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Institut Kunst Gender Natur, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW
BA / MA Fine Arts

31/10/2026

On view until 2 November at der TANK. Come by!

Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir – Testimony of a Time Traveler
Until 2 November 2026
Opening hours: noon to 6 pm
der TANK, Basel/Münchenstein

The exhibition Testimony of a Time Traveler at der TANK consists of a new sound installation by Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir.

Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir is studying in the master’s program at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. The artist’s practice can be described as a search for sincerity and vulnerability through imitation, gestures, and play, emerging in sound art, performance, and installations. She explores memory, humor, and repetition, using voice and melodies to investigate how we connect with our environments.

Students’ Realm is an exhibition series featuring projects by students of the Institute Art Gender Nature.

📷 courtesy of the artist

Silfrún Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW

30/10/2026

Soon in Basel and online:

The Question of Class: Art Labor and Class Erasure
Fall Symposium
12. – 13.11.2026
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW
On-site and livestream → live.hgk.fhnw.ch/iagn-symposium

Contributions by Sabian Baumann, Noa and Lara Castro Lema, Maurin Dietrich, Elisa Giardina Papa, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, Doreen Mende, Elke aus dem Moore, Amol K Patil, James Richards, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Latefa Wiersch, Angharad Williams, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Tirdad Zolghadr

Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
Research: Marion Ritzmann

The question of class—within the art world, as without—is not to be spoken aloud. Labor and precarity, abstracted and theorized and individualized, yes, but structural inequality, poverty, and the destruction of the welfare state built by twentieth-century labor movements, no. This symposium considers the erasure of class in the contemporary art worldand its markets, even as hierarchies of race, gender, geography are continually centered. The isolation of art workersinto individual performers, the vilifying of migrant workers versus citizens, the structural fragmentation of freelancework, all make collective bargaining exigent. More questions, then: Who must work, and what is the effect of today’stechnocratic accumulation of wealth? Is there a working-class aesthetics? What do we lose when the symbolic languageof contemporary art becomes the language of the wealthy few? What are the real possibilities of a new classconsciousness? From symbolic wages and symbolic languages to material realities and artistic transformations, we will go. Join us.

Dedicated to the memory of Dolores Huerta.

Following the first day of the symposium, the exhibition, Wheels, by Golnaz Hosseini will open at der TANK.

Program: dertank.ch (link in bio).

@ree.mende  

29/10/2026

New paper online! No. 33, Gifts and occupations, by Sadie Plant, based on her presentation at our 2025 fall symposium, was recently published.

The academicization of art schools risks diluting their uniqueand culturally vital mix of intellectual, social, and studio-basedwork. A look at Friedrich Fröbel’s pioneering kindergartenpractices can help to remind us of the track they were once on.

Sadie Plant didn’t attend kindergarten or art school but very much appreciates them both. She teaches on the Contemporary Arts Practice MA at the HKB in Bern.

Gifts and occupations is based on a presentation by Sadie Plant during the fall symposium, Transmission for Transformation: On Artistic Pedagogies and Democracy, held in November 2025 at the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW, in collaboration with Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and Culturescapes 2025 Sahara.

Previous papers include contributions by Jumana Emil Abboud, aliwen, Yeser Berro, Staci Bu Shea, Mara Coson, Anne Cotton, Clemens Driessen, Onome Ekeh, Sonia Fernández Pan, Ana Gallardo, Mayte Gómez Molina, HMOT, Kim de l’Horizon, Elfriede Jelinek, Sofia Karim, Jovana Maksić and Jenna Sutela, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, Ilan Manouach, Kettly Mars, Amanda E. Metzger, Momus, Anina Müller, Ingo Niermann, Claire Pentecost, Karin Pittman, Filipa Ramos, Adania Shibli, Joshua Simon, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Ronnie Vuine, Kim Wonyoung, and Ran Zhang.

Download free pdf on wildpapers.ch (link in bio).
 
1 Eva Fàbregas, 2026
3 Sadie Plant, Fall Symposium, Transmission for Transformation: On Artistic Pedagogies and Democracy 📷 Christian Knörr

Eva Fàbregas Quinn Latimer Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Culturescapes MA Contemporary Arts Practice

22/10/2026

We’re very excited and honored to welcome Matthew Barney online next week for Art Taaalkssss. Join us on-site or via livestream!

