17 Things to do. Week #24 – special Basel

monday-lundi

MONDAY, JUNE 10

Opening: Craft & Drawing at Depot Basel, now located at their temporary spot on the Uferstrasse

Depot Basel, Uferstrasse 90, Basel, from 5pm to 23 pm, daily 

Screening: Future Past Perfect pt. 1-4 (2008-2013) by CARSTEN NICOLAI. The four films presented in this program are parts of a larger-scale film project by CARSTEN NICOLAI that is designed as a series of conceptually independent works documenting the artist’s focus of interest in each of the respective years of origin

Stadtkino Basel, Klostergasse 5, Basel, from 8.30pm (running time 24′)

tuesday-mardi

TUESDAY, JUNE 11

Lecture: ZAHA HADID‘s fire station turns 20, to commemorate this milestone, Vitra Design Museum offers a special lecture by HADID and will unveil Prima, a site-specific interactive installation, she created for Swarovski at Vitra Fire Station

Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, from 5pm (entry € 20.00, admission from 4 pm)

wednesday-mercredi

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

Talk: German artist THOMAS SCHÜTTE will be in conversations with MASSIMILIANO GIONI, Curator of the 55th Venice Biennial, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions at the New Museum, NY

Hall 1 of Art Basel, 10am to 11:30am 

Performance: special performance by L.A Dance Project with ‘BENJAMIN MILLEPIED: Moving Parts‘ (2012), visual concept by CHRISTOPHER WOOL and ‘MERCE CUNNINGHAM: Winterbranch‘ (1964), costume design by ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Reithalle Kaserne Basel, Klybeckstrasse 1b, Basel, at 7pm & 9.30pm (public access with purchased ticket)

Performance: a musical performance by STEPHEN O’MALLEY, in connection with the publication of Swiss artist EMILIE DING’s first monograph in the Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2013

Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Kasernestrasse 23, Basel, from 9pm

thursday-jeudi

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

Talk: The Choreography of Collaboration, a conversation between DANIEL ARSHAM and JUDITH SENG about their collabaration with MERCE CUNNINGHAM, JONAH BOKAER and BARBARA BERTI

Design Miami/ Basel Studio, Hall 1, Süd, Messe Basel, from 5.30pm

Opening: I Never Read, the second edition of the art book fair during Art Basel week

I Never Read, Volkshaus Basel, Rebgasse 12-14, Basel, from 6pm to 10pm
Friday and Saturday 2pm – 8pm
Sunday 10am – 4pm 

Screening: Blind Ambition (2012) by HASSAN KHAN. ‘Blind Ambition is not made like a film. It has no decoupage or preplanned cuts, per se. It is shot on a cell phone: I create the situation, put the actors in it, and shoot. I edit later. But, as I edit, something remains hidden.’- HASSAN KHAN for Kaleidoscope

Stadtkino Basel, Klostergasse 5, Basel, from 10pm (running time 46′)

friday-vendredi

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

Talk: FRANCESCO BONAMI (curator, art critic and writer and artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Italy) and MASSIMILIANO GIONI will be on conversation on the occasion of the Kaputt exhibition by MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Fondation Beyeler, Baselstrasse 101, Riehen, 6 – 7 pm

Opening: the first edition of The Mulhouse Biennale of Photography opens its doors at Musée des Beaux-Arts Mulhouse with the presence of DOROTHEE BAUMANN, CRISTINA DE MIDDEL and ISABELLE LE MINH. Exhibitions during the Biennale include: This is for fight/This is for fun by MARIE QUEAU, special posters edition by MICHEL FRANCOIS and  Ten Works by DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER among others.

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Place Guillaume Tell 4, Mulhouse, from 6.30pm

saturday-samedi

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

Talk: on Releasing, Distributing and Exhibiting Art Online with ALEKSANDRA DOMANOVIC, OLIVER LARIC, DOMENICO QUARANTA, BEN VICKERS moderated by FABIAN SCHÖNEICH (Assistant curator at Kunsthalle Basel) and MELANIE BÜHLER (Lunch Bytes, Amsterdam)

Hall 1 of Art Basel, 5pm to 6pm 

Talk: The Algorithm of MANFRED MOHR with MANFRED MOHR in conversation with MARGIT ROSEN, curator ZKM Media Museum, Karlruhe

Hall 1 of Art Basel, 6pm to 7pm

Screening: Cutie & The Boxer (2013) by ZACHARY HEINZERLING. This film is an intimate documentary chronicling the unique love story between Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, married Japanese artists living in New York. Bound by years of quiet resentment, disappointments, and missed professional opportunities, they are locked in a hard, dependent love. The film won the Directing Award at the prestigious Sundance film festival.

Stadtkino Basel, Klostergasse 5, Basel, from 8pm (running time 82′)

Event: Lady Bar hosts some of the sweetest, hottest and craziest parties, concerts and performances during Art Basel including the band 18+ on Saturday evening

Lady Bar, Feldbergstrasse 47, Basel, from 5pm

sunday-dimanche

SUNDAY, JUNE 16

Shop: last days to shop at June, a temporary concept store featuring furniture and design objects, fashion, accessories and beauty products, delicatessen, books, magazines and unconventional souvenirs “Made in Switzerland”

JUNE / Fine Goods & Selected Souvenirs, Feldbergstrasse 1, Basel, Mon-Sun 12pm – 8pm

Talk: The Artist as Farmer with GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO, FRITZ HAEG, AGNES VARDA, ADRIAN VILLAR ROJAS, ZHENG GUOGU and moderated by HANS ULRICH OBRIST

Hall 1 of Art Basel, 10am to 11:30am 

Enjoy!

ps. if I have missed anything out, please feel free to add your event in the comments!



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