States in transit
Identity often appears as something fixed: as a stable category, a clear sense of belonging, or a consistent narrative about one’s own self. The works in States in Transit offer a different perspective on this notion. They view identity not as a given state, but as a process: something that takes shape, shifts, breaks apart, […]
Inside of That Machine, There Was His Baby Girl
A knife is neither good nor bad; but it may be used by either a surgeon or an assassin. —José M.R. Delgado, M.D., “Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psycho-civilized Society” (1969) With his outer behavior he forestalled the danger to which he was perpetually subject, namely that of becoming someone else’s thing, by […]
Worker Ant After Work
What a mess! The ears have crawled out of the gallery. Perhaps they could not bear to listen to the ever-echoing jargon of freelancers, artists, curators, and gallery visitors for one minute more. Inside the gallery, lighting oscillates like days between work and rest. Two lampposts are carrying their straw – fluorescent tubes coated with […]
Sol
Time reflects itself in art with indifference. It slips through it like sand in an hourglass, leaving behind traces—more or less visible—that reveal the secret of its passage: relativity. Water represents a different measure of time: tides and ebbs, monsoons and droughts. Ahistoricity and timelessness. Water is healing and release, and thus, in a certain […]
Relay [02]
RELAY [02] is the second stage of a group exhibition in two parts, co-curated by hardcopy* and Thomas Griffiths. Staged across two cities that share a common industrial heritage – Sheffield and Middlesbrough – the exhibition brings together a diverse range of concerns, considering how objects and surfaces carry layered histories and reveal the residues […]
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10/03/2026 18:30 Eglisee ice rink Egliseestrasse 85, 4058 BASEL
Revier
Under the title Revier, Suburbia Contemporary presents a group exhibition with new works by Leonie Gemsjäger, Martin Galle and Robert Deutsch. At the center of the exhibition is the animal, not as an incidental motif but as a figure that carries meaning, as a projection surface for human imagination, and as a counterpart with existential […]
Becoming Islanders
In the mid-nineteenth century, Ascension Island became the site of a British imperial experiment in environmental transformation. Through global networks of plant exchange and scientific collaboration—including Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker—the island was reshaped into a constructed ecosystem, formed not through co-evolution but deliberate design. Johanna Binder’s project, including Becoming Islanders, uses this history […]
ZHARROKTAL
[…] I have always taken pleasure in the fact that the Mosai Sinci lexicon contains the remarkable word “Zharroktal.” Precisely because it has no meaning, it became a popular filler in youth slang: a rhetorical gesture used to express the frustration that something cannot be articulated in one’s own language – perhaps because it is […]
Small Language Models
Through a wide array of materials and techniques, Lennart Lahuis (b. 1986 in Hengelo, NL) subjects visual information to natural processes such as oxidation, combustion, evaporation, and erosion. The artist juxtaposes these natural phenomena with technological elements and scientific disciplines such as earth sciences and astronomy. The precision and exactitude that characterize both science and […]