Reminder: Invitation | Media preview
PARTY FOR ÖYVIND at Museum Tinguely, Basel

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 10 am

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Öyvind Fahlström in the exhibition Pentacle at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, 1968 © Jean-Philippe Charbonnier/Gamma-Legends via Getty Images

We are happy to welcome you to our media preview on the occasion of our upcoming exhibition 
PARTY FOR ÖYVIND. ÖYVIND FAHLSTRÖM & FRIENDS
(16 February – 1 May 2022)

on Tuesday, 15 February 2022 at 10 am at Museum Tinguely in Basel

You will be welcomed by:
Roland Wetzel, Director Museum Tinguely

Followed by a tour through the exhibition with:
Barbro Schultz-Lundestam, Guest Curator
Gunnar Lundestam, Guest Curator
Andres Pardey, Curator Museum Tinguely

The media preview will take place in English.

Museum Tinguely’s Party for Öyvind, which is to open on 16 February and run until 1 May 2022, is an exhibition centred on the life and work of Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976). In the course of his all too short career, the Swedish-American artist created an œuvre that overstepped boundaries in every respect. Starting in the 1950s, he built up an international network of friends and fellow artists, over eighty of whom are also represented in the show. Their works in disciplines as varied as poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, performance, and film reveal just how mutually inspiring their biographical and artistic trajectories and the connections between them were. Fahlström was working at a time when change was in the air, when a young generation began to venture along new paths in the political, social, and personal spheres and to actively oppose the colonialist, patriarchal politics of the preceding generations. Fahlström and his friends belonged to an avant-garde whose ideas, actions, and art all turned on this quest for the new.

Party for Öyvind brings together the works of many of the most influential artists of the 1950s and 1970s, including Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Barbro Östlihn, Carl Johan De Geer, Christer Strömholm, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, Dennis Hopper, Ernest Cole, Faith Ringgold, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, Jean Tinguely, John Cage, Kiki Kogelnik, Lee Bontecou, Lena Svedberg, Marie-Louise Ekman, Marisol, Merce Cunningham, Mimi Gross, Niki de Saint Phalle, Patty Oldenburg, Peter Weiss, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein – men and women in more or less equal numbers. And, of course, Fahlström himself.

For further details on the exhibition, please visit our press section:

>> Press release
>> Press images to download

Please register via email in order to attend the press preview by 14 February. 

You and your friends are also cordially invited to attend the official Opening Day with free admission to the exhibition from 11 am to 8 pm on that same day - with an apero from 5 pm onwards in front of the museum.

We are at your disposal should you require further information. Looking forward to hearing from you and welcoming you in Basel hopefully soon,

Yours sincerely,

Isabelle Beilfuss

Head of Communication, Museum Tinguely

Museum Tinguely is subject to the Covid certificate requirement (2G, vaccinated or recovered). Therefore, we ask you to present your certificate and your identity card at the entrance and to wear a mask.