Artists

Park McArthur, Bas Jan Ader, Hélène Janicot

Press release

Lo Brutto Stahl is pleased to present Where it doesn’t reach, a group exhibition featuring Bas Jan Ader, Hélène Janicot, and Park McArthur.

The exhibition brings together works in photography, sculpture, and installation by Hélène Janicot and Park McArthur, alongside historical photographs and a film by Bas Jan Ader. The exhibition extends to Basel as a screening program, presenting video works by each of the three artists, exclusively on view in Basel.

Where it doesn’t reach opens on Friday, March 27 (6–9pm) in Paris. The Basel presentation will be on view by appointment beginning Monday, March 30. The exhibition runs through Saturday, May 2, 2026.

Special thanks to Patricia Marshall and Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas and Los Angeles.

Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942, Winschoten, NL – d. 1975, at sea) lived and worked in Los Angeles. He received his education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, before completing a BFA at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, and an MFA at Claremont Graduate University.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); Kunstverein München (2000); Portikus, Frankfurt (2003); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1988).
His work has been shown in group exhibitions such as: Sonsbeek ’71, Groningen (1971); Prospekt ’71, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1971); as well as in major institutional presentations including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work is held in major international museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate, London; as well as the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

Park McArthur (b. 1984, Raleigh, North Carolina, US) lives and works in New York. She studied studio art and Chinese language at Davidson College, North Carolina, sculpture in the MFA program at The University of Miami, Florida, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Solo exhibitions include: Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok, Vienna, Austria (2025); Kunstraum Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany; Paid, Seattle, Washington (2023); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2020); Maxwell Graham, New York (2013, 2014, 2020); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2017); Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2016); Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany (2014); Yale Union, Portland, Oregon (2014); and Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium (2013).
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions such as: Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi (2021); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2018); Whitney Biennial, New York (2017); Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (2016); and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2015) and is held in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. The artist's work is also currently on view in a group exhibition at Café des Glaces, Tonnerre.

Hélène Janicot (b. 1999, Paris, FR) lives and works in Paris. She received her MFA from les Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024.
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris (2025); Taon, Paris (2025); and Concert, Paris (2024).
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions such as: Smallville, Neuchâtel (2025); Villa Belleville, Paris (2025); Le 17 Studiolo, Paris (2025); Beaux-Arts de Paris (2025); Réserves du Frac Île-de-France, Paris (2024); Magma Maria, Frankfurt (2024); Bétonsalon, Paris (2023); and Off-space ES365, Düsseldorf (2022). She was awarded the Rubis Mécénat Prize (2022) and the Hélène Diamond Foundation drawing grant.