Meet the Institutions | Kunstmuseum Basel
Opening to the public over 350 years ago, the Kunstmuseum Basel is a living symbol of Baslers’ love of art. Its program unfolds over three striking venues – the Hauptbau, Neubau, and Gegenwart – that are located by the Rhine and operate like ‘three parts of a single organism’s body’, says director Josef Helfenstein. The Kunstmuseum Basel’s collections range from Pre-Renaissance painting to installations by Modern and contemporary artists. Yet far from relying on such riches, the museum constantly strives to offer visitors new perspectives on its holdings.
Light Frieze - New Building of the Kunstmuseum Basel
For the new building of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the engineers and media designers at iart, together with architects Christ & Gantenbein, have developed a light frieze that sublty enlivens the building's brick facade. This video was filmed during the testing phase of the facade in spring 2016.
Project Credits
Client: Construction and Transport Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Städtebau & Architektur, Hochbauamt
User: Department of Presidential Affairs of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Kunstmuseum Basel
Architecture: Christ & Gantenbein
Light Frieze: iart
Typography: Ludovic Balland
Video by iart.
Sound by Victor Moser.
LED LIGHT FRIEZE Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Worldwide unique media facade at the new built extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel.
The subtle way the frieze is enlivened by the symbiosis of light and stone allows the facade to change its character, seeming sometimes more and sometimes less transparent, and suggests diverse interactions between the building's interior and the surrounding urban space.
Awards:
Essence 16: Gold
Red Dot Award: Grand Prix Communication Design
Media Architecture Biennale 2016: 1st place Animated Architecture
This footage was filmed during the testing phase.
Vincent van Gogh: Landscapes. Kunstmuseum Basel
| With Vincent van Gogh - Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes the Kunstmuseum Basel stages a spectacular, comprehensive exhibition of Vincent van Goghs landscape paintings. The show comprises seventy paintings, both world-famous key works as well as paintings barely seen previously by the general public. In addition, forty masterpieces by contemporaries from Kunstmuseum Basels collection place Vincent van Goghs groundbreaking approach to nature in a broader context.
Vincent van Gogh - Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes at Kunstmuseum Basel runs until September 27, 2009.
Vincent van Gogh, Kunstmuseum Basel / Switzerland. Press Preview, April 23, 2009.
Leiko Ikemura: Toward New Seas / Kunstmuseum Basel
Toward New Seas (Nach Neuen Meeren) at Kunstmuseum Basel is a focused retrospective of the work of the Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura. Curated by Anita Haldemann, the exhibition presents drawings, paintings, and sculptures. The exhibition runs until September 1, 2019. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough and an interview with the artist.
Leiko Ikemura: Toward New Seas / Kunstmuseum Basel. Exhibition walkthrough and interview, Basel (Switzerland), May 3 & 15, 2019.
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The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first caused a stir in Switzerland in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational compositions that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She later rose to international renown with girlish figures unmoored from reality and cosmic landscapes populated by fabulous chimerical creatures. Japanese audiences celebrate her as an artist who wholeheartedly embraced Western art only to grow aware of her cultural roots and eventually forged a singular synthesis of both cultures.
Presenting drawings, paintings, and sculptures, the exhibition To new seas is a focused retrospective, mounted in consultation with the artist and in cooperation with the National Art Center, Tokyo.
Leiko Ikemura studied literature in Osaka and Spain before switching to painting and enrolling at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Seville in 1973. She subsequently lived in Zurich for several years; in the 1980s, she moved to Germany, where she still resides. In this first period of her oeuvre, she focuses on drawing, grappling with the challenges of devising an authentic creative idiom. Her art is propelled in part by a searching reflection on her own femininity and the attempt to carve out a place for her life as a woman between her native Japan and her adoptive home in Europe.
A stay in Grisons in 1989 inspired Ikemura to develop a novel visual vocabulary that ultimately led her to a fusion of body and landscape in the “Alpine Indians.” Then followed vaguely archaic hybrid creatures, which the artist increasingly also rendered in sculptures, and, in the 1990s, female figures hovering weightlessly at the horizon between earth and heaven, past and future, vulnerable and untouchable at once. In her most recent works, Ikemura conveys the melancholy yearning for an indivisible union between humankind and nature in oneiric landscapes of the soul. The phenomena of emergent form and metamorphosis gesture back toward the artist’s early oeuvre.
