Project rooms in Basel

A number of project spaces and non-institutional exhibition spaces in and around Basel are grouped together as project spaces ( offspaces or artist run space ) in Basel . They cover a wide spectrum, with a focus on contemporary art . They host numerous projects and exhibitions . With more than 20 project rooms, Basel has a high density of project rooms compared to other urban regions of a similar size.

The project spaces make up part of Basel's cultural and cultural landscape and are an alternative to the local museums , according to the project manager of the Christoph Merian Foundation's Culture Department , Christoph Meneghetti, in the Shortcut magazine: "Offspaces are independent spaces for contemporary art and an important factor in the Basel art scene. " Since the galleries are less present in Basel than in Zurich , the local project rooms contribute a lot to the development and visibility of young artists :

“In these project rooms, the artists themselves do the construction work that a gallery would otherwise do. They plan and set up the exhibition, they design and print flyers, advertise on various channels, invite collectors, curators and other artists. In this way they form the network that is necessary in order to be able to make a living from art at some point in order to make a career. As a rule, offspaces are non-commercial. If so, sales are made directly through the artist. "

history

1970-1980

The Klingental exhibition space opened its doors for the first time in 1974, making it one of the first offspaces in Basel and Switzerland.

“The history of the Klingental exhibition space began in 1971. At that time, the canton of Basel-Stadt, as the owner of the area, decided to convert the former military kitchens in the church and to allow the artists of the“ Ateliergenossenschaft Kaserne ”, who had had their workshops in the same place since 1964 as To provide the place of issue. The fact that it then took three years until the first exhibition was due to the fact that the canton suddenly lacked classrooms: Without further ado, students from the Bäumlihof schoolhouse moved into the Klingentalkirche for a few years - while their schoolhouse was being rebuilt. "

1980-2000

In 1993, the former production rooms in the rear building of the Mörsbergerstrasse 54 (M54) property in Basel created an ideal opportunity for the visarte region basel - professional association for visual art - to act as a cultural mediator in addition to the association's business - with the M54 project room . Since the beginning of 2000, a specially founded exhibition commission has been running continuous projects and exhibitions.

In 1994 the cascade capacitor was founded in the Warteck PP workshop .

In 1998, Hebel 121 was added, which has maintained a lively exchange with international artists ever since.

2000-2010

The smallest offspace in Basel has existed since 2001, Niel Thaler's invitro .

The fro , a mobile exhibition platform , existed with interruptions from 2001 to 2015.

In 2002 the French community of Hégenheim , which is just bordering Basel, got its own independent art space with FABRIKculture .

From 2004 to 2008 Lena Eriksson ran the art space Lodypop with Andrea Saemann , later with Chris Regn , where transitions between private space, studio, gallery and shop window were played.

The bblackboxx has existed since 2007 and is a special place of exchange, mainly due to its location, next to the city's asylum prison.

Not far from there, Raphael Bottazzini founded the artachment in 2007 , a former small customs house that has been used by various curators since then.

In 2010, the deuxpiece project , founded in Stuttgart , was reopened in a small shop on Kannenfeldstrasse. After two years at this location, the project is nomadic and carries out projects in different locations in Basel, Berlin and New York . The SALTS also opened in Birsfelden in 2010 .

Since 2010

From 2010 more and more self-managed exhibition rooms were added. In 2010 the Parzelle403 studio community , the ZIP and the DOCK Basel came into being , which not only functions as a project space but also as a Basel-related artist archive . In 2011 the Schwarzwaldallee and the DEPOT Basel were founded , at that time still on the site of the nt * / areal . Both existed until 2017. The Filter4 and the OSLO10 also opened for the first time.

In 2012 the Villa Renata became a project space and the artist-curator collective Dr. Kuckucks Labrador , which plays the cascade capacitor as an independent group, but also works in other places depending on the event. From 2012 to 2015, Françoise Theis curated utengasse sixty .

