Samuel Leuenberger Curates 23 Artworks at Art Basel’s Parcours – Curated for the third consecutive year by Samuel Leuenberger, Parcours this year presents 23 site-specific artworks displayed throughout Basel’s historic center.
The sector will feature work by Silvia Bächli & Eric Hattan, Nina Beier, stanley brouwn, Julian Charrière, Keren Cytter, Simon Denny, Elmgreen & Dragset, Georg Herold, Pierre Huyghe, Hilary Lloyd, Mark Manders, Caroline Mesquita, Rivane Neuenschwander, Marina Pinsky, Julian Rosefeldt, Nedko Solakov, Simon Starling, Jessica Stockholder, Thomas Struth, Paloma Varga Weisz and Hannah Weinberger.
On Saturday, June 16, Parcours Night once again will present a specially curated program of live performances with extended opening hours of Parcours and of some of Basel’s leading museums. Art Basel, whose Lead Partner is UBS, takes place at Messe Basel from June 14 to June 17, 2018.
Opening Monday afternoon, June 11, Parcours this year will reflect on the politicalpotentials of storytelling, seeking to investigate what stories can tell us about our lives. Titled ‘Telling Stories for the Future’, the exhibition will encompass presentations in civic and private locations that will open exclusively for Parcours as well as collaborations with Basel’s museums, encouraging alternative social and geographical encounters with the city. Through a focus on storytelling, Samuel Leuenberger, Director and Curator of SALTS in Birsfelden, Switzerland, aims to cultivate commonalities and allied thinking across social, geographic, ethnic, economic and ecological boundaries.
Highlights include Thomas Struth’s ‘Animals’ (2018), a series of 10 photographs that sensitively capture animals following their moment of surrender. Installed in the Erste Kirche Christi, the work will be drawn from his recent images of scientific and surgical environments, as well as the history of memento mori in art. A program of live music, chosen by Struth in collaboration with guitarist Frank Bungarten, will be presented at selected times throughout the week. By installing 10 sound systems throughout Basel’s sewers, Hannah Weinberger will create a mysterious soundscape scattered across the city that invites the public to tune into a new experience of the city. Each of the 10 sewers will be activated with site-specific compositions created by Weinberger that play against the daily sounds of the sewers and the city.
Suspended in mid-air inside the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Elmgreen & Dragset’s large-scale sculpture ‘Hanging Rock’ (2017) will act as a blockade, concealing certain elements of the architectural structure that surrounds it. Playing on the ideas of nature, gravity and natural phenomena, the piece explores preconceived views of natural beauty and the overcoming of obstacles. Pierre Huyghe’s ‘Exomind (Deep Water)’ (2017) features a crouching female figure with a beehive growing from her head. The colony of bees living inside the hive will pollinate the surrounding flora in the garden of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel.
Taking place on Saturday, June 16, Parcours Night will once again present a program of live performances, this year featuring artists Keren Cytter, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Ad Minoliti, Venuri Perera and Luke Willis Thompson. In addition, Thomas Struth will present two music performances by Maurizio Grandinetti and Walter Fähndrich. Access to all Parcours sites is free to the public, and during Parcours Night Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Historisches Museum Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum der Kulturen Basel and Naturhistorisches Museum Basel will have extended opening hours.
The full list of Parcours projects
Silvia Bächli & Eric Hattan, Nicolas Krupp, Peter Freeman, Barbara Gross Galerie,
Skopia / P.-H. Jaccaud
‘To have a shelf life (sich nicht ewig halten)’, 2018
Basler Münster, Chorpolygon, Magazin Münsterbauhütte, Münsterplatz 9
Nina Beier, Metro Pictures
‘Beast’, 2018; ‘Mars’, 2018
Falkensteinerhof (Lichthof), Bau- und Verkehrsdepartement Basel-Stadt, Münsterplatz 11
stanley brouwn, Jan Mot
Kunstmuseum Basel, Foyer (1st floor), Hauptbau, St. Alban-Graben 8
Julian Charrière, Sies + Höke, Sean Kelly, Galerie Tschudi
‘An Invitation to Disappear’, 2018
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Aula, Augustinergasse 2
Keren Cytter, Galerie Nagel Draxler
‘Metamorphosis’, 2015/2018
Vorstadttheater Basel, St. Alban-Vorstadt 12
Simon Denny, Petzel, Galerie Buchholz
‘Haunted Crypto Games’, 2018
Historisches Museum Basel, Haus zum Kirschgarten, Elisabethenstrasse 27 and
Fantastic Empire, Elisabethenstrasse 4
Elmgreen & Dragset, König Galerie
‘Hanging Rock’, 2017
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, St. Alban-Graben 5
Georg Herold, Contemporary Fine Arts, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin
‘Heyday’, 2013; ‘Aktivistin’ 2013; ‘Beverly’, 2011/2017
Basler Münster, Kreuzgang
Pierre Huyghe, Marian Goodman Gallery, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Hauser & Wirth,
Esther Schipper
‘Exomind (Deep Water)’, 2017
Garden of the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel
Hilary Lloyd, Sadie Coles HQ
‘Robot’, 2015
Theater Basel, the ‘Box’, Elisabethenstrasse 16
Mark Manders, Zeno X Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
‘House with Notional Newspapers’, 2018
Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Pfarrhaus, Elisabethenstrasse 10
Mark Manders, Zeno X Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
‘Room with Three Dead Birds and Falling Dictionary’, 1993/2018
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Sonderausstellungsraum 1, Augustinergasse 2
Caroline Mesquita, carlier gebauer
‘The Machine Room’, 2018
Historisches Museum Basel, Barfüsserkirche, Chor, Barfüsserplatz 7
Rivane Neuenschwander, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Fortes
D’Aloia & Gabriel
‘Cabra-Cega (Blind Man’s Bluff)’, 2016
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Sonderausstellungsraum 2, Augustinergasse 2
Marina Pinsky, 303 Gallery
‘Strata of the Slow, Buried Trench’, 2018
Historisches Museum Basel, Haus zum Kirschgarten, Gewölbekeller, Elisabethenstrasse 27
Julian Rosefeldt, König Galerie
‘Manifesto’, 2017
kult.kino atelier, Atelier 3, Theaterstrasse 7
Nedko Solakov, Galleria Continua
‘Antikendoodles’, 2018
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Kunstlichtsaal, St. Alban-Graben 5
Simon Starling, neugerriemschneider
‘One Hundred and Seventy-Five’, 2010/2012/2017
Museum der Kulturen Basel, Hedi Keller Saal, Münsterplatz 20
Jessica Stockholder, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie
Schwarzwälder
‘Three squared on the river bank’, 2018
St. Alban-Rheinweg, below Wettsteinbrücke; Oberer Rheinweg / Münsterfähre;
Münsterplatz 11
Thomas Struth, Marian Goodman Gallery
‘Animals’, 2018
Erste Kirche Christi, Picassoplatz 2
Paloma Varga Weisz, Sadie Coles HQ, Galeria Pedro Cera, Konrad Fischer Galerie,
Gladstone Gallery
‘Bois Dormant – Cabinet’, 2015
Historisches Museum Basel, Gartenpavillon, Haus zum Kirschgarten, Elisabethenstrasse 27
Hannah Weinberger, Freedman Fitzpatrick
‘Down There’, 2018
Münsterplatz and Rittergasse
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