| Kunsthaus Baselland 2020 |
| Marlene McCarty. Into the Weeds Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 | 18.30 Uhr 24.1.—19.4.2020 St. Jakob-Strasse 170 4132 Muttenz/Basel Schweiz https://kunsthausbaselland.ch/ausstellungen/marlene-mccarty One of the most comprehensive presentations in Switzerland to date of the New York-based artist Marlene McCarty (b.1957 in Lexington/KY, USA/CH), who studied in Basel from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. She was an early member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, which gained international recognition through their appearance at the 1990 Venice Biennale and other interventions. The exhibition has been created in collaboration with Merian Gardens, an institution belonging to the Christoph Merian Foundation. Christoph Oertli. Sensing Bodies Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 | 18.30 Uhr 24.1.—19.4.2020 St. Jakob-Strasse 170 4132 Muttenz/Basel Schweiz https://kunsthausbaselland.ch/ausstellungen/christoph-oertli A major retrospective exhibition of the video and sound works of Basel-based artist Christoph Oertli (b. 1962 in Winterthur), whose work reflects the connection between everyday life and existential questions in particular and focuses on people and their living environments. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication from the Binding Sélection d’Artistes. Kunsthaus Baselland Solo Position: Stefan Karrer Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020, 18.30 Uhr 24.1.—19.4.2020 St. Jakob-Strasse 170 4132 Muttenz/Basel Schweiz https://kunsthausbaselland.ch/ausstellungen/stefan-karrer The first institutional solo exhibition of the Vienna-based artist Stefan Karrer (b. 1981 in Basel), who explores internet platforms and digital material to examine the relationship between people and technology. The exhibition is accompanied by a sound performance as well as an artist book from Mark Pezinger Books. Solo Position is a competition format launched by kulturelles.bl. Kunsthaus Baselland Lena Eriksson Annual Kunsthaus Baselland Exterior Project 2020 13 March – 31 December 2020 Opening and special event: Thursday 12 March, 6.30 pm Lena Eriksson (b. 1971 in Visp, lives in Basel) finds her subjects in everyday life, which she deftly observes in her own unique way. She cultivates the art of friendly exchange and hospitality. Her main mediums are drawing, video, and performance. She led the art space Lodypop in Basel from 2004 to 2009 and has been working as a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2014. Andrea Blum 8 May – 5 July 2020 Opening: Thursday 7 May, 6.30 pm Andrea Blum (b. 1950 in New York) is a New York based artist whose work addresses the relationship of the social/political world to the private psychological one. Her approach is to zoom in and out of the conditions which organize us as a culture, thereby hoping to affect us as individuals. She has designed projects in Europe and the United States that include urban space, parks, libraries, domestic space and furniture. This is her first solo show in Switzerland. Marina Rosenfeld 8 May – 5 July 2020 Opening: Thursday 7 May, 6.30 pm The first major solo exhibition in Switzerland of the composer, sound artist, and visual artist Marina Rosenfeld (b. 1968, USA), who lives and works in New York. Rosenfeld’s works intervene in sites through the media of sculpture, sound, and drawing/notation. Her materials include the liminal registers of ambient noise, the voice and its reflections, and networks of amplification and distortion. Thu Van Tran 8 May – 5 July 2020 Opening: Thursday 7 May, 6.30 pm This is also the first major solo exhibition in Switzerland of the artist Thu Van Tran (b. 1979, FR/Vietnam), who comes from Vietnam and lives in Paris. She is known for her precise and yet extremely poetic works that interweave questions of postcolonialism with those surrounding our ability to remember the histories of countries, materials, rituals, heritages, and so on. Bachelor and Master, Institut Kunst der HGK FHNW Degree Show 24 — 30 August 2020 Opening: Sunday 23 August, 2 pm Once again—and now for the fifth time—the Art Institute of the College of Art and Design FHNW is a welcome guest at Kunsthaus Baselland. A young generation of aspiring artists will be given an important platform here to present their graduation works to the public in a professional setting. Afterglow 18 September – 15 November 2020 Opening: Thursday 17 September, 6.30 pm With artists from Switzerland and abroad, the focus of the group exhibition is on expansive video installations that have used the medium in an innovative way from the 1970s onward and continue to have a high impact or resonance to this day. By video installations we mean works that significantly integrate the physical space as well as elements from the video narrative, and which are also able to physically involve visitors. The exhibition is curated by Ines Goldbach and Käthe Walser. Regionale 21 29 November 2019 – 10 January 2020 Opening: Saturday 28 November What began many years ago as a Christmas exhibition has now become one of the largest cross-border projects in the Basel, South Baden, and Alsace region. Eighteen institutions from the trinational area select regional artists from around 800 portfolios to present their artistic work. |
EstherArtNewsLetter 