Blum Returned to Art Basel
Booth B12 Installation view, 2025 ©The artists; Courtesy of the artists and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: Andrea Rossetti
Los Angeles, CA,—On the occasion of Art Basel 2025, BLUM returned to Art Basel to present a cross section of new and historical work reflecting the gallery’s esteemed program. On the occasion, the gallery debuted work by the late pioneering Japanese artist Kimiyo Mishima, whose global representation was announced in conjunction. A survey exhibition of the artist’s work will follow in November in Los Angeles.
Lynda Benglis Relic, 2014-2023 Aluminum 61 x 34 x 38 1/2 inches (154.9 x 86.4 x 97.8 centimeters)© Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York
Along with Mishima, work by Gutai masters Sadamasa Motonaga and Toshio Yoshida, and lauded experimental artists Etsuko Nakatsuji and Kenjiro Okazaki, foreshadow recently appointed Senior Curatorial Director Mika Yoshitake’s vision for the forthcoming exhibition Written with a Splash of Blood. Set to inaugurate BLUM’s new space in New York’s Tribeca in September, Written with a Splash of Blood will reflect on key milestones in postwar Japanese art.
Robert Colescott VOLCANO, 1968 Acrylic on canvas 28 1/2 x 36 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches (72.4 x 91.8 x 4.4 centimeters) 31 3/4 x 39 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches framed (80.6 x 99.7 x 6.3 centimeters) © The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of The Trust and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: Evan Walsh
Spotlighting concurrent museum exhibitions in Europe and beyond, work by Ha Chong-hyun, Sam Moyer, Solange Pessoa, Kishio Suga, Alexander Tovborg, and Yukinori Yanagi will also feature prominently in the booth. Further anchoring the booth are two large sculptures by Lynda Benglis and Yoshitomo Nara.
Kimiyo Mishima Untitled, 1970 Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas 51 3/8 x 63 7/8 inches (130.6 x 162.1 centimeters) 51 3/4 x 64 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches framed (131.4 x 162.9 x 3.3 centimeters) © Kimiyo Mishima Estate; Courtesy of the Estate and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New YorkPhoto:Hayato Wakabayashi
Tom Anholt, Ha Chong-hyun, Solange Pessoa, March Avery, Lonnie Holley , Lauren Quin , Lynda Benglis Oliver Lee Jackson, Peter Shear, Robert Colescott , Kazuo Kadonaga, Sebastian Silva, Thornton Dial, Roberto Matta, Agata Słowak, Carroll Dunham, Kimiyo Mishima, Kishio Suga, Koji Enokura , Sadamasa Motonaga, Ryan Sullivan, Patrick Eugène,Sam Moyer, Alexander Tovborg, Hadi Falapishi, Etsuko Nakatsuji, Kaifan Wang,Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Yoshitomo Nara, Yukinori Yanagi, Tomoo Gokita,Asuka Anastacia Ogawa, Toshio Yoshida , Mark Grotjahn , Kenjiro Okazaki , Yun Hyong-keun
Ha Chong-hyun Conjunction 24-42, 2024 Oil on hemp cloth 64 x 51 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (162.6 x 130.8 x 5.7 centimeters) © Ha Chong-hyun; Courtesy of the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: Evan Walsh
About BLUM
BLUM represents more than sixty artists and estates from twenty countries worldwide, nurturing a diverse roster of artists at all stages of their practices with a range of global perspectives. Originally opened as Blum & Poe in Santa Monica in 1994, the gallery has been a pioneer in its early commitment to Los Angeles as an international arts capital.
The gallery has been acclaimed for its groundbreaking work in championing international artists of postwar and contemporary movements, such as CoBrA, Dansaekhwa, Mono-ha, and Superflat, and for organizing museum-caliber solo presentations and historical survey exhibitions across its spaces in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York. Often partnering with celebrated curators and scholars such as Cecilia Alemani, Alison M. Gingeras, Sofia Gotti, Joan Kee, and Mika Yoshitake, the gallery has produced large- scale exhibitions focusing on the Japanese Mono-ha school (2012); the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome painters (2014); the European postwar movement CoBrA (2015); Japanese art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019); a rereading of Brazilian Modernism (2019); a revisionist take on the 1959 MoMA exhibition, New Images of Man (2020); and a survey of portraiture through a democratic and humanist lens (2023); among others.
BLUM’s wide-reaching program includes exhibitions, lectures, performance series, screenings, video series, and an annual art book fair at its base in Los Angeles. BLUM Books, the gallery’s publishing division, democratically circulates its program through original scholarship and accessible media ranging from academic monographs, audio series, magazines, to artists’ books.
Across the three global locations, BLUM prioritizes environmental and community stewardship in all operations. In 2015, it was certified as an Arts:Earth Partnership (AEP) green art gallery in Los Angeles and consequently became one of the first green certified galleries in the United States. The gallery is also a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition, which works to facilitate a more sustainable commercial art world and reduce the industry’s collective carbon footprint. BLUM is committed to fostering inclusive and equitable communities both in its physical and online spaces and believes that everybody should have equal access to creating and engaging with contemporary art.
For more information about Pace Gallery during this year’s Art Basel, please visit Blum’s website here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram.
