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« Previous EntriesVitraHaus by Herzog & De Meuron
Monday, February 22nd, 2010The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]
Beam me up / Plug.in Basel
Friday, February 5th, 2010The current exhibition at the new media art institution plug.in in Basel, Switzerland, presents the online project Beam me up. Beam me up is an online project that invites artists and authors from different countries to concern themselves with the concept of space in the form of art contributions and essays. Interpretations of the concept [...]
Silberkuppe: Old Ideas / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Silberkuppe is an independent space for contemporary art and culture located in Berlin. The gallery was founded by Dominic Eichler und Michel Ziegler. Since their inaugural opening in Spring 2008, Silberkuppe has initiated presentations, exhibitions, talks, screenings, music and performances. At the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, they present a selection of new, site-oriented [...]
Davide Cascio at Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art Gallery in Basel currently shows new works by Swiss artist Davide Cascio. Davide Cascio’s work features elements of art, architecture and design. At Nicolas Krupp he presents a series of collages and two sculptures.
Davide Cascio was born in 1976 in Lugano, Switzerland, where he lives and works. From 1992 to [...]
F18: Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century / SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival
Friday, November 27th, 2009The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18’s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century.
Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, “allowing the objects familiar in an everyday [...]
John Wood & Paul Harrison: There or Thereabouts / Von Bartha Garage, Basel
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison present a series of short videos, drawings and text prints at Von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. The works on display date from the years 1993 to 2009. The works center around making space perceptible and making sense of the world. The range from funny to [...]
Jenny Holzer: Light Projections in Basel / Fondation Beyeler
Friday, November 13th, 2009An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]
SHIFT Electronic Arts Festival Basel 2009
Monday, November 9th, 2009From the 22nd to the 25th of October 2009, the electronic arts festival SHIFT took place at the Dreispitzarea and the Schaulager in Basel / Münchenstein. This year’s theme was “Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities”.
SHIFT 2009 showcased the latest shooting stars and legendary pioneers of electro music, a conference with ten guest lecturers, [...]
Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms (“truisms”) on one of Times Square’s gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade [...]
Zachary Formwalt: The Form of Practical Memory / Kunsthalle Basel
Friday, October 9th, 2009The Form of Practical Memory at Kunsthalle Basel is American artist Zachary Formwalt’s first major individual exhibition. The exhibition’s title borrows from one of Walter Benjamin’s passages: “Sammeln ist eine Form des praktischen Erinnerns” (“Collecting is a form of practical memory”).
The works that are on display in the Oberlichtsaal, the historic gallery of Kunsthalle Basel, [...]
