Curator’s tour with Elena Filipovic, in English

Yoan Mudry (* 1990) will create a new project for the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. The Lausanne-born, Geneva-based artist’s aesthetics are anchored in the visual language of contemporary pop culture. In a collage-like manner, he juxtaposes images and elements from advertising and marketing...

Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage (* 1984) creates an ambitious group of new works as the focus of his first exhibition in Switzerland. The moody, sumptuously layered figurative paintings draw equally from past and current events, recollections and mythology, popular culture and art historical...

Berenice Olmedo (*1987) often focuses on the most rejected and vulnerable in society—whether stray dogs or physically impaired humans. Extending this concern, in one of her first European solo exhibitions, the Mexican artist conceives a new project that generates form from investigations into...

The show presents works by the artists who were awarded the individual artist’s direct grant by the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt in 2022. Admission is free. Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt awards are granted to promote contemporary arts in the Basel region.

Daniel Turner (* 1983) is engaged in a critical examination of the lives of objects, often melting down, liquifying, burning, or otherwise transmuting the materiality of everyday objects into other forms. The US-American artist probes how the materialities of objects retain embedded traces and...