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Cruse well understands this dynamic interplay between art, its community, and the wider urban habitat. For the past ten years, she was the director of Gallery Weekend Berlin, the annual showcase of the city’s art scene where around 50 galleries create focused presentations. Besides that, she led the contemporary fair abc and Art Berlin, and cut her teeth in the German capital curating the storied Forgotten Bar, a hybrid of drinking den and gallery. ‘What I learned at Gallery Weekend Berlin is that an event is achieved with the city, the city’s galleries, institutions, collectors and artists really collaborating together,’ she says. ‘In Basel, the amount of support and engagement is stunning.’
This year’s edition of Art Basel in Basel will see the fair embed itself even further in the surrounding townscape. The fair’s public art show, Parcours, explores transformation and circulation and will be curated by Stefanie Hessler, the director of New York’s Swiss Institute. ‘Most works will be site-specific and specially produced. They will not only be outside, but all along Clarastrasse , in shops and storefronts, in a church, on the bridge,’ explains Cruse. For the first time ever, the fair will also stage around-the-clock art projects at the Hotel Merian, on the banks of the Rhine in the city’s center.
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