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

26/05/2026

Save the Date!

Dilek Wi******er
The Wound is Our Place

Curated by Chus Martínez
Curatorial assistance Marion Ritzmann

Exhibition 13 – 21 June 2026
Special Opening Wed 17 June 2026, 6 – 9 pm
As part of Art@Dreispitz

der TANK, Basel/Münchenstein

Dilek Wi******er is currently a resident at Atelier Mondial as part of HGK Basel @ Atelier Mondial. Both the exhibition and residency are supported by SAHA.

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26/05/2026

We’re delighted to share the program of our upcoming symposium.

The Political Dimension of Language
Spring Symposium
27. – 28.5.2026
Auditorium D 1.04, HGK Basel FHNW
Livestream → live.hgk.fhnw.ch/iagn-symposium (link in bio)

Contributions by Sinzo Aanza, Skye Arundhati Thomas, Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Heike Geißler, Annelyse Gelman, Mayte Gómez Molina, Sophie Jung, Louis Lüthi, Ingo Niermann, Heather Phillipson, Mark Turner, Simone White

Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
Research: Marion Ritzmann

PROGRAM (subject to alterations)

DAY I • 27.5.2026
Part 1
10.00 am • Welcome by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
10.15 am • Quinn Latimer, The Offscreen Voice (Drones and Drones)
10.30 am • Simone White, ALL RED
11.15 am • Mark Turner, Causation, Agency, Time, and Space (CATS)
Noon • Lunch break

Part 2
2.00 pm • Welcome
2.05 pm • Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Interstice: What Remains Unpronounced
2. 45 pm • Sinzo Aanza, Ngwaki: The Funeral Dance and the Poetic Project
3.20 pm • Break
3.25 pm • Mayte Gómez Molina, Beyond a Paper Body
4.15 pm • Annelyse Gelman, Vexations
5.00 pm • Round-up of DAY I
5.20 pm • End of DAY I

5.30 pm • Exhibition opening, Unfortunate Grammar, curated by Sincerely, Atelier Mondial

DAY II • 28.5.2026
Part 3
10.00 am • Welcome by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
10.15 am • Quinn Latimer, The Offscreen Voice (Drones and Drones)
10.30 am • Heather Phillipson, My Literary Origin Story
11.20 am • Louis Lüthi, The Work of Composition
Noon • Lunch break

Part 4
2.00 pm • Heike Geißler, Mitschrift (online)
2.25 pm • Sophie Jung, To Snare a Sensibility in Words
3.05 pm • Ingo Niermann, Hieroglyphs of the Monadic Age
3.40 pm • Break
3.55 pm • Skye Arundhati Thomas, Writing History (online)
4.30 pm • Round-up of DAY II
5.00 pm • End of DAY II

dertank.ch (link in bio)

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25/05/2026

We conclude the introduction series of our symposium guests with Sophie Jung, Louis Lüthi, Ingo Niermann, and Mark Turner.

SOPHIE JUNG works across text, sculpture, and performance. Her sculptures believe in agnostic alliances, cross-material solidarity, and assemblages that defy resolution. Her writing exists in the tradition of écriture feminine. Upcoming projects include solo shows at Kunsthalle Bern (2026) and MUDAM, Luxemburg (2027), and a monograph with Mousse Publishing. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Manor Art Prize.

LOUIS LÜTHI is the author of Infant A (2012), A Die with Twenty-Six Faces (2019), and On the Self-Reflexive Page II (2021). A recipient of the Swiss Design Award in 2015, he has designed books in collaboration with numerous artists. He is editor at the Geopolitical Open Atlas of the Polity of Literature and GOAT PoL, and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

INGO NIERMANN is a writer, artist, and the editor of the book series Solution (Sternberg Press). Recent projects include The Monadic Age: Notes on the Coming Social Order (2024), and the podcast series Ocean Wants (2021). He initiated the Army of Love and is a lecturer at Institute Art Gender Nature, where he also edits the digital publishing project Wild Papers.

MARK TURNER is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. He is the author of The Origin of Ideas: Blending, Creativity, and the Human Spark (2015). The founding director of the Cognitive Science Network, Turner is a laureate of the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises from the Académie Française.

