BASEL FEATURE | WHAT TO DO IN BASEL IN JUNE?
Discover the 2022 onsite programming throughout the week and what the city by the Rhine has to offer this June. VOLTA’s cultural partners offer complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
VOLTA BASEL OPENING HOURS
VOLTA Basel will open in Previews on Monday, June at 10 AM, followed by the Public Vernissage from 2 – 8 PM. The fair is open 11 AM – 8 PM Tuesday through Saturday and 10 AM – 5 PM on Sunday.
Laurent-Perrier offers complimentary champagne during the Private View and the Basel-based Gentleman's Gin provides a Gin & Tonic specialty drink during the Public Vernissage.
GUIDED TOURS
What is an NFT?
Thursday, June 16, 6 PM, Price CHF 40, includes admission to the fair
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seem to have exploded out of the ether in the past years. But are NFTs worth the money—or the hype? Some experts say they’re a bubble poised to pop. Others believe NFTs are here to stay, and that they will change the art world forever.
Discover, connect, collect. Immerse yourself in art.
Friday, June 17, 6 PM & Sunday, June 19, 2 PM, Price CHF 40, includes admission to the fair
VOLTA’s cornerstones are: Discover. Connect. Collect. The fair was established with the intention of providing a foundational platform for dynamic younger and middle-market galleries seeking participation in the art world’s major cities. Discover this year’s highlights and immerse yourself into the fair’s essential elements: the artists and their work.
CULTURAL SPOTLIGHT PAVILION
VOLTA Art Fair collaborates with ATHR Foundation, a newly established art foundation based in the Middle East. At VOLTA Basel, ATHR will present ten emerging artists based in Saudi Arabia, giving them the opportunity to showcase their works at an international platform for the first time.
With its first-ever Cultural Spotlight Pavilion, VOLTA Basel sets the focus on Saudi-based artists: ATHR Foundation presents works by ten unrepresented emerging artists in a fair pavilion measuring 70 square meters. Complementing the fair’s international lineup of artists, the chosen artworks highlight the diverse creative output from Saudi Arabia. Curated by Jeddah-based Jumana Ghouth, ATHR Foundation displays a variety of works that are connected in their shared reflection upon the notion of intangibility. The presented works explore the attempt at manifesting these intangible truths into material culture as abstracted physical interpretations of the unknown.
BOOK SIGNING EVENT
Thursday, June 16 from 4–6 PM
Livingstone gallery, Booth B15
Harry Markusse at Livingstone Projects Berlin in 2020, with paintings for the exhibition Berliner Luft at Livingstone Gallery The Hague.
Caroline Hofman will sign her new book The Aesthetics of Silence, with a text by Curator/Art Historian Antoon Melissen (collaborated with a.o. The Guggenheim New York/Venice, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and David Zwirner Gallery New York, The Mayor Gallery London).
Saturday, June 18 from 4–6 PM
Livingstone gallery, Booth B15
Harry Markusse will sign his new book Stacked with a text by a.o. Melchior Jaspers (Art Historian, Curator, Art Advisor of the State Architect).
Harry Markusse at Livingstone Projects Berlin in 2020, with paintings for the exhibition Berliner Luft at Livingstone Gallery The Hague.
MEYERS CULINARIUM
MEYERS Culinarium at VOLTA Basel in 2018
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.
MEYERS Culinarium at VOLTA Basel in 2018
ART PARTY @ BANCA BAR
Banca, the new Café Bar at Bankverein. The former Angolo di Vino transformed into a new modern café and bar, presenting the right offer at any time of the day. During the day Banca Bar celebrates the Italian coffee culture. Later in the day, Banca turns into a unique 'after work' bar, where you can have a delicious cocktail or a glass of wine.
Banca Bar at St. Alban-Graben 3 offers a 10% discount to VOLTA VIPs and exhibitors.
Also visit their partner locations Café Luna at Spalenberg 62 and L’Ambasciatore at Elisabethenstrasse 33.
Art Party @ Banca Bar
Saturday, June 18, 6 PM onwards, St. Alban-Graben 3
Join Banca Bar for the Art Party on Saturday and receive 10% discount on all drinks with your VOLTA VIP pass.
