Brice Marden: Inner Space

Brice Marden is one of the most celebrated painters of our time. The exhibition “Inner Space” at the Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau features more than one hundred works by the American artist from between 1972 and 2019. The presentation includes works on paper and paintings from the artist’s own collection, some of which have never been on public display.

Marden emerged in the 1960s with monochrome paintings and drawings informed by strong emotions. His art melds two fundamental positions in the modernist painterly tradition: on one hand, a gestural quality characteristic of Abstract Expressionism; and on the other a reduction to the essential, which lends his work at least an outward resemblance to Minimalism. In “Inner Space”, the museum thus showcases a body of work that relates to the foci of American art after 1960 of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the public art collection of the City of Basel.