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Kunsthalle Basel

Art
Basel
Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is dedicated to exhibiting, discussing, and reflecting on the art of the present, and it has been so ever since its founding in 1872. It is renowned for its audacious and varied program as well as for its engagement with artists, often before they are widely known. Curious visitors of all ages are welcome to its spectacular display spaces for thought-provoking exhibitions and events.
Address

Kunsthalle Basel

Steinenberg 7
4051
Basel
Switzerland
+41 61 206 99 00
Opening hours
Open all year
Tuesday - Wednesday: 11:00-18:00
Thursday: 11:00-20:30
Friday: 11:00-18:00
Saturday - Sunday: 11:00-17:00


47.553754, 7.591341

Ghislaine Leung, Turner Prize 2023 Shortlist Exhibition, 2023, installation view, Towner Eastbourne, courtesy the artist
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Opening Ghislaine Leung

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition, on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission, extended ...

Event
Aktionstage Behindertenrechte – Raumreisen
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Disability Rights Action Days – A journey through spaces

On Tuesday, 21 May, Kunsthalle Basel and Stiftung Rheinleben offer a journey through spaces and a day of artistic encounters as part of Disability Rights Action Days. 1 – 4 pm A journey through spaces ...

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Courtesy die Künstlerin, Maxwell Graham, New York und Cabinet, London
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Mal•Mal – Draw from a live model in the exhibition by Ghislaine Leung

The evening invites everyone who would like to retake pen and paper to experience the exhibition from a new perspective and exchange ideas with other passionate art enthusiasts. Meeting point: Foyer ...

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Public guided tour, in German

Every first Sunday of the month at 3 pm, the Kunsthalle Basel team leads all interested visitors on a guided tour through the current exhibitions.

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Questions – with Ghislaine Leung, in English

Ghislaine Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures – exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions ...

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Toyin Ojih Odutola, Back to the Body, 2023, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
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Opening Toyin Ojih Odutola

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Toyin Ojih Odutola’s exhibition, on Thursday, June 6, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission ...

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Curator’s tour with Mohamed Almusibli, in English

Mohamed Almusibli leads all interested visitors on a guided tour through the current exhibitions. The tours have a limited capacity, therefore we ask you to please register in advance by e-mail at ...

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Public guided tour, in German

Every first Sunday of the month at 3 pm, the Kunsthalle Basel team leads all interested visitors on a guided tour through the current exhibitions.

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Mittwoch-Matinée: August 2024, auf Deutsch
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Mittwoch-Matinée: August 2024, auf Deutsch

As part of the museen basel event series, Kunsthalle Basel organized a mittwoch-matinée on the exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel on August 7, 2024. Within two hours, the exhibitions will be explored ...

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Sandra Mujinga, Spectral Keepers, 2021, exhibition view, The Approach, London, courtesy the artist
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Opening Sandra Mujinga

Kunsthalle Basel and its director Mohamed Almusibli warmly invite you to the opening of Sandra Mujinga’s exhibition, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, from 7 to 10 p.m. Opening with free admission ...

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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Sakura Silk Moth), 2021. Courtesy the artist, hunt kastner, Prague; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, and White Cube, London.
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Klára Hosnedlová

Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi aesthetic, Klára Hosnedlová (* 1990) presents an entirely new body of cast glass sculptures and ...

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Nolan Oswald Dennis, a recurse 4 [3] worlds, Kunsthalle Basel back wall, 2023, exhibition view, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
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Nolan Oswald Dennis

Nolan Oswald Dennis (* 1988, Zambia) inaugurates a site-specific, monumental diagrammatic artwork spread across the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. Built on discussions with physicists, geographers ...

Exhibition
Image courtesy of the Artist, Maxwell Graham, New York and Cabinet, London
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Ghislaine Leung

For her first institutional exhibition in Switzerland, the British artist Ghislaine Leung (*1980) presents a new series of score based works. Leung’s artistic practice is characterized by a rigorous ...

Exhibition
Toyin Ojih Odutola, Back to the Body, 2023, courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery
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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola (*1985) draws. The results suggest that she is, in fact, part storyteller, part theater-maker, conjuring fantastical tableaux vivants using charcoal, pastel, and pencil. These ...

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Sandra Mujinga, Spectral Keepers, 2021, exhibition view, The Approach, London, courtesy the artist
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Sandra Mujinga

For Time as a Shield, the first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland of Sandra Mujinga (*1989), the artist presents a new, atmospherically dense installation specifically designed for ...

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