Summe

We are delighted to invite you to an exhibition featuring a selection of works from the Atelier du Vestiaire in Mulhouse. The studio’s artists will also be offering a screen-printing workshop and a participatory session to create a large collage.

This year, le ventre is participating for the first time in the TRIO Festival, the inclusive cultural festival of the three countries, which takes place from September 14 to 18 at various locations in the Dreyeckland region. To mark the occasion, le ventre has invited the Atelier du Vestiaire collective—a studio for artists with disabilities based in Mulhouse—to present a selection of works. In addition, two screen-printing workshops and a participatory collage-making session will be offered.

Saturday, October 17, 2026:
Opening reception: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Exhibition: 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Participatory collage: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Screen-printing workshop: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Sunday, October 18, 2026:
Exhibition: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Collaborative collage: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Workshop: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Closing reception: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Please register for the screen printing workshop (limited spaces); children ages 4 and up must be accompanied by a parent: admin@le-ventre.net

Important information about the screen printing workshop:
Visitors are invited to bring their own fabrics—such as T-shirts, scarves, and tote bags—to print on.

Important: The fabrics must be made of cotton (no synthetics) and be flat, without patches or seams.
In addition, there is a small collage studio where participants will collaborate to create a large mural.
The workshop is open to people of all ages (children ages 4–10 must be accompanied by their parents).

The “Atelier du Vestiaire” is a space for creative expression that supports artists with disabilities in developing their personal artistic language over the long term. This project is part of the work of the APBA, which is committed to inclusion and self-determination for people with disabilities. The studio is located at the “Le Séchoir” Center for Contemporary Art in Mulhouse—having previously been housed at the “Cap Cornely” residence in Mulhouse—and is led by professional artists. Artist Céline Martin directs the Atelier du Vestiaire.

The event is free; we welcome donations.

【 Region of Grief – Archiving Empathy by Zanbagh Lotfi 】

Fri., September 25 – Fri., October 23

OPENING: Thu., September 24, 7:00 p.m.

In 2022, Helia, a young Persian leopard, lost one of her cubs in a traffic accident. For several days, she returned to the same spot and called out for her cub. During those same weeks, amid nationwide protests in Iran, many mothers lost their children to state violence. In Helia’s return and her voice, grief transcends the boundary between species and becomes something that can be felt, experienced, and shared. The project begins with this gesture of return. A place becomes a site of remembrance when people return to it—through absence, memory, and connection. As an artist living in the diaspora, Zanbagh is interested in places shaped by vanishing presences, returning memories, and bonds that endure even when they are invisible. Through painting, imagery, and installation, the project creates an affective landscape—not to depict grief, but to listen to it and give it space.

Phil Minton · Axel Dörner · Thomas Lehn

Saturday, October 24, 2026

7:00 p.m. Doors open & bar
8:00 p.m. Concert
9:00 p.m. Stew in the courtyard

Three extraordinary musicians, three radical musical languages—and a trio that has been continually exploring the possibilities of improvised music together since 1998.

Phil Minton – voice
Axel Dörner – trumpet
Thomas Lehn – analog synthesizer

TOOT moves between voice, breath, sound, electronics, and silence. The music emerges in the moment: subtle shifts, surprising intensifications, vast spaces—and sounds where it’s sometimes hard to tell whether they come from a voice, a trumpet, or a synthesizer.

In 1998, a house concert led to the trio’s formation. Since then, Minton, Dörner, and Lehn have been among the defining voices of international improvised music. We are all the more delighted to welcome the three of them to WELTRAUM in Basel.

And because an evening at WELTRAUM doesn’t have to end with the final note: After the concert, there will be stew in the courtyard.

Come early, have a drink with us, listen to TOOT—and stick around afterward.

WELTRAUM
Auf dem Wolf 13
4052 Basel
www.weltraum.me

More about TOOT and audio samples:
TOOT – Phil Minton · Axel Dörner · Thomas Lehn

FUTURA

Solo Exhibition by Ruth Widmer

October 9–29, 2026

Opening: October 8, 6:00 p.m.

Curated by Wiktoria Tundys

In large-format drawings and works in porcelain, Ruth Widmer creates landscapes that do not yet exist but are already palpable. Architectural fragments of a possible future intersect with questions about the current condition of humanity and the direction in which we are moving—both individually and as a society. These are not images of accusation, but rather a quiet, precise observation, sustained by the hope that a different, better future remains conceivable.

Artstübli – Art & Culture, Steinentorberg 28, 4051 Basel

www.artstuebli.ch

Opening Hours:

Wednesday through Saturday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

ÜSI SCHWIZ

The exhibition “Üsi Schwiz” asks: What makes Switzerland your home—or why will it never be?

