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.

>> Read more
>> Press preview: Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 10:30 am

À bruit secret. Hearing in Art is the fourth in a series of five themed exhibitions at Museum Tinguely dealing in experimental ways with the human senses. Focusing attention on hearing, which plays an important role in multisensory experiences of art, the exhibition offers various immersive and interactive encounters with familiar and less familiar soundscapes. Historical works and pieces created specially for the show, by around 25 international artists, invite visitors to pay attention to what they are hearing, opening up acoustic fields usually hidden from the human ear. What does the Rhine sound like as it flows through Basel? What’s to be heard beneath the surface of the ocean? Can urban noise or the voices of animals and humans be used to make artworks? How have human activity and climate change altered the sounds of the jungle? Can soundwaves be perceived other than by our ears, and how can acoustic phenomena be visualized? The exhibition includes sculptures, multimedia installations, photographs, works on paper, and paintings dating from the Baroque period to the present day.

>> Read more
>> Press preview: Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 10:30 am

The Canadian artist duo Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller create installations that activate all the senses. They transport us into poetic, dreamlike worlds driven by the love of storytelling and discovery. Their works are homages to cultural practices steeped in tradition – like cinema, theatre, radio plays and music-making. The exhibition at Museum Tinguely offers a comprehensive overview of the duo's work from their first interactive soundscapes to their most recent immersive – and dystopian – spatial installations.

>> Read more
>> Press preview: Tuesday, 6 June 2023

Already from 21 May onwards
Playground installation in Solitude Park

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.

>> Press preview: Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Incontinent ink-jet printers, leaky oil drums, dancing DIY drills and sanders – when Delphine Reist inspects our workplaces, certainties are turned on their head and humdrum things take on a creative life of their own. Reist shares Tinguely’s mischievous habit of transplanting everyday situations into new and seemingly pointless semantic contexts, at the same time lending them a precarious beauty. The varied ‘obstacle course’ that she designed for this exhibition presents important works of art from her oeuvre while reflecting on the venue.

>> Press preview: Tuesday, 17 October 2023