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Steve McQueen
Bass
15 June to 16 November 2025

The Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel is pleased to announce Bass (2024), one of the most recent works created by Steve McQueen. The world-renowned artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker is returning to Schaulager in June 2025, with his most abstract work to date and 12 years after the groundbreaking exhibition. Specifically attuned to the architecture of Schaulager, Bass is largely inspired by McQueen’s keen interest in the effect of light, colour and sound on our physical perception of space and time.

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“What I love about light and sound is that they are both created through movement and fluidity. They can be molded into any shape, like vapor or a scent; they can sneak into any nook and cranny. I also love the beginning point where something isn’t a form as much as it is all-encompassing.”

Steve McQueen, 2025


Two publications accompany the show: Steve McQueen. Bass (2024) was published in collaboration with the Laurenz Foundation and Dia Art Foundation. The second publication focuses on the presentation of Bass at Schaulager and will be released in summer 2025. Both books were produced in close collaboration with McQueen and the designer Irma Boom. The immaterial intensity of Bass has been uniquely transferred to the pages of a book in both publications.

Steve McQueen was born in London in 1969. Surveys of his work have been held at the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Schaulager, Münchenstein (2013); Tate Modern, London (2020); and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2022). Recent solo presentations include those at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); the Art Institute of Chicago (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2017); the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017–2018); Tate Britain, London (2019–21); and Serpentine Gallery, London (2023). McQueen has participated in Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002); as well as in the Venice Biennale (2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015), representing Great Britain in 2009. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Turner Prize (1999); the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University (2014); and the Johannes Vermeer Award (2016). He was declared Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011, and Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2020.

McQueen directed the feature films Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2014), and Widows (2018); as well as the series Small Axe (2020), an anthology of five films shown on BBC and Amazon; and Uprising (2021), a three-part documentary series made in collaboration with James Rogan for BBC. His latest documentary Occupied City (2023) is based on the book Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940–56 by Bianca Stigter. He is working on the historical film project Blitz. McQueen won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival for Hunger in 2008, and an Oscar for Best Motion Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2014.

McQueen lives in Amsterdam and London.



Steve McQueen, Bass, 2024, LED Light and Sound, Courtesy the artist
Co-commissioned work by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel and Dia Art Foundation, Photo: Irma Boom

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