Calendar - Summe

26.5.25 – 24.7.25

【 ARTDOCKEN: ART AND ECONOMY IN DIALOGUE by RU Kollektiv 】

Exhibition

Workshop

IMPULSE PROJECT: 26.5. – 24.7.25

OPENING: 25.6.25 15:30

As a collaboration between DOCK and the art education collective RU, the ‘artdocken’ project offers young people from the region the opportunity to engage intensively with art and its economic interdependencies using the example of ‘Art Basel’.

With ‘artdocken’, DOCK, together with the RU Kollektiv, is initiating an extracurricular art education project that encourages young people to adopt a critical attitude towards the complex connections between art and business through direct contact with artists and gallery owners and to find their own language of art and cultural criticism. By experimenting with various artistic and literary methods, the participants are introduced to the observation and criticism of art. In direct dialogue with artists from Basel, the young people also receive important background information and become familiar with commercial and contemporary trends and positions in the art world. The discussions will focus on the ‘Art Basel’ art fair and the question of what role the fair plays for the region's art world and how local artists and galleries relate to it.

What does art have to do with the economy? How is the price of a work of art determined? Who determines prices and how do they change over time? What sales arguments do gallery owners use to sell their works to customers? What do buyers value in artworks and how do they make purchasing decisions? And what does contemporary art teach us about capitalist mechanisms and their impact on the social and ecological environment?

In addition to two classes from the Wirtschaftsgymnasium Basel, two other young people are taking part in the project, selected through a competition organised by ‘Die Basler Eule’.

At the end of the project, a joint exhibition will take place at DOCK, which will showcase the fanzines, printed matter and the thoughts of the young people in the shop windows of families, friends and the general public. The resulting texts will also be published in collaboration with ‘Die Basler Eule’ via the digital literary magazine.

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14.6.25 – 9.8.25

Melissa Staiger: PRISMA

Exhibition

12.6.25 – 16.8.25

Michèle Janata: PNEUMA

Exhibition

Michèle Janata: PNEUMA
12.6. - 16.8.25

Vernissage: 12.6.25, from 18:00
Artist: Michèle Janata
Guest artist: Pascal Decaillet
Curator: Wiktoria Tundys

Opening hours:
Thu + Fri, 11:00 – 18:00
Sat, 14:00 – 18:00
and by appointment

We live suspended in the ether, and yet it is indispensable for our existence. Every breath connects us to pneuma (Greek: πνεῦμα) - the invisible energy that quietly shapes our ideas, feelings and sense of belonging. Air that does not glow, a space without touch and yet we trust it unconditionally.

Michèle Janata makes this silent power tangible with her installations. Thin, hand-blown glass panes, some opalescent, some almost transparent, capture a 532 nm laser and changing light. What becomes visible are pulsating geographies of breath: energy maps that interweave body, mind and cosmos into a common matter of respiration. By varying the intensity of the light and the angle of incidence, the artist makes the seemingly static vibrate. The glass and light mesh flickers in the room like an inhalation and exhalation.

Pascal Decaillet complements the exhibition with an olfactory topography. For Strangely Elated, he created heavy, handmade flacons that house his own fragrance compositions. As talismans of memory and ritual, they open up a dialog with our inner landscapes.

Pneuma does not tell a linear story - it breathes circularly.
Gently but inexorably, the exhibition reminds us that the invisible is anything but insignificant and that true movement often arises on the threshold.

Biography:
Michèle Janata is a glass artist whose ethereal yet dynamic works transcend the materiality of glass to explore the interplay of light and form. In the Pneuma exhibition, Janata presents glass and light installations that immerse visitors in a mystical spatial experience. Through an imaginative combination of traditional and modern techniques, she expands the possibilities of glass as a medium and invites reflection on space and reality.
She began her training in the field of glass art at the Institute for Artistic Ceramics and Glass in Höhr-Grenzhausen, where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016. Her artistic career has been accompanied by purchases from collections such as the Ernsting Glass Museum and the Art Collection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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