Unlimited
Providing galleries with a unique opportunity to present works that transcend the normal art fair stand, Unlimited, curated for the fourth year by Gianni Jetzer, presented 74 ambitious works in Hall 1, and galleries reported particularly strong sales from the sector. Visitors commented on the exceptionally high quality of Unlimited, with some of the many highlights including works by renowned international artists such as, Kenneth Anger, Ed Atkins, Kader Attia, Martin Creed, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Marcia Hafif, Sheila Hicks, Robert Irwin, Anna Gaskell, Shilpa Gupta, Jeppe Hein, Pierre Huyghe, Leigh Ledare, Maha Malluh, Sarah Morris, Bruce Nauman, Elizabeth Price, Pedro Reyes, Lorna Simpson, Sturtevant, Wu Tsang, Julius von Bismarck and Zhang Enli.

Statements
The solo artist presentations in Statements offered visitors and collectors an opportunity to discover the work of emerging artists with a strong presence of the digital-native mind set: Bunny Rogers at Société, Borna Sammak at JTT, Avery Singer at Kraupa- Tuskany Zeidler and Amalia Ulman at James Fuentes. Looking eastwards for new talents, Grey Noise from Dubai showed Caline Aoun; The Third Line, also from Dubai, presented Abbas Akhavan; and Platform China from Beijing showed Zhao Zhao.

The Baloise Art Prize was this year awarded to British artist Beatrice Gibson and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc from France. The prize of CHF 30,000 was presented by a jury of international experts, and works by the award winners were acquired by Baloise and donated to the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and the MUDAM, Luxembourg. artbasel.com/basel/statements

This year's Feature sector, an annual highlight at the show, was expanded by 25 percent to spotlight even more precise curatorial projects at 30 galleries. Showing both historical and contemporary work, this year's edition saw galleries from 13 countries, with six of the galleries exhibiting at Art Basel for the first time. There were many highlights in Feature, with connoisseurs commenting on the quality of the work shown within the sector, including: a presentation by Luxembourg & Dayan (New York, London) of two lesser- known bodies of works by Michelangelo Pistoletto; a significant thematic show on Mono-ha, featuring five artists from the sculpture based Japanese art movement from the late 1960’s onwards, by Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (Tokyo, Beijing); a stand-out presentation by Tornabuoni Art (Paris, Florence, Milan, Forte dei Marmi, Portofino) of four works by Paolo Scheggi, gathered together for the first time since they were shown at the Venice Biennale in 1966; a much-discussed installation by Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Culver City) and an installation of rarely seen dung sculptures and ‘Body Prints’ by David Hammons, shown by Salon 94 (New York).

Parcours
The 2015 edition of Parcours was curated for the third time by Florence Derieux, Director of FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, and was sited in the historical centre of Basel around the city’s iconic cathedral and at select locations such as the Museum of Culture, the Natural History Museum, the Town Hall and the Münsterplatz. Parcours featured a total of 23 site-specific art works by internationally recognised artists, the biggest selection for Parcours to date, including Alexandra Bachzetsis, Adriano Costa, Nate Lowman, Michaela Meise, David Renggli and Ugo Rondinone. A highlight of the week was Parcours Night on Saturday, June 20, when the project venues stayed open late, accompanied by special one-off performances by Rosa Barba, Julien Bismuth and Erkka Nissinen, as well as a live set by Haroon Mirza with London-based band Factory Floor. As part of the evening, Art Basel with HeK (House of electronic Arts Basel) presented a new live performance by Edwin van der Heide. Between Wednesday and Sunday 9,000 people visited Parcours.

Film
This year's Film program was selected for the first time by Cairo-based film curator and lecturer Maxa Zoller. Consisting of six screenings – including one programmed by the Locarno Film Festival and one by This Brunner – the film program was shown at Stadtkino Basel over six nights. It featured 19 film and video works by and about artists, exploring a range of different themes, with highlights including the screening of Takashi Murakami’s debut feature film ‘Jellyfish Eyes’, marking a turning point in Murakami’s practice and in the artist's own words ‘a healing film for post-tsunami Japan’; the first screening in Europe of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’, an intimate portrait of the artworld icon; the films of South Korean KimSooja and Moroccan-born Hassan Hajjaj, which use female traditional craft as a way to offer to the viewer a non-traditional, philosophical approach to art forms; and a special short film program featuring the work of a range of artists including Karolin Meunier, Laure Prouvost, Oliver Laric and Julieta Aranda. Film was widely attended, and throughout the week two additional screenings were added to the program due to demand. artbasel.com/basel/film