Calendar - Summe

FABRIKculture

12.10.25

Dictée/Exilée

Screening

Performance

Hebel_121

30.8.25 – 11.10.25

MESH

Exhibition

Villa Renata

12.9.25 – 12.10.25

BOTEN & STOFFE

Exhibition

Performance

Guided Tour

Reading

BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie

11.10.25 – 12.10.25

Rainbow Serpent, Rustling Wind

Exhibition

Reading

Guided Tour

DOCK

27.9.25 – 16.10.25

Natur als Pflicht von Kollektiv Hotel Regina

Exhibition

Screening

Workshop

Nature as a duty by Kollektiv Hotel Regina

27.9 – 16.10.25

Fri, 26.9.25, 19:00: VERNISSAGE with film screening of “Steil am Wind” at 20:00
Thu, 16.10.25, 18:00: FINISSAGE with workshop “Cast your own concrete garden tiles”

Nature as a duty:
Our current cultural understanding of the concept of nature dates back to Romanticism. The Alps, among other landscapes, provided the necessary backdrop for the invention of nature. Since then, nature has been particularly eagerly glorified here, because the Alps were not only a magnificent symbol of national unity, but could also be marketed profitably for tourism. Since then, closeness to nature has been considered an obligatory virtue, the foundation of which is the annual skiing holiday. When it comes to nature, we often forget that every invention, every story, puts people at the center. With three works, the Kollektiv Hotel Regina attempts to examine our relationship with nature – our own so-called closeness to nature.

The myth of the mountain lake:
The mountain lake seems to be the melting pot of the natural landscape (= Alpine landscape). However, there are practically no natural mountain lakes; most are artificially dammed and are therefore technical structures. And where they occur naturally (Blatten), they are not welcome. This is interesting because romanticism draws its power precisely from the uncanny (beautiful and dangerous). In any case, in the film “Steil am Wind” (2018–2020), the Hotel Regina collective wants to sail a pumped storage reservoir in order to integrate it into the logic of the Alpine landscape (sport). In the video “Untitled” (Bruggerberg at Night) (2024), the Hotel Regina collective, equipped with many light sources, explores the Bruggerberg at night. In the process, the space is created by walking through it and is subject to the respective type of encounter. The perception of the forest on the Bruggerberg, which is actually very familiar to the collective, becomes bizarre, especially the buildings and other human interventions in the woods. Eerie.

Mähkanten:
Used at the border between the lawn and the flower bed, they allow for free-form garden design as well as mowing the lawn edge without varying the length of the cut blades. The Hotel Regina collective creates an impressive mountain out of this peculiar building material.

Workshop during the Finissage: "Cast your own concrete Gartenplättli"
Concrete is booming. Even in the garden, nothing seems to work without concrete. Terrace slabs, mowing edges, lawn grid stones for drainage in front of the carport (see sponge city), plant ring stones for the green retaining wall, “rustic” concrete wooden planks, decorative pine cones, “baroque” concrete fountain troughs – concrete is limitless and cheap. For a few hours, the Hotel Regina collective is also getting into the concrete business: together we create wooden molds and fill them with quick-setting concrete. Green 80 sends its regards.

The Hotel Regina collective was founded in Basel in 2016 and has been working in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy ever since, without achieving any major breakthroughs. In France, Austria, and the Principality of Liechtenstein, the collective is completely unknown, which is not particularly painful in the latter case. The Hotel Regina collective makes art – what and how exactly depends on the context. In other words, they are unsure of themselves. This uncertainty, transience, and refusal to be pinned down marks their process-oriented nature.

Artstübli

2.10.25 – 18.10.25

Pascal Kehl | Michèle Janata | Stefan Winterle

Exhibition

Haus Oslo Ateliers

27.9.25 – 19.10.25

The Inner and Outer Spaces of Printmaking

Exhibition

Ausstellungsraum Klingental

11.10.25 – 19.10.25

Constellation of Hope, Sharing Grounds

Exhibition

Performance

Lecture

Constellation of Hope, Sharing Grounds

11.10.25 – 19.10.25

Asian Future Collective, Chen Yifei, Social Sensibility R&D Department, Zheng Ningyuan & WUXU, curated by Li Jia

Constellations of Hope, Sharing Grounds brings together four artist/activist collectives active between Asia and Europe. Through socially engaged and activist art, they address social justice, particularly those concerning migrants, diasporic populations and sexual minorities, while cultivating solidarity, autonomy, and care. Rather than focusing on individual works, the exhibition foregrounds collectivity itself as an artistic infrastructure, supporting activist practices, fostering transnational connections, and inspiring imaginative futures. It is a gathering across distance: a journey beyond borders, an encounter across continents, and a weaving of connection and friendship.

