ART BASEL UNLIMITED: Basel, Switzerland | Jorinde Voigt

Galerie Judin, Berlin | David Nolan Gallery, New York | Dirimart, Istanbul & London

Jorinde Voigt has distinguished herself as an artist whose finely calibrated drawings translate complex physical, psychological, and existential processes into visual systems. Her most extensive project to date, Song of the Earth (2016)—a response to Gustav Mahler’s final composition of the same title—celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2026. To mark this milestone, Galerie Judin, David Nolan Gallery, and Dirimart will present two panoramic sequences, Song of the Earth – ‘The Shift’ and Song of the Earth – ‘Divine Territory’, respectively over 8 and 10 meters long, at Art Basel Unlimited. 

Considered by Mahler himself as a highly “personal” work, ‘Das Lied von der Erde’ (The Song of the Earth) was shaped by loss and an acute awareness of mortality. Voigt’s counterpart to Mahler’s piece is the artist’s voice at its most authentic. Through Mahler’s confrontation with the human life cycle, Voigt contemplates the cyclicality of the creative process. Suspended between late Romanticism and the emerging aesthetics of New Music, the piece oscillates between orchestral song-cycle and symphony. This liminal state —between departure and arrival, becoming and dissolution— forms the conceptual matrix for Voigt’s translation.

After presentations at the Hamburger Bahnhof (2016) and La Biennale de Lyon (2017), Art Basel Unlimited 2026 will mark the first public appearance of ‘The Shift’ and ‘Divine Territory’ in nearly a decade.