Art Metropole

11 - 16 Jun. 2019

Art Metropole at Art Basel 2019

Art Metropole is pleased to announce its participation at 49th Art Basel art fair. 

This year marks the 45th anniversary of Art Metropole, and the 43rd anniversary of its collaboration with Art Basel. To mark the occasion, the organization is featuring some special material, including rare publications from the private collection of Art Metropole co-founder, AA Bronson. Featured works include a first edition of Michael Snow’s seminal artists’ book, Cover to Cover, (ed. Kasper König, NSCAD Press), and other publications by Canadian and international artists including Guerrilla Girls, Image Bank, Martin Kippenberger, Ron Terada, Barbara Kruger, Luis Jacob, Antonia Hirsch, Lisa Robertson, Stan Douglas, and Laurie Anderson, among others. 

Art Metropole will also feature some of its artist editions, with works by Divya Mehra, Yoko Ono, Martin Creed, Eckhaus Latta, Ben Kinmont, and Garry Neill Kennedy, and more. 

Toronto artist Bill Burns will also be on site June 14 from 2pm to 4pm to sign brochures and a new poster project published by Atelier Amden related to his ongoing performance The Great Trading Project, which included a recent iteration in Switzerland last summer. 

Art Metropole at Art Basel 

Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10 
4058 Basel
Switzerland

Opening Hours
Private Days (by invitation only)
Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 11am to 8pm
Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 11am to 8pm

Vernissage (by invitation only)
Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 4pm to 8pm

Public Days
Thursday, June 13, 2019, 11am to 7pm
Friday, June 14, 2019, 11am to 7pm
Saturday, June 15, 2019, 11am to 7pm
Sunday, June 16, 2019, 11am to 7pm

Art Metropole (est. 1974) is a non-profit artist run organization with a mandate to produce and support artist-initiated publication in any media, especially innovative formats predisposed to sharing and circulation. The organization was founded by the Toronto-based artist collective General Idea, and now operates Clouds & Horizon, a retail and space at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, and produces itinerant projects and platforms worldwide. 

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