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.
This collaboration, now in its seventh year, deepens Art Basel's engagement with environmental themes and positions Enea's conservation-driven practice as a recurring curatorial highlight. By placing saved trees on equal footing with artworks, Enea challenges the boundary between nature and art, while the installation's focus on biodiversity and sustainable design reflects broader cultural conversations about climate change and ecological responsibility. The project also reinforces Art Basel's role as a platform for site-specific, experiential installations that extend beyond traditional commercial art presentations.