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Art education in the collection

Schaulager’s innovative concept gives researchers, university groups and school classes of all ages the opportunity to study original artworks first-hand.

Two separate modules offer insights into the work of Dieter Roth.
Duration: by arrangement (depending on the group size).
Combined visits to both Dieter Roth modules are possible.
Duration: 3 hours (or by arrangement).

Both modules are also suitable for younger primary school students.

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In this module, we focus on selected works by Dieter Roth from the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. Among them are the poetically aging chocolate object Das Meer, 1. Teil [The Sea, Part 1], the strikingly timeless video installation Solo Szenen [Solo Scenes], the waste-recycling work Ringgebilde [Ring Form], as well as graphic works, drawings, and artist’s books such as Mundunculum.

Together, we explore how Dieter Roth, working from within the very process of becoming, experiments with relentless energy and curiosity with new forms of expression and artistic procedures: dissolving, fragmenting, allowing decay, opening up boundaries, hybridizing, mixing, combining, varying, layering, smearing, destabilizing, and much more. Art as an open-ended process—emerging from the realities of everyday life.


Dieter Roth, Solo Szenen, 1997–1998, 128 video monitors with players, 3 wooden racks, 128 VHS video tapes, 2 shelves, approx. 1200 x 210 x 45 cm overall, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of the president 2023, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Tom Bisig, Basel, © Dieter Roth Estate

Dieter Roth, Zeichnung, c. 1957, red and black ink on architect’s blueprint, 70 x 69.8 cm, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of Franz Eggenschwiler 1971, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel, © Dieter Roth Estate

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Visits to Dieter Roth’s installation Selbstturm; Löwenturm [Self tower; Lion tower], crafted from chocolate and icing figures and overwhelming the senses, are available by request. The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation acquired this monumental yet fragile work in 1989 as a work in progress. Because the artist intended to continue working on it, he occupied a space opposite the Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, which he used as a studio during his lifetime.


Dieter Roth, Selbstturm, 1969-1998, wood, glass, chocolate casts, sugar casts; Löwenturm, 1970-1998, iron, glass, chocolate casts, sugar casts; studio consisting of various materials, objects and devices, Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (location: St. Alban-Rheinweg, Basel), photo: Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin P. Bühler, © Dieter Roth Estate

Dieter Roth, Selbstturm; Löwenturm, 1969-1998 (detail), Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (location: St. Alban-Rheinweg, Basel), photo: Tom Bisig, Basel, © Dieter Roth Estate

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Contact

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