Basel Art Summer Camp | Affordable Art Gallery I Art Museums of the World

BASEL ART
SUMMER CAMP
2025

A pop-up affordable art gallery during Art Basel week, where anyone can be an art collector. Join us for art workshops, talks, performances & more!

18th to 22nd JUNE 2025

BASEL ART
SUMMER CAMP
AT HYVE HOSTEL

Looking for affordable art during the world’s bougiest art fair? We’ve got you covered! Basel Art Summer Camp is where emerging artists showcase their work in a vibrant, welcoming space - bringing fresh perspectives and accessible art to Basel’s biggest art week.

WHAT IS IT

?

Basel Art Summer Camp is a five-day pop-up art event running during the week of Art Basel. Set in the relaxed atmosphere of HYVE Hostel's lobby, visitors can explore:

A gallery space featuring emerging artists
An art shop with prints, posters & original works
Art workshops, talks & performances

Whether you’re looking to start your art collection, meet new talent, or experience a different side of Basel’s art scene, this is the place to be.

WHEN IS IT

?

The 2025 edition of Basel Art Summer Camp will run from 18th - 22nd of June.

📅 June 18: Press Afternoon + Opening Party (RSVP)
📅 June 19 - 22: Daily open exhibition, art shop & workshops

Free entry to the art shop, gallery and café!
Drop by anytime to explore, shop and connect.

Workshops and talks are ticketed.

BROWSE EVENTS

WHERE IS IT

?

Basel Art Summer Camp will take place at HYVE Hostel, just a 3-minute walk from Basel’s central train station.

Unlike traditional white-wall galleries, HYVE offers a relaxed and welcoming space where visitors can engage with art. The hostel’s café and bar provide the perfect setting to chat with artists, grab a coffee, and dive into Basel’s creative energy.

If you're still looking for a place to stay, you can book now with our code "SUMMERCAMP" for 12% off between 18th and 23rd June.

BOOK NOW

HOW DOES
IT WORK

?

Each year, we select a group of emerging artists from an open call. Once in Basel, the artists transform the lobby space into an inspiring art gallery.

As a visitor and art collector you can:

Explore unique and affordable works – from prints to paintings
Join workshops & talks – dive into the creative process
Shop affordable art – because everyone can be a collector

BROWSE EVENTS

MEET THE ARTISTS

EACH YEAR, A NEW GROUP OF EMERGING ARTISTS BRING A FRESH PERSPECTIVE TO BASEL.

JOIN US IN WELCOMING THE 2025 COHORT OF ARTISTS.

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BAO MAYEN

Bao Mayen was born and raised in Germany and studied Construction Technology and Ethics. Since 2019, she works as a part-time artist, using creative expression as a bridge between passion and compassion. Her art revolves around the deep emotional connection between two people - a central theme reflected in her works.

ANA MIMINOSHVILI

Ana is a freelance illustrator and designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work is characterized by bold colors and a balance between organic forms and geometric structures. While she primarily creates illustrations for editorial and commercial projects, she also enjoys experimenting with analog materials such as sketching, painting, clay work, and embroidery.

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KIERA GRACE

Kiera-Grace is a visual artist from South London. Working primarily with oil paint, she recently began incorporating image transfers to explore themes of memory and preservation. Through a personal yet nostalgic lens, her work illustrates the confluence between the Caribbean and London, blending painting and photography to bridge past and present.

CHIA YING WU

Chia Ying Wu is a designer, ceramicist and craftsperson from Taipei who designs tableware. Her work centers on creating aesthetically pleasing, durable vessels, viewing them not as objects to be given beauty, but as essential elements of everyday life. Rather than serving as carriers of grand ideas, the objects she creates exist as vessels for life itself.

RIANNE BOUTER

Rianne Bouter is a visual artist known for her expressive, layered paintings inspired by her own memories, nature and human connection.She combines bold shapes and colors with delicate details that encourages people to look beyond the surface. From intimate drawings to large-scale canvases, she aims to evoke emotion and tell a story.

ANNE MEI BLOM

Anne Mei is a Dutch / Vietnamese artist based in Amsterdam. Next to painting she studied and works in Migration & Refugee Law. This interest lingers through her work, as the guiding star of her painting is human connection and movement over the globe. Her goal is to show the beauty of dancing in difference; transforming ourselves through the other, without losing one's identity.

