Julian Charrière, Albedo, 2024. Copyright the artist; 2025 Prolitteris, Zürich

Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone

11 June – 2 November 2025

 

A core concern of French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière is how the human being inhabits the world, and how it in turn inhabits us. In a comprehensive solo exhibition, Museum Tinguely presents photographs, sculptures, installations and new film works that deal with our relationship to Earth as a world of water – a liquidity that covers most of our planet with seas, lakes and ice, both habitat for a myriad of organisms and host to circulatory systems critical for the stability of our climate. The exhibition Midnight Zone engages with these underwater ecologies, from the local influential presence of the Rhine to distant oceans, exploring the complexity of water as an elemental medium affected by anthropogenic debilitation. Reflecting upon its flow and materiality, profundity and politics, its both mundane and sacral dimensions, the solo show acts as a kaleidoscope, inviting us to dive deep.

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Bernhard Luginbühl and Jean Tinguely, Le Crocrodrome de Zig & Puce, 1977, 55 x 120 cm, modified exhibition flyer with black felttip pen, gouache, and collage. © 2025 Pro Litteris, Zurich, Museum Tinguely, Basel. Donated by Prof. Dr. Roland Bieber in memory of Karola Mertz-Bieber.

Scream Machines – Art Ghost Train
by Rebecca Moss & Augustin Rebetez

22 May – extended until 21 September 2025

Scream Machines, a large-scale installation designed by British artist Rebecca Moss and Swiss artist Augustin Rebetez, will take visitors on a short journey through an immersive artistic landscape. The installation will pay homage to Le Crocrodrome de Zig et Puce, a work by Jean Tinguely created in 1977 in collaboration with Bernhard Luginbühl, Daniel Spoerri, and Niki de Saint Phalle for the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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Suzanne Lacy, De tu puño y letra (By Your Own Hand), 2014-15/2019, Documentation of video shoot, 2017. Courtesy the artist; image by Andres Molestina

Suzanne Lacy: By Your Own Hand

9 April – 7 September 2025

In her video installation De tu puño y letra (By Your Own Hand) (2014–2015/2019), Suzanne Lacy puts us in the middle of a bull fighting arena and confronts us with harrowing accounts of women’s experiences of violence. The Los Angeles-based artist has been a pioneer of social practice, feminism and performance art since the 1970s.

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