Summe

JOUR FIXE

Tue, 3.2.26, 17:00 – 19:00

Come to the “jour fixe”!

Visarte meets on the first Tuesday of every month from 5:00–7:00 pm for an informal get-together at @perron_basel, Vogesenplatz 1, Basel.

Non-members are welcome too.

Ambient Slut in der Wunderkammer

Fri, 6.2.26, 20:30 – 22:30

Wunderkammer news! This friday Symbiont Space is kicking off a monthly dj set series (roughly every first friday) — cozy, lovely, possibly slutty — shaking spiritis with music.

Ambient Slut in Wunderkammer
Slow * Sensual * Emotional

A chill Friday night session with ambient and slow-dance sounds.
A soft space to sit, sway, and feel — with sofas, snacks, and in-house cocktails.

🖤 DJ set: @alice_wanderland
🕯 Feb 6, 2026 (Friday) 20:30 – 22:30
🎚 Symbiont Space, Riehenstrasse 6, Basel

PERFORMANCE ZU GAST | Timeless, Faceless, Spaceless

Sat, 14.2.26, 19:30

19:00 – Doors

Entry is Donation-Based

Sharka Rey's artistic practice sits at the intersection of performance art, interactive somatic experiences and addresses sociopolitical topics. She uses her body, movement, spoken word, experimental voice work. Her pieces are often immersive and participatory. She invites people to feel, reflect, and engage deeply with themselves through the topic she presents.

«My artistic and personal practice has been recently deeply shaped by active involvement in human rights and justice-related initiatives connected to the genocide of Palestinian people. In September/October 2025, I participated in the humanitarian mission Global Sumud Flotilla, alongside more than 400 volunteers on 47 boats, with the aim of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the Mediterranean Sea.

This experience — marked by solidarity, physical / psychological vulnerability, and moral contradiction — has become the starting point for a new performance art project. Through this work, I seek to translate lived experience into an embodied artistic language and to reflect on the contemporary meanings of human rights, justice, empathy, and care.

In a time when acts of extreme violence are globally mediated and consumed from the safety of private spaces, this performance asks: Is empathy in contemporary society sufficient, and what does it demand of us beyond observation?»

This piece is participatory. However, the participation is voluntary. You are free to just watch.

http://www.sharkarey.com

NEW YEARS TREASURES 2026

23.1 – 7.2.26

AGA JAWORSKA
Born in 1977, Aga Jaworska is an accomplished artist and painter working with watercolor, oil painting, acrylic painting, drawing, and mixed media. She graduated with honors in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2001.

NUMAS IGRA is pleased to welcome her as a Resident Artist alongside
AGNES SKIPPER, DANIEL GUTZWILLER & MAU PAVÓN begrüssen zu dürfen

VERNISSAGE
Friday, January 23rd, 17 – 21h

APÉRO-CLUB
Friday, January 30th, 17 – 21h

FINISSAGE
Saturday, February 7th, 14 – 17h

OPENING HOURS
Wednesday, 11 – 17h
Thursday, 11 – 17h
Friday, 14 – 18h
Saturday, 10 – 14h

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Galerie NUMAS IGRA
Hochstrasse 70
CH-4053 Basel

OPEN CALL FOR ALL ARCHIVE MEMBERS

22.1 – 12.2.26

A large collective exhibition will take place in the shop windows of DOCK – the most visible part of the offspace – from 28 March to 24 April 2026.

All archive members are invited to exhibit an artwork. The only requirement: the work must be able to be installed on the glass, and the artists must be willing for the works to change owners during the exhibition. This is because the exhibition includes the first public art exchange market, where all works will be traded.

The exhibition’s focus is therefore not primarily on finished pieces, but on encouraging you to rediscover your own works and to immerse yourself in creative processes: works, sketches, or fragments that were left behind, unfinished, forgotten, or that simply never found their place can be shown here.

At the art exchange on 17 April 2026, you will literally harvest what was previously sown. At the exhibition’s climax, archive members meet passers-by, exhibition visitors, and artists who are not yet part of the DOCK archive. Together, works can be exchanged in a straightforward way — creating a lively exchange and a sense of community, and strengthening the DOCK community.

Anyone who wants to can take part and trade for works from the exhibition – whether in exchange for a personal object, a service, or another artwork. There are no limits to creativity. If someone is interested in a work, they approach the artist of the desired piece and negotiate directly on site. If a trade is agreed, it is documented and the work is displayed in the windows for another week. The remaining traces of the negotiations stay visible – a sign of encounter and mutual appreciation.

Exhibition duration: Fri 28 March – Fri 24 April
Opening (vernissage): Fri 27 March, 7:00 pm
Public art exchange: Fri 17 April, 7:00 pm
Submission dates for artworks: Wed 4 March – Fri 6 March, 1:30–6:30 pm

Registration deadline: Thu 12 February

Home Is Where I Want to Be

13.2 – 22.2.26

We invite you to ‘Home is where I want to be’ with @julianarosas_!

