Museum Tinguely
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Located in the Solitudepark by the Rhine, the museum was designed by the Ticinese architect Mario Botta and opened on 3 October 1996.
A variety of Tinguely's kinetic art sculptures are on permanent display, complemented with illustrations, photographs and other documents related to the artist's life and work. Tinguely's wife, Niki de Saint Phalle has donated 55 sculptures to the museum. The museum's temporary exhibitions show works from Tinguely's friends and contemporaries, as well as other modern artists such as Bernhard Luginbühl, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein, among others.
History
[edit]In 2023, the Museum Tinguely introduced a new exhibition titled La roue = c’est tout, which revisits Tinguely’s pioneering contributions to kinetic art.[1] Upon entry, visitors encounter Éloge de la folie (1966), a large-scale relief originally created as a stage design for a ballet production in Paris. The piece had been stored in a private collection for two decades before being acquired by the museum. The exhibition also includes early Méta-Mécaniques, scrap-based machines from the 1960s, large Méta-Harmonies, and documentation of Tinguely’s collaborations with other artists.[1] Later that year, the museum hosted The Last Reality Show, a conceptual installation by playwright Boris Nikitin. The work featured a replica of the living container used in the first season of the reality television show Big Brother.[2] Originally created in 2020 for a theatre production in Germany, the installation was presented as a walk-through exhibit. The museum described the installation as a counterpart to Tinguely’s engagement with the relationship between humans and machines.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Das Museum Tinguely stellt den Hauskünstler wieder ins Zentrum". Swissinfo. 7 February 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Museum Tinguely Basel spotlights 'Big Brother' living container". Swissinfo. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
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