Anouk Kruithof, Universal Tongue, Kunstencentrum Vooruit Ghent, Belgium, 2018 © photo: Niccolo Quaresima

Installation view at Museum Tinguely,
Anouk Kruithof, «Universal Tongue», 2018
© 2022 Museum Tinguely, Basel; photo: Matthias Willi

Anouk Kruithof
Universal Tongue

(Danse Macabre No. VII)
24 April – 29 January 2023

Universal Tongue came out of Anouk Kruithof’s fascination with dance videos shared online as embodiments of personal expression, cultural identity, empowerment and joy. In a digital-archaeological study, she assembled 8800 videos, using them to realise the 8-channel video installation and a compendium of 1000 dance styles from around the world. Kruithof’s work is marked by a critical, multidisciplinary exploration of digital imagery.

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​​​​​​​Lavanchy-Clarke's pavilion at the Geneva Expo 1896 © Cinémathèque suisse

Lavanchy-Clarke's pavilion at the Geneva Expo 1896 © Cinémathèque suisse

Cinema before cinema:
Lavanchy-Clarke, the Swiss Film Pioneer

19 October 2022 – 29 January 2023

François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke (1848–1922) made films of Switzerland to show at the Swiss National Exposition in Geneva as early as 1896. His extravagant pavilion in which they were screened was perhaps the world’s first cinema. An inventive media pioneer and Switzerland’s first colour photographer, Lavanchy-Clarke was also a tireless and unabashed promoter of Sunlight Soap – and an ardent reformer of the care for the blind. Yet for a long time he was all but forgotten, and his filmic oeuvre, presented to Belle Epoque Switzerland using the ground-breaking Cinématographe Lumière, seemed to have been lost with him. This exhibition brings Lavanchy-Clarke’s films and photographs back into the limelight and introduces us to a cosmopolitan impresario from Vaud, who besides being a pioneer of early cinema was also a designer of automata.

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#lavanchyclarke #earlycinema

 

Hira Nabi, All That Perishes at the Edge of Land, 2019 (filmstill) Single-channel, digital © courtesy, Hira Nabi

Hira Nabi, All That Perishes at the Edge of Land, 2019 (filmstill)
Single-channel, digital
© courtesy, Hira Nabi

 

Territories of Waste
On the Return of the Repressed

14 September 2022 – 8 January 2023

The entire ecosphere – the oceans, the air, our food, the soil, even the Antarctic – contains residues, particles and chemicals derived from our consumer culture. The extraction of raw materials leaves behind destroyed landscapes and toxic spoil. Waste is everywhere. The group show at Museum Tinguely brings together art that deals with this issue, both works by contemporary artists with their global, geopolitical and ecological perspective and works from the second half of the twentieth century that reflect the move towards a throwaway society and environmental destruction that emerged from the 1960s.

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L‘enterrement de la Chose de Tinguely, Happening by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Venice, 14 July 1960 © Cameraphoto, Venice/ Archives Lebel

L‘enterrement de la Chose de Tinguely,
Happening by Jean-Jacques Lebel,
Venice, 14 July 1960
© Cameraphoto, Venice/ Archives Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel
«La Chose» de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et «Les Avatars de Vénus»

13 April – 18 September 2022

Jean-Jacques Lebel, a pioneer of action art, was the author of the first Happening in Europe on 14 July 1960: L’enterrement de la Chose de Tinguely. His passion for Nietzsche and Bakunin – among other philosophers – meets Tinguely‘s passion for Kropotkin and Bergson. With his video installation Les Avatars de Vénus, he addresses the question of the collective memory of archetypes, which overdetermines the history of the arts from one era to the next and from one culture to the next.

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#lachosedetinguely #jeanjacqueslebel

 

Lena Eriksson, Julia Geröcs, Das Exchange Programm, International Performance Art Giswil, 2015

Lena Eriksson, Julia Geröcs, Das Exchange Programm, International Performance Art Giswil, 2015

BANG BANG
translocal hi:stories of performance art

8 June – 21 August 2022

Performance will be taking centre stage at Museum Tinguely all summer long. The show will focus on Swiss art, its stories, and their many interpreters, while at the same time laying on an exciting, international programme. From the spectacular to the scarcely perceptible, BANG BANG will give the incredibly rich history of performance art in Switzerland the attention it deserves.

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#bangbang #revolvinghistories

 

Christer Strömholm, Öyvind in Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1967, Christer Strömholm Estate.

Christer Strömholm,
Öyvind in Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1967,
Christer Strömholm Estate.

Party for Öyvind
Öyvind Fahlström & Friends

16 February – 1 May 2022

A grand exhibition with Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976) and over 80 of his friends in poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, performance, film in Rome-Stockholm-Paris-New York during the creative 50s-70s, in a 50/50 gender mix including Marisol, Warhol, Kogelnik, Cage, Ringgold, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Lebel, Bontecou, Matta, Niki & Jean and others.

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