Vernissage: Birgit Kempker
In the Langmatt, the autor appears for the first time as a fearless graphical artist.
Events
On 14/05/2022
Birgit Kempker (*1956 in Wuppertal, lives in Basel) is one of Switzerland’s most mysterious and most inventive authors. She is known for her prose and audio works, for which she has received a number of awards. In the Langmatt, she appears for the first time as a fearless graphical artist. In her sketches, language and images find a common wavelength; they pose major existential questions in a fully forceful way, but also with a delicate and vulnerable quality. In these artworks, humour and desperation are revealed in a paradoxical and magical symbiosis, with an inescapable suggestive impact.
In the Brown family library, we will be presenting (on the collection’s historic tables), a selection of the original volumes for visitors to leaf through. This opens up an adventurous rollercoaster ride through the uncertainties of human existence in a time of heightened insecurities.
A digital book by Esther Hunziker will be published to accompany the exhibition, with the drawings by Birgit Kempker.
Free admission
In the Brown family library, we will be presenting (on the collection’s historic tables), a selection of the original volumes for visitors to leaf through. This opens up an adventurous rollercoaster ride through the uncertainties of human existence in a time of heightened insecurities.
A digital book by Esther Hunziker will be published to accompany the exhibition, with the drawings by Birgit Kempker.
Free admission
Temporary exhibitions
Free entry with the Museums-PASS-Musées
Dates
On 14/05/2022
Saturday:
17:00-24:00