8. Guillaume Daeppen | Guillaume Daeppen, Müllheimerstrasse 144, Basel, Switzerland, +41 79 467 90 62

In a city that is one of the international shrines of ‘white cube art’, as avant-garde as it might be, a visit to Guillaume Daeppen’s gallery is nothing short of refreshing. Daeppen opened in 2006, and focused on young artists working with new media since inception; but with a groundbreaking show named Born to Be Punk, held in 2009, the gallery’s direction definitively shifted towards urban art, encompassing all those works of street art inspired by urban culture, and utilising outsider techniques while still housing them in a traditional gallery space. The artists in Daeppen’s portfolio work with graffiti, drawings, stencil, comics and other media, providing an unexpected, surprising alternative to Basel’s haute artistic milieu.