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Bertrand Lavier, «Avenue Rapp» (Detail), 2024, courtesy of the artist and Mennour, Paris © 2024-2025 ProLitteris, Zürich. Photo: Archives Mennour
The exhibition Fresh Window extends out into the streets of Basel with interventions in seven shop windows. For this part of the exhibition, Museum Tinguely is cooperating with StadtKonzeptBasel and former students from the Institute Art Gender Nature Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW who will create installations and performances in various shop windows.
For easier orientation, all shop windows can be found on this online map.
In panoramas, the city opens out, becoming landscape.
— Walter Benjamin
Former students of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW will occupy and transform shop windows in Basel’s historical centre, stimulating the imagination by combining urban space with forms of projection and desire. As an extension of the exhibition Fresh Window at Museum Tinguely, they will explore the ways artists can enter into dialog with and appropriate the structures and architectures of shops, presenting specially created works that bring the themes of the exhibition to life on Basel’s streets. With dioramas, panoramas, environments and installations combining stained glass, lightshows and animation, these display window projects include animals, plants, objects, texts, performances and more, creating an open-air exhibition accessible to all passersby.
Lara and Noa Castro Lema, rehearsal for Cunha Fosa a Cada Lado, 2024
(born in A Coruña, live in Basel)
Cunha Fosa a Cada Lado, 2025
Performance series
PSP Swiss Property
Kirschgartenstrasse 12
Lara and Noa Castro Lema’s research focuses on the history of oral tradition and shared systems of collective knowledge, and how it is expressed through intrahistory, memory, dreams, stories, and songs. Focusing on the stories of their homeland of Costa da Morte (Galicia, Spain), they investigate the performative acts of sharing through a voice that is not exclusively human. In Cunha Fosa a Cada Lado, they reimagine a series of performances featuring some of the characters that have been the backbone of their research. Two twin sea snails, a chorus of xurelos-choradeiras (mackerel-mourners), a sun-girl, a pair of soles, and fake fisherman pole-dancers generate pseudo-fables, musical and otherwise, that will be presented every Saturday.
Performances 18 January, 25 January, 1 February, 8 February, 15 February, 22 February, 1 March 2025, at 4pm
Lena Laguna Diel, proposal for Imagination Increases the Value of Reality, 2024
(born in Zurich, lives in Basel)
Imagination Increases the Value of Reality, 2025
Bird silhouettes in painted wood, suspended
Kiechle Orthopädie-Technik
Elisabethenstrasse 41
Imagination Increases the Value of Reality, by Lena Laguna Diel, is a diorama featuring different birds, bringing together nocturnal and diurnal species and animals who inhabit distant territories and who would seldom meet in the real world. Flying together, as a flock, these birds create a perfect circle in the sky. While the image of the birds in the sky calls for an appreciation of the real world, the installation dialogues with the traditions of exhibiting wildlife, revealing how these systems of exhibition of nature always rely on a balance between fantasy and reality. Fantasy becomes not just a form of escapism but a powerful tool to understand and engage with the world.
Manuela Morales Délano, study for Made in Chile, 2024
(born in Talcahuano, lives in Basel)
Made in Chile, 2025
Installation, various materials
Melt Scandinavian Hairstyling
Marktgasse 16
The title of Manuela Morales Délano's Made in Chile alludes to the conventions and geographies of mass production while referring to the artist’s birth country. For this work, the artist reflects upon and dialogues with the displays of luxury brands, which she appropriates while exhibiting a series of stones as very heavy purses. Some of these stones require watering and care by the artist, thus becoming live-stones, magical minerals that are brought to life. The stones are accompanied by a pair of sculptures of high heels, which act as their guardians and protectors.
Jacob Ott, study for Austria Blue, 2024, photo: Jacob Ott
(born in Dorfen, lives in Basel)
Austria Blue, 2025
Light installation with potatoes
silberfisch schmuck- und kleiderei
Utengasse 20
Austria Blue, by Jacob Ott, is a sculptural light installation made of suspended potatoes. This composition of different potato varieties addresses the gradual loss of crop diversity that took place in Europe from the 1930s onwards, in which most potato cultivars were led to extinction due to selection processes motivated by intensive farming and profit. The “Austria Blue” is a rare, blueish potato that could not withstand the pressure of uniformity and was deemed vulnerable and economically unviable, thus eliminated from conventional agriculture. Fortunately, organizations like the Basel-based foundation ProSpecieRara are committed to preserving old varieties and continue to cultivate potatoes like the “Austria Blue.”
Joan Pallé, study for Öffentlichkeit (public sphere), 2024
(born in Lleida, lives in Barcelona)
Öffentlichkeit (public sphere), 2025
Neon piece
Musik Butik
Leonhardsgraben 52
In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), philosopher Jürgen Habermas analyzes the public sphere as a space that mediates between civil society and the state, where citizens can discuss matters of common concern and participate in democratic decision-making. The concept of “Öffentlichkeit,” central to the book, was translated to English as “public sphere.” Joan Pallé’s Öffentlichkeit (public sphere) explores the public sphere as a space of encounter and togetherness, but also of conflict and debate. The contentions aesthetics of heavy metal music underscores the need for clashes to reach politically relevant conclusions, proposing a playful and critical way to trigger and shape public opinion.
Paula Santomé, study for Glass Goddesses, 2024
(born in Vigo, lives in Basel)
Glass Goddesses, 2025
Tainted glass figures
MüKi Chaussures d'Enfants
Münsterberg 14
Glass Goddesses, by Paula Santomé, reinterprets the historical association of stained glass with Christian iconography and its reinforcement of patriarchal values. By depicting female bodybuilders, Glass Goddesses challenges outdated associations of femininity with passivity and delicacy. Powerful yet vulnerable, these bodies defy simplistic binaries and subvert the conventional symbolism of stained glass while hyper-muscled female bodies radically distance themselves from archaic ideals of femininity. Although these bodies project physical power, they also become frequent targets of discrimination, rejection, and abuse. Although strength and fragility seem incompatible opposites, they coexist here, revealing how bodies are an undefined and dynamic mixture of opposites.
Vital Z'Brun, sketch for Still a Video III, 2024
(born in the Valais, lives in Basel)
Still A Video III, 2024
Installation
Marc und Philipp Grassi
Spalenvorstadt 23
Did you know that donkeys never walk on unknown terrain? In the installation Still a Video III by Vital Z’Brun a donkey is helped to carry an enormous pumpkin to a prestigious competition. The narrative is built across five stills of a video that only plays in the viewers’ imagination of what may happen in between each new still that appears every ten days. As each still replaces the previous one, the story evolves and generates an alternative timeframe that takes the donkey on an unexpected adventure, encountering challenges and making discoveries while carrying an oversized burden across treacherous landscapes. This 'Donkey-Story’ exists in two forms: through its still images and through those who want it to exist.
