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Kunsthalle Basel

Dynamic, experimental, rigorous, open-minded, and accessible, Kunsthalle Basel is a place for audacious art and exhibitions by emerging artists.

Steinenberg 7, Basel

Established in 1872 by the Basler Kunstverein (Basel Art Association), Kunsthalle Basel is world renowned for engaging with pioneering practices in contemporary art. With its majestic, skylighted spaces, the Kunsthalle is a truly exceptional place to see art. It organises about eight exhibitions per year, featuring international and Swiss artists. The shows often take innovative forms and involve newly commissioned works. Throughout the year the Kunsthalle also presents dynamic public programming—artists’ talks, lectures, film screenings, and readings—to contextualise the featured artists’ practices.

 

 

Contacts & Details
OPENING TIMES:
Tue, Wed, Fri 11 am – 6 pm; Thu 11 am – 8.30 pm; Sat – Sun 11 am–5 pm
ADMISSION:
CHF 12 (8 CHF reduced) and free for youth under 18, Art Basel VIP card holders, ICOM, VMS, teachers etc.
T: +41 61 206 9900
M: info@kunsthallebasel.ch
W: Kunsthalle Basel

ADDRESS
Steinenberg 7, Basel

ESTABLISHED
1872
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Current Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Neïl Beloufa: Humanities
Neïl Beloufa explores the power of personal storytelling in the construction of influential campaigns—whether...
04 Oct 2024 - 19 Jan 2025
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Sandra Mujinga: Time as a Shield
Mujinga’s exhibition invites viewers into a world shaped by the invisible presence of the past. Inspired...
30 Aug 2024 - 11 Nov 2024
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Past Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Toyin Ojih Odutola: Ilé Oriaku
For her first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, Nigerian-born artist Toyin Ojih Odutola (1985)...
07 Jun 2024 - 01 Sep 2024
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Klára Hosnedlová: Growth
Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi...
09 Feb 2024 - 20 May 2024
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
P. Staff: In Ekstase
The exhibition, In Ekstase, by British artist P. Staff, incorporates all new works in video, sculpture,...
09 Jun 2023 - 10 Sep 2023
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Diego Marcon: Have You Checked the Children
For the Italian artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, key works of the past...
27 Oct 2023 - 21 Jan 2023
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Berenice Olmedo: Hic et Nunc
Berenice Olmedo often focuses on the most rejected and vulnerable in society—whether stray dogs or...
10 Jun 2022 - 18 Sep 2022
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Michael Armitage: You, Who Are Still Alive
Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage creates an ambitious group of new works as the focus of his first...
20 May 2022 - 04 Sep 2022
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Yoan Mudry: The Future Doesn’t Need Us
For twenty-five years now, Kunsthalle Basel has presented specially commissioned art projects on the...
11 Sep 2021 - 15 May 2022
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Matthew Angelo Harrison: Proto
Proto is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Europe of the American artist Matthew Angelo Harrison (born in 1989).
04 Jun 2021 - 26 Sep 2021
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Deana Lawson: Centropy
Deana Lawson’s photographs are unforgettable portraits of contemporary Black life
09 Jun 2020 - 11 Oct 2020
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Nick Mauss: Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.
In the exhibition "Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.", scenographic, conceptual, and curatorial concerns coincide
02 Feb 2020 - 20 Sep 2020
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Kaari Upson: Go Back the Way You Came
Born in 1972 in California, Kaari Upson presents her first institutional solo show in Europe at the Kunstahalle...
29 Aug 2019 - 10 Nov 2019
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Dora Budor: I am Gong
Kunsthalle Basel presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Europe I am Gong of Dora Budor,...
24 May 2019 - 11 Aug 2019
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Geumhyung Jeong: Homemade RC Toy
Kunsthalle Basel presents South Korean artist and choreographer Geumhyung Jeong‘s first solo exhibition...
03 May 2019 - 11 Aug 2019
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Wong Ping: Golden Shower
An incongruous combination of dry humor, graphically explicit themes, and candy-hued, child-like forms...
19 Jan 2019 - 05 May 2019
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Luke Willis Thompson: Human
Luke Willis Thompson’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland entitled “Human” is a subjective...
08 Jun 2018 - 19 Aug 2018
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Raphaela Vogel: Ultranackt
Raphaela Vogel’s exhibition hosts impressive sculptural installations, weighty and poised in precarious...
18 May 2018 - 12 Aug 2018
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Yan Xing: Dangerous Afternoon
