Press information | programme 2020
Museum Tinguely, Basel

Dear Madam, dear Sir,

Museum Tinguely is delighted to inform you about our exhibition programme in 2020. Please find all exhibition periods and press preview dates below and feel free to visit our website where you will be able to find further details on the different projects as well as on our press section - both being updated continuously.

On request, I am more than happy to assist you with the organisation of any interview with the curators of our different shows. First opening of the year will be «Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art» (18 February) about which I will be happy to send you further information within the next few weeks.

We hope our new programme arouses your curiosity and we look forward to
welcoming you soon at Museum Tinguely in Basel. In the meantime, we wish you inspiring museum experiences all over the world and succes in all your projects.

Isabelle Beilfuss
 

Head of communications, Museum Tinguely

Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art
19 February – 17 May 2020

Press preview on Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 10:30 am

Is the taste of art sweet, sour, bitter, salty or even umami? What role does our sense of taste play in social interactions and as an artistic material? Museum Tinguely continues its series on the senses in the arts with a group show bringing together work by international artists who address our sense of taste as a possibility for aesthetic perception. Featuring works by, among others, Janine Antoni, Marisa Benjamim, Otobong Nkanga, Emeka Ogboh, Shimabuku, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and Elizabeth Willing.

#amusebouche #thetasteofart

Pedro Reyes. Return to Sender
15 April – 25 October 2020

Press preview on Tuesday, 14 April 2020 at 10:30 am

Pedro Reyes (born 1972, Mexico City) uses sculpture in projects that often expand into the social, incorporating processes of participation and elements that lead to collective and individual agency. Having worked with weapons in the past, he is interested in addressing the systemic problems of the arms industry within a pacifist framework. In the new production to be presented at Museum Tinguely alongside Disarm (2012 – present), he has repurposed gun parts to make music boxes that perform fragments of tunes from the countries where the guns were produced. Both establish a conversation with Jean Tinguely’s Mengele-Dance of Death from 1986.

#pedroreyes #disarm #musicmachine

Taro Izumi. Ex
10 June – 27 September 2020

Press preview on Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 10:30 am

The Japanese artist Taro Izumi (born 1976 in Nara) has a mischievous take on the world. He develops unclassifiable multimedia works that take the viewer on a journey to the limits of reality. For his first major solo show in Switzerland, Izumi has created a sequence of unusual pictures carried by his impertinent and absurd spirit. We encounter a giant cat, a washing machine on a pyramid, dirty robot vacuum cleaners, and people licking the floor.

#taroizumi

Impasse Ronsin. Murder, Love and Art in the heart of Paris
21 October 2020 – 24 January 2021

Press preview on Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 10:30 am

From the end of the nineteenth century until the 1960s, Impasse Ronsin in Paris was home to a studio complex used by artists with very different backgrounds and approaches. At various times, studios in this fascinating art location in the Montparnasse neighbourhood were occupied by (among some 250 other artists) Eva Aeppli, Alfred Boucher, Constantin Brancusi, William Copley, André Del Debbio, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, James Metcalf, Marta Minujín, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely.

#impasseronsin #montparnasse #paris

Katja Aufleger. Gone
2 December 2020 – 21 February 2021

Press preview on Tuesday, 1 December 2020 at 10:30 am

#katjaaufleger

From 2 December onwards
New presentation of Museum Tinguely’s collection

#jeantinguely #tinguely

On view:
Len Lye – motion composer
until 26 January 2020

Len Lye (1901–1980), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, was one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 1930s to 1950s. At the same time, living initially in New Zealand and Australia, from 1926 in London and from 1944 in New York City, he created a fascinating body of work embracing all artistic disciplines large parts of which – including his kinetic sculptures – have yet to be discovered. The exhibition will showcase the work of Len Lye in all its variety and breadth, paying special attention to the relationships between the different media that he set in motion.

#lenlye

On view:
Tadeusz Kantor: Où sont les neiges d'antan
until 5 January 2020

Installation view «Tadeusz Kantor: Où sont les neiges d'antan» © 2019 Museum Tinguely, Basel; photo: Nicolas Lieber

Museum Tinguely presents one of Poland’s most important theatre and visual artists of the 20th century with one of his expansive works for the stage. Tadeusz Kantor’s (1915-1990) independent underground theatre, devoted to the reality of everyday life and often critically concerned with Poland's suppressed history, is still influential for a young generation of theatre artists today.

#tadeuszkantor #cricoterie #cricoteka #culturescapes