Agenda

The 75th anniversary of the Basler puppet theatre, founded in 1944 by Richard Koelner (1904-1993), is the occasion for a small presentation. Since its move to the Zehntenkeller on the Münsterplatz in 1956, it has become the first puppet theatre in Basel with regular performances. The presentation shows puppets in the context of old performances and presents music from old performances classical or contemporary. To this day, music still plays an important role in this theatre, as it were an opera with puppets.

What the photographer Daniel Schwartz (1955) has been concentrating on for many years could be called glaciology in images. His work is a multidisciplinary project of photographic art in documentary style. As a photographer Daniel Schwartz examines the visual power of glaciers. He substantiates his pictorial work by research in archives, and works in close dialogue with science. His images show the glacier as a dynamic system and as an archive of climate history, as a personal place of remembrance and reservoir of resources, which are neither unlimited nor indefinitely available.

In a comprehensive survey of her oeuvre that represents the key phases of her artistic career, Swiss artist Miriam Cahn shows vibrant works on paper, oil paintings, monumental sculptures, performative videos, and sketchbooks. The latter have never been on view to the general public before and have been assembled in a chronology and in a thematically expansive installation. In it the artist reinterprets the classical museum building as a sensual, conceptual construction while illustrating the artist‘s principles in regard to meaning, motifs, and aesthetics. Many works have been created especially for the exhibition or are key works in the possession of the artist.