Art Basel Gold Awardees

As Art Basel Gold Awardees, Nairy Baghramian and Ibrahim Mahama are bringing new commissioned works to Basel’s urban space. Their projects show how art emerges from contradiction

Iranian German artist and sculptor Nairy Baghramian knows all too well the effect politics can have on art. As a child, she experienced firsthand how easily art, culture, human rights, and women’s rights can be destroyed. She and her family fled the mullahs’ regime for Berlin in 1984, when she was just 13. Today, Baghramian is one of the world’s most important…