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Kunsthalle Basel

Art
Basel
Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is dedicated to exhibiting, discussing, and reflecting on the art of the present, and it has been so ever since its founding in 1872. It is renowned for its audacious and varied program as well as for its engagement with artists, often before they are widely known. Curious visitors of all ages are welcome to its spectacular display spaces for thought-provoking exhibitions and events.
Address

Kunsthalle Basel

Steinenberg 7
4051
Basel
Switzerland
+41 61 206 99 00
Opening hours
Open all year
Tuesday - Wednesday: 11:00-18:00
Thursday: 11:00-20:30
Friday: 11:00-18:00
Saturday - Sunday: 11:00-17:00


47.553754, 7.591341

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Mal•Mal – Nude drawing in the exhibition by Tobias Spichtig

The evening invites everyone who would like to retake pen and paper to experience the exhibition from a new perspective and exchange ideas with other passionate art enthusiasts. Meeting point: Foyer ...

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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series GROWTH), 2024, detail, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal - Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
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Art and embroidery - the embroidery club on tour at the GROWTH exhibition by Klára Hosnedlová

On 28 March, the Embroidery Club on Tour, organized by the Institute for Textile Research, will be a guest at the Kunsthalle Basel. Together we will be inspired by the detailed embroideries in Klara ...

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Public tandem tour, S AM & Kunsthalle Basel in German

Culture under one roof The Kunsthalle Basel and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum are not only united by a common roof, but also by their enthusiasm for art, culture and society. They combine ...

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Mal•Mal – Draw from a live model in the exhibition by Klára Hosnedlová

The evening invites everyone who would like to retake pen and paper to experience the exhibition from a new perspective and exchange ideas with other passionate art enthusiasts. Meeting point: Foyer ...

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Ghislaine Leung, Turner Prize 2023 Shortlist Exhibition, 2023, installation view, Towner Eastbourne, courtesy the artist
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Opening Ghislaine Leung

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition, on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission, extended ...

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Mal•Mal – Draw from a live model in the exhibition by Ghislaine Leung

The evening invites everyone who would like to retake pen and paper to experience the exhibition from a new perspective and exchange ideas with other passionate art enthusiasts. Meeting point: Foyer ...

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Toyin Ojih Odutola, Back to the Body, 2023, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
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Opening Toyin Ojih Odutola

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Toyin Ojih Odutola’s exhibition, on Thursday, June 6, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission ...

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Mittwoch-Matinée: August 2024, auf Deutsch

As part of the museen basel event series, Kunsthalle Basel organized a mittwoch-matinée on the exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel on August 7, 2024. Within two hours, the exhibitions will be explored ...

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Sandra Mujinga, Spectral Keepers, 2021, exhibition view, The Approach, London, courtesy the artist
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Opening Sandra Mujinga

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Sandra Mujinga’s exhibition, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission ...

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Tobias Spichtig, Tourist in Pompeii, 2021, installation view, in: Good OK Great Fantastic Perfect Grand Thank You, Swiss Institute (SI), New York 2021, courtesy the artist; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, and Jan Kaps, Cologne
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Tobias Spichtig

Tobias Spichtig (*1982) presents his first major institutional solo show in Switzerland, Everything No One Ever Wanted. The Swiss artist draws inspiration from the world of fashion, music, and even ...

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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Sakura Silk Moth), 2021. Courtesy the artist, hunt kastner, Prague; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, and White Cube, London.
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Klára Hosnedlová

Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi aesthetic, Klára Hosnedlová (* 1990) presents an entirely new body of cast glass sculptures and ...

Exhibition
Nolan Oswald Dennis, a recurse 4 [3] worlds, Kunsthalle Basel back wall, 2023, exhibition view, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
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Nolan Oswald Dennis

Nolan Oswald Dennis (* 1988, Zambia) inaugurates a site-specific, monumental diagrammatic artwork spread across the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. Built on discussions with physicists, geographers ...

Exhibition
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Ghislaine Leung

For her first institutional exhibition in Switzerland, the Swedish artist Ghislaine Leung (*1980) presents a new, site-specific project. Leung’s artistic practice is characterized by a rigorous ...

Exhibition
Toyin Ojih Odutola, Back to the Body, 2023, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola (*1985) draws. The results suggest that she is, in fact, part storyteller, part theater-maker, conjuring fantastical tableaux vivants using charcoal, pastel, and pencil. These ...

Exhibition
Sandra Mujinga, Spectral Keepers, 2021, exhibition view, The Approach, London, courtesy the artist
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Sandra Mujinga

For Time as a Shield, the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland of Sandra Mujinga (*1989), the artist presents a new, atmospherically dense installation specifically designed for ...

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