Art Basel Paris 2025 | Booth 1 K.1: Anne-Lise Coste & Kathe Burkhart

Together, Coste and Burkhart bring their raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal artistic practices into dialogue, creating a presentation where identity, rebellion, and gender converge in a powerful, visually stimulating conversation. Both artists use their works as a means of self-expression and as tools to confront societal norms, offering a unique intersection between the subversive and the intimate.

Coste’s oeuvre is an explosion of intuitive release, where the personal is inherently political in a practice that foregrounds an unabashed feminist outcry against a restless, unjust world. Known for her use of aggressive brushstrokes and scribbled graffiti, Coste translates her inner turmoil and experiences into stark, expressive imagery. Her paintings often appear in layers, as if they are fractured memories or fragmented selves, where distortion becomes a means of liberation. Through this process, she dissects and challenges the constraints imposed on women, especially in relation to the violence they endure both on the streets and in the private spaces of their lives. At the same time, her work is a staunch declaration of queer love.

In contrast, Burkhart’s works are equally confrontational, but her medium of choice is portraiture, an intimate yet powerful tool for asserting subjectivity. In her practice, Burkhart utilises an intermedia orientation, working in multiple, extended series that are thematically linked through the tropes of performativity and portraiture, Self and Others. The feminist content drives the form, addressing the interstice of the personal and political using a self-analytic mechanism to employ autobiographical references. The content of her work deals with the visual and verbal articulation of the radical female subject, through the juxtaposition of fiction and nonfiction, text and image, power and powerlessness.