Pace Gallery Booth Highlights from Art Basel 2025

From left: Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969 © 2019 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Pablo Picasso, Homme à la pipe assis et amour, Winter 1969 © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1957-58 © Estate of Joan Mitchell, courtesy Pace Gallery; Helen Frankenthaler, Ore, 1974 © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

As part of its 65th anniversary programming, Pace presented landmark works by major 20th century figures—an ode to the gallery’s history as a champion of abstraction Highlights from the gallery’s contemporary program will spotlight new approaches to abstraction in painting, sculpture, and photography Friedrich Kunath, who joined Pace’s program in May, will debut a new painting at Art Basel At Pace in Geneva, a group show celebrating the gallery’s history over the last six-and-a-half decades is on view through August 9

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Art Basel included:

• Landmark works by 20th century figures—including Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Hermann Nitsch, Isamu Noguchi, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Tony Smith, Antoni Tàpies, and Paul Thek—that underscore Pace’s commitment to artists working in abstraction

• A new painting by Friedrich Kunath—now represented by Pace—ahead of his first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York this fall

• Works by contemporary artists with pioneering new approaches to abstraction, including Yto Barrada, Nigel Cooke, Torkwase Dyson, Pam Evelyn, Loie Hollowell, Lee Ufan, Li Hei Di, Li Songsong, Kylie Manning, Beatriz Milhazes, Adam Pendleton, Lauren Quin, and Marina Perez Simão

• Important works by Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, and Alfred Stieglitz, artists who expanded the boundaries of photography

From Left to Right: Robert Indiana Ahab, 1962, cast 1991, painted bronze 60" × 11-3/4" × 10-3/8" (152.4 cm × 29.8 cm × 26.4 cm). Edition 5 of 8Edition of 8 + 2 Aps © 2025 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Alicja Kwade Sunder State V, 2025polished glass, clock, patinated bronze70.2 cm × 30.5 cm diameter (27-5/8" × 12") © Alicja Kwade, courtesy Pace Gallery

• Works by two artists—Robert Indiana and Alicja Kwade—with exhibitions on view at Pace’s New York galleries during the fair

• Paintings by artists with major institutional exhibitions across Europe this summer: Sam Gilliam at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (opening June 13); Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, London (opening July 10), and who is also the subject of a solo presentation at Pace in London, opening June 6; and Richard Pousette-Dart at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (through September\ 14)

• Pace’s booth will also feature works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Dan Flavin, Adrian Ghenie, Matthew Day Jackson, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, William Monk, Yoshitomo Nara, Kohei Nawa, Julian Schnabel, Chiffon Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, and John Wesley

• At Art Basel Unlimited: three ambitious, large-scale works by Arlene Shechet, Latifa Echakhch, and Robert Longo, who will take over Pace's New York flagship with a monumental multi-floor exhibition this September

From left: Friedrich Kunath, We See Things They'll Never See, 2025 © Friedrich Kunath, courtesy Pace Gallery; Pam Evelyn, Focal Length, 2025 © Pam Evelyn, courtesy Pace Gallery; Loie Hollowell, Pressure in blue-purple, 2025 © Loie Hollowell, courtesy Pace Gallery; Adam Pendleton, Black Dada (A/A), 2025 © Adam Pendleton, courtesy Pace Gallery

Pace: 65 Years

Through August 9 at Pace Geneva

This group exhibition delves into the past 65 years of Pace through a changing display of works that situates the gallery's contemporary program in the context of its 20th-century history, cultivating a dialogue between the past and present.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.

Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.

Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.

For more information about Pace Gallery during this year’s Art Basel, please visit the  Pace Gallery’s website here and Art Basel’s website for further details here. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy.