BASEL.- For Art Basel 2026, Galerie Urs Meile will present a curated selection of new works by both Eastern and Western contemporary artists from its program. The display will feature recent works by Antonio Ballester Moreno, Mirko Baselgia, Lêna Bùi, Cao Yu, Martin Disler, Klodin Erb, Guo Tiantian, Hu Qingyan, Ju Ting, Tobias Kaspar, Urs Lüthi, Miao Miao, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shao Fan, Loredana Sperini, Rebekka Steiger, Julia Steiner, Mai Ta, Wiedemann/Mettler, Xie Nanxing, Yan Bingqing, Yang Mushi and Zhang Shujian. The presentation will place the pioneering voices of the seminal generation of contemporary Chinese art in dialogue with a new generation of emerging positions, with particular emphasis on the contributions of female artists.

Galerie Urs Meile will also participate in Art Basel Exclusive, unveiling an exceptional artwork by one of the gallery’s principal artists during the preview on June 16.

Among others the selection includes:

Lêna Bùi’s (b. 1985, Da Nang, Vietnam) practice unfolds through a sustained exploration of memory, materiality, and the porous relationship between the body and the surrounding world. Working across painting, photography, textile, and moving image, she understands the body not as a fixed entity but as a site of continual exchange – a vessel through which personal histories, ancestral memories, ecological processes, and emotional states intersect.

Cao Yu (b. 1988, Liaoning, China) is a leading figure among a new generation of female Chinese artists. Working across video, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and painting, she is known for her incisive, provocative, and often ironic artistic language, which confronts questions of identity, power, and social convention.

Klodin Erb (b. 1963, Winterthur, Switzerland) is one of Switzerland’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. Working primarily in painting while extending her practice into drawing, collage, installation, film, and performance, she is known for creating vivid and imaginative visual worlds that blur the boundaries between reality, fantasy, and psychological experience.

Ju Ting’s (b. 1983, Shandong, China) work challenges the conventions of abstract painting by fusing painterly and sculptural approaches. Her practice investigates the material and spatial possibilities of acrylic paint, dissolving the boundary between surface and object.

Miao Miao (b. 1986, Henan, China) works across painting, sculpture, and installation, she transforms familiar scenes, objects, and experiences into imaginative visual worlds that oscillate between observation and invention.

Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973, Croydon, UK) is a British-Palestinian artist whose practice spans film, painting, and printmaking. Internationally recognized for her distinctive 16mm films, she explores the intersections of observation, memory, imagination, and storytelling, creating works that move fluidly between documentary and fiction.

Shao Fan (b. 1964, Beijing, China) is recognized for his multidisciplinary practice, which draws on traditional Chinese culture while also referencing Western art history. Across painting, sculpture, and installation, he creates ethereal works exploring the interdependence of humanity and nature.

Loredana Sperini (b. 1970, Wattwil, Switzerland) is a Swiss artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans embroidery, drawing, sculpture, installation, and encaustic painting. Known for her experimental approach to materials and processes, she creates works that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, exploring themes of corporeality, transformation, memory, and mortality.

Rebekka Steiger (b. 1993, Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss painter whose vividly coloured works move fluidly between abstraction and figuration. Working across oil, acrylic, and ink, she creates psychologically charged compositions in which animals, landscapes, and human figures emerge and dissolve within dynamic fields of colour, movement, and gesture.

Xie Nanxing (b. 1970, Chongqing, China) is a key figure in contemporary painting from China, internationally recognized for challenging painterly conventions through a practice that navigates the unstable boundary between abstraction and figuration.

Yan Bingqing (b. 1983, Shanghai, China) is a painter known for his psychologically charged figurative works that explore emotion, vulnerability, and the complexities of human experience. Working primarily in tempera on wood panels, he creates intimate images that transform fleeting emotional states into carefully constructed visual narratives.