The Kunsthalle Basel presents a solo show by the Chinese artists, including sculptural elements, black...
02 Jun 2017 - 27 Aug 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Ungestalt
The group show brings together artists from different generations, whose works examine the idea of a...
19 May 2017 - 13 Aug 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Maria Loboda Solo Show
Maria Loboda (b. 1979) has made a specialty of digging into obscure histories—and inventing them too....
24 Feb 2017 - 14 May 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Sadie Benning: Shared Eye
The US-American artist Sadie Benning (b. 1973) brings together a body of new work that is somewhere between...
10 Feb 2017 - 30 Apr 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Solo Show
Kunsthalle Basel presents Lynette Yiadom-Boakye‘s first exhibition in Switzerland. In this exhibition...
18 Nov 2016 - 12 Feb 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Regionale 17: Beyond The Real
Regionale 17 offers a panorama of recent production in this perennial presentation of artistic positions...
26 Nov 2016 - 08 Jan 2017
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Erin Shirreff: Halves and Wholes
Erin Shirreff is not a photographer, she would tell you, even if the photographic image lies at the center...
02 Sep 2016 - 06 Oct 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt 2016
This year’s exhibition of Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt has been curated by deuxpiece, a nomadic curators’...
18 Sep 2016 - 02 Oct 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Curated by Chus Martínez in collaboration with Lysann König, “Every Contact Leaves a Trace“,...
02 Sep 2016 - 11 Sep 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Anne Imhof: Angst
Anne Imhof (b. 1978), recent winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015, presents an audacious new...
10 Jun 2016 - 21 Aug 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Yngve Holen: Verticalseat
The body, it is often said, is conspicuously absent from Yngve Holen‘s (b. 1982) work. Everywhere...
13 May 2016 - 14 Aug 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Yngve Holen
In his largest institutional show to date, the Norwegian-German artist Yngve Holen (b. 1982) offers up...
31 May 2016 - 07 Aug 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Sam Lewitt: More Heat Than Light
Interrogating flows of information and capital through the global economy drives much of Sam Lewitt‘s...
01 Apr 2016 - 29 May 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Marina Pinsky: Dyed Channel
Taking Basel and its pharmaceutical history as a central subject, the Russian-born artist Marina Pinsky...
22 Jan 2016 - 17 Apr 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Zhana Ivanova: Ongoing Retrospective (Chapter 2)
This is the second chapter of an ongoing project that reverses the typical nature of the retrospective,...
22 Jan 2016 - 04 Feb 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Regionale 16: Boys, Here Comes the Masterplan
Our contemporary lives are driven by the overproduction of image-objects and proliferation of enabling...
28 Nov 2015 - 03 Jan 2016
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Annual Exhibition: Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt
Canton Basel-Stadt is committed to promoting a vibrant, high-quality art scene. As part of the canton’s...
08 Nov 2015 - 15 Nov 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Exhibition Master of Arts in Fine Arts 2015
This exhibition Master of Arts in Fine Arts 2015, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, Mx. World. On the Million...
08 Nov 2015 - 15 Nov 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Andra Ursuta: Whites
Andra Ursuta (b. 1979) calls upon a wide range of materials, from concrete to plaster, marble, fabric,...
28 Aug 2015 - 01 Nov 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Maryam Jafri: Generic Corner
Involving video, photography, text, sculpture, and installation, Maryam Jafri’s (b. 1972) practice...
28 Aug 2015 - 01 Nov 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Vincent Fecteau: You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In
Vincent Fecteau (b. 1969, Islip) has, over the last two decades, forged a singular aesthetic that mixes...
18 Jun 2015 - 23 Aug 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Anicka Yi: 7,070,430K of Digital Spit
The exhibition 7,070,430K of Digital Spit looks back at her practice via a vast new project spread across...
12 Jun 2015 - 16 Aug 2015
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Mandla Reuter at Kunsthalle Basel
The Kunsthalle Basel will host German artist Mandla Reuter‘s first solo show in Switzerland. This...
18 Jan 2013 - 10 Mar 2013
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Craigie Horsfield: Slow Time and the Present
The exhibition Slow Time and the Present, at Kunsthalle Basel, is posited on the idea that the past,...
10 Jun 2012 - 26 Aug 2012
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
Exhibitions
Paul Sietsema at Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel presents the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe of recent works by Paul Sietsema. Born...
14 Jun 2012 - 26 Aug 2012
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel
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