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OUT OF THE BOX – 20 Years Schaulager
10 June to 19 November 2023

The title OUT OF THE BOX echoes a basic principle that Schaulager has pursued since first opening its doors in 2003: liberating works of art from a life in storage crates and making them accessible to both schools and universities for research and conservation. The title also refers to the growing number of complex installations, so-called time-based media works, that have been acquired by the collection and will be presented throughout the exhibition in projection boxes of their own.

Viewers moving about in this landscape of boxes will also discover a wealth of paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs from the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. In some cases, they too make whimsical reference to the theme of the box or the crate. Music, body, space and architecture are focal points of the exhibition.

OUT OF THE BOX invites the public to engage with the art of our time in an enjoyable and thought-provoking manner and to consider issues affecting us today from a new perspective. It takes time to fully appreciate the art on display, especially the media works. The entrance tickets are therefore valid for three visits.

Klara Lidén «Out to Lunch»
Suddenly the refrigerator door opens and a person steps out into the kitchen without saying a word …

Thomas Demand «Trick»
The plates and bowls move as if by magic rotating continuously on a folding table …

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder «HANDLE WITH CARE»
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder used banana boxes to build a skyscraper, several sacred …

Klara Lidén «Closer now»
Lidén realized Closer Now for a solo exhibition at OCT0 Productions in Marseille …

Klara Lidén «Warm-up: State Hermitage Museum Theater»
The video work was created in 2014 on the occasion of Lidén’s participation …

Anri Sala «Ravel Ravel Interval»
A piano concerto is heard not just twice but simultaneously …

Rodney Graham «Rheinmetall/Victoria 8»
Two machines are the protagonists of Rodney Graham’s film installation: a 1930s typewriter …

Peter Fischli «Ohne Titel»
Peter Fischli’s new sculptures approximate the basic forms of city traffic …

Dayanita Singh «Let’s Talk again»
Dayanita Singh groups her works by formal criteria or content and presents them as …

Robert Gober «Untitled»
Robert Gober’s art has lost none of its unsettling visual and narrative momentum since …

Robert Gober »Untitled»
The cast of an enlarged ear, which looks as if it had been cut out of flesh, is mounted upside …

Robert Gober «Last One»
The naked foot was a piece Gober found in an anonymous anatomy sketchbook that he acquired at auction …

David Claerbout «Wildfire (meditation on fire)»
In an endless loop between idyll and inferno, the mood in David Claerbout’s spectacular 3D animation …

Peter Fischli «Cans, Bags & Boxes»
We assume that such ordinary objects as empty cans or torn packaging are made of metal or plastic …

David Claerbout »Nightscape Lightboxes»
Since David Claerbout’s nightscapes are presented in complete darkness, viewers …

Monika Sosnowska «Ohne Titel»
A large beige-colored cube cube full of dents has been rammed between two walls of the exhibition architecture …

Klara Lidén «You’re all places that leave me breathless»
Physically demanding, repetitive tasks are increasingly becoming the driving factor and core of Lidén’s work …

Klara Lidén «Untitled»
Lidén works with materials from the urban space that surrounds her. Her bench series …

Tacita Dean «The Dante Project»
Tacita Dean was commissioned by The Royal Opera House in London to create the designs and …

Tacita Dean «Inferno»
In Dean’s interpretation, Inferno is not a seething cauldron of sin but, like Dante’s own …

Tacita Dean «Purgatory (Threshold)»
In Purgatory (Threshold), Dean has isolated from its background a large-scale photograph …

Tacita Dean «Paradise»
The film Paradise references the circular and planetary motifs in Dante’s narrative. Dean captured …

Thomas Ruff «d.o.pe.»
Mesmerized by the soft texture, our gaze follows the impression of growing plants, mysterious galaxies …

Gary Hill «Circular Breathing»
The title Circular Breathing comes from a technique that horn and reed instrument players use to play …

Martin Honert «Laterne (Grosse Version)»
“Lantern, lantern, sun, moon, and stars, shine on my light but don’t burn my little lantern”: the artist sang …

Jane & Louise Wilson «Gamma»
Jane and Louise Wilson shot the film for their video installation Gamma (1999) at Greenham Common in Berkshire …

Dieter Roth «Solo Szenen»
A rack with three shelves that looks like an oversized wall unit contains no fewer than 128 monitors …

Peter Fischli / David Weiss «Ohne Titel (Fragenprojektion)»
“Is there another bus?” “Are insects overtaking us?” “Has somebody been in my room?” The questions …

Gina Fischli «Steinsberg»
Each single sugar castle is invented and yet named after a very real place: Comlongon Castle is in …

Gina Fischli «Cool Boy»
ina Fischli encountered groups of animal sculptures arranged somewhat like a shop window display …

Robert Gober «Untitled»
Untitled (1995–1997) by Robert Gober has been permanently installed in the lower level of Schaulager since the …

Katharina Fritsch «Rattenkönig»
Schaulager has housed Katharina Fritsch’s monumental installation Rat King(1993) since the building opened …


New Release
Dieter Roth Selbsturm Löwenturm


A quarter of a century has passed since Dieter Roth (1930–1998) left behind a bequeathal of a special order in his studio not far from the Rhine and close to the Kunstmuseum Basel  |  Gegenwart: Selbstturm; Löwenturm (Self tower; Lion tower, 1969/70–1998). The two high-rising towers made of chocolate and cast-sugar figures entered the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation as a work in progress in 1989. Because the artist wanted to continue working on it, he moved the installation into a room outside the museum, which he used as a studio, but which was also accessible to visitors. The place is still open for visits.

The monograph Dieter Roth. Selbstturm; Löwenturm pays tribute to one of the key works of this universal artist. The image concept for the photo story was created by Peter Fischli. Roth himself meticulously documented his work and the installation itself in countless images, including portraits of each individual figure. In doing so, he created a veritable treasure trove of photographs, Polaroids, and videos. Roth’s body of work is as expansive as it is rigorous and ordered. The radical decision to reproduce each of the more than 800 images is, in effect, an homage to this virtuoso of contemporary art.


Edited by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel
Image concept: Peter Fischli
With a preface by Maja Oeri and texts by Andreas Blättler, Marcus Broecker, Tom Bisig/Lea Brun,
and Isabel Friedli.
More than 1,000 color and b/w images
Hardcover, 240 pages, 28 × 42 cm
Bilingual edition (English and German)

CHF 59.00
Plus shipping costs

ISBN 978-3-906315-15-7

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