Workshop

2 May 2026, 2 pm - 5 pm

Workshop | Optomat

Costs: 10 CHF, booking via tinguelybasel.kunstvermittlung@roche.com, in German
Age: from 11 years (from 9 with an accompanying adult), max. 10 participants per workshop


Together with artists Felix Fisgus and Niklas Roy, create the collaborative artwork Optomat – right in the midst of Jean Tinguely’s machines. Inspired by his sense of humour, you will explore how simple mechanics, sparkling odds and ends and movement can be used to create optical effects. By the end, there will be a whole machine full of them. This machine will later be on permanent display in the museum, inviting visitors to operate it, experiment with it and engage in dialogue.
So: enjoyment of making is a must, manual skills are a plus, tinkering is required – and failure is allowed.

 

Please bring: work clothes and, if possible, a collection of discarded toys, old kitchen utensils, old Christmas and party decorations, small pieces of scrap metal, etc.

Dates (can be booked individually):
Friday, 1 May 2026, 9:30am–12:30am or 2pm–5pm
Saturday, 2 May 2026, 2pm–5pm
Sunday, 3 May 2026, 9:30am–12:30am or 2pm –  5pm
Wednesday, 6 May 2026: Vernissage with apéritif

 

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La roue = c'est tout. New permanent exhibition
8 February 2023 - 3 January 2027

La roue = c'est tout. New permanent exhibition

According to Tinguely, ‘we live in a wheeled civilisation’. Even today, our lives are shaped largely by the relationship between man and machine and the resulting dependencies that Tinguely deconstructed with such relish. Now, for the first time since the museum was founded, its enlarged collection of Tinguely’s own works is to return to the great hall. There visitors will be able to discover the intricate and poetic early works, the explosive happenings and collaborations of the 1960s, and the musical, monumental and sombre works of Tinguely’s late period, all presented in an entertaining and eventful tour with many opportunities for hands-on participation.


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