meeting point: Info Desk, in the Fair Hall (Level 2).