Press info | EXHIBITION Programme 2022
at Museum Tinguely, Basel

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen

We are pleased to announce the 2022 exhibition programme at Museum Tinguely. First images are available for download in the press section and more detailed information on the individual projects will be added continuously. We will be informing you about the upcoming exhibition Party for Öyvind. Öyvind Fahlström & Friends (opening 16 February 2022) within the next weeks. If you are interested in a specific exhibition topic, we will be happy to coordinate appointments with the respective curator in advance.

We say goodbye to an eventful and moving year 2021, in which we were able to celebrate 25 YEARS OF MOVING ART. In these challenging times, the Museum Tinguely team is delighted to have been able to share the unique «Museum Tinguely AHOY!» boat trip, a fulfilling anniversary weekend, and nine exhibitions throughout the year with you.

Until 23 January 2022 you still have the opportunity to visit the following exhibitions:

Écrits d’Art Brut − Wild Expression & Thought

Et tout ceci est vrai!
In Tinguely’s footsteps between Paris, Amsterdam, and Basel

The Cost of Life. A perspective on health by Paddy Hartley

Merci Seppi. A wonderful gift
(until 13 March 2022)

After that, we hope to open our exciting projects as planned. In the new year, we thank you for your continued interest in experiencing the programme at Museum Tinguely in person and covering it from a journalistic perspective.

We wish you inspiring new museum experiences
and in the meantime remain with best regards from Basel,

Your Communications Team
Isabelle Beilfuss, Janine Moroni and Kayla Bolsinger

PARTY FOR ÖYVIND
ÖYVIND FAHLSTRÖM & FRIENDS
16 FEBRUARy – 1 MAY 2022

Press preview on Tuesday, 15 February 2022 at 10:30 am

A grand exhibition with multitalented Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976) and over 80 of his friends in poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, performance, film in Rome-Stockholm-Paris-New York during the creative 50s-70s, in a 50/50 gender mix including Marisol, Warhol, Kogelnik, Cage, Ringgold, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Lebel, Bontecou, Matta, Niki & Jean and others.

#partyforoeyvind #oeyvindfahlstroem

Jean-Jacques Lebel
La <Chose> de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et « Les Avatars de Vénus »
13 April – 18 September 2022

Press preview on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 at 10:30 am

Jean-Jacques Lebel, a pioneer of action art, was the author of the first happening in Europe on 14 July 1960: «L’enterrement de la ‹Chose› de Tinguely». His passion for Nietzsche and Bakunin – among other philosophers – meets Tinguely‘s passion for Kropotkin and Bergson. With his video installation Les Avatars de Vénus, he addresses the question of the collective memory of archetypes, which overdetermines the history of the arts from one era to the next and from one culture to the next.

#jeanjacqueslebel #lachose

Anouk Kruithof. Universal Tongue
24 April – 30 October 2022

Press preview scheduled for Sunday, 24 April 2022 (TBC)

Universal Tongue came out of Anouk Kruithof’s fascination with dance videos shared online as embodiments of personal expression, cultural identity, empowerment and joy. In a digital-archaeological study, she assembled 8800 videos, using them to realise the 8-channel video installation and a compendium of 1000 dance styles from around the world. Kruithof’s work is marked by a critical, multidisciplinary exploration of digital imagery.

#universaltongue

Bang Bang – Hi:stories of translocal performance
8 June – 21 August 2022

Press preview on Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 10:30 am

Performance will be taking centre stage at Museum Tinguely all summer long. The show will focus on Swiss art, its stories, and their many interpreters, while at the same time laying on an exciting, international programme of happenings. From the spectacular to the scarcely perceptible, Bang Bang will give the incredibly rich history of performance art in Switzerland the attention it deserves.

#bangbang

Territories of Waste
On the return of the Repressed
14 September 2022 – 8 January 2023

Press preview on Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 10:30 am

The entire ecosphere – the oceans, the air, our food, the soil, even the Antarctic – contains residues, particles and chemicals derived from our consumer culture. The extraction of raw materials leaves behind destroyed landscapes and toxic spoil. Waste is everywhere. The group show at Museum Tinguely brings together art that deals with this issue, both works by contemporary artists with their global, geopolitical and ecological perspective and works from the second half of the twentieth century that reflect the move towards a throwaway society and environmental destruction that emerged from the 1960s.

#territoriesofwaste

During the holidays, Museum Tinguely is open as follows:

24 December 2021, Christmas Eve, 11 am-3 pm | 25 December 2021, Christmas, closed | 26 December 2021, St Stephen's Day, 11 am-6 pm | 31 December 2021, New Year's Eve, 11 am-4 pm 2022 | 1 January 2022, New Year, 11 am-6 pm