Agenda

The Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing (die Basler Papiermühle. Museum für Papier, Schrift und Druck) presents a travelling exhibition of 72 artists from 36 countries featuring leporello and artist’s books made during the 2020/2021 pandemic shutdown.

The leporello is a printed work made of a long, folded strip of paper, distinguishable from a letter, flyer, brochure or leaflet.

Each work is the result of an exchange of experiences between two artists from different countries around the world who entered into a dialogue with their works and each other by post (i.e. not by app, e-mail or computer).

The exhibition shows the personal dimension, creativity and added value of ‘old-fashioned’ mail and exchange of feelings, messages and impressions. It still exists.

The works, with very different design concepts, techniques and content, are on show in Europe for the first time, following exhibitions in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Quito. The museum exhibits them throughout the splendid permanent exhibition.

In September 2021, Chantal Convertini (*1992) rented a house in Corsica and invited eight other colleagues whom, until then, she had known only on Instagram to join her for a project.

The group bonded not only on the photographic level but also as human beings. Hundreds of photographs were taken in the space of a few days: self-portraits, nudes, group pictures, details and landscapes. Much emerged out of the moment and the mood; and the photos also show the mutual trust growing with each passing day.

Photo’s : Felicitas Schwenzer, Charlotte Grimm

The exhibition’s title of Corse  is a reference to the place where those  photographic moments originated and to the natural way in which the photographs came about.

Initially, there were no plans to show these sometimes very intimate photos in an exhibition. The exhibtion showcases works from: Chantal Convertini, Lena Aires, Charlotte Grimm, Dafni Planta, Monika Jia Rui Scherer, Felicitas Schwenzer, Mayara Scudeler, Catia Simões and Shannon Tomasik.

Photo’s: Lena Aires, Dafni Planta

Replica of the living room in Corsica

Photo’s: Lena Aires

Free entry and cataloque for free!

With a cross-border exhibition, the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen and the Kunstmuseum Singen are jointly addressing the current state of painting in southern Germany and German-speaking Switzerland.

The title of the exhibition is “Ohne Titel” (Without Title). This designation is often used by artists as a working title to avoid steering the viewer’s perception in one direction in advance. However, the works in the exhibition have a title.

Lin Olschowsa (1995), Scheinlingszwack, 2022; Marianna Tilly (1995), ‘Men Crying: Disco Locker Room, 2021, und ‘Hitting In The Material World 1/3’, 2022.

The exhibition is about the breadth and versatility of painting. An ideal opportunity to learn more about contemporary painting in this region. Crossing the border between the two institutions and countries is also a goal of this project.

Culture is (almost) always transnational. The Kunstmuseum Singen is dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The art department of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen not only shows (religious) art from the Middle Ages to 1945 and modern and contemporary art.

Sophia Sadzakov (*1992)

The recently renovated museum also houses three other departments: Archaeology, (cultural) history and natural history. Southern Germany and German-speaking Switzerland have always been one cultural and linguistic region. However, national borders have also influenced this region since Napoleon. Cities like Laufenburg, Kaiserstuhl and Rheinfelden were separated, new borders were established.

However, cultural centres have always been connected in this region of the High Rhine and Lake Constance since Roman and medieval times.

The bishopric of Constance, the former monastery Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and, for example, the monastery of St. Georgen in Stein am Rhein (canton of Schaffhausen) bear witness.

Emperor Heinrich II (973-1024) moved this monastery, founded around 970 in Singen, to Stein am Rhein in the 11th century! Today’s collaboration with the ‘Untitled’ exhibition is a ‘back to the roots’ initiative.

Museums are platforms for emerging artists. The exhibition is also a platform to reveal the potential of young painting in the region.

Equally fundamental are the questions with which the exhibition approaches painting. Central starting points are the representation of painting trends, the current strength of painting, new influences and old and new art historical movements.

Until 16 April, the selection of works by 57 artists shows the new painting in this region: lively, original sensual, full of pleasure and energy.

Dana Greiner (*1988)

Robert Matthes (*1982)

Theo Huber (*1987)