le Définitif – c’est le Provisoire
New presentation of Museum Tinguely’s collection

3 March 2021 – 9 January 2023

DIY art, limelight, broken glass – in Jean Tinguely’s multi-facetted oeuvre one encounters everything from machine performances to multisensory spectacles to critiques of consumer culture. Works and documents show his early successes, theatre projects and correspondence. Playfully interactive elements guide the audience through the exhibition, including the rarely-shown bottle smasher Rotozaza No. 2 that will be put into action by the restoration team for interested visitors. In addition, insights are offered into restoration processes and into the materiality and functioning of the works.

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Écrits d’Art Brut
Wild Expression & Thought

20 October 2021 – 23 January 2022

Declarations of love, angry letters, erotic messages, journal-like notes or utopian stories: these texts by Art Brut creators were written behind closed doors, in silence and in secret. Composed in painstaking calligraphy or hastily scribbled, sometimes embroidered, carved into stone, or supplemented with images, they bear witness to an astonishing wealth of ideas. This exhibition, shown here for the first time, presents works by 13 artists whose visual impact is enhanced by their playful approach to grammar and spelling. Word and image are bound together. The works presented come from more than ten museums and private collections in several countries.

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The Cost of Life
A perspective on health by Paddy Hartley

13 October 2021 – 23 January 2022

The notion of the ‹cost of life› is strongly related to that of risk, a central theme in medicine and research. Both concepts play key roles in the work of Paddy Hartley. His artistic comment on medical developments explores their (sometimes contradictory) consequences for humanity. This exhibition commissioned by Roche to mark its 125th anniversary takes place in cooperation with Museum Tinguely and the Pharmacy Museum of Basel University.

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Leu Art Family. Caresser la peau du ciel

3 March – 31 October 2021

The Leu family is well-known among tattoo fans worldwide. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Felix and Loretta Leu used their tattooing skills to fund extensive travels with their four children Ama, Aia, Filip and Ajja. These years on the road were nourished by artistic curiosity, forming the basis for a distinct family cosmos. Featuring works by all members of the family, the exhibition offers a picture of this special universe.

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Museum Tinguely AHOY!

17 July – 26 September 2021

To mark its 25th anniversary, Museum Tinguely embarks on a major cruise, travelling by river barge from Paris via Antwerp, Maastricht and Amsterdam up the Rhine via Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf to Basel. The converted cargo ship MS Evolutie drops anchor in places that played an important role in Jean Tinguely’s artistic career.

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Impasse Ronsin. Murder, Love, and Art in the Heart of Paris

16 December 2020 – 29 August 2021

More than a hundred years, from around 1864 until 1971 the Impasse Ronsin in Paris was home to a warren of studios used by wide variety of artists with very different backgrounds and approaches. This curious cul-de-sac hidden away in Montparnasse served as home and atelier to some 220 artists, from academic sculptor Alfred Boucher to Argentine performance artist Marta Minujín. Amongst the best known were; Eva Aeppli, William Copley, André Del Debbio, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, James Metcalf, Isamu Noguchi, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely. If Constantin Brâncuși was its most famous resident – based there from 1916 until his death – it’s most infamous was Madame Steinheil, mistress and maybe murderer of the French President whose artist-husband also met a brutal end, turning the Impasse Ronsin into one of the most notorious crime scenes of the early 20th century.

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#impasseronsin #montparnasse #tinguely #paris