AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

ANNOUNCING BRIDGE BASEL, SWITZERLAND AT DREISPITZHALLE
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June 10-14, 2009

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2009
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Bridge Art Fair
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Bridge Art Fair is proud to announce its inaugural edition of Bridge Basel
to take place June 10-14, 2009, in Basel, Switzerland concurrent with the
esteemed Art Basel. Basel draws the largest international audience
internationally of all the major contemporary fairs, and Bridge Basel enjoys
built-in guarantees to ensure attendance by collectors, curators and art
professionals from around the world.

During the 40th Anniversary of Art Basel, Bridge Art Fair has been accepted
to stage the Bridge Art Fair in a new facility, the Dreispitzhalle.
Dreispitzhalle is the event facility centerpiece of the up-and-coming hot
spot in Basel, Dreispitz. In the coming years, this area will host a design
school, top-notch galleries and many other art institutions. The
Dreispitzhalle, the anchor of the neighborhood¹s future international art
and cultural activities, will host Bridge as the first-ever art fair in the
Dreispitz area of Basel during the Art Basel fair. Bridge boasts a degree of
local support, to deliver a fair that balances cultural and commercial
interests, enjoyed by no other satellite show.

Dreispitzhalle
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Bridge Art Fair in the Dreispitzhalle will take place almost across the
street from the largest private art collection in the world, the Schaulager,
. The Schaulager open house is an important draw
every year for art professionals and major art collectors from around the
world during Art Basel.

If there is any market in the world where collectors and galleries want to
go right now, it is Basel. Bridge is also working with event producers at
Triebwerk, , who helped make the Volta Show Basel a
success.

Verge Edition of Bridge Basel
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Bridge will also stage Verge,
in an office building next door to the Dreispitzhalle. Premiered as an
alternative edition of the Bridge Art Fair in Berlin during the 2008
installment of Art Forum Berlin, Verge Basel will be presented as a unique
companion showcase to Bridge: a showcase of only artist-run spaces and
projects. Verge will expand on the artistic and cultural focus of Bridge by
providing a previously unavailable non-commercial platform for artist-run
spaces.

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