Goodman Gallery returns to Art Basel 2026 with a significant presentation bringing together landmark works by internationally acclaimed artists including William Kentridge, El Anatsui, Kapwani Kiwanga, Carrie Mae Weems and Yinka Shonibare.

Presented at Stand R11, the exhibition coincides with a year marked by major international museum exhibitions, public commissions and institutional presentations across Europe, North America and Africa. The booth highlights the gallery’s longstanding commitment to artists whose practices engage with history, identity, politics, memory and cultural exchange.

Among the featured works is William Kentridge’s monumental still life Drawing for L’Orfeo (Orfeo & Eurydice) (2025), developed in relation to his forthcoming production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for the 2026 Glyndebourne Festival. Drawing remains central to Kentridge’s practice, serving as the foundation for many of his celebrated films, performances and theatrical productions.

El Anatsui’s Fractured World Order (2022) marks a powerful return to wood, a material that played a defining role in the artist’s early experimental practice. Constructed from reclaimed timber sourced near his former studio in Nsukka, Nigeria, the work reflects Anatsui’s ongoing engagement with transformation, material history and cultural exchange.

Kapwani Kiwanga presents A Coincidence of Wants: Copper-Reds (2024), a beaded textile work that explores the historical legacies of trade networks through materials that once circulated as currency. The work extends themes developed in her acclaimed Venice Biennale presentation and recent institutional commissions.

The presentation also includes Carrie Mae Weems’ photographic work The Sea Side 2 (2026), a meditation on migration, memory and transatlantic histories, alongside Yinka Shonibare’s ambitious sculpture Feeling Free Like a Bird (2023), which combines Dutch wax textiles, endangered African bird species and references to African political activism.

Additional artists represented include Sue Williamson, Ghada Amer, Naama Tsabar, Hank Willis Thomas, Laura Lima, Shirin Neshat, Atta Kwami, Winston Branch, Misheck Masamvu, Jared Ginsburg, Kate Gottgens, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and David Goldblatt.

Beyond the gallery booth, Goodman Gallery also supports presentations by Alfredo Jaar within Art Basel Unlimited and Pélagie Gbaguidi as part of the Parcours programme.

Art Basel remains one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, bringing together leading galleries, artists, collectors, curators and institutions from across the globe.