Meet the Basel Art Summer Camp 2025 Cohort of Artists
- Monica
- 3 days ago
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For this year's edition of the Basel Art Summer Camp, we've invited nine emerging artists to spend a week in Basel and showcase their work at Hyve Hostel. Throughout the week of Art Basel, the artists in residence will be exhibiting their artworks and host a series of creative workshops in a dedicated pop-up gallery space.
Between 18th and 22nd June 2025, the public is invited to engage with the artists, learn about their practices and has the opportunity to buy affordable art.
Ana Miminoshvili is a freelance illustrator and designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work is characterized by bold colors and a balance between organic forms and geometric structures. While she primarily creates illustrations for editorial and commercial projects, she also enjoys experimenting with analog materials such as sketching, painting, clay work, and embroidery.
In 2021 Ana founded Illustrators Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting and supporting young Georgian artists. She thrives on collaboration with other creatives and continually explores new ways to push her artistic practice in different directions.
Anne Mei is a Dutch / Vietnamese artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Next to painting she studied and works in Migration and Refugee Law.
This interest lingers through her work, as the guiding star of her painting is human connection and human movement over the globe. Her goal is showing the art and beauty of dancing in difference; transforming ourselves through the other, without losing one's identity.
Bao Mayen was born and raised in Germany and studied Construction Technology and Ethics.
Since 2019, she works as a part-time artist, using creative expression as a bridge between passion and compassion. Her art revolves around the deep emotional connection between two people - a central theme reflected in her works.
Bao loves long days by the lake and even longer nights in the studio. Traveling and building meaningful connections with people and cultures enrich her life and inspire her artistic journey.
Chia Ying Wu is a designer, ceramicist and craftsperson from Taipei, Taiwan who designs unique tableware. Her work centers on creating aesthetically pleasing and durable vessels, viewing them not as objects to be given beauty or function but as essential elements of everyday life. For her, the act of crafting and designing is a moment of creation in itself.
Rather than serving as carriers of grand ideas or personal narratives, the objects she creates - whether a tea cup or a meal bowl - are meant to exist as quiet yet essential vessels for life itself.
Jade is an abstract artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She began her artistic journey at 15, moving to Poland to study traditional painting at art school. While her classical training laid a strong foundation, it was her discovery of abstract art that transformed her creative path.
Drawing from personal experiences and impressions, Jade uses color, texture, and form to explore the emotional and often unseen layers of life. For her, abstract painting is a way to make the invisible visible - each piece offering a window into her inner world while inviting viewers to find their own meaning through the interplay of shapes and sensations.
Rianne Bouter is a visual artist known for her expressive, layered paintings inspired by her own memories, nature and human connection. She combines bold shapes and colours with delicate details that encourages people to look beyond the surface.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she is passionate about making art feel accessible to everyone. From intimate drawings to large-scale canvases, she is always aiming to evoke emotion and tell a story, inviting viewers to connect with it in their own way.
Based in the Netherlands, Rianne is excited to share her work at Art Basel Summer Camp, connecting with new collectors and fellow art enthusiasts.
Kiera-Grace is a visual artist from South London. Working primarily with oil paint, she recently began incorporating image transfers to explore themes of memory and preservation.
Through a personal yet nostalgic lens, her work illustrates the confluence between the Caribbean and London, blending painting and photography to bridge past and present.
Fascinated by how people preserve memories, she uses oil paint for it's rich physicality, transforming simple pigments into vibrant, sentimental pieces that capture fleeting moments and cultural connections.
Born in Hong Kong to Indian parents, Tanisha Raj has lived in London, the USA, Berlin, and now Lisbon.
Initially drawn to woodcut printmaking at the age of 16, she immersed herself in carving abstract, intricate patterns into painted MDF panels, reimagining traditional woodcut techniques. Inspired by the symbolism of circles, from sacred mandalas to microscopic textures, her work explores fluidity, strength, and life's cyclical nature. Recent pieces introduce bold colors and geometric abstraction, influenced by S.H. Raza and the energy of the Bindu.
When not carving, Tanisha works as a freelance strategic consultant for corporations and NGOs.
MOMO is a Zurich based visual artist creating colorful works including canvases, skateboards, walls, digital art, sculptures, and designer toys. Her striking creations blend playful comic and cartoon elements with a touch of 90s nostalgia, drawing inspiration from music, films, and the world around her. MOMO constantly seeks artistic growth, pushing her boundaries and evolving her style. Her ultimate goal is to dedicate herself to her passion, spreading joy through her art.
Beyond her personal art, MOMO supports the local art scene as the owner of THE LAW, an urban art gallery in Zürich. There, she fosters emerging talent and creates opportunities for artists and creatives to connect and share their work.
...and this year welcome our "Basel Buddies" artists
For this year’s edition of the Basel Art Summer Camp, we also wanted to celebrate the local creative scene. Alongside our artists in residence, we’ve invited a group of Basel-based artists — our so-called Basel Buddies — to take part in the exhibition. A dedicated space at the Hyve pop-up gallery will showcase their work throughout the week.
You can also meet them at our Opening Night:
Tabea Martin was born in Basel in 1992. After training as an EFZ theater painter and working for four years at Theater Basel, she moved to Hamburg to study for her bachelor's degree in illustration. She took part in several exhibitions in Hamburg, including Addart 2022, where she won the prize for newcomer artist. Since then, she has shown her work in Germany (Frappant Galerie, 2024) and Switzerland (Jungkunst 2023, FAT art fair 2023, KunstWerkBasel 2024, solo shows in Basel, Bern, Zurich and Frankfurt with art@work 2024). In her painting, she deals with the question of the everyday and the mysteriousness of the “normal”. She works mainly with acrylic and egg tempera on canvas and also allows herself to work in formats of up to 10 meters. Tabea Martin has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Muttenz and Basel since 2024.
Lucia Fischer is a globally-influenced artist whose upbringing across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the US deeply informs her work. Based in Basel, her art blends the vivid colors of tropical jungles with soft tones of desert landscapes, expressed through cascading hues on the human form. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and womanhood in the 21st century. Originally trained in cinematography & screenwriting, Lucia transitioned to visual arts in 2015, studying Fine Arts at UP Diliman and now Art Mediation in Basel. Her debut solo show Asexual Adoration (2016) marked her entry into the Philippine art scene at the Manila Art Fair. In 2024, she made her Europe debut at Eleven Ten Studio in Basel.
Koshika Yadava is an Immunologist and Artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work explores the human experience.
As a scientist and an artist, she inhabits worlds perceived to be at odds with each other. She explores this perceived friction in her paintings by juxtaposing the observable, the measurable, and the rational with the obscure, the intangible, and the emotional.
Like in the laboratory, experimentation is central to her art practice, whether with different media, themes, or compositions.
Read our full interview with Koshika here.
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