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Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino. History The construction of Kunsthalle Basel was prompted in 1864 by the merger of the (in English: Basel Society of Artists) and the (in English: Basel Art Association), which was founded in 1839. In the 1920s and 1930s, before the opening of Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunsthalle Basel was home to and displayed a part of Basel's public art collections. Due to financial issues in the 1950s, there was a time when the building was rented to the state, but, after being renovated in 1969, it was returned to the Kunstverein. In 1949, under the direction of Lucas Lichtenhahn, the so-called "Impressionist Exhibition," which encompassed a total of 244 works, also f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Architecture Museum
The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum () is an architecture museum in Basel, Switzerland. Through its program of temporary exhibitions and events, it contributes to international debates on architecture and urban development as well as related socio-political aspects. In addition, the museum issues publications and holds special events in conjunction with the exhibitions. Its premises are located within the Kunsthalle Basel. Exhibitions Since its foundation, the museum has realised over 170 exhibitions. Events in the form of lectures, discussions, talks, workshops, guided tours, and numerous publications accompany the exhibitions. * 2022 Napoli Super Modern * 2021 Beton * 2021 Mock-up * 2020 Basel 2050 * 2019 Under the Radar * 2019 Swim City * 2018 Dichtelust – Forms of Urban Coexistence in Switzerland * 2017 Bengal Stream * 2017 Schweizweit * 2015 Bernhard Tschumi * 2014 Young Swiss Architects * 2012 City Inc. * 2011 The Object of Zionism * 2010 Richard Neutra * 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel, Switzerland
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many museums, including the Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe. Forty museums are spread throughout the city-canton, making Basel one of the largest cultural centres in relation to its size and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an American sculptor, essayist and poet. He was active in the United States in the civil rights movements of African Americans and Native Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, serving on the central council of the American Indian Movement (AIM). He returned to working at art while living in New York City. His work has been extensively exhibited. Durham also received the Günther-Peill-Preis (2003), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award (2017), and the 58th Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement (2019). He long claimed to be Cherokee but that claim has been denied by tribal representatives: "Durham is neither enrolled nor eligible for citizenship in any of the three federally-recognized and historical Cherokee Tribes: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation." He had "no known ties to any Cherokee community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kellein
Thomas Kellein (born 1955) is a German art historian; gallery director; author; and curator. He was the Director at Kunsthalle Basel between 1988 and 1995, and the Director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld between 1996 and 2010. He was the Director of the Chinati Foundation between 2011 and 2012. Early life and education Kellein was born in 1955 in Nuremberg, Germany. During his school years, Kellein lived in Hanover, Germany and studied art history, philosophy and literature in Berlin, Hamburg and Marburg. In 1982, Kellein received his doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg. His dissertation was published by Gerd Hatje in the book, ''Sputnikschock und Mondlandung: Künstlerische Großprojekte von Yves Klein zu Christo'' (1989), and additional sections appeared in his catalogue, ''Walter de Maria: 5 Kontinente Skulptur'' (1989). Career Early beginnings In 1982, he was appointed curator of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, where he directed the International Archive for Intermed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Christophe Ammann
Jean-Christophe Ammann (14 January 1939 – 13 September 2015) was a Swiss art historian and curator. Early life and education Born in Berlin, Ammann, son of a chemist, grew up in a German-speaking family in Fribourg. He actually wanted to become a doctor, but after his Matura in 1959 at the Collège Saint-Michel he studied history of art, Biblical archaeology and German literature. In 1966, he received his doctorate from the University of Fribourg on the work of Louis Moilliet. Career From 1966 to 1968, Ammann was an assistant to Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern. He then directed the Kunstmuseum Luzern until 1977. In 1971, he was Swiss commissioner for the ''Biennale Paris'' and in 1972 he worked with Harald Szeemann on the conception of documenta 5, which "went down in exhibition history as the most interesting and influential" In 1978, he was co-organiser of ''Arte Natura'' in the international pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Kunsthalle Basel From 1978 to 1988, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Suter
Vivian Suter (born 1949) is an Argentine-Swiss painter. Early life Suter was born in Buenos Aires. Her mother, Elisabeth Wild, was a noted collage artist. At the age of 12, Suter moved to Basel, Switzerland with her family. Career In the 1970s she exhibited in a group show at Stampa gallery in Basel, Switzerland. In 1981, she was part of a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel. In 1982 she moved to a former coffee plantation in the rainforest of Panajachel, Guatemala. Suter attracted little critical attention between until 2011, when the curator Adam Szymczyk contacted her to recreate the 1981 group show at the Kunsthalle Basel. Since 2011 she has held numerous significant solo shows in European and North American galleries and museums. Vivian Suter has been awarded thSwiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2021by the Federal Office of Culture. Suter paints in a wall-less open air studio attached to her home. She has been known to use non-traditional materials in he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Rosenkranz
Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979 in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland) is a Swiss multimedia artist who uses light and liquid to demonstrate her concepts along with performance, sculpture, painting, and installation art. Her work explores ideas and concepts of what it means to be human, its ideologies, emptiness and meaninglessness, as well as globalization and consumerism. She is represented by Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers Berlin, London and Los Angeles. Education and career Rosenkranz graduated from the University of Zurich in 2005, and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, in 2010. In 2012, she completed an independent residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Rosenkranz's aesthetic choices are often informed by her extensive research into fields ranging from marketing and medicine to philosophy and religion. Her use of use of glass, plastic water bottles, and liquid reflecting surfaces stems from he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Piotrowska
Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish artist based in London. She examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, performance and film. Family archives, self-defence manuals and psychotherapeutic methods are used as reference points as Piotrowska explores the complex roles which play out in everyday performance. Her psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, and imposed conventions that play out in the domestic sphere. Her work has been exhibited at Le BAL, Paris (2023), Tate Britain (2019), Kunsthalle Basel (2019) and MoMA, New York (2018). She was also included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), The 16th Lyon Biennale (2022) and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). Education Piotrowska earned an MFA fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahryar Nashat
Shahriyar or variants may refer to: Places * Shahriar, Tehran province, Iran **Shahriar County *Shahriar, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran * Shahriar, Fars, Iran * Shahriar-e Tavakkoli, Fars Province, Iran * Shahriar, Lorestan, Iran * Shagriar (other), various towns in Armenia * Shahryar (crater), on Saturn's moon Enceladus People * Shahriar Sarker,Bangladeshi *Abu Hasan Shahriar, Bangladeshi poet * Masum Shahriar, Bangladeshi television director and screenwriter *Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Mohammed Hussein Behjet, who uses the pen name Shahriar * Munim Shahriar, Bangladeshi cricketer * Nasser Shahrear Zahedee Mohul, Bangladeshi politician * Hassan Shahriar, Bangladeshi columnist and political analyst * Hossain Mokbul Shahriar, Bangladeshi politician * Ishaq Shahryar, Afghan ambassador to the United States * Ivan Shahriar, Bangladeshi choreographer *Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, Bangladeshi filmmaker * Shahriyar (son of Khosrow II), Sassanid prince and the father of Yazdegerd I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto ( in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a contemporary visual artist. Early career Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Scotland in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995. He represented with Vik Muniz their country in 2001 Venice Biennale, his installations were featured in Brazil's national pavilion and in the international group exhibition at the Arsenale. Style Neto's work has been described as "beyond abstract minimalism". His installations are large, soft, biomorphic sculptures that fill an exhibition space that viewers can touch, poke, and walk on or through. They are made of white, stretchy material—amorphous forms stuffed with Styrofoam pellets or, on occasion, aromatic spices. In some installations, he has also used this material to create translucent scrims that transform the space's walls and floor. His sculptures can be regarded as expression of traditional abstract form, but in their interaction with the viewer, they work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist. She lives in New York City in the United States. Personal life and education Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 June 1967. She attended Brown University from 1985 to 1989, Cambridge University, and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989–90. She was a Berlin Prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 1999–2000; in 2001 she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation painting award.Werner Miester (27 March 2010)Best Works by Sarah Morris on View at Gallery Meyer Kainer Art Knowledge News. Archived 30 March 2010. She was married to Liam Gillick. Work Morris works in both painting and film, and considers the two to be interconnected. From about 1997 her paintings were geometric Modernist grid designs with flat planes of colour; a related series was of glass-faced skyscrapers with geometric landscape design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Lewitt
Sam Lewitt (born 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is an American contemporary artist living and working in Berlin. Lewitt “has long engaged questions of reading and legibility, systems of graphic and readerly notation, and technologies of communication old and new.� Early life Lewitt was born August 30, 1981, in Venice Beach, CA. He received a BFA from School of Visual Arts, NY and was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) in 2004/5. Career Lewitt is represented by the Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York City and Galerie Buchholz in Cologne and Berlin. Art historian André Rottman writes: "Lewitt has developed a practice that deliberately collapses the physical aesthetic object into the placeless topologies of global production, exchange and distribution. Instead of simply occupying the supposedly stable perimeters of a given exhibition venue, Lewitt’s projects time and again signal and register, infiltrate and reroute the flow and movement of informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
