Dale Grant, Daniel & Geo Fuchs and Deni Horvatić – photo basel 2025

photo basel 2025 with Dale Grant, Daniel & Geo Fuchs and Deni Horvatić

For this year’s edition of photo basel, at booth 23 we are presenting works by Dale Grant, Deni Horvatić and Daniel & Geo Fuchs. Three artistic positions, three photographic perspectives – united under the poetic and sombre title: fading beauty, nature & destruction. The positions thematise the fragile beauty of nature, its destruction by humans – but also its renewal and resilience.

Photography has established itself within museums and the art market within the last decade. During Art Basel week, photo basel wants to enhance and nourish the creative trade of all the major art players within and around photography. It is Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art and brings together galleries from around the world in a unique, authentic setting. For its collectors, visitors or buyers – photo basel is an active platform which fosters the dialog between all actors of the photography community and beyond.

Dale Grant has embarked on a unique artistic journey to capture the beauty in decay. For him, flowers represent a profound allegory of life. The artist sees flowers not only as colourful creatures, but also as a symbol of the cycle of life – from youth to wilting, from radiance to transience. In his ongoing series “FADING BEAUTY”, Dale Grant reveals the true and unique beauty of flowers as they begin to wither. The petals unfold completely and their vibrant colours become more muted until they finally become transparent and fragile. The incoming light penetrates the petals, giving the photographs a mesmerising texture and form. Dale Grant’s approach to flower portraits is similar to his approach to human portraits. He studies his models carefully before photographing them and sees the cycle of life as a fascinating motif. For him, ageing is not a tragedy, but a transformation in which new levels of expression and depth become visible. In his work, the flower becomes a mirror of human existence – vulnerable, transient and yet full of grace.

In striking contrast to this is the work Accident 1-6 by Deni Horvatić, part of his SCAN series. In his life-size photographs of everyday scenes, the artist minimises the distance between the surroundings and the people depicted by choosing a particular angle of view ‘from below’. The photograph shows a seemingly banal everyday scene: a lawnmower cutting green grass, accompanied by two feet. Only a second glance reveals something irritating – a hand, a red crown cap. What is really happening here? Is it a moment of horror? An accident? Or a deliberate warning? Deni Horvatić reduces the distance between the viewer and the subject without revealing too much. His works are riddles with psychological depth. The camera becomes a tool of staging, the gaze is guided – and scrutinised.

Together, the works of Dale Grant and Deni Horvatić unfold a visual narrative that oscillates between tenderness and threat. Where Grant celebrates withering as beauty, Horvatić thematises the violence of intervention. What they both have in common is the confrontation with the cycle: Flowers and grass are cut down, but they also grow back. The end is also a beginning.

Embedded in this cycle are the works by Daniel & Geo Fuchs from their series ‘nature & destruction’, in which they explore the contrasts between aesthetics and destruction in nature. In today’s world, where resources are becoming increasingly scarce and the world is inexorably affected by climate change, they deal with the fragility of nature. Nature, as seen by Daniel & Geo Fuchs, is on the one hand the supposedly perfect reproduction of what man interprets into it and hopes for: nature as beauty and as the giver of all resources and forces. On the other hand, however, one is confronted with its destruction through human intervention. Rugged and steep cliffs, snow-capped mountains and plantless hills rise unreachable and seemingly untouched into the sky. However, the colours laid over the works by the artists and small signs of human intervention give the viewer pause and shake the supposedly ideal world. The images are mainly created with a camera robot developed by Nasa and Google for the Mars mission, in which hundreds of images are stitched together into one; this results in an incredible richness of detail that intensifies the viewer’s gaze. In addition to the works ‘Alfred’ (2017) and “Hermann” (2017), we are presenting a completely new work from the “nature & destruction” series, ‘Jane’ (2025), to the public for the first time

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Dale Grant

Dale Grant (*1961 in Nassau, Bahamas) followed his heart after graduating from university with a degree in International Relations and became a photographer specialising in fashion and portrait photography. After working as a commercial photographer for many years, he turned to fine art photography. Flowers are now his favourite models, which for him are an allegory for life.

The artist began photographing flowers a few years ago in New York, simply out of a desire to explore something new. He not only photographed fresh cut flowers, but also those that were at the end of their life cycle. Through this experience, Dale Grant discovered the beauty in the falling petals that fell to the ground, and he recognised in them a reflection of life and death as it is also found in our own existence.

His works can be found in many art collections and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Germany, The Netherlands and at Photo London 2025.

Dale Grant lives in Berlin and Rotterdam.

Daniel & Geo Fuchs

Daniel (* 1966) and Geo (* 1969) Fuchs are a German artist couple who have been working together for over 20 years on conceptual photography series and video works, which have earned them an international reputation. They became internationally known through their series TOY GIANTS (from 2004).

What their works have in common is that they initially make the viewer believe that they have captured the motif at a glance. However, the question quickly arises as to what was actually already there at the moment the picture was taken and what was not. No matter where the photographs were taken, one realises that reality and fiction have become intertwined.

Their works have been shown in many international solo and group exhibitions and art fairs and can be found in many private and public collections.

Solo exhibitions include: Museum Villa Stuck Munich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Foam Museum Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Pori Art Museum Finland, Haugar Kunstmuseum Tonsberg Norway, Fotografie Forum International Frankfurt am Main, Museo de Bellas Artes Santander. Group exhibitions including Kunsthal Rotterdam, Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, Norton Museum of Art Palm Beach, Biennale of contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast Augsburg, Brandts Museum Odense, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst Aachen.

Daniel and Geo Fuchs live and work in Germany.

Deni Horvatić

Deni Horvatić was born in Čakovec, Croatia, in 1991. His artistic practice includes photography as well as video art and CGI. He worked for several years at Studio Silvio Vujičić and at the fashion brand E.A.1/1 S.V. as a researcher and head of communication and visual design.

Since 2019 he has been working with the Croatian fashion brand XD Xenia Design. He won the Marina Viculin Award for outstanding achievements in Croatian photography, established by the international photography organisation Organ Vida. In May/June 2022, he participated in the 36th Youth Salon, the largest and most prestigious exhibition event for visual artists under 35 in Croatia. His SCAN series was shown in Zagreb in 2020 and in 2022 he participated in the 36th Youth Salon, the largest and most prestigious exhibition event for visual artists under 35 in Croatia. At nüüd.berlin gallery SCAN was presented in a solo exhibition in 2022 and in the group exhibition NUIT 2.0; new works from this series were shown as a solo presentation at UNSEEN Amsterdam 2023 and photo basel 2024 as well as in the group exhibition “Uncanny” at nüüd.berlin gallery in 2024. More works have been presented at PhotoBrussels Festival 2025 an Photo London 2025.

Deni Horvatić lives and works in Čakovec, Croatia.