City SALTS: Power to the Commons
Free, Fair, and Alive. Duo show with Dunja Herzog & Christian Nympeta
25 Jun – 10 Oct 2021
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Power to the Commons – Free, Fair, and Alive
Dunja Herzog, Christian Nympeta and more,
curated by Benedikt Wyss and Samuel Leuenberger,
together with Patrick Mudekereza & Véronique Poverello Kasongo.
Presented by City SALTS in collaboration
with Waza art center, Lubumbashi/DRC
Project kick-off: 25 June 2021, 6 PM
Natural pool party / Opening 2nd part of the exhibition: 23 September 2021, 6 PM
7 PM Stone organ concert by Beat Weyeneth
Beats by Egon Elliut, after party at Rouine club
City SALTS, Hauptstrasse 12, CH–4127 Birsfelden
Open on Wednesdays and Fridays 2–5 PM,
during Art Basel Fri–Sun 2–6 PM,
summer holidays in July
Das transkontinentale Gemeinschaftsprojekt «Power to the Commons» fragt, wie Kulturzentren, Künstler*innen und wir alle an der Idee des Commonings wachsen können. /
The transcontinental collaborative project "Power to the Commons" asks how cultural centers, artists, and all of us can grow in the idea of the commoning.
[DE] Zusammen mit der zwischen Lagos, Pretoria und Basel lebenden Schweizer Künstlerin Dunja Herzog und dem in New York lebenden ruandischen Künstler Christian Nympeta startete City SALTS mit dem Waza art center, Lubumbashi/DR Kongo, das transkontinentale Gemeinschaftsprojekt "Power to the Commons» zur Frage, wie Kulturzentren, Künstler und wir alle an der Idee der Commons wachsen können. Commons sind Ressourcen, die aus selbstorganisierter, bedürfnisorientierter Produktion und Nutzung hervorgehen. Die kollektive Bewirtschaftung von Commons (Natur, WGs, Open-Source-Software, Sharing Communities etc.) ist besonders herausfordernd, weil unsere Gewohnheiten tief in den Strukturen von Alltag, Markt und Staat verwurzelt sind. Mit dem Langzeitprojekt «Power to the Commons» wagt SALTS den Versuch, seinen Tätigkeitsbereich zu öffnen – angefangen mit dem symbolträchtigen Niederreissen der Zäune rund um seine Ausstellungsräume an der Birs. Weitere konrete Massnahmen folgten dem aktiven Austausch über das Verhältnis von den Commons und der Kunst mit den beteiligten Künstlerinnen und diversen Commoning-Akteurinnen aus der Region. Am 23. September 2021 lädt SALTS ab 18 Uhr in seine Ausstellungsräume in Birsfelden ein, sich bei Birs-Getränken, Mermaid-Eis (beides aus gefiltertem Wasser aus der Birs) und reichhaltigem Buffet die Früchte unserer Arbeit anzuschauen. Die Ausstellung präsentiert eine neue Objektserie von Dunja Herzog – eine Zusammenarbeit der Künstlerin mit den im Garten von CITY Salts beheimateten Bienen (Wachs) und der Birs (Schwemmholz) –, sowie Filmbeiträge von Christian Nyampeta, darunter ein Gespräch mit dem Direktor von Waza, Kurator Patrick Mudekereza aus Lubumbashi. In der veränderten Gartenachitektur gibt Beat Weyeneth ein Steinorgel-Konzert (Orgalitho) für Bienen und Birs.
