The BMW Art Journey is a joint initiative of Art Basel and BMW that offers artists an
opportunity to undertake a journey of creative discovery to a destination of their own
choosing. Like a mobile studio the BMW Art Journey can take an artist to almost anywhere in
the world-to establish contacts to forge perspectives to envision and create new work. The
BMW Art Journey is open to artists exhibited in the Discoveries sector of Art Basel in Hong
Kong. In conjunction with the launch of the initiative 2015 saw the publication of The Sense
of Movement: When Artists Travel (Hatje Cantz) with examples of works by traveling artists in
the past as an opener to a series of publications documenting the travels and projects of the
BMW Art Journey recipients. Max Hooper Schneider's (*1982 Los Angeles) Art Journey is a
maritime exploration of coral reefs around the globe. He investigates reef systems from the
Bikini Atoll to the Fukushima disaster reef in Japan from Lake Baikal in Russia to the coast
of Madagascar to produce a diverse narrative around them.
