Odilia Flurina Senn, Stunde Blau 1.0: Im Kampf der Tyrannei der Tristesse; Stunde Blau 2.0, both 2024; Nora Lune, CCTV, 2024, installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr
Salome Jokhadze, Table for Three (million), 2024, installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr
Jorge Morocho, Unicorn Frappuccino, 2024; Lena Laguna Diel, La huida hacia adelante (A flight forward), 2024, installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr
Tim Kummer, Desire Paths, 2024, installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr
Svenja Gansner, the porn you didn’t pay for, 2024; Adriana Brantuas Arijón, Os Lameiros, 2024 Installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr
Charlotte Horn, Grid, 2024; Mykki Blanco, Four Khrushchevka Studies, 2024 (detail); Madeleine Noraas, I am alone in the house; I stare out the window; I stare down at the sea, all 2024 (detail), installation view You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, Kunsthaus Baselland, 2024, photo: Christian Knörr

You Can Break a Rock With an Egg

NEXT Generation 2024
Graduation Exhibition Bachelor and Master Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW

Curated by Ines Goldbach and Chus Martínez
Curatorial Assistance Emily Harries

Opening 30 August 2024, 5 – 9 pm
Exhibition 31 August– 15 September 2024
Finissage 15 September 2024, 3 – 5 pm

→ Press release (pdf)
→ Handout (pdf)
→ List of works (in German, pdf)

Kunsthaus Baselland, Helsinki-Strasse 5, 4142 Münchenstein/Basel
kunsthausbaselland.ch

Opening hours:
Tuesday – Friday 11 am – 6 pm, Thursday 11 am – 8 pm, Saturday/Sunday 11 am – 5 pm
During Kunsttage Basel: 30 August – 1 September 2024 11 am – 6 pm

The galleries of the Kunsthaus Baselland are wheelchair accessible (entry: Helsinki-Strasse).

Video: Nicolás Sarmiento
Sound: Nicolás Sarmiento and emre girginkaya

Azadbek Bekchanov, Mykki Blanco, Raffaela Boss, Adriana Brantuas Arijón, Xavier Coronel, Anna Dettwiler, Dominic Jan Dietschi, Sophie Diggelmann, Yana Dyl, Tatjana Erpen, Sabrina Fässler, Daniela Flores Arias, Svenja Gansner, Alex Ghandour, Alma Herrmann, Oleksandr Holiuk, Charlotte Horn, Jasmine Noemi Jetzer, Salome Jokhadze, Pallavi Keshri, Lale Keyhani, Tim Kummer, Lena Laguna Diel, Nina Lazzarini, Sara Løve Daðadóttir, Jael Ludewig-Kedmi, Nora Lune, Luise Maier, Jorge Morocho Ibarra, Arbesa Musa, Madeleine Noraas, Viola Oppizzi, Alberto Papparotto, Timo Paris, Shanti Pérusset, María Sabato, Salphinah Savin, Odilia Flurina Senn, Lois Leon Siegenthaler, Rea Siegrist, Claudius Skorski, Yara Solenthaler, Nicolas Spycher, Elio Nicodemo Stricker, Thea Stucki, Jasmin Tanner, Alice Tioli, Kateryna Vysoka, Babette Walder, Lorenz Walter Wernli, Hugo Willemin, Gerta Xhaferaj, Franca Fay Zanetti

PROGRAM

Friday 30 August 2024, 5 – 9 pm
Opening and performances

5.15 pm welcoming and introduction by Ines Goldbach and Chus Martínez

Performances
5.45 pm Azadbek Bekchanov, foyer
6 pm Franca Fay Zanetti, foyer
6.20 pm Raffaela Boss, foyer
6.50 pm Sabrina Fässler, exhibiton (ground floor)
7.00 pm Salphinah Savin, exhibition (ground floor)
7.35 pm Hugo Willemin, exhibition (ground floor)
7.50 pm Charlotte Horn, exhibition (ground floor)
8.05 pm Alberto Papparotto, exhibition (ground floor)
8.35 pm Odilia Flurina Senn, foyer

Drinks and food in collaboration with HEK and Ela
The same evening at HEK: opening Tools for Change 7 – 10 pm and DJ set by Maya Hottarek 9 – 11 pm

Thursday 5 September 2024, 6 – 8 pm
Evening with performances
6 pm Franca Fay Zanetti, foyer
6.30 pm Sabrina Fässler, exhibiton (ground floor)
6.45 pm Salphinah Savin, exhibiton (ground floor)