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The cooperation project between Pro Helvetia / Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Atelier Mondial and Ausstellungsraum Klingental will take place for the eighth time in 2025. This year, we are delighted to welcome curator Jia Li from Beijing, who will continue her research in collaboration with local and national artists and cultural practitioners. Jia Li is an independent curator and writer based in Beijing and has more than ten years of experience in the art field. Previously as a senior curator at Taikang Space in Beijing, she has organised exhibitions, accompanying lectures, workshops and interdisciplinary events and published four exhibition-related publications. In the sensitive field of tension between art and activism, Jia Li will also explore positions of minority communities and indigenous knowledge in Switzerland.

The focus will be on questions of social justice, state independence and collective self-organisation in order to strengthen intercultural dialogue and future cooperation - including with China.

Curator Residency from 1 June 2025 to 31 October 2025

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Programm Opening Day
Sat, 11.10.25, 14:00 – 21:00

14:00 – 17:00: Participatory gathering
Have you eaten yet?
by Asian Futures Collective
Asian Futures Collective invites you into a participatory gathering of care and imagination. Through small gestures of sharing, nourishing, and creating together, we will weave traces of diasporic belonging that linger in the space throughout the opening.

18:00: Opening

18:30: Puppet Theater
Revolutionary Tofu by Chen Yifei and Li Jia

19:00: Lecture
Social Sensibility R&D Department by Alessandro Rolandi

Atelier Experimental

18.10.25 – 19.10.25

Wearing the Inside Out

Workshop

Wearing the inside Out

Sat, 18.10.25 – Sun, 19.10.25

10:00 – 16:00

Weekend Workshop with Léa Kieffer

SCI FI ANATOMY (SFA) meets MATERIAL EXTRAVAGANZA

This workshop combines Sci Fi Anatomy, Léa’s somatic storytelling practice, with materials and costume exploration.
We activate all the layers – from deep proprioceptive sensing to exuberant outfits. It is an invitation to massage our thoughts, melt our brains, open portals to the cosmos, reconnect to our inner child-fashion-diva, and expand our performative spectrum. Let ourselves transform – and be transformed – by fabrics, somatic explorations, and stories. Become more-than-human creatures, and dance and perform from this place.

SCI FI ANATOMY (SFA) is a guided somatic trip where anatomy slides into speculative fiction. Bones melt like butter, ligaments grow like tentacles, and time and space stretch and dissolve. How do these more-than-human creatures move, swim, and inhabit their worlds?

Costumes are collaborators, not accessories. Fabrics, textures, and objects act as living agents, shaping movement, presence, and perception. They extend the body and alter the physicality and performativity of the wearer. Through speed design, playful styling, and embodied exploration, can we dig deeper into physical and emotional states? Can we clown somatic practices, embody the grotesque of the masquerade, and invite new ranges of movement?

Léa Kieffer is a French freelance performer, dancer, costume designer, and scenographer. Her work explores the dialogue between imagination and physicality, entangling dance, bodywork, storytelling, and material craft. Fascinated by bodies, textiles, and objects, she studies their materiality to unveil the unseen, provoke the absurd, and invite the magical. Collaboration and improvisation are central to her practice.

With a background in craft, Léa designs clothing, costumes, sets, and environments from upcycled materials. She treats matter as a collaborator, exploring its physical properties, histories, and transformative potential. By disassembling, reassembling, and reimagining materials, she creates playful, dynamic, and embodied encounters, opening worlds that are magical, grotesque, and more-than-human.

Since 2017, she has been developing Sci Fi Anatomy (SFA). She is currently developing Mermix with Rocio Marano, a participatory performance for children, and touring RADIO WHALES with Timothée Nay and Jamika Ajalon, a site-responsive performance and installation.