La roue = c'est tout
New permanent exhibition

8 February 2023 – spring 2025

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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Roger Ballen
Call of the Void

(Danse macabre No. VIII)
19 April – 29 October 2023

Roger Ballen (*1950, New York lives in Johannesburg) is one of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st century. His strange and extreme works confront the viewers and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. Through the 1990s, he developed a photographic style he describes as Ballenesque. Over the past decade, Ballen has created powerful artworks in which the line between fantasy and reality becomes increasingly blurred. He employs drawings, painting, collage and sculptural techniques to create elaborate sets – the perfect match to Tinguely’s Dance of Death, as the show will be shown in close proximity to this work.

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Temitayo Ogunbiyi
You will follow the Rhein and compose play

18 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
Playground installation in Solitude Park from 21 May 2023

The artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi, who lives in Lagos/Nigeria, investigates the potential of playful interaction to explore topics such as migration and exchange, but also material and social cultures. A first part of her project is a «playground» that invites visitors to climb, swing and play in Solitude Park as early as May. The work links Lagos with Basel: the shapes of the steel bars trace the paths that connect the two cities. In October, a multimedia exhibition in the museum will follow on from this, presenting works on paper and interactive musical installations.

The project is a cooperation with the Culturescapes Festival, which will be held in 2023 around the theme of the Sahara.

 

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