Calendar - Summe

DOCK

18.9.25

DAUGHTERLAND von Ruth E. Herzka

Book Launch

SALTS

19.6.25 – 14.9.25

City SALTS: Donna Kukama

Exhibition

SALTS

19.6.25 – 14.9.25

City SALTS: Yumna Al-Arashi

Exhibition

SALTS

19.6.25 – 14.9.25

City SALTS: Deborah Joyce Holman

Exhibition

PERIPHERIE 8

29.8.25 – 20.9.25

Sara Grütter: AFTERCARE

Exhibition

Concert

Drawing Session

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

16.8.25 – 21.9.25

Tremor Totale!

Exhibition

SPOT

29.8.25 – 21.9.25

spot on Maja Müller

Exhibition

Performance

Parzelle403

30.8.25 – 21.9.25

HUH?

Exhibition

Concert

Im Schaufenster

5.9.25 – 26.9.25

Malerei und Skulptur

Exhibition

Artstübli

28.8.25 – 27.9.25

What the Water Gave Us

Exhibition

BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie

5.9.25 – 28.9.25

Bild Fluss

Exhibition

Bild Fluss

5.9 – 28.9.25

Exhibition on Unterer Rheinweg between Mittlere and Johanniterbrücke

free admission

Vernissage: Fri, 5.9.25, 18:00
K-Haus at the entrance on the Rhein side
Speech by Barbara Zürcher

Finissage: Fri, 26.9.25, 18:00
Walk through the exhibition followed by a group swim in the Rhien

Serge Hasenböhler
Kostas Maros
Christian Schnur

In this site-specific exhibition, the participants engage in a photographic dialogue with the exhibition venue and its people or history. In BildFluss, this venue is the Rhine, which flows through the city of Basel, often sluggishly, sometimes turbulently and foaming, turning northwards in the city centre. Its significance is characterised by ambivalence: the river divides the city into two parts, but at the same time connects it with other places and countries. It is one of Europe's most important trade and cultural axes, a lifeline and a way of life. But its power is also fragile, endangered by drought, pollution and construction – and it also poses an immediate danger to those who spend time in it.

Christian Schnur has portrayed people who ‘stay’ in the river for professional reasons or for pleasure. Based on a bad personal experience and his resulting ambivalent relationship with flowing water, Schnur examines how these people deal with water and their emotional connection to it. The river becomes a projection screen on which all its contradictions are revealed: it is the origin and the end, and one must surrender to it in order to feel safe in it.

Serge Hasenböhler irritates us with photographs of birds lying – or swimming? – on the water. Some of the animals appear to be drinking, others are simply drifting along. In fact, they are stuffed animals that Hasenböhler has placed on the water's surface. The irritations refer to the precariousness of life itself, to the fact that even what supposedly gives us security and certainty is uncertain.

The Rhine is completely absent from the work of Kostas Maros. The river is only present as an idea, as a thought, in these portraits of people moving through the urban landscape in swimsuits or swimming trunks, towards the banks of the Rhine, which has long since become a multifunctional space that the protagonists appropriate according to their wishes, whether as a bathing spot, party mile, concert stage or garden restaurant. The transition to residential and urban space is sometimes abrupt. And here, too, an impression of ambivalence manifests itself when the physicality of the people on display suddenly appears fragile in the face of the power of the architecture surrounding them.

Information: bellevue-fotografie.ch

Stretcher

23.8.25 – 4.10.25

Recessment

Exhibition

Villa Renata

12.9.25 – 12.10.25

BOTEN & STOFFE

Exhibition

Performance

Guided Tour

Reading

DOCK

27.9.25 – 16.10.25

Natur als Pflicht von Kollektiv Hotel Regina

Exhibition

Screening

Workshop

Nature as a duty by Kollektiv Hotel Regina

27.9 – 16.10.25

Fri, 26.9.25, 19:00: VERNISSAGE with film screening of “Steil am Wind” at 20:00
Thu, 16.10.25, 18:00: FINISSAGE with workshop “Cast your own concrete garden tiles”

Nature as a duty:
Our current cultural understanding of the concept of nature dates back to Romanticism. The Alps, among other landscapes, provided the necessary backdrop for the invention of nature. Since then, nature has been particularly eagerly glorified here, because the Alps were not only a magnificent symbol of national unity, but could also be marketed profitably for tourism. Since then, closeness to nature has been considered an obligatory virtue, the foundation of which is the annual skiing holiday. When it comes to nature, we often forget that every invention, every story, puts people at the center. With three works, the Kollektiv Hotel Regina attempts to examine our relationship with nature – our own so-called closeness to nature.

The myth of the mountain lake:
The mountain lake seems to be the melting pot of the natural landscape (= Alpine landscape). However, there are practically no natural mountain lakes; most are artificially dammed and are therefore technical structures. And where they occur naturally (Blatten), they are not welcome. This is interesting because romanticism draws its power precisely from the uncanny (beautiful and dangerous). In any case, in the film “Steil am Wind” (2018–2020), the Hotel Regina collective wants to sail a pumped storage reservoir in order to integrate it into the logic of the Alpine landscape (sport). In the video “Untitled” (Bruggerberg at Night) (2024), the Hotel Regina collective, equipped with many light sources, explores the Bruggerberg at night. In the process, the space is created by walking through it and is subject to the respective type of encounter. The perception of the forest on the Bruggerberg, which is actually very familiar to the collective, becomes bizarre, especially the buildings and other human interventions in the woods. Eerie.

Mähkanten:
Used at the border between the lawn and the flower bed, they allow for free-form garden design as well as mowing the lawn edge without varying the length of the cut blades. The Hotel Regina collective creates an impressive mountain out of this peculiar building material.

Workshop during the Finissage: "Cast your own concrete Gartenplättli"
Concrete is booming. Even in the garden, nothing seems to work without concrete. Terrace slabs, mowing edges, lawn grid stones for drainage in front of the carport (see sponge city), plant ring stones for the green retaining wall, “rustic” concrete wooden planks, decorative pine cones, “baroque” concrete fountain troughs – concrete is limitless and cheap. For a few hours, the Hotel Regina collective is also getting into the concrete business: together we create wooden molds and fill them with quick-setting concrete. Green 80 sends its regards.

The Hotel Regina collective was founded in Basel in 2016 and has been working in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy ever since, without achieving any major breakthroughs. In France, Austria, and the Principality of Liechtenstein, the collective is completely unknown, which is not particularly painful in the latter case. The Hotel Regina collective makes art – what and how exactly depends on the context. In other words, they are unsure of themselves. This uncertainty, transience, and refusal to be pinned down marks their process-oriented nature.

lotsremark Projekte

20.6.25 – 31.10.25

TOBIAS KLEIN: FRAGMENTS FIGMENTS

Exhibition

FABRIKculture

27.9.25 – 2.11.25

UNBOUND REALMS

Exhibition

Performance

invitro

1.1.25 – 31.12.26

invitro no 36 – the balance

Dauerausstellung