LIVE CALLIGRAPHY PERFORMANCE

Souun Takeda is a calligraphy artist who brings the traditional Zen mentality and handcraftsmanship of rice paper into art.

Souun Takeda, presented by Selene Art Media, will draw in-situ at VOLTA Basel. He will express his emotions and the energy of his stay in Switzerland onto the canvas.

Monday, September 20, 3 PM at Booth B13. No RSVP required.

SYLVIE FLEURY X PORSCHE

VOLTA Basel invites Porsche and Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury for an on-site activation featuring three Amazon women and their love for sports cars.

Sylvie Fleury’s artwork stages the first all-electric Porsche sports car, the Porsche Taycan Turbo S. The on-site activation at VOLTA Basel features the Taycan together with the commissioned images.

Sylvie Fleury is a Swiss artist. She was born in 1961 in Geneva, where she lives and works. The artist’s practice follows the route of concept art, pop art and minimalism which she reformulates with an aesthetic borrowed from the world of beauty, high fashion and popular culture.

Ready-made objects such as shoe boxes, engines, magazine covers, make-up, and shoe shining machines are placed within the context of art, questioning society’s ideas of consumption, values, and gender. Sylvie Fleury has a longstanding fascination with car culture, often featuring iconic car models in her work.

VOLTA X PORSCHE VIP CAR SERVICE

Enjoy VOLTA's complimentary VIP car service with Porsche and the new all-electric Taycan. VOLTA welcomes Porsche Switzerland as Exclusive Automotive Partner. VOLTA VIPs may use the VIP car service in between VOLTA's venue and Art Basel, presenting the digital VIP card.

MEYERS CULINARIUM

Marcus Meyer, chef and founder of MEYERS Culinarium, has been VOLTA’s on-site restaurant partner since 2014. Following his training in leading restaurants “Les Quatre Saisons”, “Bel Etage” at the guest- and culture center Teufelhof, and “Matisse”, Meyer founded a test kitchen and workshop within the historic landmark Markthalle in Basel’s city center, creating multi-course dinners with an emphasis on seasonality and locality. Einen naturverbundenen Stil, or in other words, a style close to nature.

Meyer’s pop-up restaurants at VOLTA have been as elaborate and immersive as his cooking, from tranquil gardens to surreal mushroom forests to swank buvettes rivaling the best Rhine-side bars. The Culinarium offers a full spread of delicious dining options for galleries and guests. And all the while with Meyer himself behind the grill, preparing and plating among his talented team.

Have your kids join VOLTA’s neighbors TechLabs at Elsässerstrasse 215. Experience the power to create with the latest technologies! TechLabs offers workshops for kids age 8+ (5+ with parent help) during the week of VOLTA Basel in English and German.

Costs: CHF 45.00, save CHF 5.00 with promo code VOLTA5 on any workshop during the week of VOLTA Basel.

Sign up at info@techlabs.ch or call +41 78 847 0555. ELYS, Elässerstrasse 215, EG.B1.104, 4056 Basel

Workshop Dates & Times:
Monday, 20.09. 16:30-18:00, Friday, 24.09. 16:30-18:00, Saturday, 25.09. 13-14:30 and 15-18:30, Sunday, 26.09. 13-14:30 and 15-18:30

MUSEUM TINGUELY

Current Exhibitions:

Leu Art Family. Caresser la peau du ciel
March 3 – October 31, 2021

le Définitif – c’est le Provisoire
New presentation of Museum Tinguely’s collection
From March 3, 2021 onwards

Bruce Conner. Light out of Darkness
May 5 – November, 28 2021

www.tinguely.ch

Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.

VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM

Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today
September 23, 2021 – March 6, 2022

The exhibition »Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today« at the Vitra Design Museum seeks to help redress the balance. Presenting women designers from the past 120 years, it tells a new, many-voiced story of design against the background of the struggle for equal rights and recognition. Around eighty women in design are showcased in the exhibition, including protagonists of modernism like Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich, and Clara Porset, business leaders like Florence Knoll and Armi Ratia, but also lesser-known figures like the social reformer Jane Addams. Contemporary positions and future outlooks are represented by such designers as Matali Crasset, Patricia Urquiola, Julia Lohmann, and the Matri-Archi(tecture) collective.

www.design-museum.de

Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.

LA KUNSTHALLE MULHOUSE

Circumnvigation Towards Exhausting
July 11 – October 31, 2021

From individual experiences of displacement to the global fallout of industrial capitalism, Clarissa Tossin tracks the full scope of the world we inhabit. How do extractive industries underlie even the most everyday aspects of our lives? What transformations are at hand for the natural resources we depend on, and what are the implications for the future? Can we transition away from exploiting our surroundings, towards an understanding that our fate as a species is truly bound up with the broader ecology? Material cycles of an almost unthinkable magnitude circumscribe the Anthropocene and the accelerating economic activity that has characterized "our" world. It too will come back to earth, and be recycled into geology.

www.kunsthallemulhouse.com

Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.

FORUM WÜRTH ARLESHEIM

(hi, fred!) licorice THE DIETER ROTH UNIVERSE
July 17, 2020 – October 31, 2021

Ingenious amateur, universal artist, jack-of-notrades– descriptions of the artist Dieter Roth (Hanover 1930 – Basel 1998) are almost as varied as his oeuvre. He is famous for art works that transgress all borders and surprise viewers, often leaving them musing, or amused. His works made of molded chocolate, shaped rabbit droppings, or rotten cheese are legendary. Roth recognized the beauty of mould, the aesthetics of change, and integrated these spiritedly into his production of art. Transience, change and the processual are elements that determine his work.

FROM A TO Z: ARTISTS’ BOOKS
July 17, 2020 – October 31, 2021

It may seem a bit confusing to refer to everything that is on show here as “books”, given that so very different forms are involved. Every book-lover will endorse the view that books can be art. Artists’ books, however, represent a special sector and have quite unusual forms of expression. There are numerous examples of such books in the Würth Collection and this exhibition testifies to their impressive diversity. One particular focal point is the early 20th century, when representatives above all of Surrealism and Dada undertook border-crossings between art and literature. Here the laws of chance and the depths of the unconscious played a vital role.

www.forum-wuerth.ch