Andrea Blum, Anna Maria Maiolino, and Marina Rosenfeld

Special opening hours during Art Basel, September 20–26, 2021
Monday to Sunday: 10am–6pm
Wednesday: 2–8pm

Andrea Blum: Parallel Lives 
The work of New York artist Andrea Blum (b. 1950) lies between sculpture, architecture and design, exploring the relationship of the sociopolitical world to the private, psychological one. Since the 1980s Blum has built permanent and temporary projects in Europe and the United States, and has exhibited in museums, galleries and numerous exhibition venues. She has had solo exhibitions at La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain; Stroom Center for Art & Architecture, the Netherlands; Henry Moore Institute, UK; and Le Crestet Centre d’art, France, and has presented special projects for the 51st Venice Biennale; Maison Rouge, Paris; MUDAM, Luxembourg; and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris where she was the set designer for the opera La Favorite by Donizetti.

For her exhibition at Kunsthaus Baselland, Blum transformed the annex of the Kunsthaus into a space that examines our connection to the natural world, mediated by the exhibition design, furniture and media. Parallel Lives at Kunsthaus Baselland is Blum’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland.

Anna Maria Maiolino: In the sky I am one and many and as a human I am everything and nothing
Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942) is one of the most significant women artists working in Brazil today. The Italian-born Brazilian artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland features a selection of her early videos, films, photographs, poems, and texts, spanning a narrative arc through her artistic work and life from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition brings together works from the past 50 years. Maiolino’s oeuvre encompasses a wide range of disciplines and media and successfully develops a strong poetic language in every genre. In her art, she explores her identity as a woman, an artist, and an immigrant, especially under the military dictatorship in Brazil from the 1960s until the 1980s. The work confronts us with the power of the artist’s imagination and her own sensibility towards human conditions, as well as her acute awareness of social and cultural deficiencies in daily life.

Just recently the second issue of presente — a quarterly online publication created by Anna Maria Maiolino and Paulo Miyada — has been published in cooperation with Kunsthaus Baselland as part of the exhibition. During the week of Art Basel the special sculptural intervention Entrevidas - una performance (1981/2021) by the artist will be on view.

Marina Rosenfeld: We’ll start a fire 
We’ll start a fire is the first major solo exhibition in Switzerland of the artist and composer Marina Rosenfeld (b. 1968), who lives and works in New York. Rosenfeld’s works concern themselves with acoustic and perceptual architectures, intervening into sites through the media of sculpture and sound, musical performance and notation. Often taking the form of sound systems on the verge of feedback, Rosenfeld’s recursive networks propose a temporal logic derived from computer music and other machinic reproductions of the body. Her vibrant work explores the material traces of auditory experience through sculpture, sound and photography, blurring distinctions between human and machinic reproduction, intimacy and absence. The exhibition includes new works that revisit the traces of one of the artist’s iconic early all-female orchestras; a new performance will unfold within the ambient soundfield of her exhibition in September. 

Many thanks to the sponsor of the exhibition by Andrea Blum: the Embassy of the Untited States

Many thanks to the sponsors of the exhibition by Marina Rosenfeld: the Embassy of the Untited States, Novartis and Isaac Dreyfus Bernheim Stiftung.
 

Upcoming exhibitions in autumn 2021:

World’s Rainbow 
“Next Generation”: Graduation exhibition, Bachelor and Master HGK FHNW
October 10–24, 2021

Slowly Arriving
Atelier Mondial zu Gast
November 5–21, 2021

Inside the Amazon
5.11.2021 —2.1.2022
November 5, 2021–January 2, 2022
In cooperation with Fotomuseum Winterthur and CULTURESCAPES

Many thanks to the annual partners 2021: kulturelles.bl, Burckhardt + Partner, Gemeinde Muttenz, Anthony Vischer, and to those who wish to remain unnamed.

Director: Dr. Ines Goldbach  
Director’s and Exhibition Assistant: Patricia Hug  
Communications and Publications: Ines Tondar
Education: Meret Glausen
Trainee: Martina Stähli