In 2013 the art space in Florence opened and the studio community flatterschetzt , which also houses a project space. The kunsthallekleinbasel was created in 2014 in the living room of the Basel-based artist and curator Jasmin Glaab. In 2015, the nomadic-organized Offspace Deli Projects and the project space of the Institut Kunst of the HGK Basel were founded. The tank also opened for the first time on the new site of the Dreispitz area .

In December 2015, the group exhibition ∑ (read: total) with over 20 project rooms in Basel was organized. For this purpose, the project rooms joined forces for the first time for a larger event, which attracted increased attention from the press and visitors and provided an opportunity for the various initiatives and projects to exchange ideas about their activities and goals. A discussion took place on the subject of "What's in a name? On the location of the project space", to which Manuel Wischnewski, curator of the Berlin project space Neue Berliner Raum and author of the pamphlet Vom Ende des Projektraums and Gabriel Flückiger, who was involved in the SNSF project Off OffOff Off is doing research on offspaces in Switzerland at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences . Other guests from the cultural sector such as Philippe Bischof, Guido Nussbaum and Rachel Mader were invited to internal discussion rounds called "Eintopf".

In 2016 three new project rooms were added. The 1.1 , the FAQ gallery and the jersey , which was only active until 2017.

In 2017 three more groups ended their work as a project space: The OSLO10 , the DEPOT Basel (which continues to exist as a web project) and the Schwarzwaldallee .

The city guide A Roland for an Oliver , which appears once a year and offers both a content and a geographical overview, has been providing information about the activities, locations and program items in the project rooms since 2010 .

List of project rooms in Basel

The list of project spaces in Basel shows the project spaces in the city and catchment area of ​​Basel, sorted by category.

The border location of the city at the Basler Dreiländereck and the small-scale structure of the Basel region mean that the main part of the Basel project areas is in the city of Basel and thus in the canton of Basel-Stadt; however, some can be found in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, and offspaces in the Basel agglomeration can also be included in the Basel project space landscape, such as those in the neighboring cities of Hégenheim, Saint-Louis , Lörrach , and Weil am Rhein . In view of the municipal, regional and national administrative units that meet here, as well as the overlying agglomeration, there is no clearly definable number of Basel project areas.

List of active project rooms

Project room	activity	since	Location	Illustration
artachment	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events (changing curators, currently Institut Kunst Basel)	2007	Hochbergerstrasse 160 (ex-customs house), Basel
Klingental exhibition room	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	1974	Kasernenstrasse 23, Basel
BelleVue	contemporary photography, temporary exhibitions	2012	Breisacherstrasse 50 (in the backyard), Basel
Deli Projects	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, concerts	2015	different places (nomadic)
DEPOT Basel = ONLINE DEPOT	Website with contemporary design, discussions on the Internet with design (formerly project space)	2011	since 2017 only on the web, before that at Voltastrasse 43, Basel
The Tank	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, digital art space (Exhibition room of the Art Institute)	2015	Freilager Platz 13, Münchenstein
deuxpiece	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	2009	different locations (nomadic), collaborations in Basel, Berlin, New York
DOCK	contemporary art, local artist archive, temporary exhibitions, various events	2010	Klybeckstrasse 29, Basel
Dr. Cuckoo Labrador	contemporary art, projects, various events, temporary exhibitions, concerts	2012	different places (nomadic)
FACTORYculture	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	2002	60, rue de Bâle Hegenheim
FAQ gallery	Contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2016	St. Johanns-Ring 133
Lever_121	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	1998	Hebelstrasse 121, Basel
in vitro	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2001	Gerbergasse 24, Basel
iwbfilter4	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2011	Reservoirstrasse Basel
Cascade capacitor	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events, concerts	1994	Burgweg 15, Basel
Klappfon	contemporary music, jazz, free improvisation, sound art and noise	2004	different places (nomadic)
kunsthallekleinbasel	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events, concerts (nomadic since 2017)	2014	Sperrstrasse 7, Basel
lotsremark projects	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2012	Klybeckstrasse 170, Basel
Parcel403	contemporary design, temporary exhibitions, various events	2010	Unterer Heuberg 21, Basel
Pataphysical Institute Basel	contemporary art, pataphysics, bus tours, various events, concerts		Socinstrasse 7, Basel
Project space M54 visarte region basel	Member exhibitions, contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	1993	Mörsbergerstrasse 54, Basel
SALTS	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2009	Hauptstrasse 12, Birsfelden
Sura * tu	contemporary art, events, theater, workshops formerly: bblackboxx	2019	Freiburgerstrasse 36, Basel
The Kitchen upstairs	Exhibitions and events in the curators' apartment	2013	At the height 12, Arlesheim
Villa Renata	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events, concerts	2012	Socinstrasse 16, Basel
Voltage	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events, concerts	2017	Mülhauserstrasse 48, Basel
White frame	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2011	different places (nomadic)
ZIP	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2010	Wettsteinallee 71, Basel
1.1	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	2016	Reinacherstraase 105, Basel

