Territories of Waste - On the Return of the Repressed, when a museum showcase how our environment can shift and develop
During the winter month, the Museum Tinguely is devoting an exhibition to the importance of change, of action and the importance of our planet and our environment. All of those topics inspired the artists presented in the show, since the start of global warming and the start of the post-war industrialisation and globalisation on a large scale.
With this large and group exhibition, Territories of Waste focus on the attention on which contemporary artist look at the current state of our planet, from the perspective of the second half of the twentieth century until today's world.
After the destruction of the Second World War, people noticed the importance of waste, and how it increases more and more. Due to the start of a new consumerist concept titled "Planned obsolescence", ecology started to become a concept and concern of it's own. Yet, our country needs action, action we've never done while production more and more, and while becoming 7 billion on this planet. For example, each person of Switzerland proceeded with 700 kilos of garbage every year in 2020, which is one of the most important in the world. And it's not our specific, wasteful and expensive waste plan that will dilute our heavy metals, dust particles and macroplastics...
Most of the artists showed in the exhibition, have at one point or another started a reflection on the subject of waste. From the consequence of our own habit to our environment.
Most of the works of the show are from the 1960s until 2022. At the start, the aftermath of the Second World War, the Nouveau Réaliste and the Junk Art, which practice reflexion on the social and economic shift of consumerism after the war and how we create so much waste that waste can become a source of inspiration of it's own. But, compared to nowadays, the site are leased visible, the landfill are concentrated, the importance of our lifestyle and our wellbeing has changed, we recycled, we try to do our best. But big change still need to happen to make a big impact on our environment.
Today, the contemporary discourse of the world and of artist focus on the importance of geopolitical and ecological conflict, of consumerism and the condition of animals, of veganism and different mode of consumerism.
In the exhibitions most of those subject are linked to contemporary research or artworks compared to historical and critical artworks from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The artists presented in the show are: Arman, Helène Aylon, Lothar Baumgarten, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Joseph Beuys, Rudy Burckhardt, Carolina Caycedo, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Julien Creuzet, Agnes Denes, Douglas Dunn, Julian Aaron Flavin, Nicolás García Uriburu, Hans Haacke, Eric Hattan, Eloise Hawser, Fabienne Hess, Barbara Klemm, Max Leiß, Diana Lelonek, Jean-Pierre Mirouze, Hira Nabi, Otobong Nkanga, Otto Piene, realities:united, Romy Rüegger, Ed Ruscha, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Tejal Shah, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Raul Walch, Pinar Yoldaş.
Informations about the exhibition
Place: Museum Tinguely
Date: 14.9.2022 – 8.1.2023
Curators: Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann
Ticket: Available on the website of the Museum Tinguely OR at the front desk of the museum
Informations about the Museum Tinguely
Museum Tinguely
Paul Sacher-Anlage 2 - P.O Box 3255
CH-4002 Basel
Phone: +41 61 681 93 20
Mail: basel.infostinguely@roche.com