Gerard Byrne
b.1969, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Working primarily with lens-based media, Gerard Byrne explores the paradoxical relationship between time and image. Looking at both highbrow and popular media, Byrne meticulously documents and reconstructs the cultural ephemera of the last century. With deadpan humour, his works draw attention to the ways in which text, sound and image produce and transmit meaning, and how shifting contexts render this meaning impermanent. Never succumbing to nostalgia, Byrne’s analysis of the recent past and its mythologies tells us just as much about the present – how, far from being inevitable, the moment we live in is just one of a number of possible outcomes, and how alternative futures can live on through cultural artefacts.

Gerard Byrne has had solo exhibitions in many of the world’s leading museums, including Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland; Secession, Vienna; Graz Museum, Austria; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon and ACCA, Melbourne. He has also realised projects for many international exhibitions such as Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Documenta 13, 54th Venice Biennale, and biennials in Sydney, Gwangju, Busan, Lyon, and Istanbul.

Aleana Egan
b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Aleana Egan’s practice is shaped by her deep engagement with works of literature and cinema: never opting for direct representation, she uses this source material as an entryway, absorbing the moods and tones it evokes. For Art Basel 2025, Egan presents paintings formed in response to a lineage of female artists and writers including Joan Mitchell, Gillian Ayres, Chantal Akerman, Bernadette Mayer, Akshi Singh and Anne Sexton. “They all share an inclination to treat talk and silence as equal actions within the cosmos of an art work,” Egan reflects of these influences. “They emphasise the small scenes and reject the crystallisation of subjects.”

Egan has exhibited at Sculpture Center, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; The Drawing Room and Jerwood Space, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; Lismore Castle Arts; Leeds Art Gallery; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, Künstlerhaus Bremen and the Berlin Biennale.

Liam Gillick
b. 1964, Aylesbury, England.
Lives and works in New York

One of the most important figures in international contemporary art, Liam Gillick works across diverse forms, including sculpture and installation. He is perhaps best-known for producing sculptural objects – platforms, screens, models, benches, prototypes, signage, or structural supports made from sleek modular Plexiglas and aluminium forms in standardised colours from the RAL system: seductive materials that speak the language of renovation and development. Gillick’s presentation at Art Basel combines wall vinyls using dialogue from the 1972 documentary Week-end à Sochaux – in French phoneticised for an American accent – with new circular wall-mounted work in his signature medium of powder-coated aluminium.

Liam Gillick has had solo exhibitions in many of the world’s leading museums, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Zürich; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Pergamonmuseum, Berlin; Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; MAGASIN, Grenoble; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate Britain, London and IMMA, Dublin.

Isabel Nolan
b. 1974, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland

Isabel Nolan has an expansive practice that incorporates sculptures, paintings, textile works, photographs, writing and works on paper. Her subject matter is similarly comprehensive, taking in cosmological phenomena, religious reliquaries, Greco-Roman sculptures and literary/historical figures, examining the behaviour of humans and animals alike. These diverse artistic investigations are driven by intensive research, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective. Exploring the “intimacy of materiality”, Nolan’s work ranges from the architectural to small handmade objects, drawings and paintings. In concert, they feel equally enchanted by and afraid of the world around us, expressing humanity’s fear of mortality and deep need for connection as well as its startling achievements in art and thought. At Art Basel, Nolan debuts a new steel sculpture of tiered arches and cosmic, circular motifs.

Nolan is exhibiting in the 2025 Liverpool Biennial (7 June – 14 September) and will represent Ireland at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Past solo exhibitions include Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Mercer Union, Toronto; London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, London; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kunstverein Graz, Austria; Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany and Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne, France.