List of the no longer active project rooms

Project room	activity	from ... to	Location	Illustration
BIKINI	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events (Group took over Schwarzwaldallee)	2017-2019	Voltastrasse 41, Basel
Atelierhaus Klingental, room 103	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	2017 - 2018	Kasernenstrasse 23, Basel
shirt	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, various events	2016-2017	Haltingerstrasse 13, Basel
fluttered	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions, concerts, various events	2013 - 2018	Solothurnerstrasse 4, Basel
Florence art space	contemporary art, temporary exhibitions	2013-2016	Florenz-Strasse 1e, Basel
utengasse sixty	contemporary art / temporary exhibitions / various events	2012-2015	Utengasse 60, Basel
Schwarzwaldallee	contemporary art / temporary exhibitions / various events	2011-2017	Voltastrasse 41, Basel
OSLO10	contemporary design / temporary exhibitions / various events	2011-2017	Oslostrasse 10, Münchenstein
DEPOT Basel	contemporary design / temporary exhibitions / various events	2011-2017	Voltastrasse 43, Basel
New Jerseyy	contemporary art / temporary exhibitions / various events	2008-2013	Hüningerstrasse 18, Basel
bblackboxx	contemporary art, events, theater, workshops; now: Sur * tu	2007 - 2018	Freiburgerstrasse 36, Basel
Lodypop	contemporary art / temporary exhibitions / various events	2004 - 2008	St. Johanns-Vorstadt 72, Basel
fro	contemporary art / temporary exhibitions	2001-2015	different places

literature

• Pascale Grau, Katrin Grögel, Andrea Saemann (eds.): Art is itself! Art mediation under own direction - kaskadenkondensator Basel since 1994. Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, edition fink, Zurich, 2004, ISBN 978-3-906086-68-2
• Shortcut magazine of the Christoph Merian Foundation, No. 3, focus on offspaces, December 2014 ( cms-basel.ch PDF).
• Manuel Wischnewski, From the end of the project space. Attempt on a possible new beginning, ed. from Neue Berliner Raum , Berlin, 2015 ( dropbox.com PDF).