Here, “home” is not understood as a static concept, but as an individual, emotional, and social process of negotiation, shaped by personal experiences, cultural backgrounds, and social structures.

The exhibition invites visitors to question familiar narratives, highlight commonalities and contradictions, and foster dialogue about Switzerland’s cultural identity.

In this context, we are pleased to present works by Alizé Rose-May, Andrea Sommer, Eguono Edjere, Felix Stöckle, Maksim Klopfstein, Margaux Huber, Marina Prada, Milush Holzer, Viviane Bettschart, Xavier Sägesser, and Yves Möhrle at the Bollag site.

We are also delighted to present workshops by Brutus Labiche and Andreea Gwerder & Gilles-Anthony Treskatsch, as well as a happening by Meret Schüpbach.

As another highlight of the program, we cordially invite you to a short film evening at the Neues Kino Basel featuring films by Denisa Svach & Denise Maud, Elena Huber, Hanna Wächter, JojoX, Lily Pellaud, and Raphael Reichert.

Opening: October 15, 6:00 p.m.

Performances to be announced

Wednesday through Friday, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM

Saturday, 2:00 PM–6:00 PM

Closing reception: October 29, 6:00 PM

Performances to be announced

Design: @leaknutti
Kuration: @maistei_ @minischwizdinischwiz

Valuables
Natacha Donzé, Matthias Liechti, Boris Rebetez, Renée Steffen, Raphael Stucky, Li Tavor, Babette Walder
28.08.2026–31.10.2026
Opening: 28.08.2026 18–22h
Magazine Release & Hammer Band: 31.10.2026 11–17h

Kunsttage Basel: 28.08.2026 13–18h 29.&30.08.2026 11–18h

Go closer – John Berger Through His Art
September 12 – October 31, 2026

In 2026, numerous events around the world will commemorate John Berger (1926–2017): the British writer, art critic, painter and screenwriter, who combined Marxist social analysis with art and literary criticism, would have turned 100 this year. Conferences, symposia and new translations of his works will document the significant influence of this extraordinary man. As a draughtsman, screenwriter and storyteller, John Berger nourished his critical thinking throughout his life through his creative work. He moved freely between different media and never paid heed to the boundaries between genres. His early training at art college led him to side more with artists than with institutional thinkers. This aspect of his artistic output is less well known to the general public, and this is where the exhibition comes in.
The multimedia exhibition brings together documentary films, drawings, paintings and texts by the British artist and thinker. The rooms of the villa are organised around the themes that play a central role in his work – the world of labour, the plight of farmers, dialogue and collaboration, resistance and the struggle for the emancipation of peoples, as well as personal encounters and correspondence with artists and friends – thus offering a multifaceted insight into the free-thinking mind of John Berger, who spent his life constructing a social history of art that was both intimate and universal.
The chosen title ‘Go Closer – John Berger Through his Art’ underlines the central aim that John Berger consistently pursued through various media: to draw closer to people and their activities, to observe and describe them in order to understand their characteristics.
Conveying a unique creative mindset and a resolute political stance is therefore at the heart of this project, which is aimed in particular at the younger generation, who can engage with the subject matter through various dialogue formats.

Curated by:
Yves Berger
Isaac Klotz White
Franziska Stern-Preisig

STRICTLY COLLECTIVE

Five art collectives from Switzerland and France, selected from 36 international submissions, come together at FABRIKculture.

The starting point is the thesis formulated in KUNSTFORUM International, Vol. 285, “All together now! Art in the Collective” (2022), that collective authorship today is not an exception but rather the fundamental form of contemporary practice. The exhibition examines this shift through concrete collaboration: five distinct styles, one shared form.

● Ado+Comenius (Basel)

● Com&Com (Zurich / St. Gallen)

● GislerGähwiler (Lucerne)

● Ouest-Lumière (Paris)

● Protoplast (Basel)

Curated by Benny Kammüller and Clément Stehlin.

Program:

Opening – October 4, 2026 | 11 a.m.
featuring a performance by Ouest-Lumière

Closing – November 1, 2026 | starting at 11 a.m.
Artist Talk with Com&Com | 2 p.m.