[EN] Together with Lagos-, Pretoria- and Basel-based Swiss artist Dunja Herzog and New York-based Rwandan artist Christian Nympeta, City SALTS launched the transcontinental collaborative project "Power to the Commons" with the Waza art center, Lubumbashi/DR Congo, on the question of how cultural centers, artists, and all of us can grow from the idea of the commons. Commons are resources that emerge from self-organized, needs-based production and use. Collective management of commons (nature, housing cooperatives, open source software, sharing communities, etc.) is particularly challenging because our habits are deeply rooted in the structures of everyday life, the market, and the state. With the long-term project "Power to the Commons", SALTS is attempting to open up its sphere of activity - starting with the symbolic tearing down of the fences surrounding its exhibition spaces on the banks of the river Birs. Further concrete measures followed the active exchange about the relationship between the commons and art with the participating artists and various commoning actors from the region. On September 23, 2021, starting at 6 pm, SALTS invites you to its exhibition spaces in Birsfelden to join us for Birs drinks, Mermaid ice cream (both filtered water from the Birs River), and a rich buffet to view the closing exhibition of «Power to the Commons». We present a new series of objects by Dunja Herzog – made by the artist in collaboration with the City SALTS’ garden’s bees (wax) and the river Birs (drift wood) –, and film contributions by Christian Nyampeta including a conversation with Waza’s director, Lubumbashi-based curator Patrick Mudekereza. In the transformed garden architecture Beat Weyeneth will perform a stone organ concert (Orgalitho) for bees and Birs.
Unter Tage, 2020 by Dunja Herzog from Eiszeit on Vimeo.
Images: SALTS / Film still Christian Nyampeta, A flower garden of all kinds of loveliness without sorrow, ongoing / Dunja Herzog, Army of Frogs 2018-2020, Photo Mareike Tocha
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Daniel Gustav Cramer
ALL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Kasper Sonne
ASSOCIATIONS NEW
Max Brand, Vittorio Brodmann, Beni Bischof, Claudia Comte, Stéphane Dafflon, Armen Eloyan, Athene Galiciadis, Mathis Gasser, Charlotte Herzig, Thomas Jeppe, Jan Kiefer , Victor Korol , John Monteith , Nicolas Party, David Peschka, Guillaume Pilet, Nicholas Pittmann, Ivan Seal, Francisco Sierra, Loredana Sperini, Tobias Spichtig, Henning Strassburger, Stefan Sulzer, Tyra Tingleff
ASSOCIATIONS NEW
Max Brand, Vittorio Brodmann, Beni Bischof, Claudia Comte, Stéphane Dafflon, Armen Eloyan, Athene Galiciadis, Mathis Gasser, Charlotte Herzig, Thomas Jeppe, Jan Kiefer , Victor Korol , John Monteith , Nicolas Party, David Peschka, Guillaume Pilet, Nicholas Pittmann, Ivan Seal, Francisco Sierra, Loredana Sperini, Tobias Spichtig, Henning Strassburger, Stefan Sulzer, Tyra Tingleff
BRANDS – CONCEPT/AFFECT/MODULARITY
Kari Altmann, Florian Auer, David Jablonowski, Pierre Lumineau, Metahaven, Pamela Rosenkranz, Anne de Vries
CLOSER SCRUB
Tyra Tingleff
CONCERT – COMING HOME
CONCERT – ROCK THE SLAUGTHERHOUSE
Minimetal, Me and the Minimes and Teppichmode
CONEY ISLAND
Yves Scherer
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
DI STIJLLED
Tobias Spichtig
EL BUEN VECINO