Web links

• Website and city guide to the current Basel project spaces
• Independent art spaces Switzerland
• Offspace art events
• Basel artists seek their success in Zurich
• Iris Kretzschmar: Basel: Dr. Cuckoo Labrador: Σ. In: Art Bulletin. December 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Naomi Gregoris: Bundled off- space power in the Villa Renata. In: day week. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Karen N. Gerig: "Offspace leaves room because you don't have to think about money". In: day week. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Christoph Meneghetti: Editorial . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): Shortcut. The culture magazine of the Christoph Merian Foundation . Focus on offspaces, No. 3 . Basel December 2013.
4. ↑ Karen Gerig: Basel artists seek their success in Zurich. More and more Basel artists are trying their luck outside of Basel. Offspaces have been trying to stop this migration for a few years. Week of the day, October 27, 2011, accessed March 8, 2016 . 
5. ↑ General - Program. In: ausstellraum.ch. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Karen N. Gerig: Perhaps the oldest offspace in Switzerland is 40 years old. In: day week. Retrieved March 5, 2016 . 
7. ↑ visarte region basel
8. ↑ - visarte region basel -. In: visarte-basel.ch. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
9. ↑ WerkraumWarteckPP. In: WerkraumWarteckPP. Retrieved March 9, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Cascade capacitor. (No longer available online.) In: kasko.ch. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ about Lever_121. In: hebel121.org. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
12. ^ Benedikt Wyss: The smallest off-space in the city of Basel. In: day week. Retrieved March 5, 2016 . 
13. ↑ - in vitro Niel Thaler -. In: niel-thaler.com/portfolio_category/invitro/. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
14. ↑ room 19.6m3 2001–2011: rafael lutter. In: rafaellutter.info. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
15. ↑ FACTORYculture. In: fabrikculture.net. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Lodypop archive. September 10, 2009, accessed March 15, 2020 . 
17. ↑ archive bblackboxx. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 10, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Samanta Siegfried: In Basel, the edge of the forest becomes the focal point for refugees. In: day week. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
19. ↑ deuxpiece: info: deuxpiece. In: deuxpiece.com. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
20. ↑ salts. In: salts.ch. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Info. In: parzelle403.ch. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
22. ↑ zip. In: ausstellraum-zip.blogspot.ch. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
23. ↑ DOCK archive, discourse and art space. In: dock-basel.ch. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
24. ^ IWB filter 4 - culture affairs. In: iwbfilter4.ch. Retrieved March 9, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Welcome to Oslo 10 | Oslo 10. In: oslo10.ch. Retrieved March 9, 2016 . 
26. ^ Karen N. Gerig: The Villa Renata changes its exhibition concept. In: day week. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Archive: Dr. Cuckoo Labrador. In: drkuckuckslabrador.ch. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
28. ↑ utengasse sixty. In: utengassesechzig.blogspot.ch. Retrieved March 6, 2016 . 
29. ↑ Karen N. Gerig: And even more space for art. In: day week. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
30. ^ Ateliers Florenz: Archive exhibitions. In: ateliers-florenz.ch. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
31. ↑ Club fluttering. In: flatterschetzt. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
32. ↑ to the project. (No longer available online.) In: kunsthallekleinbasel.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
33. ^ Exhibitions. In: deliprojects.com. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
34. ^ The TANK: Intro - Institute Art HGK FHNW. In: Institute Art HGK FHNW. Retrieved March 7, 2016 . 
35. ↑ Total: Dr. Cuckoo Labrador. In: drkuckuckslabrador.ch. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
36. ↑ Iris Kretzschmar: Basel: Dr. Cuckoo Labrador: Σ. (No longer available online.) In: Kunstbulletin. December 2015, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 8, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
37. ↑ New Berlin Rooms. In: New Berlin Spaces. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
38. ↑ New Berlin Rooms. In: New Berlin Spaces. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
39. ↑ Off Off Off Of? In: University of Lucerne. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
40. ^ Department of Culture of the Canton of Basel-Stadt - Team. In: baselkultur.ch. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
41. ↑ Mader Rachel HSLU D&K. In: University of Lucerne. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
42. ↑ 1.1. In: cargocollective.com. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
43. ↑ FAQ Gallery - Art Space - Gallery - Projects. In: faqgalerie.ch. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
44. ^ Karen N. Gerig: Art instead of coffee in Kleinbasel. Retrieved August 27, 2016 . 
45. ↑ Oslo10 - History. Retrieved October 13, 2017 . 
46. ↑ Online DEPOT. Retrieved October 13, 2017 . 
47. ↑ farewellandgoodbye. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 13, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
48. ^ A Roland for an Oliver: A Roland for an Oliver 2015. In: arolandforanoliver.ch. Retrieved March 8, 2016 . 
49. ↑ Naomi Gregoris: Where are Basel's project rooms hiding? In: TagesWoche. June 18, 2015, accessed March 8, 2016 .