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MEDIA PREVIEW
PARTY FOR ÖYVIND. ÖYVIND FAHLSTRÖM & FRIENDS
(16 February – 1 May 2022)
Museum Tinguely cordially invites you to the media preview
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 mainly 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, he created an oeuvre 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.
For further details on the exhibition, please visit our press section:
>> press release
>> press photos to download
Please register via email in order to attend the press preview by 14 February.
The exhibition will be open for your exclusive viewing as of 10 am. You are also cordially invited to attend the official opening of the exhibition at 6:30 pm on that same day.
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
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