![]() Photo Basel, in Volkhaus Basel, in 2025 | |
Industry | Art |
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Founded | 2015Basel, Switzerland | in
Founders | Sven Eisenhut |
Products | Art fairs |
Photo Basel is an annual art fair, showcasing photography, which takes place at the Volkhaus Basel in Basel, Switzerland during Art Basel week. [1] [2] Switzerland's first and only photography art fair, it showcases galleries both emerging and established, national and international, across a variety of different disciplines in photography. [3] [4]
Since its founding in 2015, yearly editions of Photo Basel have been covered by Artnet, The Guardian, Artsy, Time Out, and other publications. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Photo Basel was founded by Sven Eisenhut, who still serves as its founding director. [9] Its first edition ran in June 2015. [10] Exhibitions are curated by Elwira Spychalska. [11]
In 2024, Photo Basel unveiled a sector, titled Novum, dedicated to never-before-seen works of photography that were either created specifically for Photo Basel or recently discovered/rediscovered. [12]