Through an insistent reflection on her life amid an alien culture, on solitude and the assimilation of new languages, Ikemura has staked out a domain of her own that allowed her to devise a personal and authentic synthesis of Japanese and European cultures. The “war goddess” of the early works has yielded to the “Amazon,” who exudes strength as well as composure.
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The Kunstmuseum Basel's Picasso-Story, Part II
In 1967, Picasso’s Les deux frères and Arlequin assis were to be offered for sale on the international market. The people of Basel approved the allocation of CHF 6 million of taxpayer funds and raised another CHF 2 million during a “beggars’ festival,” enabling the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the municipal art collection of Basel, to purchase the two paintings. Picasso was so moved that he donated four more works to the city.
Concept, direction, image and editing: Gregor Brändli
With: Lukas Kubik
Text: Christoph Stratenwerth
Produced on the occasion of: Art. Money. Museum. The Picasso Story, 50 Years later at the Kunstmuseum Basel, March, 3 to August, 12, 2018
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Basel, Switzerland what to see in 1 day + Art Basel 2019 | Art and museums
Basel, in Switzerland is a city popular among art lovers mainly for two reasons: Art Basel, the art fair that takes place every year in June, and its museums with collections full of masterpieces.
If you happen to go to a different time than the fair don't worry because there are still many things to see and a couple of days can really fly. If instead, like me, you decide to spend a day in the fair and one day for the city tour here are my suggestions on what to see in Basel.
Let's discover together the Kunstmuseum, the Munsterplatz area, the Beyeler Foundation and much more. But I also tell you about Art Basel 2019 and the works that impressed me the most in the most important and famous art fair in the world.
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The Kunstmuseum Basel's Picasso-Story, Part I
In 1967, Picasso’s Les deux frères and Arlequin assis were to be offered for sale on the international market. The people of Basel approved the allocation of CHF 6 million of taxpayer funds and raised another CHF 2 million during a “beggars’ festival,” enabling the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the municipal art collection of Basel, to purchase the two paintings. Picasso was so moved that he donated four more works to the city.
Concept, direction, image and editing: Gregor Brändli
With: Lukas Kubik
Text: Christoph Stratenwerth
Produced on the occasion of: Art. Money. Museum. The Picasso Story, 50 Years later at the Kunstmuseum Basel, March, 3 to August, 12, 2018
Georg Baselitz: Works on Paper / Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
On occasion of his eightieth birthday, the Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings) at Kunstmuseum Basel honors Georg Baselitz, a leading protagonist of German postwar art, with a retrospective of his graphic oeuvre. One hundred large-format and color drawings offer insight into a probing engagement with the medium that spans six decades.
The early drawings reflect the artist’s grappling with tradition and his pugnacious opposition to the dominant tendencies of the time. Recurring themes such as the heroes, the eagle, and the self-portrait contrast with the artist’s continual stylistic and methodical experimentation. An especially radical innovation comes in 1969, when he turns his motifs upside down, drawing the beholder’s attention to form and color rather than subject matter without abandoning figuration altogether. The drawings of the past ten years once again show the artist revisiting, correcting, and varying his earlier work. Self-reflection goes hand in hand with an insouciant and surprisingly unfettered graphic style.
Georg Baselitz: Works on Paper / Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau. Exhibition walkthrough including an introduction by Anita Haldemann, Head, Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings) at Kunstmuseum Basel. Basel (Switzerland), January 31, 2018.
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perfekt _imperfekt: Kunstmuseum Basel
Spieglein, Spieglein...
Ins richtige Licht gesetzt habe ich dich, junge Schönheit, Haut, so weiss wie Elfenbein, makellos. Wie mein Vorbild Caravaggio in Italien spielte ich gezielt mit Licht und Schatten. Im Dunkel das Unvollkommene, die Schatten des Alters. Aber auch das Strahlende, Vollkommene ist flüchtig -- die Zeit ist wie ein Flohstich, sie hinterlässt Spuren.
Gerrit van Honthorst, Flohjagd im Kerzenschein, 17. Jh., Inv. 362.
Die Lieblingswerke des neuen Direktors im Kunstmuseum Basel / Teil 1
Kumu-Direktor Josef Helfenstein erklärt seine Lieblingswerke. Teil 1: «Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves» von Paul Cézanne
Reinhard Mucha at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart
The Kunstmuseum Basel just opened an exhibition with works by German artist Reinhard Mucha. Curated by Søren Grammel, exhibition focuses on the Installation Frankfurter Block, [2016] 2014, 2012, an expansive and multifaceted project Mucha did not complete in its present form until two years ago. The ensemble unites twelve works, some of them of considerable complexity, that he originally created between 1981 and 2014. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough on the occasion of the media preview on March 18, 2016. The exhibition runs until October 16, 2016.
