This is an unconventional art fair. Situated in what seems an abandoned and run-down commercial building, with stairs running up/down but dont connect through, it's a maze to get around. But Liste has been around for 14 years now. Quite an achievement and clearly "established" as an event coinciding with the main Art Basel. Branding itself as "The Young Art Fair @ Basel", it chose 64 galleries from 400 applicants this year. Very avant garde, you can say it's experimental, lots of installations, and honestly not many of them are "sellable" - unless you are a really serious collector and has a huge place.A few works did impressed - I like Simone Gilges' curtain/painting work, which create a sense of mystic/secrecy. Timo Nasseri's "One and One" has math formulae, geometric shapes repeating endlessly - as in prayer, and echo his Islamic background. The French-speaking Masahide Otani's video work of ink writing in rain is poetic (but seems video is not his main medium).
Overall Liste is interesting - and surely a "different" art fair vs. the ones we see everywhere.
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