CULTURAL PARTNERS
VOLTA partners with regional cultural partners in Basel and the neighbouring region, such as HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Museum Tinguely, vitra design museum, La Kunsthalle Muhouse, Forum Würth Arlesheim and JEWELS BASEL. Cultural partners offer complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
NOVARTIS CAMPUS
Guided Tour on Friday, June 17, 10 AM – 12 PM
Please rsvp by June 13 at info@voltashow.com
Meeting Point: Novartis Main Gate, Fabrikstrasse 2, 4056 Basel
The campus located at the Novartis headquarters has become a true Mecca for modern architecture. The planning was conducted by the famous Italian architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani.
Every building on the campus was designed by a different architect. There are buildings by Frank O. Gehry, Diener & Diener, Sanaa and many more; the realisation of this city in a city is still in progress. The campus is currently not yet open to the public, but this will transform to a public site in late autumn.
BASEL SOCIAL CLUB
The BASEL SOCIAL CLUB draws inspiration from time-honored institutions such as London‘s Arts Club (1863) or the National Arts Club (1898) in New York and presenting a place for professional exchange and conversation. Artworks by over 50 international and local artists were provided by member galleries and art spaces of the BASEL SOCIAL CLUB.
Staged in adapted rooms of a 1930s residential building, The Beverly Holz playfully emphasizes the former social functions of the various rooms, such as the Green Salon, the Dining Room, the Music Room or the Pool House.
The PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP is free upon pre-registration for artists, art students, Art Basel, LISTE & VOLTA exhibitors and VIP Card Holders.
Please register here: www.baselsocialclub.com/membership
PHOTO BASEL
photo basel is Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art.
photo basel brings together galleries from around the world in a unique, authentic setting. For its collectors, visitors or buyers – photo basel is an active platform which fosters the dialog between all actors of the photography community and beyond.
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste
Emmanuel Van der Auwera: Seeing is Revealing
May 14 – August 07, 2022
Reception for the exhibition
Tuesday, June 14 at 8 PM
With Live Act: Sote & Tarik Barri «Majestic Noise», a Live-AV-Perfor- mance presented by HEK and CTM Festival, DJ Set on the HEK platform with Ieva
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
The Belgian artist Emmanuel Van der Auwera is more than just an attentive observer of our time. «Seeing is Revealing» – seeing as revealing, as uncovering something underlying runs like a thread through his work. In his expansive video installations, he devotes himself to questions of perception – from the mediated experience of a world seen through a smartphone to the images that come from intelligent machines. He often refers to real events, uses existing material from the Internet, which he re-sorts, deconstructs for its meaning and transforms into impressive aesthetic image tableaus. For his first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Van der Auwera created three new works that will be on view at HEK for the first time. The exhibition offers a representative overview of the artist’s work.
JEWELS BASEL
The Basel-based luxury jewelry connoisseur show, JEWELS BASEL, returns this June for another year of celebrating the finest craftsmanship, innovative design, and rarest gems in the world. Curated by Dr. Nadine Fink of Nana Fink Jewels, participants of JEWELS BASEL include renowned Swiss and international jewelers such as Robert Procop, a favorite of Angelina Jolie. Official partners of the show include UBS, Serge Lutens Parfums, Ferrari, The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois and other luxury mainstays.
VOLTA VIPs are invited to visit JEWELS BASEL June 15 through June 18 at the Villa “Wildt’sches Haus”. JEWELS BASEL opens on June 15 from 6—9PM and continues from 10AM — 6PM June 16 through June 18. To visit JEWELS BASEL please rsvp at info@jewelsbasel.com.
LA KUNSTHALLE MULHOUSE
Maarten Vanden Eynde, "Restauration du Lac de Montbel", 2003 © photo: Marjolijn Dijkman
Maarten Vanden Eynde: Exhumer le Futur
10 June – 30 October, 2022
Brunch Event on on Wednesday June 15, 9 – 11 AM
Free shuttle bus from Isteinerstrasse at 8.45 PM
Please RSVP at kunsthalle@mulhouse.fr or +33 3 69 77 66 47
After the exhibition at the Mu.ZEE in Ostend in 2021, Exhumer le Futur (Digging up the Future) at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse is the second exhibition of Maarten Vanden Eynde‘s work, based on the book of the same name that contextualizes his work and retraces 20 years of persevering research, still active.
Through a close observation of the industrial boom and increasing globalization, Maarten Vanden Eynde confronts the idea of progress with the depletion of the earth’s resources. What are we leaving to the future?
In Mulhouse, a selection of his listed works is organized around the industrial question, that of production processes, the transformation of raw materials and products.