Opening Hours
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Pat Homse, Azadbek Bekchanov, Ana Bălan, Lyna Beggah, Grandee Dorjii, Alex Ghandour, Daniela Flores Arias, Kader Attia
Bebbi explores how migration and transnational biographies shape artistic practices in Switzerland. Starting from the situation of many artists who move to Basel for their studies — for example at the HGK — and who significantly contribute to the local art scene while often working under precarious conditions and only being able to remain temporarily, the project creates a space for reflection and exchange. The programme includes screenings accompanied by discussions, an exhibition, and sound performances. At its core is the moving image as a medium through which questions of identity, belonging, and mobility are negotiated. A particular focus lies on the exchange between local and international artists. By bringing together different perspectives, local concerns are placed within a broader context, fostering dialogue around shared themes in contemporary art. In this way, Bebbi promotes networking, knowledge exchange, and engagement with migration as a central component of artistic practice.

02.10.2026, 18:00: Opening
24.10.2026, 15:00: Launch Magazine on Fictional Art If #3 — Basel Edition
06.11.2026, 18:00: Marriage Party

Caroline von Gunten

Floating in shared serendipity starts with a simple shift: not searching, but finding. Drawing on regular, hours-long train journeys shared with strangers, Caroline von Gunten explores how narratives and memories are formed, shared, and appropriated, and how social norms, values, and traumas are transmitted in often invisible ways.

Recorded conversations are listened to, listened to again, and then deleted. What remains is never the conversation itself, but what emerges from it: drawings, objects, and texts. In this way, fellow passengers become co-authors of a collective archive that resists control.

At its core is the observation that every shared story carries implicit ideas about how one is allowed to live, suffer, and belong—and who is left outside those boundaries.

The exhibition is supported by: Kultur Stadt Bern

Image: Caroline von Guten, Escalating Commitment, ceramic 2024

• 18.10.2026, 14:00—17:00: Workshop: Gestures, Animal Figures & Collaborative Storytelling

City SALTS: Arbesa Musa
Solo Exhibition
23 Sep – 13 Nov 2026

Arbesa Musa is currently based between Geneva and Basel. Born in Switzerland and raised in Kosovo, later returned to Switzerland to continue her artistic journey. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at HEAD in Geneva and earned her Master’s in Fine Arts from FHNW in Basel in 2023, where she currently lives and works.

As a multidisciplinary artist, her work explores themes such as feminism, gender roles, violence, intimacy, memory, home, territory, identity, and craft - particularly knowledge passed between women through forms often labeled as "traditional art." Her practice becomes both a personal archive of shared memory and a collective experience.

City SALTS: Brett Charles Seiler
Solo Exhibition
23 Sep – 13 Nov 2026

First solo exhibition of the Zimbabwean artist in Switzerland.

In Brett Seiler’s (*1994, lives and works in Leipzig and Cape Town) artistic practice, gender and sexuality are central themes, challenging patriarchal and heteronormative ideals. His works depict intimacy and acts of kindness between men, alongside a distinctive treatment of space. The backdrop is often void-like, while suggestions of linear perspective, such as the lines of a table, remain loose and ambiguous. Through this aesthetic, Seiler creates a space for artistic and creative freedom that mirrors the apparent freedom of his subjects. His work explores the possibility of living outside established norms, engaging with the body, overt sexuality, sexual taboos, and emotional vulnerability.

His work has been shown in international solo and group exhibitions, including at A26 Set Space Beijing (CN), No Hero Museum in Delden (NL), Schloss Altdöbern (GER), Museum Bensheim (GER), and Zeitz MOCAA (ZA).

Terra Promessa
Renato Di Maggio Rodrigues
Curated by Elwira Spychalska

Terra Promessa—the title of this exhibition does not describe a specific place, but rather a state of being: the longing for a land one has not yet set foot in. For thousands of people in the Mediterranean, this longing becomes a fateful horizon off the coast of Lampedusa. The story of his parents, who came to Switzerland as young migrants, led Renato Di Maggio Rodrigues to this theme; on Lampedusa, he encounters it in a different time and under different circumstances. In his works, the snapshot of photography enters into a dialogue with the slow trace of oil paint. Thus, Terra Promessa unfolds a quiet, visual poetry between the present and memory. It is a space for reflection, where hope, loss, and time become palpable.

Opening: Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 6pm
Closing: Saturday, November 14, 2026, 2–6pm

Artstübli – Art & Culture, Steinentorberg 28, Basel

Roy Lichtenstein Weekend Workshop Series

In joyful response to the collection of Roy Lichtenstein prints on show 22.8.2026 – 14.3.2027 at Kunstmuseum Basel, druckwerk Basel presents a series of 1 and 2-day experimental printmaking workshops.

Pop motifs & printmaking techniques / 1-day workshop
In the spirit of the collaboration between Graphicstudio and Roy Lichtenstein in the production of the Brushstroke Figures series, this workshop is an invitation to explore various printmaking processes.

