Having a booth at Art Basel in Basel is not enough for the mega-galleries anymore. Several of the biggest galleries showing in the world-renowned art fair in Basel, Switzerland, which opened to VIPs Tuesday morning, have beefed up their presence in the region.

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Between the main fair, its satellite expos, pop-up exhibitions, and Zürich galleries’ offerings, many Baselgoers are getting a year’s worth of cultural programming in the few days around Art Basel’s opening. Collectors marching into town after Zürich Art Weekend made a beeline for Liste, a crucial fair for emerging art galleries. There, New York’s Bridget Donahue brought a suite of works by Martine Syms to complement the large Jessi Reaves sofa-sculpture in the center of its booth, and Clearing juxtaposed wood sculptures by Hugh Hayden with photographs by Marina Pinsky. Another New York gallery, Lomex, sold a slew of paintings by Andrea Fourchy, and Berlin’s Sweetwater—recently named by Artsy as one of the world’s most important young galleries—sold a showstopping chandelier installation by Kayode Ojo.

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