1 Sophie Jung, courtesy Ora et Lege
2 Louis Lüthi
3 Ingo Niermann 📷 Christian Knörr
4 Mark Turner
All images: courtesy of the guests

Spring symposium, The Political Dimension of Language, 27. – 28.5., on-site and online, program: dertank.ch (link in bio).

23/05/2026

Join us next Wed 27.5. from 5.30 pm for the exhibition opening of Unfortunate Grammar at Atelier Mondial, following the first day of our spring symposium, The Political Dimension of Language.

Unfortunate Grammar
Amador e Jr. Segurança Patrimonial Ltda, Ina Yaelle Aline Hählen, Heather Phillipson, Amadeo Maria Schwaller, Po-Jen Wei, Max Zbinden
Curated by Sincerely
Opening Wed 27.5., 5.30 pm
Readings by Emma Bonven, Pat Homse, Ulas Toprak Fri 5.6., 5 pm
Exhibition 28.5. – 7.6.
Salon Mondial, Basel/Münchenstein
A collaboration between Atelier Mondial and Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW

For the eleventh time, Atelier Mondial and the Institute Art Gender Nature present a collaborative exhibition project that brings together art students with the international artists in residence at Atelier Mondial. This year’s edition is curated by Sincerely, a space organized by and for students. Working in close dialogue with the invited artists, Sincerely is approaching this exhibition as a collective process, shaping a format that reflects the spirit of exchange and mutual engagement that has defined this collaboration between Atelier Mondial and the Institute Art Gender Nature since 2015.

Moreover, the exhibition Unfortunate Grammar resonates with the concerns of the upcoming spring symposium of the Institute Art Gender Nature, The Political Dimension of Language, moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer. The exhibition opening will take place on 26.5., following the first day of the symposium. Thinking language as a structure and system of redistribution of agency and power, the exhibition gathers artistic practices by students, residents of Atelier Mondial, and a symposium participant, Heather Phillipson, that attend to how forms of expression are shaped, displaced, and shared.

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20/05/2026

We’re delighted to introduce the first of many inspiring guests of our upcoming spring symposium, The Political Dimension of Language (27. – 28.5.).

SIMONE WHITE is a poet and critic based in New York. She is the author of Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), and the forthcoming books Warring, a book-length essay on rap music, and New Poems for Museums. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

HEATHER PHILLIPSON is an artist, filmmaker, and poet who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022. Phillipson’s sculpture THE END was selected for the Fourth Plinth commission, Trafalgar Square (2020–2022. Recent solo projects include a permanent sculpture for Hospital Rooms, UK (2025) and Extra Time at Kunsthalle St Annen, Lübeck (2024). Phillipson received the Film London Jarman Award, in 2016.

ANCHAN/ANNA DAUČÍKOVÁ lives and works in Prague. Their artistic practice includes painting, drawing, photography, performance, installation, and moving images. They explore the potentials of q***ring, desire, and non-normative sexuality as well as poverty, post-Soviet trauma, and memory. Multichannel video works of recent years transport q***r statements.

HEIKE GEIßLER is a writer who often works in cross-disciplinary contexts and in various formations. She is the author of Verzweiflungen (2025) and Arbeiten (2025), among others. The recipient of the Heinrich Böll Prize of the city of Cologne, she was recently the Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence at FU Berlin. Her novel Michaela Kohlhaas will be published in May 2026. She lives in Leipzig.

Program and more info: dertank.ch (link in bio).

1 Simone White 📷 Dana Scruggs
2 Heather Phillipson, Rupture No 1: blowtorching the bitten peach, Tate Britain, 2021
3 Anchan/Anna Daučíková 📷 Mira Turba
4 Heike Geißler 📷 Kasimir Sauer
All images: courtesy of the guests

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18/05/2026

Join us next Thursday for Art Taaalkssss with Los Angeles based artist, writer, and educator Alice Bucknell.

Thur 21.5.2026, 5pm
Alice Bucknell
Moderated by Filipa Ramos
Introduction by Lias Hess
On-site  and online
Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building
Livestream→ fhnw.ch/arttaaalkssss-live

Followed by:
6.30 pm exhibition opening Maximian Kunze
Sincerely, room A 1.07, Atelier Building

Alice Bucknell’s work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge. Bucknell is interested in the ecological dimensions of play as an embodied technology that dissolves binaries between human and nonhuman, natural and synthetic intelligence, and self vs world. They have exhibited internationally, including at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Praha, Prague; Ars Electronica, Linz; transmediale, Berlin; Arcade Seoul; Venice Architecture Biennale; Singapore Art Museum; and Serpentine Galleries, London. In 2025, The Alluvials was acquired by SFMOMA, becoming the museum’s first video game in its permanent collection. They teach world-building, game design, and philosophies of technology at SCI-Arc and UCLA, Los Angeles.