By rendering pop motifs - the dots, diagonals and brushstrokes that can be seen in the Graphicstudio prints - with different printmaking techniques, participants can gain an understanding of each technique's differences, in turn, discovering their potential.

Let’s Ben Day! / 2-day workshop
Patented in the 1880s, Ben Day ‘mechanical tints’ were tools for illustrators to fast-track the execution of lining, shading, hatching and most famously, stippling a.k.a. dots. Stylised and magnified these marks became key components of Roy Lichtenstein’s pop vocabulary.

Using the collagraph method & found materials participants will build an own library of shading mediums. They will investigate the creation of enhanced patterns by overprinting the plates and through colour juxtaposition. Then they will explore ways to use these findings to create images.

Program
Sun 13. September Pop motifs & printmaking techniques / 1-day workshop / 120 CHF
Sat 17. / Sun 18. October Let’s Ben Day! / 2-day workshop / 240 CHF
Sat 21. / Sun 22. November Let’s Ben Day! / 2-day workshop / 240 CHF
Sat 12. December Pop motifs & printmaking techniques / 1-day workshop / 120 CHF

11 am to 4 pm each day
Course leader: Lucinda Tanner
Course language: English/German
Fees include inks and consumables, but exclude paper
Suitable for all levels of experience
Registrations: office@druckwerk.ch

druckwerk Basel
Werkraum Warteck pp
2. floor,Burgweg 7
4048 Basel
www.druckwerk.ch

GUIDED TOUR
Roy Lichtenstein Sweet Dreams, Baby!
22. August 2026 – 14. March 2027
Kunstmuseum Basel, Neubau

All workshop participants are invited to be guided through the exhibition by the curator, Fabienne Ruppen. The tours take place on Wednesday 14. October and Wednesday 18. November at 18:00hr. The tour is free of charge.

Roman Signer
Platz ist in der kleinsten Hütte. Für was? Zum Fliegen natürlich.
Permanent Installation since 07.07.2018

Roman Signer (b. 1938, St Gallen) defines himself as a sculptor – a sculptor, however, who expands his sculptures through the dimension of time. His happenings and installations, full of lively wit, have been redefining sculpture since the 1970s. By integrating time, energy, acceleration and change into the sculptural process, he finds new ways of consistently and playfully exploring the possibilities of this intrinsically static medium. The results of his explorations are often transient works, documented in photographic series, film or video footage. Signer’s most important materials are the four elements of fire, earth, water and air. Their composition and their quality are explored with impressive precision and endurance. For example, he lets hole-riddled kayaks fill up with water, catapults furniture across the room, or lays a kilometre-long fuse across eastern Switzerland.

Artachment, the unusual space initiated by Raphael Bottazzini, inspired the artist not only to participate in the anniversary exhibition, but also to conduct an in-situ intervention, or ‘happening’, as Signer refers to his work. There is space in the hut, and Signer occupies it: before the opening and without an audience, he enters equipped with protective goggles and a helmet. Inside, the artist fits a so-called quadcopter[1] with a brush drenched in blue paint. He then navigates this arrangement of flying object and painting utensil through the house and uses it to paint blue dots on the ceiling. The whole action is not without risk, which is why the artist dons the protective gear. What remains of the activity is the painted ceiling and the equipment that is left behind. The artist defines the finished work as an installation: lying on a shelf in the house, the objects reference the activity that took place there. As the public enter, they put together the pieces of the event. The narrative of this small tale is reflected in the title of the work: Platz ist in der kleinsten Hütte. Für was? Zum Fliegen natürlich (There is room in the smallest of huts. For what? For flying, obviously.). It is a short dialogue between the artist and a fictional counterpart that explains everything.

With the simple gesture of painting dots on the ceiling, Signer references the celebrated genre of the ceiling fresco, which is characterised by great artistic skill. To further interpret the scene, Roman Signer’s ceiling painting elevates the small house into more than a hut: the blue dots convert it into a chapel of art.

* What is popularly known as a ‘drone’ is in technical jargon a quadcopter (a four-rotor, remote-controlled helicopter). The term ‘drone’ is not heard among model aviation enthusiasts, since it refers to equipment that can be used for killing and war. The object used by Roman Signer for flying and painting, however, is a work tool, or as he says himself: “A peaceful thing with a flying brush.”