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Andreas Gursky / Kunstmuseum Basel
The exhibition Andreas Gursky at the Kunstmuseum Basel presents 25 works by the artist, most of them created in 2007. They include new motifs within the familiar thematic spectrum of recent years, such as Kuwait Stock Exchange and the interior of a Frankfurt nightclub, as well as photographs from the latest series Pyongyang and F1 Pit Stop. Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig in 1955 and now lives in Düsseldorf. Andreas Gursky is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. “Among the hallmarks of his work are his use of color, his supersize formats and his excessive deployment of digital image processing.” (excerpt from the press release). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with texts by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Beate Söntgen and Nina Zimmer. During the exhibition there will be a wide-ranging program of related events. Andreas Gursky (October 20, 2007 – February 24, 2008), Kunstmuseum Basel. This video has been shot during the press preview, October 19, 2007.
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Obras maestras de la colección moderna del Kunstmuseum Basel
Con ocasión de las obras de ampliación del Kunstmuseum Basel, se muestra una selección de más de cien obras maestras de su colección del siglo XX en el Museo Reina Sofía. Este conjunto trata de ofrecer un amplio panorama del tránsito del arte moderno al contemporáneo, incluyendo ejemplos de movimientos tan diversos como el expresionismo, el cubismo, el purismo, la abstracción, el constructivismo, el minimalismo, el post-expresionismo alemán, la abstracción estadounidense de postguerra o el arte pop. También se reúnen dos destacadas colecciones de arte de la primera modernidad, hoy integradas dentro de los fondos del Kunstmuseum Basel (Basilea, Suiza), la Colección Im Obersteg y la Colección Rudolf Staechelin, que permiten profundizar sobre el fenómeno catalizador del coleccionismo en los inicios de la modernidad y destacar su centralidad en el entramado del arte moderno, junto al trabajo de los artistas, críticos y comisarios.
Coinciding with the work to expand the Kunstmuseum Basel, a selection of over one hundred masterpieces from its twentieth-century collection is shown in the Museo Reina Sofía. This ensemble aims to offer a broad panorama of the transition of modern and contemporary art, including examples of such diverse movements as Expressionism, Cubism, Purism, Abstraction, Constructivism, Minimalism, German Post-expressionism, Post-war American Abstraction and Pop Art. Also, two standout art collections from early modernism are brought together, and today form part of the holdings of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland), the Im Obersteg Collection and the Rudolf Staechelin Collection, that look to delve deeper into the catalysing phenomenon of collecting at the start of modernism and emphasise its central position in the framework of modern art, together with the work of artists, critics and curators.
Timelapse. 10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel.
Montaje de la exposición 10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel.
(18 de marzo - 14 de septiembre de 2015)
Introductory video about the exhibition 10 Picassos from the Kunstmuseum Basel
(18 March 2015 - 14 September 2015)
Commented by Nina Zimmer, Deputy Director from the Kunstmuseum Basel.
English subtitles avaible
Video de la exposición:
The Picassos Are Here! A Retrospective from Basel Collections at Kunstmuseum Basel
The exhibition The Picassos Are Here! (Die Picassos sind da!) at Kunstmuseum Basel is not just another Picasso retrospective. The show tells the story of a love affair between an artist and a whole city. In 1967, Basel residents approved a municipal loan of 6 million franks in a city-wide plebiscite and in a unique fundraising action collected an additional 2.4 million franks to secure two important paintings for the Kunstmuseum Basel: Les deux frères (1906) and Arlequin assis (1923). Picasso was so touched by this democratic expression of love that he gave the city three paintings and a famous drawing.
The retrospective The Picassos Are Here! highlights this special relationship between Picasso and Basel and brings together works by the famous artist that have been collected by Basel citizens and institutions. The show spans the whole career of Picasso, from the early works until the last. The exhibition is curated by Anita Haldemann and Nina Zimmer. This video provides you with a walk through the exhibition, and Anita Haldemann talks about the concept of the show and tells the story of how the Picassos came to Basel.
Die Picassos sind da! Eine Retrospektive aus Basler Sammlungen.
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Extension Kunstmuseum Basel
| Bernhard Mendes Bürgi (Director, Kunstmuseum Basel) and the architects Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein (Christ & Gantenbein Architects) talk about the planned extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel.
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