Video and Press Kit | PARTY FOR ÖYVIND
at Museum Tinguely, Basel

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen

We are pleased to invite you to explore the just opened exhibition Party for Öyvind. Öyvind Fahlström & Friends in a video tour with guest curators Barbro Schultz Lundestam, Gunnar Lundestam and curator Andres Pardey.

Museum Tinguely’s Party for Öyvind, which opened on 16 February and will 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, he created an oeuvre that overstepped boundaries in every respect. Starting in the 1950s, he built up an impressive 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.
Party for Öyvind reflects a period that was shaped largely by the challenges of the aftermath of the war, but that also offered unique opportunities for a new brand of openness and playfulness in art as a younger generation sought to throw out the old order and carve out a lifestyle of their own. The emphasis now was on joie de vivre, hope in the future, the right to one’s own identity and sexuality, and the primacy of self-expression in art, music, literature, and poetry.

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We would be happy to welcome you to Basel for a visit of the exhibition. For interview requests, we will be happy to coordinate an appointment with you on-site or digitally.

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your interest.

Yours sincerely,

Isabelle Beilfuss

Head of Communication, Museum Tinguely

Party for Öyvind brings together the works of many of the most influential artists of the 1950s to the 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.