Institut Kunst

Who Are You? + Club Univers @ SALTS, Nov 26 – Jan 17

24 November 2016

The Who Are You? and Club Univers group exhibitions are on at Birsfelden’s SALTS, opening November 26 and running to January 17, 2017.

Who Are You? looks at the paradox of publicly concealing your identity through artists working with ideas of the “alter ego, collective identity, meta-artist, improved or lessen versions of oneself”. Featuring Olivier Castel, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grüter & Michele Graf, Than Hussein Clark and Martin Soto Climent, the show examines these perceptions and iterations of ‘unstable’ realities as a response to a global climate of “austerity and fear”. 

Club Univers — curated by Chus Martinez with assistant curator Eveline Wüthrich — features a group of bachelor students from Institut Kunst and explores the unexplained phenomena of tickling, through dreams. ‘Part I: Even in your dreams, you can’t tickle yourself’ is inspired by neuroscientist and researcher Jennifer Windt who worked with a group of expert lucid dreamers to see if they could tickle themselves, which they couldn’t.

The opening of the exhibitions will also include the launch of a new issue of London-based Next Level magazine, covering the Swiss art scenes of Lausanne and Basel, as well as the Club Univers publication, published via Sternberg Press.

See the SALTS website for details.**

Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
Agatha Valkyrie Ice (Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite, Clémence de La Tour du Pin) Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10) 2015 Courtesy of the artists With the support of International Flavors & Fragrances and Adrien Figeac (Coty Inc) Photography: Luis Artemio De Los Santos
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Julieta Aranda @ der Tank, Nov 17 – Dec 16

14 November 2016

Julieta Aranda is presenting solo exhibition The Organ: As the Ground Becomes Exposed at Basel’s Der Tank, Institut Kunst, opening November 17 and running to December 16. 

The specially commissioned work is curated by Chus Martínez and looks at the space between language and image, offering up a new ‘organ’ of sorts that explores “the future of sculpture and perception while also more fully sensing the relationships that art establishes with the questions and debates populating our everyday lives.”

Recent exhibitions by Arlanda include Inhuman (2015) at Kassel’s Fridericianum and If a Body Meet a Body (2014) at Roma’s Galería OMR. 

See the Institut Kunst website for details.**

 

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