✨Vernissage: 14.2, 18:00
📍Hirscheneck, Basel

Ultra Regio

30.11 – 27.2.25

Opening
Sun, 30.11.25, 14:00 – 17:00

Group exhibition with Wenhao He, Lizz Keller, Rose Le Goff, Arbesa Musa, Anaïs Strübin, Ramiro Oller, Ye Qian, Ayumi Tomita, Noémie Vidonne, Tabea Wasserfall, and Linus Weber as part of Regionale 26.

In the group exhibition Ultra Regio, we are excited to present new paintings, drawings, and sculptures by artists Wenhao He, Lizz Keller, Rose Le Goff, Arbesa Musa, Anaïs Strübin, Ramiro Oller, Ye Qian, Ayumi Tomita, Noémie Vidonne, Tabea Wasserfall, and Linus Weber. The exhibition marks the first time in 16 years that Kunstverein SALTS joins the Regionale program.

City SALTS – located in the premises of a former butchery near the Birskopf, set around a riverside garden at the city’s edge on the cantonal border – has long encouraged artists to respond directly to its hybrid structures. The Regionale offers a chance to look closely at our immediate surroundings and to share a glimpse of the artistic energy circulating through the local tri-border region.

Curated by Samuel Leuenberger and Benedikt Wyss

Priscilla Predator: geboren, leben sterben

13.12.2025 – 28.2.2026

by Virginie Sistek and Paul Fritz

Opening: Sat, 13.12.2025, 18:00 - 22:00

Magazin Release: 28.02.2026

ONE ONE

18.1.26 – 1.3.26

Martina Böttiger, Esther Hunziker, Rosanna Monteleone, Marion Ritzmann

Four artists – four positions – one exhibition.

ONE ONE brings together works by four Basel-based artists who work with different aesthetic and media strategies.
What connects them is a shared space – and an openness to making difference visible without dissolving it.
The works enter into dialogue – through contrasts, resonances, and the spaces in between.

The exhibition is a collective project that understands togetherness not as uniformity, but as a shared experience within the tension field of individual forms of expression.

We’re one, but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other.
– lyric from ONE by U2, 1991

ONE ONE is supported by the Claire Sturzenegger-Jeanfavre Foundation, the cultural promotion office of the Canton of Schaffhausen, the cultural promotion office of the City of Schaffhausen, and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau.

For the exhibition space Klingental, accompanied by Sonja Lippuner and Franziska Baumgartner.

• 17.01.2026, 18:00–22:00: Opening
• 23.01.2026, 18:00–02:00: Museum Night
• 01.03.2026, 13:00–18:00: Closing with sweet fragments

Hunter Longe

30.11.25 – 3.3.26

First solo show of the US–Swiss artist in Basel

Incorporating drawing, video, sculpture, sound, and installation, Hunter Longe’s work explores the properties and transformations of the materials it employs. His pieces often include actual elements from the distant past, yet anachronistically evoke time slips and possible futures through their unusual material combinations and speculative character.

Hunter Longe was born in California in 1985 and currently lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.

Regionale 26

30.11.25 – 3.3.26

Wenhao He,
Lizz Keller,
Rose Le Goff,
Arbesa Musa,
Anaïs Strübin,
Ramiro Oller,
Ye Qian,
Ayumi Tomita,
Noémie Vidonne,
Tabea Wasserfall,
Linus Weber

Sixteen years after opening, the Kunstverein is taking part in its first Regionale with City SALTS, a project installed in its garden on the banks of the Birs.

With Wenhao He, Lizz Keller, Rose Le Goff, Arbesa Musa, Anaïs Strübin, Ramiro Oller, Ye Qian, Ayumi Tomita, Noémie Vidonne, Tabea Wasserfall, and Linus Weber. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger & Benedikt Wyss.

DUO

31.1 – 29.3.26

DUO an intervention by Andreas Schneider and Julian Salinas in the Garage Renata
in Basel from January 31 to March 29, 2026

The car is both a promise and a burden. It stands for freedom, mobility, and individuality – and equally for displacement, noise, exhaust fumes, accidents, and overload. Hardly any other object is so emotionally charged while at the same time so contradictory in its meanings.

With the intervention DUO, an artistic spatial and linguistic project is realized in the freestanding garage near Villa Renata in Basel, responding to this divergence. The sober, functional space – normally dedicated to parking a car – is transformed into a contemplative resonant space. Inside the garage, two identical words hang diagonally opposite each other in the room: AUTO, formed from red glowing LED light rods. Together they form a visual duo, mirrored toward one another, charging the space both physically and semantically.

The light sculptures enter into a rhythmic dialogue with language. Through a loudspeaker, a female voice speaks word pairs that echo the word AUTO – not, however, as one might expect in relation to the theme of the car or the garage itself, but deliberately detached from it. In doing so, the meaning of the word shifts fundamentally. Auto no longer functions as the designation of an object, but as a linguistic operator. As a prefix – for example in autoimmune, autonomous, or autocratic – auto refers to self-reference, delimitation, and internal logic.

Auto-.... describes processes that regulate themselves, protect themselves, or turn against themselves. In autoimmune, the self becomes a threat; in autocratic, power legitimizes itself; in autonomous, independence is asserted. The word marks an inward movement – a form of self-empowerment that simultaneously produces vulnerability and exclusion.

