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Art Mediation

An attractive art education program accompanies the exhibition. Our interactive tours and workshops offer various activities that spark the senses, foster critical and spontaneous thought, and inspire dialogue. They are aimed at students of all ages from primary school to high school and university.

The art education programs (including admission fee) are free of charge for schools and universities both in Switzerland and abroad.

All tours and modules are suitable for primary school children and kindergarden children as well.

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Tour 1 offers an enjoyable and thought-provoking introduction to the diversity of the contemporary art represented in this group exhibition. A tour for anyone who wants to know more about time-based media and the implications of the title OUT OF THE BOX.

Klara Lidén, Out to Lunch, 2018, HD video, colour, sound, 0:22 min., ed. 1/3 + 1 AP, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel, © Klara Lidén

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In Tour 2, we explore the immersive situation created in installations by such artists as Jane & Louis Wilson, Gary Hill, Fischli/Weiss, or Anri Sala. We discover how their treatment of light and dark, of sound and image stimulate sense perception. How are we affected by the situations they conjure inside the box? How do they influence our imagination and perception as we move around inside the space? How do we respond to this immersive experience?

Jane & Louise Wilson Gamma, 1999, 4-channel video installation, color, stereo, 16mm color film transferred to HD video, 4 × 6:11 min, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel, © 2023, ProLitteris, Zurich

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Tour 3 takes a closer look at the materials and media that artists choose to work with. Some practitioners use easily accessible materials such as cardboard, chalk, clothing, carpets, chocolate, and even their own bodies. Others construct complex scenarios using modern technologies, for instance, lightboxes, computers, or video. We study the way in which artists – Klara Lidén, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Peter Fischli, Gina Fischli, Dieter Roth, David Claerbout, and others – exploit various materials and media, and discover how they enable us to see the world in a different light.

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder HANDLE WITH CARE, 2012, Cardboard from banana boxes, tape, 12 churches, various dimensions, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel, © Jean-Frédéric Schnyder

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In Tour 4, we explore how artists like Thomas Demand, Robert Gober, Peter Fischli, and others deceive us, how their art transforms reality and, in so doing, how they open up unexpected ways of perceiving the world around us. What strategies do they use to create their illusions? What is fictional and where is the truth? What do we actually see when we look at those objects and pictures?

Thomas Demand Trick, 2004, 35mm color film, silent, 1 min, Ed. 1/2 + 1 AP, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © 2023, ProLitteris, Zurich

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A woman climbs out of a refrigerator. Questions, at times mundane, at times profound, appear on a wall and disappear again. Odd traffic signs transmit cryptic signals. An idyllic forest suddenly bursts into flame. We come across a gloomy, oppressive bunker. Works that artists make respond and react specifically to the world in which they – and we – live. In Tour 5, we take a closer look at various scenarios to find out what the works tell us, what they show (and sometimes hide).

David Claerbout Wildfire (meditation on fire), 2019–2020, single channel video projection, 3D animation, stereo audio, color, 24 min., ed. AP/7 + 1 AP + 1 AC, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, © 2023, ProLitteris, Zurich

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A visit to Selbstturm; Löwenturm can be booked on request. Dieter Roth (1930-1998) built the two tall towers containing figures cast in chocolate and sugar as a work in progress. The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation acquired this monumental, but fragile work in 1989. Since 1990, it has been housed in a room opposite the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, which the artist also used as his studio.

For inquiries, please contact: kunstvermittlung@schaulager.org

Dieter Roth, Selbstturm; Löwenturm, 1969–1998, View into the kitchen of the studio, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (at St. Alban-Rheinweg/Basel), poto: Tom Bisig, Basel, © Dieter Roth Estate

VISITS TO THE EXHI­BITION BY APPOINTMENT AND WITHOUT A GUIDE

Visits to the exhibition by appointment and without a guide are free for school classes from BS/BL; the cost for other schools is CH 50.00, universities CH 100.00.

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FREE OF CHARGE


The art education programs (including admission fee) are free of charge for schools and universities both in Switzerland and abroad. Visits to the exhibition by appointment and without a guide are free for school classes from BS/BL; the cost for other schools is CH 50.00, universities CH 100.00.

INFOS


Duration of guided tours: 60 minutes or other agreed upon time.

Duration of workshops: 90 minutes or other agreed upon time.

All guided tours and workshops take place during regular opening hours. Maximum group size: 15 people. Larger groups will be split up and run in parallel.
We are happy to put together individual guided tours and workshops upon request. Please get in touch.


Contact

Andreas Blättler
T +41 61 335 32 26
kunstvermittlung@schaulager.org

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