
This year for Art Basel, the square in front of the Basel fair will become a forest
Quest’anno per Art Basel la piazza di fronte alla fiera di Basilea diventerà una foresta
Swiss landscape architect Enzo Enea, founder of the Enea Tree Museum near Zurich, will transform the Rundhof courtyard at Art Basel in Basel into an immersive natural installation titled "The Living Fragment" for the fair's 2026 edition (June 15–21). The project brings a fragment of his open-air museum to the fair, featuring rescued trees from Europe, North America, the Caucasus, and East Asia, arranged with hand-carved wooden seating treated with the traditional Japanese Yakisugi technique. The installation will be open to the public from June 18 to 21, with VIP preview access on June 16–17, offering a green oasis for relaxation during the hectic fair days.

