Kunsthalle Basel

Art
Basel
Switzerland
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.

Temporary exhibitions

Raphael Hefti, installation view, «Salutary Failures», Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on «Message Not Sent», 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier / Kunsthalle Basel

Raphael Hefti

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In what will be his largest show to date, the Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (*1978) known for his experimental methods and materials will create a new, site-specific body of works in which altered experiences are central.
Maya Hottarek and Julian Zehnder, Eukaryota 1, 2019 (detail). Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl

Regionale 21

Situation 1 und andere
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An annual group exhibition conceived in the context of the Regionale, a cross-border cooperation of 18 institutions in France, Germany, and Switzerland, with a focus on contemporary production by artists local to the three-country region around Basel.
Installation view, Lydia Ourahmane, صرخة شمسية Solar Cry, CCA Wattis Institute, 2020. Photo: Impart Photography

Lydia Ourahmane

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A ransom, an illicit border crossing, an exchange of nationality: Transactions of different sorts are often the conceptual starting point for Lydia Ourahmane’s (* 1992) art. The results encompass video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation, exploring the way histories of displacement and...
Joachim Bandau, Der Tänzer, 1968

Joachim Bandau

Die Nichtschönen, Works 1967–1974
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At once technoid and bodily, minimal and monstrous, often with spouts or hoses that resemble weirdly organic orifices and tentacles, the early sculptural works by Joachim Bandau (* 1936) remain as strange and singular today as when he first made them. An overview of the artist’s still relatively...
Judith Kakon, detail view, «¤», Kunsthalle Basel back wall, 2020. Photo: Gina Folly / Kunsthalle Basel

Judith Kakon

Back wall project ¤
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Judith Kakon (* 1988, Basel) takes the symbol ¤ as the title for her artwork, sited on Kunsthalle Basel’s back wall. It is a sign that denotes an unspecified currency, first encoded for computers in 1972. The artist places it, along with various terms of the global realty trade (PRIME, TRUST, ESTATE...
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
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Tuesday - Wednesday: 11:00-18:00
Thursday: 11:00-20:30
Friday: 11:00-18:00
Saturday - Sunday: 11:00-17:00
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Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
4051
Basel
Switzerland
+41 61 206 99 00
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