For Art Taaalkssss, Alice Bucknell will explore their work through the lens of clipping—the moment in a video game when a player slips through a wall or falls beyond the map. Often treated as a technical error, clipping becomes a method for breaking open systems and exposing their ecological, political, and epistemic structures. Across projects such as The Alluvials (2023), Small Void (2025), and Earth Engine (2026), Bucknell uses gamespace as a site for speculative experimentation. Here, play functions not as representation, but as a way of sensing and imagining the world beyond prediction, mapping, and control.

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

1 Staring at the Sun, 2024—2025 (detail)
2 Earth Engine, 2026 (detail)
3 Courtesy of the artist

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15/05/2026

Another Wild Papers has been published online! No. 29 Moses in Cairo by Joshua Simon.

The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo calls for a repatriation of ancient Egyptian artefacts. At this moment, Sigmund Freud’s last book, Moses and Monotheism (1939), provides a guide for bringing Moses back to Egypt.

Joshua Simon is a writer and curator. Among his exhibitions: Slime (Secession Vienna, 2024), and The Dividual (Leuphana Kunstraum, Lüneburg and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, 2021 – 2022). He is the author of Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013), and the editor of Solution 196-213: United States of Palestine-Israel (Sternberg Press, 2011), Being Together Precedes Being: A Textbook for The Kids Want Communism (Archive Books, 2019), and co-editor with Ingo Niermann of Solution 275-294: Communists Anonymous (Sternberg Press, 2017), among others. These days, he is completing work on an anthology of essays he is editing, The Digital Revolution as Counter-Revolution.

Wild Papers, 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, Staci Bu Shea, Mara Coson, Anne Cotton, Clemens Driessen, Onome Ekeh, Sonia Fernández Pan, Ana Gallardo, 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, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Ronnie Vuine, Kim Wonyoung, and Ran Zhang.

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

Visual: Eva Fàbregas, 2026

12/05/2026

Soon in Basel and online:

The Political Dimension of Language
Spring Symposium
27 – 28 May
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW
On-site and livestream → live.hgk.fhnw.ch/iagn-symposium

Contributions by Sinzo Aanza, Skye Arundhati Thomas, Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Heike Geißler, Annelyse Gelman, Mayte Gómez Molina, Sophie Jung, Louis Lüthi, Ingo Niermann, Heather Phillipson, Mark Turner, and Simone White

Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
Research: Marion Ritzmann

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

Open to the public. Free admission.

Language does not just give name to the world, it produces it. Should we want to make a new world—and we do—we will have to begin with language then. The spring symposium at Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW on 27 and 28 May, is devoted to language in all its ancient and nascent scenes and technologies. How does literature, its ambient forms and practices, shape cognition? How do narrative, metaphor, and linguistic ambiguity allow us to think beyond hegemonic ideas of progress, to feel and imagine from multifold poetics and continuums? What does language do to our bodies and societies? The Political Dimension of Language brings together poets, artists, scholars, novelists, and filmmakers—writers all—whose own irradiating languages examine and embody such questions. Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer, the symposium is part of the biannual symposia series on issues of artistic practice and the social, held at Institute Art Gender Nature since 2018.

The symposium is dedicated to the memory of Henrike Naumann.

Following the first day of the symposium, on 27 May, from 5.30 pm, a group exhibition curated by Sincerely will open at Atelier Mondial.

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

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23/04/2026

Please save the date for our upcoming spring symposium.

The Political Dimension of Language
Spring Symposium
27 – 28 May 2026
Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW
On-site and online

With contributions by Sinzo Aanza, Skye Arundhati Thomas, Anchan/Anna Daučíková, Heike Geißler, Annelyse Gelman, Mayte Gómez Molina, Sophie Jung, Louis Lüthi, Ingo Niermann, Heather Phillipson, Mark Turner, and Simone White

Moderated by Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer
Research: Marion Ritzmann

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

The symposium is open to the public. Free admission.
The program will be announced soon on dertank.ch (link in bio).

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