Shifting Mindsets: Welcoming Parenthood in the Art World

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Conversations | Shifting Mindsets: Welcoming Parenthood in the Art World 
In the past, being a parent was considered incompatible with being a successful artist. Is today’s art world more supportive of parents? This panel reflects on the complex and enriching transition to parenthood, and whether it can, in fact, offer a conceptual and productive shift in an artist’s work. Artists Andrea Büttner, Camille Henrot, and Basim Magdy also discuss what institutions and galleries can do to embrace this change and contribute to the paradigm shift that is still needed to nurture greater acceptance and support. 
Andrea Büttner, artist, Berlin Camille Henrot, artist, New York City Basim Magdy, artist, Basel&nbsp; Moderator: Emily Butler, Conversations Curator, Art Basel

Andrea Büttner lives and works in Berlin and is Professor for Art in the Contemporary Context at Kunsthochschule Kassel. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Turner Prize and currently has solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel and Galerie Tschudi, Zürich. A show at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Wesfalen, Düsseldorf will open in October. Working across diverse media, including woodcut, glass and video, her practice connects art history with social and ethical issues, exploring broad-ranging topics such as poverty, work, community, botany, Catholicism, and philosophy. Büttner is represented by David Kordansky Gallery, Hollybush Gardens, Jan Mot and Galerie Tschudi.
Over the past twenty years, Camille Henrot has developed a critically acclaimed practice encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film. Henrot references literature, cartoons, social media, poetry, psychoanalysis and the banality of everyday life to capture the complexity of living as both a private individual and a global subject in an increasingly over-stimulated world. Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for her film Grosse Fatigue, at Venice Biennale in 2013. She has participated in the Lyon, Sydney and Liverpool biennials and has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide. Henrot is represented by Mennour, Paris and Hauser & Wirth.
Basim Magdy is an artist and filmmaker. RHis recent solo exhibitions? include Frac Bretagne, Rennes; KM21 Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague; Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg; M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MAXXI, Rome; Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin; and in group shows at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, New Museum Triennial, Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial and MEDIACITY Seoul Biennial.&nbsp;Magdy is represented by Gypsum Gallery.
Emily Butler is Conversations Curator for Art Basel, a freelance curator and a Curating PHD candidate at ZHDK/ University of Reading. Previously she was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Projects included leading the Artists’ Film International consortium (2016-21), survey exhibitions such as The London Open 2022, The London Open 2018, Electronic Superhighway (2016), major solo shows by Kai Althoff (2020), Hannah Höch (2014), John Stezaker, Wilhelm Sasnal (2011), collection displays including the ISelf Collection, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (both 2017), commissions by Nalini Malani (2020), Carlos Bunga (2020), Katja Novitskova (2018), Benedict Drew (2016), Kader Attia (2013) and Rachel Whiteread (2012), as well as festivals including Nocturnal Creatures 2021, 2018 and Art Night 2017. From 2004-2010 she developed exhibitions internationally for the British Council's Visual Arts Department. She contributes to international publications and independent projects. 
The Art Basel 2023 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler. Coordination and support: Arianna Guidi.