Exhibitions 2026

Kunsthaus Baselland announces its exhibition program through fall 2026, opening with a duo presentation by Tamara Al-Samerraei and Mireille Blanc, alongside the launch of a new annual project by Monira Al Qadiri. Due to strong public interest, the solo exhibition by Eva Lootz has been extended through May. The summer program features a major group exhibition with works by Raphaël Barontini, Onome Ekeh, Joana Escoval, Binelde Hyrcan, Mateo Maté, Sofía Salazar Rosales, Aline Motta, Helena Uambembe, among others. In late August, Kunsthaus Baselland continues its long-standing collaboration with the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW for the eleventh time, presenting new works by around forty to fifty graduating artists. The fall program concludes with the first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition by Basel-based artist and musician Yanik Soland. With this ambitious series of exhibitions, Kunsthaus Baselland continues the curatorial approach that recently earned it—together with its educational program as well as the new building—a nomination for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA 2026), affirming its ongoing commitment to innovation, community engagement, and the creation of an inspiring cultural space for the region and beyond.

Sounding the Interior: Tamara Al-Samerraei and Mireille Blanc

February 6–May 3, 2026
Press preview: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2pm 
Opening: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 6:30pm



Tamara Al-Samerraei (b. 1977, based in Beirut) and Mireille Blanc (b. 1985, based in Paris) take domestic interiors and everyday scenes as points of departure for their multilayered paintings. From these sources, each artist traces the interior in her own way—as a site for free thought, but also as a space in which fragile and fleeting memories take shape. Painting, often on a large scale, is the medium both artists choose to fix their motifs on canvas or other supports while simultaneously opening them to differing degrees of abstraction. How can we think, act, and project outward from within? This exhibition follows that question. It is curated by Ines Goldbach in collaboration with the artists.
 

Monira Al Qadiri: Annual Project
February 2026–late January 2027 

For the large foyer wall, which is periodically assigned to artists for extended commissions, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983 in Senegal) has been invited to create a major pictorial intervention. In her work, she addresses both the Gulf states’ dependence on oil and our global reliance on this resource, along with the devastating ecological and social consequences that follow. With a powerful visual language, Al Qadiri imagines speculative future scenarios and links them to a critical engagement with the environmental conditions that define our present.

Eva Lootz
In collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Extended through May 3, 2026

Due to its strong reception, this exhibition has been extended through May and expanded with new public programming. Born in Vienna in 1940 and based in Madrid since the 1960s, Eva Lootz consciously chose to live and work in Franco-era Spain during a period of profound political and social upheaval. For Lootz, artmaking has always been inseparable from a spirit of political resistance and from forms of both social and personal resilience. Developed in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the exhibition is curated by Ines Goldbach and Fernando Lopez in close dialogue with the artist.


Mémoires voyageuses / Traveling Memories

With Raphaël Barontini
, Onome Ekeh, Joana Escoval
, Binelde Hyrcan, Mateo Maté
, Sofía Salazar Rosales
, Aline Motta, Helena Uambembe,
 among others
May 22–August 16, 2026
Opening: Thursday, 21 May 2026, 6:30pm



This exhibition brings together artists from across the globe whose personal and collective memories are continually on the move—and who make those memories accessible to all of us. Their works encourage us to think and act more openly in the here and now, precisely because they question and unsettle closed forms of thought. What does it mean to carry different memories—and even traumas—within us, experiences that hold personal as well as social significance and that have the potential to transform us when we receive these narratives with care and understanding? In works that are poetic, finely attuned, contemplative, critical, but also expansive, and at times playfully ambiguous, the artists convey a central insight: being human has always meant leaving the familiar behind, reexamining the stories we inherit, and opening ourselves to what is new and unknown. The exhibition is curated by Ines Goldbach in collaboration with the participating artists.


Next Generation
Graduation Exhibition Bachelor and Master Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW

August 29–September 13, 2026
Opening: Friday, 28 August 2026, 5pm


Now for the eleventh time, the Kunsthaus Baselland and its director Ines Goldbach, together with the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW and its head Chus Martínez, will be presenting the graduation exhibition of the institute's bachelor’s and master’s students. Around forty to fifty artists will present new works over the two floors of the Kunsthaus Baselland at Dreispitz. In order to emphasize the unique nature of a graduation exhibition in a renowned art institution—and to mark the transition from the familiar surroundings of the art academy to the challenges of working as professional artists—the exhibition is co-curated by a distinguished guest curator.

Yanik Soland

September 25–November 15, 2026 
Opening: Thursday, 24 September 2026, 6:30pm


This first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition by Basel-based artist and musician Yanik Soland (b. 1990) centers on a practice that interlaces composition, sound, and performance. For Kunsthaus Baselland, he is developing a new program that responds directly to the building’s architecture, turning its structural elements into resonant bodies. Over many years, Soland has pursued a core question: how can sound be exhibited—how might it become visible, or physically felt? Curated by Ines Tondar in close collaboration with the artist.

Director/Curator: Ines Goldbach
Director’s Assistant: Martina Stähli
Communications, Publications and Assistant Curator: Ines Tondar
Organization Office: Salome Tramèr
Education: Leonie Vogt
Intern: Eva Grüninger

Press contact
For press inquiries, please contact ines.tondar@kunsthausbaselland.ch

Image
Top row, from left: Tamara Al-Samerraei. Photo: Brigitte Bouillot; Mireille Blanc. Photo: Andres Donadio; Monira Al Qadiri. Photo: Miro Kuzmanovic; Eva Lootz. Photo: Fernando Lopez; Raphaël Barontini, 2023. © Photo: Jalil Ourguedi. Courtesy of the artist. © 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich; Helena Uambembe. Photo: Rupert De Beer; Binelde Hyrcan. Photo: Henri Juvonen. Bottom row, from left: Joana Escoval. © Joana Escoval; Mateo Maté. Photo: Margot Moonpics; Yanik Soland. Photo: Moritz Schermbach; Aline Motta. Photo: Marília Camelo; Sofía Salazar Rosales. Photo: Meghann Peter, Profirst. Courtesy of the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin; Onome Ekeh. Photo: Guido Limardo.