Art Taaalkssss
Thur 29.10.2026, 5 pm
Matthew Barney (online conversation)
Moderated by Filipa Ramos
Introduction by Belén Mallol Onfray
On-site and online
Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building
Livestream → fhnw.ch/arttaaalkssss-live

For more than three decades, New York based artist Matthew Barney has developed a singular body of work across film, performance, sculpture, photography, and drawing. His films, including The Cremaster Cycle (1994 – 2002), Drawing Restraint (2005), River of Fundament (2014), bring together elaborate mythologies, physical action, and a sustained exploration of how bodies encounter resistance, transformation, and constraint. These cinematic worlds extend into sculptures and installations.

For Art Taaalkssss, Barney returns to The Cremaster Cycle to consider how the work has continued to shift in meaning since its creation. He will reflect on its place between art and cinema, and on how its forms, materials and mythologies speak to the cultural, political and technological conditions of the present. The talk will offer a rare opportunity to revisit this landmark work with the artist and to hear how he understands its evolving life more than two decades after its completion.

Barney’s work has been presented internationally at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Schaulager, Basel/Münchenstein; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and Fondation Cartier, Paris.

Following Art Taaalkssss, Silfrún Una Guðlaugsdóttir’s exhibition, Testimony of a Time Traveler, will open at 6.30 pm in der TANK.

dertank.ch/art-taaalkssss (link in bio)

1 CREMASTER 1, 1995, production still 📷 Michael James O’Brien, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery © 1995 Matthew Barney
2 CREMASTER 5, 1997, production still 📷 Michael James O’Brien, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery © 1997 Matthew Barney Matthew Barney
3 📷 Ari Marcopoulos

Filipa Ramos Belén Mallol🎐🫧 Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW SCHAULAGER

Silfrún

13/10/2026

We are pleased to introduce the new SNSF research project led by Uriel Orlow

Translocal Climate Narratives: Aesthetic Strategies Beyond Solutions and Despair
Uriel Orlow, Denise Bertschi, Francesca Brusa, Maëlle Cornut, Laurence Favre
SNSF research project
2026 – 2030
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW

Translocal Climate Narratives: Aesthetic Strategies Beyond Solutions and Despair is an artistic SNSF research project by Uriel Orlow, Denise Bertschi, Francesca Brusa, Maëlle Cornut, and Laurence Favre exploring how to narrate the climate crisis beyond technological solutionism and apocalyptic despair. Through four practice-led field studies connecting Switzerland with the Himalayas, Peru, Mozambique and Southern Europe/North Africa, the project investigates the crisis’s uneven impacts and geographic interconnections. Working with local communities and specialists across disciplines, the project examines human and more-than-human entanglements with minerals, plants, animals, and the atmosphere. It develops aesthetic strategies that make practices of resilience, adaptation, repair, and care perceptible, cultivating ways of living with the crisis without turning away. A transversal art-theoretical study situates the research and its outcomes within regional and wider critical contexts. Together, these approaches aim to strengthen climate literacy and generate situated imaginaries of transformative change.

The research project Translocal Climate Narratives is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW.

Still: Uriel Orlow, Forest Futurism, 2024

dertank.ch/research (link in bio)

Uriel Orlow Francesca Brusa Ma¨L .volk.art Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW
SNSF | FNS | SNF

09/10/2026

• A double save-the-date •

The Question of Class: Art Labor and Class Erasure
Fall Symposium
12. – 13.11.2026
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW
On-site and online

As part of the symposium series Gender and Equality in the Arts

Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer

The guests and program will be announced soon on dertank.ch (link in bio).

Following the first day of the symposium, the exhibition Wheels by Golnaz Hosseini will open at der TANK.

Golnaz Hosseini
Wheels
Curated by Roman Kurzmeyer
Opening 12.11.2026, from 5.30 pm
Exhibition 13. – 22.11.2026
der TANK

dertank.space (link in bio)

Quinn Latimer Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW

Designs by Ana Domínguez Marc Vidal Hernández

07/10/2026

New paper online! No. 32, The Ignorance Dividend, by Ilan Manouach was recently published.

Comprehension is not the source of competence but its late-arriving, fragile byproduct—knowledge systems, from academic journals to AI models to financial instruments, have always certified outputs they don’t fully under-stand. The current regulatory demand for transparency is a form of epistemic theater, and the alternative is governance built on enforceable liability, outcome monitoring, and consequence-tracing rather than on the fiction that complex systems can be made legible to those they affect.

Ilan Manouach is a comics artist and postdoctoral scholar in Computational Creativity at FNRS, University of Liège, with affiliations at Harvard metaLAB and Paris VIII. His work spans conceptual comics, tactile publishing, and AI governance, examining how computational systems reshape the conditions under which knowledge is produced, certified, and contested. He is the founder of Echo Chamber, a Belgian comics research nonprofit, and Topovoros Books, a Greek publishing house dedicated to translating key humanities texts. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School.

