The Ausstellungsraum Klingental celebrates its return to the Klingental Church with Blanko.

Artists: Leonardo Bürgi, Mariam Elnozahy, Barbara Erath & Jo Dunkel, UFO (Michael Anklin, Lukas Huber & Robert Torche), Rebecca Kunz & Mathis Pfäffli, Janiv Oron, Akash Sharma

The invited artists will «sneak into» the empty, still disused premises and challenge the possibilities and conditions of the new location with the most diverse formats. With a ritual, a musical performance, and a guided tour of herbs followed by a distillation of the medical plants collected along the way, Blanko will noticeably spread and lodge spatially, acoustically, olfactorily, poetically, theoretically, ephemerally and visually via (sound) installations and physical interventions. The empty rooms become a fantasy space for various physical and sensual sensations. The new exhibition rooms will be presented and inaugurated in a variety of ways, while at the same time previous uses and long-vanished locations within the historic building will be subtly reactivated. Blanko gradually leaves traces in the new exhibition space, gives visible form to the appropriation of the new premises and enables the public to approach the new spaces in a multi-sensory way. The exhibition project will close on 19 September with a celebration of the official relaunch – along with the planned opening of the Atelierhaus.

For Ausstellungsraum Klingental curated and organized by Alexandra Adler, Silke Baumann, Franziska Baumgartner, Gerome Gadient and Thomas Heimann

With the generous support of Canton Basel-Stadt Kultur, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Pro Helvetia Cairo and the Sulger-Foundation

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