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
Maarten Vanden Eynde, "Restauration du Lac de Montbel", 2003 © photo: Marjolijn Dijkman
Jean-Jacques Lebel: «La Chose» de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et «Les Avatars de Vénus»
MUSEUM TINGUELY
Jean-Jacques Lebel: «La Chose» de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et «Les Avatars de Vénus»
Jean-Jacques Lebel: «La Chose» de Tinguely, quelques philosophes et «Les Avatars de Vénus»
13 April – 18 September, 2022
Anouk Kruithof – Universal Tongue
24 April – 30 October, 2022
BANG BANG – translocal hi:stories of performance art
8 June – 21 August, 2022
Breakfast@Tinguely
Sunday, June 19, 9 –11 AM
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
The Museum Tinguely was inaugurated in 1996 as a gift to the people of Basel and to mark the centenary of Roche’s founding. Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely’s widow, supported the project by donating over 50 machine-sculptures and a considerable number of drawings and documents from the artist’s estate to a specially established Roche Centenary Foundation. Roche built the museum, contributed works from its own holdings and provided funding for additions to the museum’s collections. The museum’s operating costs and the costs of maintaining the adjacent Solitude Park have been funded entirely and exclusively by Roche since 1996.
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM
Plastic: Remaking Our World
Until 4 September 2022, Vitra Design Museum
»Plastik. Die Welt neu denken« © Vitra Design Museum, Illustration: Daniel Streat, Visual Fields
The exhibition »Plastic: Remaking Our World« at the Vitra Design Museum examines the history and future of this controversial material: from its meteoric rise in the twentieth century to its environmental impact and to cutting-edge solutions for a more sustainable use of plastic. Exhibits include rarities from the dawn of the plastic age and objects of the pop era as well as numerous contemporary designs and projects ranging from efforts to clean up rivers and oceans to smart concepts for waste reduction.
Precious Plastic
Until 4 September 2022, Vitra Design Museum Gallery
A satellite to »Plastic: Remaking Our World« in the main building designed by Frank Gehry, »Precious Plastic« addresses the issue of recyclability and is organised around the eponymous Dutch initiative launched by Dave Hakkens, which supplies open source plans for machines that allow people to take recycling into their own hands. The display gives fascinating insights into different types of plastic and the complex technologies used for recycling and upcycling processes.
»Plastik. Die Welt neu denken« © Vitra Design Museum, Illustration: Daniel Streat, Visual Fields
Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis
Until 14 May 2023, Vitra Schaudepot
Following an invitation from the Vitra Design Museum, Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has transformed the Vitra Schaudepot in one simple, sweeping gesture by sorting its roughly four hundred exhibits by colour. The installation shows the collection from new perspectives and produces fascinating cross-references between periods and styles, at the same time providing visitors with an overwhelming immersive experience. The presentation is complemented by historical and contemporary objects and documents from the museum archives that illustrate how designers from different eras approached the subject.
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
Tomi Ungerer, ohne Titel (Das Martyrium der dreifachen Identität), 2009, Collection Würth,
FORUM WÜRTH ARLESHEIM
Tomi Ungerer
December 03 – August 14, 2022
Tomi Ungerer, ohne Titel (Das Martyrium der dreifachen Identität), 2009, Collection Würth,
The French artist Tomi Ungerer is one of the most important and at the same time most provocative illustrators of our time. His enormous oeuvre comprises more than 40’000 drawings, oil paintings, poster designs, collages, lithographs, woodcuts and objects. In addition, there are his 140 books, ranging from social satire to fairy tales, including modern children’s classis such as «The Three Robbers» and «Moon Man».
Throughout his lifetime he was politically engaged. His posters protesting against the Vietnam War and racial segregation are eloquent examples of this and are among the finest products of contemporary graphic art.
His work is characterized by spontaneity, intellectual curiosity, a love of experimentation, and obsessive search for the perfect line. In short, this brilliant observer of banalities and absurdities convincingly portrayed the «human comedy».
Complimentary access for VOLTA VIPs during Art Basel Week.
50% DISCOUNT WITH BASEL CARD
The BaselCard is offered as a free bonus with every booking at a Basel hotel.
The BaselCard offers free use of public transport, free guest Wi-Fi in Basel, as well as 50% discount on museum admission, cultural and recreational offers. Show your BaselCard at the VOLTA ticket desk and receive a 50% discount on General Admission tickets.