Text: Lena Friedli
Fotos: Claude Gasser
www.romansigner.ch

THYLACINE - Mischa Düblin, Fabian Unold
Schein
Since 07.07.2018 – Permanent installation

Mischa Düblin (b. 1973, Basel) and Fabian Unold (b. 1977, Zurich) have been working together since 2004. The artistic duo realises site- and context-specific works under the name Thylacine. Not limiting themselves to one medium or form, the duo’s situation-specific approach tends towards installations and the performative. Games with the audience or the involvement of other performers open up further possibilities.

Social structures and economic mechanisms are at the heart of Thylacine’s interest. Their art doesn’t aim for the white cube, it doesn’t function intrinsically or by itself, but invariably in relation to the real world. Critically, politically, and always with a good dose of humour, they examine balances of power, and make these events their own. While their art is implemented concisely and consistently, it deliberately leaves room for interpretation. The authentic and persuasive involvement of the two artists results from a content-related but also concretely physical appropriation. In this vein, they expose themselves to the direct jet of a snow machine for the 2007 work Schweigeminute (A Minute’s Silence), or they simultaneously pee their pants for the 2008 performance Stille Wasser (Still Waters) on the subject of fear.

Thylacine’s projects, performances and installations only ever happen once, but they have appeared twice at Artachment. In 2008, Mischa and Fabian were invited by Raphael Bottazzini to realise the very first project ever carried out in the former customs house at Kleinhüningen harbour. After careful observation of the site, the duo gave the space, which was at the time abandoned and frequently visited by vandals, a resident: they installed a life-sized puppet to make it look like someone sitting in the space was angling for fish through the window in the back wall. Through its new inhabitant, the space suddenly became accommodating, and a connection to the outside world was established. The situation was subtle (there was no opening and no publicity) and at the same time so realistic that passers-by who spotted the figure inside called the police.

Thylacine returned to Artachment in 2018 to exhibit in dialogue with Roman Signer. For their newly developed work Schein (Appearance), marking the 10th anniversary of the art space, they suspended a theatre spotlight from a tree next to the building and equipped it with a timer, which switched the light on and off in a predefined rhythm. A spotlight usually illuminates an attraction; a star performs in it, something important is given a stage. But the spotlight installed by Thylacine apparently misses its mark. The light beam illuminates neither the house celebrating its anniversary, Roman Signer’s installation, nor the public. The only connection to the house is the power cable. Other than that, the artistic intervention remains essentially immaterial. Schein illuminates a stage that remains empty, a non-place, a gap, and thus becomes a strange and refreshingly nebulous presence.

Text: Lena Friedli
Fotos: Claude Gasser
www.thylacine.ws

Raphael Bottazzini
Bank & Stapel
Since January 1, 2023 – ongoing

The bench does not pay tribute; it displays names in all their diversity—the diversity that society produces. The bench has been active since 2023 and follows the principle that every person deserves to be named. One of the three boards is replaced each month. The removed boards are set aside, continuously forming a stack in the Artachment exhibition space in Basel. The names are selected by various individuals—who do not coordinate with one another—and incorporated into the work. Through this process, the bench becomes a repository of names and follows no ideological orientation. The curatorial work is limited solely to the composition of two names on each board. The greater apparent arbitrariness of the name combinations arises from the monthly addition of a new board. In the process, the new names mix with the old ones, continuously creating new constellations across the entire bench.
The company Mitte is not part of the work and has no say in it.
Raphael Bottazzini

What is a name? Can a name be classified without context? What tensions are revealed and generated by *Bank&Stapel*? Can a work of art on private property truly be private if it is visible to the public? Can one speak of a juxtaposition of two names when there are a total of six names on the bench? Would the weighting of a committee

Open textile studio and café for people of all ages

WEDNESDAYS from 3 – 8 PM

2026
14 October
4 November
2 December
16 December

2027
6 January
27 January
24 February
17 March
7 April
21 April
26 May

Final presentation and celebration
Saturday, 5 June 2027, 3 – 8 PM

After the pilot project in 2025, Im Foyer will start again in October 2026.

Every three weeks, the foyer of Ausstellungsraum Klingental becomes an open textile studio and café. You can drop by, have a drink, join in, share your own ideas or simply watch. Different materials and tools are available. You can discover or deepen your knowledge of many different textile techniques. Meet artists, make your own project and exchange ideas with others. The art on display can also inspire you and give you new ideas.

The sessions are free and open to everyone. You can join at any time.

We do our best to make our afternoons accessible to everyone.
If you have any questions or wishes, please contact us: info@ausstellungsraum.ch

Im Foyer is a project in collaboration with FOYERBASEL – Bildung und Beruf, developed and run by Franziska Baumgartner and Flavia Spichtig.
Extended team: Vera Bruggmann