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MARKET: Meet the Gallerists | Sfeir-Semler

Art Basel

Founded in 2005, Andrée Sfeir-Semler’s Beirut- and Hamburg-based Sfeir-Semler is participating in the Galleries sector of Art Basel’s Miami Beach show in 2017.

 

“I love what I do…It is my passion and the center of my life.” – Andrée Sfeir-Semler, founder of Sfeir-Semler

When Andrée Sfeir-Semler’s Beirut gallery opened at the start of the Cedar Revolution, the future of the gallery was already shadowed in doubt. ‘You had the feeling that the war was starting all again…You wouldn’t be able to leave your house after 7pm and that’s bad for an opening,” she says, laughing. ‘And we had 1800 visitors. And it was…I get emotional.’

Located in the industrial Quarantina area, the large and light-filled gallery represents more than just the chic parts of the city. ‘The city is a city of contrast. You have beauty and ugliness next to each other. You have reasons to make art every second…’

Sfeir-Semler will be participating in the Galleries sector of Art Basel’s Miami Beach show for the first time, and exhibiting works by artists such as Etel Adnan, Walid Raad, Akram Zaatari, Timo Nasseri, and Yto Barrada, among others.

Museums

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MUSEUMS: Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine

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MUSEUMS: For Walter J. Hood, Architecture Means Power

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MUSEUMS: Fabric Workshop and Museum Explores Clay and Fabric

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MUSEUMS: Julie Mehretu Behind-the-Scenes With Checkerboard Films

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MUSEUMS: Alice Neel Paints Life “Hot off the Griddle”

Galleries

5:24

GALLERIES: Alec Soth Takes the Measure of Photography

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GALLERIES: Pablo Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing

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GALLERIES: For Landon Metz, Failure is an Option

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GALLERIES: Jacob El Hanani Is a Line-Maker

1:09:20

LONGFORM: Sheila Hicks Reflects From Home in Paris

Studios

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VAULT: Philip Guston Biopic Trailer (1981)

3:32

STUDIOS: Joep van Lieshout on Going Beyond Beautiful Design

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STUDIOS: Peter Beard: “Nature is the best thing we’ve got”

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STUDIOS: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Material Instinct (2000)

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STUDIOS: Billy Childish Gets Out of the Way of the Picture

Community

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PODCAST: ‘Barbara London Calling’ Launches Season 2

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LONGFORM: Hughie O’Donoghue in Conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith

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COMMUNITY: William Eric Brown Applies New Processes to Old

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PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

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LONGFORM: ‘To Cast Too Bold a Shadow’ Exhibition Walkthrough

Market

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MARKET: For Kimsooja, Immaterial Art Achieves Memory

15:35

MARKET: How Christie’s and Sotheby’s Dominate the Art Market

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MARKET: Ghada Amer on Being a Woman Artist

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MARKET: Catherine Petitgas is an Enabler

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MARKET: Kunsthalle Basel Is of Its Time