Wild Papers—Unpredictable as the Future, edited by Ingo Niermann, is a collection of concise scenarios that affect the future of art, technology, gender, and nature.

Previous papers include contributions by Jumana Emil Abboud, aliwen, Yeser Berro, Staci Bu Shea, Mara Coson, Anne Cotton, Clemens Driessen, Onome Ekeh, Sonia Fernández Pan, Ana Gallardo, Mayte Gómez Molina, HMOT, Kim de l’Horizon, Elfriede Jelinek, Sofia Karim, Jovana Maksić and Jenna Sutela, Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei, Kettly Mars, Amanda E. Metzger, Momus, Anina Müller, Ingo Niermann, Claire Pentecost, Karin Pittman, Filipa Ramos, Adania Shibli, Joshua Simon, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Ronnie Vuine, Kim Wonyoung, and Ran Zhang.

Download free pdf on wildpapers.ch (link in bio).

Visual: Eva Fàbregas, 2026

Ilan Manouach Eva Fàbregas Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW

05/10/2026

Join us this Thursday for the first Art Taaalkssss of the fall season with British writer, naturalist, historian of science, and poet Helen Macdonald.

Thur 8.10.2026, 5 pm
Helen Macdonald
Moderated by Filipa Ramos
Introduction by Jasmine Steiner
On-site  and online
Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building, HGK Basel FHNW
Livestream→ fhnw.ch/arttaaalkssss-live

Helen Macdonald’s work moves between memoir, natural history, cultural criticism, and environmental thought. Across their writing, animals emerge as living beings with their own perceptions and ways of inhabiting the world, as well as figures shaped by human histories, desires, and fears. Macdonald is particularly attentive to the intimate and often unsettling relationships that form across species: the forms of knowledge produced through close observation, the attachments that grow through care and companionship, and the impulses to possess, classify or control other lives.

In books such as H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights and Prophet, co-authored with Sin Blaché, Macdonald brings personal experience into conversation with the histories of science, falconry, conservation, and extinction. Birds occupy a central place in this work, opening onto questions of freedom, migration, violence, grief, and belonging. Their writing also asks how encounters with animals, forests, weather, dreams, and unfamiliar landscapes might alter the ways we understand ourselves and our place within a densely inhabited world.

Currently a writer in residence at Atelier Mondial in Basel/Münchenstein, Macdonald will reflect during Art Taaalkssss on their lifelong fascination with birds and the interspecies encounters that have shaped their writing. The conversation will also introduce the project they are developing during their time in Basel, offering a glimpse into a new work as it takes form and into the observations, questions and local encounters from which it is emerging.

Images:
Book covers: details
All images courtesy of Helen Macdonald

dertank.ch/art-taaalkssss (link in bio)

Filipa Ramos Chus Martinez ꧁ ꧂ Jasmine Tara Steiner Henttonen Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Atelier Mondial

01/10/2026

Here’s our upcoming Art Taaalkssss program, and we’re delighted to welcome wonderful guests. Join us on-site or online!

Art Taaalkssss
Fall Semester 2026/2027
Curated by Filipa Ramos
On-site and online
Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building, HGK Basel FHNW
Livestream: fhnw.ch/arttaaalkssss-live (link in bio)

Thur 8.10.2026, 5 pm
Helen Macdonald

Thur 29.10. 2026, 5 pm
Matthew Barney
(online conversation)

Thur 26.11.2026, 5 pm
Linn

Thur 17.12.2026, 5 pm
Andrea Queralt

Thur 7.1.2027, 5 pm
Mira M. Yang

Art Taaalkssss are public conversations about artistic practices in the world today. Artists, musicians, exhibition-makers, and other thinkers speak about their work and the issues that matter to them. This series of discursive events reverberates the practices and interests of the Institute Art Gender Nature and shares them publicly. Art Taaalkssss are part of the CoCreate lecture series at the HGK Basel FHNW.

The fall program is dedicated to conservationist, environmentalist, and biologist Mona Khalil.

dertank.ch/art-taaalkssss (link in bio)

Missed a past Art Taaalkssss session? You can find videos of many past talks on dertank.ch/videos (link in bio).

Andrea Queralt .mann Filipa Ramos Chus Martinez Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW SCHAULAGER Atelier Mondial

Design Marc Vidal Hernández

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