Summe

For the new edition of the ∑ SUMME Biennale in March, we would once again like to invite the public and the art spaces to meet and talk to each other in the exhibitions and events scattered throughout the city of Basel. A convivial opening with performances on March 7, 2025 will be the actual kick-off, after which team members of ∑ SUMME will offer guided tours of several selected exhibitions on the four following weekends - and for individual tourists, there will be suggested tours through the offspace jungle into the magical world of Basel emerging art.

The program during the ∑ SUMME Biennale will be published on our calendar on an ongoing basis.

For our public guided tours, take a look at our calendar or click here.

∑ SUMME-Biennale 2025: Here we go!

This Friday, March 7th 2025 starting at 19h we will celebrate the opening of the

∑ SUMME-Biennale in Kasko with the following program:

19.00 DOORS KASKO( °ヮ° )

20.00 Performance Barbara Naegelin

21.00 Concert svmthoX

22.00 DJ set LaPutz

We invite the Basel OFF scene, its protagonists and friends, as well as the general public, to celebrate the start of the ∑ SUMME Biennale at KASKO with us, to network and enjoy the evening together.

We will give an insight into the rich SUMME program for March 2025, tips for guided tours and look forward to the performance by Barbara Naegelin, the concert by svmthoX, as well as the DJ set by LaPutz, which invites you to dance and linger.

KASKO(((( °ヮ° )))

Werkraum Warteck pp, Burgweg 15, 2nd floor, 4058 Basel

www.kasko.ch

For this edition of the ∑ SUMME Biennale, we have invited well-known people from the Basel art scene to take a look at the program and make personal recommendations.

Marlene Wenger, curator of HEK in Münchenstein, is the first to tell us what she is particularly looking forward to:

Artstübli/Haus Oslo Ateliers: Oslo Intercity - Food for Thought
Saturday, 8.03. 14:00-15:30
Roundtable und Fermentationsworkshop
with Daniela Petrini and Tanja Trampe
= because I care about my micriobiome and fermented food obviously brings healthy bacteria into the intestinal flora.

symbiont.space
Sunday, 9.03.: New Weird book club/reading circle - venturing into “new weird” and contemporary fantasy stuff, all about weirding nature, weirding human nature, weirding tech
= Because I live right in the building and can stumble down to the weird book club on Sunday and I think weird should be the new hip

Vernissage at Peripherie 8:
Area Paradiso - Daniela Müller, Angela Staffelbach, Valie Winter
Saturday 22.03. 18:00-20:00
= Because I got to know Angela's work at the Regionale and was thrilled, and would like to be surprised again

Kunst im Nomad: Q.U.I.C.H.E. at the Gym
Friday 28.03.25, from 19:00
= because I like listening and finally wanted to take part in a Q.U.I.C.H.E. event.

Wie wär's mal mit: "Brankovic Collection" with works by Ilknur Bahadir, Ronja Burkard, Nora Aliena Friedlin, Sarah Gabele, Simon Gromic, Manon Landucci, Vladimir Miljević
= because I've always wanted to take a look at Ana's collection.

Photo Credit: Jonas Moser

Claudio Vogt advocates “No power to AI!” and has selected programs that focus on analogue forms of encounter. Claudio says: “It's a personal motivation to stand up to artificial intelligence in the context of art. That's why I want to encourage as many people as possible to engage with language, poetry and text-based works. “Choose your weapons,” people, write, speak, swallow or spit and go to the following training camps or take a look at the following works:

Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., DOCK
“No munchies, no fight,” which is why the fffff Fermentations collective invites you to the ‘Breadstravaganza’ with the question: ”Can archives also be a place of social exchange?” To conclude their project, Leah Nehmert, Mariana Murcia and Laurie Mlodzik present their process and some of the traces, breads, yeasts and grains they have produced in their bubbling and bonding collaboration with the artists of the archive.

Friday, March 28, 2025, 19:00, Nomad
Kunst im NOMAD has invited the queer writing collective Q.U.I.C.H.E. as part of the SUMME Biennale. The collective will read new texts in the gym of the Design Hotel, a workout of words, so to speak.

Sunday, March 30, 2025, 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., DOCK
The writing and thinking workshop “Autosociobiographical thinking, storytelling, writing and acting” deals with questions of social origin, class affiliation and its forms of discrimination. After a short reading by Olivier David, participants will work with Marcel Meury to reflect on their own class origins and history.

Last chance!
At City Salts in Birsfelden, composer and video artist Jannik Giger and stage designer Demian Wohler will be showing their walk-in installation “Lamento”, a mixture of music video and stage drama. Don't miss it!

Caption: Claudio in the exhibition by Klára Hosnedlová at the Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. photo: Stee Van Stark

Nadja Solari is an artist from Basel and teaches at the Art Gender Nature Institute at the HGK.
Nadja is looking forward to, among other things:

Studio47
Online Fundraiser
15.03.25, from 19:00

with noiserr, Sonia de Jager, Céline Manz, Sophie Jung, Inka ter Haar, Seth Parker Woods, Nadja Solari, Farvash, Rhoda Davids Abel, Larisa Crunțeanu, Knistern, flo kaufmann, Kabaal, Daniela Brugger, Lydia Wong, Maria Mayland, Anaïs Wenger, Andrea Khora, Saadat Aitelieva, Conrad Bosshard, ISJ, Milena Naef & Hannah Kindler, Hammer Band

-> not entirely unbiased, something for the ears; they're fun, the overdubbed cassettes from studio 47

Voltage
home sweet home
Strotter Inst., Cirrus Minor, Herr Herrli, Ana Vujic, Betonist
29.03.25 19:00-22:00

-> at Voltage follows strotter inst., an all-time turntable-frickel evergreen to listen to again and again

info space
Selina Lutz - Unter der Treppe im Haus: Good Morning Mattress
31.01.-15.03.25
Mondays & Saturdays 13:00-18:00 and by appointment

-> I really want to see the exhibition by Selina Lutz in the info_space, I'm very curious about it

KUNST IM NOMAD
Friday, March 28, 2025, 7 pm, Nomad
Kunst im NOMAD has invited the queer writing collective Q.U.I.C.H.E. as part of the SUMME Biennale.

-> then my all-time favorite quiche as a read-aloud workout in the Nomad gym, purrrrr

And also great for sure:
Hebel_121
Wie Wär‘s Mal Mit

Raffael Dörig was curator at the media art space [plug.in] in Basel. He has been director of the Kunsthaus Langenthal since 2012.
Raffael is looking forward to some highlights of the ∑ SUMME Biennale:

symbiont.space
15.03. 14:00 h
Experimental! The anarcho-scientific laboratory afternoon for children. Topic: crystals
I'm looking forward to this new format for children at Symbiont Space and will be taking my kids there. On the subject of crystals, I will be taking along some specimens from a relative's collection that recently came into my possession unexpectedly (see picture).

DOCK - Kunst- und Archivraum
Saturday, 22.03. 15:00-18:00 h
fffff collective: Breadstravaganza
Leah Nehmert is currently exhibiting her paintings at Kunsthaus Langenthal. I'm excited to see what she, Laurie Mlodzik and Mariana Murcia have been fermenting in the dock over the last few weeks as the fffff collective. I really like the title Breadstravaganza.

Voltage
29.03. 19:00-22:00 h
Sound interventions by Strotter Inst., Cirrus Minor & Herr Herrli
Strotter Inst. has been converting record players into instruments and installations since the 90s. I'm looking forward to seeing him live again and discovering Cirrus Minor and Herr Herrli, who are still unknown to me.