Art Basel 2025

For the 2025 edition of Art Basel, Petzel is pleased to present works by artists integral to the program, with established histories to the gallery, and new to its roster. Artists on view will include Ross Bleckner, Cosima von Bonin, Simon Denny, Nikita Gale, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sean Landers, Maria Lassnig, James Little, Malcolm Morley, Jorge Pardo, Joyce Pensato, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Tschabalala Self, Emily Mae Smith, Nicola Tyson, Emma Webster, Austin Martin White, Xie Nanxing, Leyla Yenirce, and Heimo Zobernig.

Following her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Emma Webster presents a new painting, Hark! The Immaterial!, 2024, which pictures a flurry of birds. Each engage in flight, yet are frozen in an uncanny, sky-blue space, revealing the precarity between nature and artifice.

Coinciding with his exhibition Lost at Sea at the Newport Art Museum, Landers presents new wildlife portraits that include his signature representations of tree carvings bearing existential inscriptions. Landers builds on a series developed for his most recent solo exhibition at the gallery, in which his paintings serve as both a meditative exercise and a monument to life itself—a record of existence and output.

Additionally, a historical oil painting by Malcolm Morley will be on view, rendered in his ‘Superrealist’ style made using the transfer of photographic source imagery to canvas through a grid system. Titled Isles of Scilly, 2008, Morley depicts a sea vessel cresting through azure waters, while an airplane soars overhead.

A historical painting by Maria Lassnig will be on view, titled Blauer Weicher, 1998, which has never been exhibited publicly. Characteristic of her theory of “body awareness,” Blauer Weicher is an introspective self-portrait, depicting the artist’s floating head in shades of blues and magentas.

Tschabalala Self debuts a new painting, titled Innocence, 2025, made using the artist’s signature combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials. Innocence inhabits the imagined interiority of a female figure, suspended in motion atop a patterned plane. Self will create a new sculpture for the New Museum’s façade, to be unveiled this fall.

Ahead of his solo exhibition at the gallery this fall, Jorge Pardo presents an installation of 40 glass lamps, cascading in shimmering clusters of aqua blue. Pardo merges categories of lighting and sculpture, offering up his works to manifold readings through shrewd treatment of material, shadow, and color.

The significant work Evil Stan, 2007, will be on view, ahead of a major retrospective of Joyce Pensato at ICA Miami this December. In Evil Stan, the eponymous South Park character looms like a ghostlike apparition. Pensato mutilates and denaturalizes his image in thick coats of enamel–smeared, splattered, dripped–to reflect the dystopian undercurrents of American popular culture and everyday life.