Liste Art Fair Basel 2024

At this year’s Liste Art Fair Basel, Kogo Gallery presents new works from a Latvian artist Elīna Vītola. Her installation titled ‘Common Issues in Painting and Everyday Life’, combines large-scale interactive paintings, tracksuits, a rowing boat and a sugar-glazed letter. Through this multilayered installation, she explores what it means to enter the space of the artwork as well as cleverly scatters footprints of her previous creative projects that touch on existential questions about art. The playful setting urges the audience to experience it in performative ways while undercovering its possible meanings and messages.

Liste Art Fair Basel is an international art fair that is considered to be the most significant for a younger generation of galleries, it has been running since 1996. This year, the fair takes place 10–16 June in Basel, Switzerland at Messe Basel in Hall 1.1. The digital art fair Liste Showtime Online is open 10–23 June. Kogo Gallery’s stand number is 38. This year, 91 galleries from 35 countries participate at the fair, presenting the works of more than 100 artists. Liste Art Fair Basel is a satellite to Art Basel (13–16 June), the largest and most esteemed contemporary art fair in the world.

FUNDERS

Kogo Gallery’s participation is co-funded by the European Union and the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, the City of Tartu, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Friends of Liste and Stiftung Liste Basel.

Kogo Gallery is one of ten galleries selected this year by the Liste Committee and the Board of Friends of Liste to receive a grant as believed to have a particularly courageous presentation, dedicated to presenting artistic positions in the best possible way.

TEAM

Artist: Elīna Vītola
Curator and project coordination: Šelda Puķīte
Project Director: Liina Raus
Installation: Siim Asmer
Communication: Karin Kahre, Kristlyn Liier
Translation and language editing: Refiner Translation