Sunday 15 September 2024, 3 – 5 pm
Finissage with performances
3.15 pm Azadbek Bekchanov, foyer
3.25 pm Odilia Flurina Senn, foyer
3.40 pm Sabrina Fässler, exhibition (ground floor)
3.55 pm Hugo Willemin, exhibition (ground floor)
4.15 pm Raffaela Boss, exhibition (ground and first floor)

Guided tours
Sunday 1 September 2024, 3pm, with Clara Soiron
Sunday 8 September 2024, 3pm, with Clara Soiron
Thursday 12 September 2024, 6.30 pm with Ines Goldbach

With You Can Break a Rock With an Egg, this year’s graduation exhibition of the bachelor and master students, the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW becomes the guest of the Kunsthaus Baselland for the ninth time. The presentation of new works by over 50 emerging artists continues the long-term collaboration, this time at the new location of the Kunsthaus Baselland in the immediate vicinity of the Campus Dreispitz of the HGK Basel FHNW. To emphasize the special nature of a graduation exhibition in a leading art institution and in the education of artists, who are transitioning from the sensitive environment of the art academy to the challenges of working as professional artists, each year a renowned guest curator is invited to curate the exhibition together with Chus Martínez, head of the Institute Art Gender Nature. On the occasion of the new location and new neighborhood, this year's guest curator is Ines Goldbach, director of Kunsthaus Baselland.

This is our first graduation exhibition in the recently opened new building of the Kunsthaus Baselland. As a result, once again we decided to team up, Ines Goldbach and Chus Martínez, as we did the first time when we jointly curated the graduation exhibition back in 2016. After nearly a decade, the graduation exhibition of the newly produced works of the third-year bachelor and second-year master students of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW has become a reference in our culture calendar. Both curators, teachers and the teams of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW and of the Kunsthaus Baselland have been working for almost a year on the conception and production of works specifically made for this occasion. This year’s title You Can Break A Rock with an Egg refers to an ancient Chinese saying and resonates with the current efforts artists undertake in our society. Indeed, what all the artists in the exhibition have in common is their insistence on believing that the impossible needs to be accomplished: an equal society, a society living with the values and respect of all forms of life as well as the possibility of living a life in balance, in the experience of art and culture. Each and every work looks inside the mind and around our world at the same time, in a personal and specific way. All works invite us to follow their path and free our mind of the constrains and obligations of everyday. Examining the materiality of the world, together with the production of experiences that enhance a sense of care, responsibility towards nature, and a commitment to the poetic and the fantastic worlds is very present in the exhibition.

We extend our gratitude to the entire team of the Kunsthaus Baselland for the collaboration and for hosting our graduation exhibition for the ninth time. We would also like to thank the team of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW—the lecturers, mentors, technicians, the scientific, production and administrative staff—for their guidance and engagement, and, last but not least, we thank all the participating artists for their brilliant works, their trust in us and themselves, and the continuous exchange.

Chus Martínez and Ines Goldbach

Ines Goldbach has been the director and curator of the Kunsthaus Baselland since 2013 and has already realized over 100 solo and group exhibitions. She played a pivotal role in the conversion of a warehouse in Basel’s Dreispitz area, which became the new home of the Kunsthaus in 2024. The art historian wrote her thesis on Jannis Kounellis and Arte Povera. She subsequently spent many years working as a curator for the Raussmüller Collection at the Hallen für Neue Kunst Schaffhausen and as a lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of Freiburg i. Br. In 2024, the French government awarded Ines Goldbach the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of her curatorial work.

NEXT Generation 2024, the graduation exhibition of all degree programmes of the HGK Basel FHNW, will be presented from 14 to 19 September 2024 on the Campus Dreispitz and at nextgeneration.hgk.fhnw.ch.

You Can Break a Rock With an Egg ist part of Kunsttage Basel (31 August – 1 September 2024).
kunsttagebasel.ch

Selected program Kunsttage Basel

Friday 30 August 2024, 11 am – 12.30 pm (German)
Saturday 31 August 2024, 11 am – 12.30 pm (English)
Architecture tour on the Dreispitz with Selma Alihodžić (including Kunsthaus Baselland)
→ Registration and meeting point

Kunsttage Basel Talks
Saturday 31 August 2024, 2 pm, with Jacqueline Loekito
Sunday 1 September 2024, 3 – 3.15 pm with Linus Weber about the CIVIC Billboard at the HGK Basel FHNW
kHaus, Kasernenareal, Basel
→ More information

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