In this reading, AUTO stands for systems that become autonomous: biological, political, social. It does not denote mobility, but cycles; not freedom, but self-reference. The word carries an ambivalence – between protection and isolation, self-determination and loss of control. Understood in this way, auto becomes an abstract sign of a present in which structures increasingly retreat into themselves. The word loses its material weight and gains a conceptual density that is less visible, yet all the more effective.

Title – The starting point was the idea of pushing two cars side by side into the single garage – a deliberate overfilling of the intended space. This physical compression remained unrealized. Instead, two cars now appear as two identical words. A single garage displays a double car, shifting from bodies into words and visually and unexpectedly continuing the absurdity of automotive spatial claims on a linguistic level.

DUO 2026
Light and sound installation
Loop 5 min. 30 sec.
Spoken by Manuela Biedermann, actress
LED light rods, foil, cables, circuitry, relays, loudspeaker
300 x 600 cm / H 250 cm

Programme
Vernissage parallel to the opening of Villa Renata: January 31, 2026, at 6:00 pm
Film presentation Abhang, an experimental documentary film: February 14, 2026, at 5:00 pm
Fictional conversation with automobile manufacturer Emil Frey: March 29, 2026, at 4:00 pm
Finissage and closing: March 29, 2026, 2:00–6:00 pm

Operation of the intervention daily 07:00 – 19:00

She/Here/Now

31.12 – 29.3.26

Annette Barcelo, Lorenza Diaz, Lena Laguna Diel, Pia Rosa Dobrowitz, Elisabeth Eberle, Corinne Güdemann, Inka ter Haar, Golnaz Hosseini, Georgine Ingold, Jeanne Jacob, Rosina Kuhn, Renée Levi, Karoline Schreiber, Judith Trepp

She/Here/Now places contemporary women painters at its centre and asks how female positions become visible today — and why structural inequalities within the art world continue to persist so stubbornly. The exhibition presents the diversity of current painting practices in Switzerland: from figurative narratives to abstract gestures, from personal visual languages to critical perspectives on social realities.

A central component of the exhibition is the archive of artist and curator Elisabeth Eberle, which has for years documented the unequal representation of women artists within the Swiss art system. In dialogue with the exhibited works, painting is presented here not only as an aesthetic practice, but also as a socio-political stance.

An accompanying mediation programme with guided tours, talks and workshops invites visitors to deepen their engagement with the exhibition’s themes and to bring together different perspectives.

Villa Renata
Socinstrasse 16
4051 Basel
info@villa-renata.ch

Fri 4-7 pm
Sat-Sun 2-6 pm
and on request

Still Leben – Laut Malen

15.3 – 26.4.26

Vernissage: 14.03.26, 18:00

Camille Lütjens, Cassidy Toner, Charles Benjamin, Gegen Nazis, Golnaz Hosseini, Irène Zurkinden, Isadora Vogt, Ivan Mitrovic, Jacob Schenck, Jan Kiefer, Lionne Saluz, Marie Lotz, Melissa A. Torres, Mimmo Haraditiohadi, Othmar Farré, Raphael Widmer, Selina Lutz, Viktor Korol, Yves Born

Words and theory are omnipresent in art as well as in everyday life, and they often make us doubt our intuition. The exhibition “still leben – laut malen” is dedicated to the brilliance of the image, metaphor, and the sense of sight.

Still life is a broad genre label, ranging from grave ornaments in ancient Egypt, to studies of nature, to vanitas paintings. The term highlights the ever-present simplification that makes interpersonal communication easier and possible. The exhibition shows that theory is only a fraction of reality, and invites artists to expand the “word” through the wide diversity of imagination. It is an initiative — a framework in which the agency of art is to be reflected on and discussed.

The accompanying mediation program offers different ways of strengthening one’s own intuition in relation to creativity, images, critical thinking, writing, and learning.

Kasernenstrasse 23, 4058 Basel
Mi–Fr: 15:00–18:00
Sa–So: 13:00–18:00

VIATORE von Andre Willi (FLURE)

19.1 – 1.6.26

Oslo-Strasse 10, 4142 Münchenstein (Freilager-Platz)

Traces are laid down through brushstrokes – a “calligraphic seismogram” of sounds drawn from the eponymous musical work by Pēteris Vasks.
Viatore tells the story of a wanderer who enters the world, grows, develops and falls in love, eventually reaching a certain maturity before leaving the world again. The “wanderer” breaks through the masonry into the corridor of the Oslo Studios, walks along it for a while, lives his life there, and then disappears again through the opposite wall of the corridor into the infinity of the cosmos.

Friday, 19 Jan, 1–2 pm (following the Meet & Eat at Cuisine Mondial) – a collective walk through the corridors with Andre Willi, coffee & cake

Saturday, 20 Jan, 6–7 pm (together with “The Others” at Cuisine Mondial) – a conversation in the corridor with Andre Willi and an apéro

Afterwards, the work can be seen in our corridors for an indefinite period of time.
Curated by Axel Töpfer, axel@sirenen.name