Sol Calero
GREEN GROWTH
Katja Novitskova
L’AGE D’OR
Pauline Beaudemont
MATTHEW SMITH & YONATAN VINITSKY
MUTANT
Peles Empire
NEUE WELT, VIEW OVER AUTOCENTER
OUTSIDERS
Pedro Wirz
OUTSIDERS
Pedro Wirz
LET'S PLAY
Rusconi & Sara Vidas
PICTURE THIS
Fredrik Værslev
QUITE BLACK ON THE WESTERN FRONT BUT THE SUN IS STILL AT THE HORIZON AND WORRIES ABOUT THE FOAM
MDFA Union: Beni Bischof, Michael Bodenmann, Georg Gatsas, Barbara Signer
SHOW-OFF
Awst&Walther
STEPPING STONE
Frank Altmann, Awst & Walther, Nina Beier, Eva Berendes, Stefan Burger, Martin Soto Climent, Adam Thompson
STRÖME
Gina Folly & Mandla Reuter
THE HOLE
Karsten Födinger
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
La Lutte Continue, 2000
read the room/you've got to
Etel Adnan, Kolt Beringer, Harry Burke, Cynthia Cruz, Olivia Dunbar, Andrew Durbin, Ida Ekblad, Heike-Karin Föll, Lauren Gault, Harmony Holiday, Karl Holmqvist, Romain Juan, Joan Naviyuk Kane, John Kelsey, Paul Kneale, Sophie Jung, Sophia Le Fraga, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Garrett Nelson, Collier Nogues, Sophie Nys, Fatuma Osman, Vanessa Place, Lauren Printy Currie, Megan Rooney, Andrew Seguin, Donna Stonecipher, Sue Tompkins, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Hannah Woo, Lynn Xu
YOUR PALINDROME, HER ABECEDARIUM
THERMAL WELDING
Raphael Hefti
THERMAL WELDING
Raphael Hefti
TO ZANZIBAR FROM ACAPULCO
Claudia Comte & Guillaume Pilet
TO ZANZIBAR FROM ACAPULCO
Claudia Comte & Guillaume Pilet
UNRELIABLE NARRATORS (PART FOR JEREMIAH)
Adina Popescu
WHERE CUCKOOS NEST IN AUTUMN
Marc Bauer, Armen Eloyan, Sara Masüger
WHERE CUCKOOS NEST IN AUTUMN
Marc Bauer, Armen Eloyan, Sara Masüger
COURTESY OF SALTS
Pedro Wirz
"CRUISING - Sylvie Fleury*
DO YOU FEEL THIS SPIRIT OF ETERNITY?
TIC-TAC. TIC-TAC.
I AM FEELING SO HAPPY.
IF I HAD AN UZI, I WOULD EMPTY A MAGAZINE IN THE SKY.
Gilles Furtwängler
FUJI COLOUR GARDEN
Hagar Schmidhalter
Irmão dos homens todos
Mauro Cerqueira and Pedro Wirz
MY GRAVITY SLPPED AWAY Flaka Haliti
MY HISTORY OF FLOW
Lena Henke
OWEN PIPER AND LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR ON HOW TO TALK DIRTY AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
PANORAMA
Nicolas Party
PEACE, LOVE AND HARMONY
Ditte Gantriis
Tending to Motion, with Nik Emch, Jan Kiefer, Sara Vidas
PHILLIP, LUKAS & ISIDORA
Augustas Serapinas
POST COURRIER ART A Presentation organised between HEAD – Genève, Haute École d‘Art et de Design und die Basisklasse Bildende Kunst / Kunsthochschule Kassel.
THE NIGHT HOLDS TERROR
Emanuel Röhss
WORKS OFF PAPER
With: Penny Goring, Lorraine O’Grady, Lady Pink, Arleen Schloss, Martine Syms
Curated by Harry Burke for The Printed Room
WLGTDWI - A PERFORMANCE EVENING
Paul Kneale and Megan Rooney
Double Take, 2015
2008 Toyota Yaris, audio recording, video projection
Dimensions variable
CLUB UNIVERS with
Angèle Siegenthaler, Katharina Kemmerling, Gregory Stäuble, Linda Wunderlin, Dario Zeo, Sebastien Rück, Davide Wouda, Iris Brodbeck, Manuela Cossalter, Laura Mietrup, Aline Stalder, Chris Handberg, Cyril Hübscher, Njomza Sadikaj, Simone Steinegger, Aysa Stettler, Nadine Cueni, Markus Aebersold, Anna Diehl, Ambra Viviani and Manuel Koechli
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Olivier Castel, Dorota Gawęda and Eglé Kulbokaité, Selina Grueter and Michèle Graf, Than Hussein Clark, Martin Soto Climent.
