June Crespo

Art Basel Paris 2024

Featured Artists: Vivian Caccuri, Maria Nepomuceno, Denilson Baniwa, O Bastardo, Arjan Martins, Agrade Camíz, Miguel Afa, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Guan Xiao, Shuang Li, Cui Jie, Alexandra Noel, Li Ming, Mire Lee, Francis Upritchard, David Byrd, Anne Collier, Martino Gamper, Hein Koh, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Shrigley, Manfred Pernice, Andrew Sim, Lara Schnitger, Matthew Monahan, Mike Silva, Ellen Berkenblit, Marcus Jahmal, Jim Lambie, Brian Calvin, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Jonas Wood, Tal R, Aliza Nisenbaum, Andy Warhol, Nazario, Darrel Ellis, Xavier Robles de Medina, Leidy Churchman, Abraham Cruzvillegas, David Douard, Wade Guyton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Yuki Kimura, Udomsak Krisanamis, Nick Mauss, Jean-Luc Moulène, Gabriel Orozco, Seth Price, Anri Sala, José María Sicilia, Wolfgang Tillmans, Oscar Tuazon, Haegue Yang, Shaun Motsi, Tyna Adebowale, Kasper Akhøj, Clara Amaral, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Sergei Eisenstein, Zhana Ivanova, Mauricio Limón, Tincuța Marin, Maria Pask, Nikita Gale, Daiga Grantina, Leslie Martinez, Lou Fauroux, Gina Folly, Tony Cokes, Edith Deyerling, Simon Lässig, Mathis Altmann, Vittorio Brodmann, Louis Eisner, Sophie Gogl, Cooper Jacoby, Megan Marrin, Cédric Rivrain, Sergio Sarri, Adrian Ghenie, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Adriana Popescu, Achraf Touloub, Cornel Brudascu, Ciprian Muresan, Diana Cepleanu, Iulia Nistor, Marieta Chirulescu, Navid Nuur, Serban Savu, Tincuta Marin, Nicolás Guagnini, Murat Önen, J.Parker Valentine, Constantina Zavitsanos, Kenji Ide, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Ana Segovia, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Damián Ortega, Nairy Baghramian, Roberto Gil de Montes, Nora Turato, Hana Miletić, Tatjana Danneberg, Brilant Milazimi, Motoyuki Daifu, Naotaka Hiro, Reina Sugihara, Trevor Shimizu, Nuri Koerfer, Anna-Sophie Berger, Gaylen Gerber, Josef Strau, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Käthe Kollwitz, Irma Blank, June Crespo, Filippo de Pisis, Laura Grisi, Ana Lupas, Francis Offman, Pierre Allain, Jan Eustachy Wolski, Marija Olšauskaitė, Sophie Thun, Maria Eichhorn, Carolyn Lazard, Doris Guo, Bruno Zhu

Venue: Art Basel, Paris, France

Featured Exhibitors: A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo), Antenna Space (Shanghai), Anton Kern Gallery (New York), Bombon (Barcelona), CANDICE MADEY (New York), Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (New York), Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), Christian Andersen (Copenhagen), Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), Emalin (London), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles), Exo Exo (Paris), Fanta-MLN (Milan), FELIX GAUDLITZ (Vienna), LC Queisser (Tbilisi), Fitzpatrick Gallery (Paris), Galeria Plan B (Cluj/Berlin), Galerie Max Mayer (Düsseldorf), KAYOKOYUKI (Tokyo), kurimanzutto (Mexico City / New York), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina), MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo), Lars Friedrich (Berlin), Layr (Vienna), P420 (Bologna), Petrine (Paris), Piktogram (Warsaw), PM8/Francisco Salas (Vigo), SOPHIE TAPPEINER (Vienna), Trautwein Herleth (Berlin), VI, VII (Oslo), What Pipeline (Detroit)

Date: October 16 – 20, 2024

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists, galleries and Art Basel, Paris

Conversation with June Crespo

This video, produced by Art Viewer, takes a journey through June Crespo’s oeuvre, including recent exhibitions and her working process. Over a year, we accompanied the artist to her studio, home, and foundry in the Basque Country, where she lives and works, and had conversations with her.

Since her beginnings, June Crespo has approached the expressive possibilities of materials, addressing themes such as corporeality, architecture, and the transformation of everyday objects. Her sculptures, often monumental and robust in appearance, are characterized by a balance between solidity and fragility that invites the viewer to reflect on the relationship between body and space.

In her works, Crespo usually keeps the traces of the process visible, such as the remains left during the casting or the natural textures of materials, thus highlighting the importance of the process in the final result. The artist turns industrial and everyday materials into sculptural forms that transcend their origin and invites us to re-read space and the object, playing with perceptions of weight, balance, and scale.

June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. Obtained her BFA from the Basque Country University (Bilbao) in 2005 and completed a two years residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam) in 2017. Her solo shows include Vascular (2024) at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum; they saw their house turn into fields (2023) at CA2M, Madrid; Acts of Pulse (2022) at P420, Bologna; entre alguien y algo (2022) at CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) Artium, Basque Museum-Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz; No Osso (2019) at Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto; Ser Dos (2017) and Cosa y tú (2015) at CarrerasMugica gallery in Bilbao. Recently her work has also been shown in group exhibitions such as L´écorce (2023) at CRAC-Alsace; The Milk of Dreams (2022) at Venice Biennale; Fata Morgana (2022) Jeu de Paume (Paris) and The Point of Sculpture (2021) at Fundación Miró (Barcelona).