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Edition Variable; druckwerk across dimensions and disciplines

Dieses Ausstellung besteht aus einer Reihe von Videos, die zu erweitertem Denken und kollaborativen Prozessen in der Druckgrafik anregen und in denen Soft Mechanics und Edition POW! vorgestellt werden – beide sind Teil der Reihe «Alive! Contemporary Printmaking» von druckwerk, Juni 2026.

Soft Mechanics Eine ortsspezifische Installation von Altherr/Weiss, die das industrielle Erbe in ein eindringliches Erlebnis verwandelt. Presented by The Racket Club.

'Altherr/Weiss visualise the circulation of paper through the presses, translating motion into three-dimensional form. Paper becomes sculpture: voluminous, cloud-like, suspended in time. Where the machines are heavy and immovable, the paper is amplified into something airy, fragile and accumulative. It is a meditation on the beauty of industrial process, and the importance of creative process in the communication of ideas and sharing of knowledge.

The machines at druckwerk represent generations of practice at risk of disappearing in an increasingly digitized world. The installation's billowing paper forms also speak to a broader paradox: The shapes we associate with digital immateriality, clouds, data, and the weightless promise of the internet are, in reality, sustained by physical infrastructure of enormous environmental cost. Paper, cast iron, and human hands offer a different kind of weight.' (The Racket Club, 2026)

Edition 'POW!' Live-Kooperationen zwischen bildenden Künstlern und Grafikkünstlern mit Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Zeynep Deniz Çalışkan, Adrian Künzi und Lucinda Tanner. Gezielte, eintägige, wechselseitige Begegnungen – reaktionsfreudig, spielerisch, experimentell, voller Energie.

'artists working with professional printers...have played a crucial role in printmaking for centuries. Nevertheless, the recent past has been marked by an enormous growth in collaborative printmaking, transforming the art of the print ... to one that rivals painting and sculpture in scale, technical complexity, and place of importance in many artists' oeuvres.'

(Graphicstudio: contemporary art from the collaborative workshop at the University of South Florida / Ruth E. Fine and Mary Lee Corlett, 1991)

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Edition 'POW!' Live artist / printmaker collaborations featuring Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Adrian Künzi and Lucinda Tanner

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Edition 'POW!' Live artist / printmaker collaborations featuring Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Adrian Künzi and Lucinda Tanner

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Edition POW! Live artist / printmaker collaborations featuring Zeynep Deniz Çalışkan and Lucinda Tanner

Edition Variable; druckwerk across disciplines and dimensions, expanded thinking in printmaking VIII_Prt 2

Edition POW! Live artist / printmaker collaborations featuring Zeynep Deniz Çalışkan and Lucinda Tanner

Die Reihe «Alive! Contemporary Printmaking» von druckwerk findet im ikonischen Gebäude der Brauerei Warteck statt und bringt Warteck damit zurück in den Kreis der Satellitenausstellungen der Art Basel Week. Das Programm beleuchtet die zeitgenössische Druckgrafik aus vielfältigen Blickwinkeln, freut sich über ihre interdisziplinäre Reichweite und unterstreicht ihre Ausdruckskraft, die über die Multiplizität hinausgeht.

‘the unique ways that printmaking generates meaning at the level of fundamental physical operations…’ have the potential to ‘… create paths of thinking across different spheres of making…’. Jennifer L. Roberts, Contact; Art and the Pull of Print, 2024

druckwerk wurde 1995 gegründet und ist ein kollektives Atelier, das sich gleichzeitig der Pflege des traditionellen Wissens im Bereich der Druckgrafik und der Sicherung ihrer fortwährenden Rolle als Medium der zeitgenössischen Kunst widmet.

druckwerk
Werkraum Warteck pp
2nd floor, Burgweg 7, 4058 Basel
www.druckwerk.ch

Video footage Soft Mechanics: Sarah Keenlyside
Video footage Edition POW!: Sophie Musoyan
Editing and curation: Lucinda Tanner
2026