Michèle Graf, Than Hussein Clark, Martin Soto Climent.*
HONEYBAKED - Jan Kiefer
ZIGZAG INCISIONS with Armando Andrade Tudela, Raven Chacon, Roberto Evangelista, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Alfredo Hubard, Seulgi Lee, Pierre Leguillon, Felipe Mujica, Edit Oderbolz, Blinky Palermo, Tania Pérez Córdova & Francesco Pedraglio, Falke Pisano, Julia Rometti and Jorge Satorre
POCKET - Hanne Lippard. Curated by Harry Burke for The Printed Room
THE LITTLE APOCRYPHA - Emily Mae Smith & Adam Henry
Ho King Man
Stiff Cotton Brain Stone
Installation view, SALTS, 2017
Photo: Gunnar Meier
THE VISITORS - Caroline Mesquita
A FRESH BURN LIKE A DOUBLE TREE - Mélodie Mousset
SOULLESS SKIN - Sarah Margnetti starring Kiki Kogelnik
I Am Our Common Pronoun - Nanna Abell, Sigurđur Ámundason, Josefin Jussi Andersson, Klara Ström &
Hannah Wiker Wikström, Zoe Barcza, Mira Eklund, Artor Jesus Inkerö, Yassine Khaled, Helene Nymann, Eirik Sæther, Vidha Saumya
Infinity has its limits - Kasia Fudakowski, Maria Loboda, Zoe Paul
The New Body - Astrit Ismaili
THE GOURD & THE FISH - Rodrigo Hernández
Bhanu Kapil & Sharon Carlisle
"Mud Female Buddha Equinox Ritual", 2014
Sharon came every morning to sift the mud/build the Buddha . . . the mud female Buddha herself erased one day abruptly. The space was thought of as a “balcony” (after Genet’s Le Balcon). The space of a life, a site of incarnation. Incarnate, fleeting.
Image courtesy the artists
ADRENARCHY - Jumana Manna
HUNTER OF WORLDS, with Nina Canell, Rochelle Feinstein, Louise Lawler, Marie Matusz
Josep Maynou, Alan Schmalz
John Smith, Niels Trannois
HUNTER OF WORLDS, with Nina Canell, Rochelle Feinstein, Louise Lawler, Marie Matusz
Josep Maynou, Alan Schmalz
John Smith, Niels Trannois
Anna Diehl - RESILIENCE
Charles Benjamin - NOT OLD NOT NEW
Marguerite Humeau and Julian Charrière - TWIN EARTH
BODYSPLITS - Nina Beier, Morgan Courtois, Jesse Darling, Cathy Josefowitz, Judith Kakon, Oliver Laric, Kris Lemsalu, Julie Monot, Pakui Hardware, Puppies Puppies, Mia Sanchez, Dorian Sari, Diamond Stingily
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ON FIRE – VULNERABLE FOOTAGE with Melanie Bonajo, Samira Elagoz, Juliana Huxtable, Carolyn Lazard, Leigh Ledare, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tobias Madison, Markus & Markus, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Christoph Schlingensief, Martine Syms, Johannes Willi, Sasha Wortzel with Morgan Bassichis
Charles Benjamin
CROCODILE TEARS
ARMEN ELOYAN
MEGAN ROONEY
Camp Solong
Game of Goose
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Nicolas Party
Nicolas Party
*Lena Henke - Boobs (female fatigue series), 2015
Gina Folly
side 2
Vanessa Safavi
Rodrigo Hernández
Emanuel Röhss
Pauline Beaudemont
Claudia Comte
Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano
Kasper Sonne
Raphael Hefti
Katja Novitskova
Pedro Wirz
Sol Calero
Sol Calero
Tobias Spichtig
Pedro Wirz
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Tyra Tingleff
Tyra Tingleff
UTTER BLISS
Stefan Sulzer
UTTER BLISS
Stefan Sulzer
GLASSWORKS REVERSED
Tobias Spichtig
The Ethicas of Pirating
Adina Popescu