JADE KRYM

Jade is an abstract artist based in Germany. She began her artistic journey at 15, moving to Poland to study art. While her classical training laid a strong foundation, it was her discovery of abstract art that transformed her creative path. Drawing from personal experiences, Jade uses color, texture, and form to explore the emotional, unseen layers of life.

TANISHA RAJ

Born in Hong Kong to Indian parents, Tanisha has lived in London, the US, Berlin, and now Lisbon. Initially drawn to woodcut printmaking at the age of 16, she immersed herself in carving abstract, intricate patterns, reimagining traditional woodcut techniques. Inspired by the symbolism of circles, from sacred mandalas to microscopic textures, her work explores fluidity, strength, and life's cyclical nature.

MOMO

MOMO is a Zurich-based visual artist known for her colorful, energetic works across a variety of mediums including canvases, skateboards, walls, digital art, sculptures, and designer toys. Blending playful comic and cartoon aesthetics with a touch of 90s nostalgia, her work draws inspiration from music, films, and everyday life. Dedicated to constant growth, MOMO is always evolving her style and pushing creative boundaries. Her mission is to spread joy through art while building a life around her passion.

LUCIA

Lucia Fischer is a globally-influenced artist whose upbringing across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the US deeply informs her work. Based in Basel, her art blends the vivid colors of tropical jungles with soft tones of desert landscapes, expressed through cascading hues on the human form. Her work explores themes of identity, culture, and womanhood in the 21st century. Originally trained in screenwriting & cinematography, Lucia transitioned to visual arts, studying Fine Arts and Art Mediation.

KOSHIKA

Koshika Yadava is an Immunologist and Artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work explores the human experience. As a scientist and an artist, she inhabits worlds perceived to be at odds with each other. She explores this perceived friction in her paintings by juxtaposing the observable, the measurable, and the rational with the obscure, the intangible, and the emotional.

Like in the laboratory, experimentation is central to her art practice, whether with different media, themes, or compositions.

TABEA

After training as a theater painter and working at Theater Basel, Tabea moved to Hamburg to study illustration. She took part in several exhibitions in Hamburg, including Addart 2022, where she won the prize for newcomer artist. Since then, she has shown her work in Germany and Switzerland. In her painting, she deals with the question of the everyday and the mysteriousness of the “normal”. She works mainly with acrylic and egg tempera on canvas and also allows herself to work in formats of up to 10 meters.

THE VOLUNTEERS

THE TRUE MVPS BEHIND THE SCENES, HANDLING LOGISTICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, EVENTS, AND MAKING IT ALL HAPPEN.

SAY HELLO TO THIS
YEARS VOLUNTEERS

CELESTE

Celeste Sunderland Gottfried is an American writer based in Zurich. Her curiosity has guided her multifaceted career path as a journalist, editor, producer, and project manager. She is drawn to culture and creativity, and has often found herself transfixed by the unique beauty of a place and its people. Before moving to Zurich, she lived in Berlin, San Francisco, Paris, and New York, where she has written about art, architecture, travel, design, science and sustainability.

JEWEL

Jewel is an art world content creator and strategist based in London. Through her social media platforms as @jewelinthegallery she shares content about art history, exhibitions, and art travel destinations to her growing audience of art lovers. Bridging her background in art history & data science, Jewel also founded The Arts Analyst, a company that specialises in growing arts audiences through social media and data analytics consulting.

MANAS

Based in Winterthur for the past five years, Manas is a corporate professional with a passion for doodling on any blank surface. Originally from India, and now living in Switzerland, she recently began exploring digital art, experimenting with new techniques and styles.

Outside of art, she enjoys writing and sharing articles on sustainable solutions, aiming to spark ideas and contribute to a better future.

CARLY

Carly Eiseman is a Los-Angeles based artist and creative business executive immersed in the worlds of contemporary art, music and technology.

With a background in artist research and marketing, she specializes in working with creative founders. Since 2017, she has painted almost daily, creating long durational practices around the passing of time. Don't miss out on her postcard workshop leading up to the event.

OUR PARTNERS

Basel Art Summer Camp wouldn’t be possible without the support of our amazing partners and friends. From providing the space, to goodie bags, to art materials to helping us spread the word, they play a key role in making this event happen. This year, we’re grateful for the support of all the following people who help us bring art to life in new and exciting ways: