◇ Holbein to Tillmans at Schaulager Basel - YouTube
http://www.vernissage.tv | Holbein to Tillmans - Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland, brings together approximately two hundred works from the museum of fine arts in Basel, together from others from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and private collections.
The external cause for this unusual project is the upcoming Van Gogh-exhibition, a spectacular, comprehensive exhibition taking place from April to September 2009 at the Kunstmuseum Basel. To create space for the show, parts of the Kunstmuseums collection had to be removed. The Schaulagers proposal was to host these work and to present them in an exhibition.
The show Holbein to Tillmans - Prominente Gäste aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel allows to see these works in a different light at Schaulager. Some of them have been spread out on a monumental wall in Petersburger hanging style, providing the framework for the interior spaces of the exhibition.
Among the works on display are Allegory of Folly by Rodney Graham, Erasmus von Rotterdam by Hans Holbein the Younger, Das mutige Weib by Ferdinand Hodler, White Fire II by Barnett Newman, Anders pulling splinter from his foot by Wolfgang Tillmans.
The exhibition runs until October 4, 2009. A series of events including discussions of the works and a conference will accompany the exhibition.
The Schaulager building was designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
Holbein to Tillmans - Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland. Opening reception, April 3, 2009.
◇ TWO ARTISTS: Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska 1:1 [excerpt] - YouTube
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◇ Monika Sosnowska / Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska. 1:1 / Schaulager, Basel / Switzerland - VernissageTV art tv
1:1 is the title of the show in which works by the artists Monika Sosnowska (*1972 in Poland) and Andrea Zittel (*1965 in the United States) are on display at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland from April 26 until September 21, 2008. Both artists have in common that they respond to their different surroundings in terms of architecture, living space, daily routine, and traditions. Monika Sosnowska presents for the first time a group of nine sculptures, some of them on a monumental scale, in the open space of Schaulager’s lower floor. Monika Sosnowska lives and works in Warsaw. She had her first exhibition in Amsterdam in 2000. Since then, her work has been shown regularly in Europe and the United States. Sosnowska’s exhibition attracting the most attention so far was the one she installed in the Polish Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (click here to view the video of the installation). April 23, 2008.
◇ Andrea Zittel / Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska. 1:1 / Schaulager, Basel / Switzerland - VernissageTV art tv
http://vernissage.tv/blog/2008/04/29/andrea-zittel-andrea-zittel-monika-sosnowska-11-schaulager-basel-switzerland/
◇ Matthew Barney at Schaulager Basel - YouTube
http://www.vernissage.tv | Opening reception of Matthew Barney's solo show at Schaulager Basel. This year's exhibition at Schaulager in Basel is dedicated to the Drawing Restraint series by Matthew Barney.
Drawing Restraint is a series of performances, numbering sixteen thus far, in which Matthew Barney leaves traces in an environment of self-induced physical and psychological restraints. Works emerging from these performances, such as sculptures, vitrines, drawings and videos, are juxtaposed in the Schaulager exhibition with works of art from the Northern Renaissance.
◇ Francis Alys: Fabiola / Schaulager at Haus z. Kirschgarten - YouTube
http://www.vernissage.tv / Schaulager at Haus zum Kirschgarten Basel / Switzerland Opening Reception / Walk Through March 11, 2011. More info: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2011/03/28/francis-alys-fabiola-schaulager-at-haus-zum-kirschgarten-basel/
The Schaulager in Basel is already a very special institution and exhibition space. With the solo show "Francis Alÿs: Fabiola", Schaulager has realized also an unusual project. Instead of presenting artist Francis Alÿs collection of images of Saint Fabiola in its own premises, Schaulager staged the exhibition in the Haus zum Kirschgarten, once Basel's foremost town house, and now a museum of extravagant domestic lifestyles.
The Belgian artist Francis Alÿs has collected images of Saint Fabiola for nearly twenty years. The Fabiola portraits are mainly the work of amateurs. The reference of all the images is the 1885 portrait of Saint Fabiola by the French realist painter Jean-Jacques Henner. Over the years, Francis Alÿs gathered over 370 portraits, done in a variety of media such as oil painting, gouache, embroidery, ceramics, and enamel. Alÿs acquires the portraits in flea markets and thrift shops throughout Europe and Latin America.
Francis Alÿs has been presenting this collection since 1994, for the first time in Mexico City, followed by London (Whitechapel Gallery, 1997), New York (The Hispanic Society of America, 2007/2008), Los Angeles (LACMA, 2008/2009), London (National Portrait Gallery, 2009), Burgos (Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia at Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos, 2010). After Basel, the next stop is Lima, Peru.
Alÿs uses his Fabiola collection as a Trojan horse. It is never presented in a conventional "white cube" gallery. Instead, he looks for a special location for each Fabiola exhibition. This location must have a historical context.
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola / Schaulager at Haus zum Kirschgarten, Basel / Switzerland. Opening reception, March 11, 2011.
◇ Steve McQueen Retrospective at Schaulager Basel - YouTube
http://www.vernissage.tv | Schaulager in Basel currently presents the first comprehensive exhibition of work by the British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. The show features more than twenty video and film installations, photographs and other selected work. The exhibition runs until September 1, 2013.
Steve McQueen Retrospective at Schaulager Basel. Vernissage, March 15, 2013.
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