Regionale 23 Homes at Kunsthaus Baselland

Artists: Ester Alemayehu Hatle, Christine Camenisch, Johannes Vetsch, Lea Fröhlicher, Anja Ganster, Alyona Grekova, Aida Kidane, Lena Laguna Diel, Josefina Leon Ausejo, Daniela Müller, Cheyenne Oswald, Joan Pallé, Nadiia Rohozhyna, Nicolas Sarmiento, Jade Tang, Inka ter Haar

Exhibition title: Regionale 23 Homes

Curated by: Ines Goldbach and Ines Tondar

Venue: Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland

Date: November 27, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Kunsthaus Baselland

The concept of home has become more fragile. It has long since ceased to simply be the place where you are born and grow up, surrounded by friends and family; where the language of the family home is also spoken in the streets and at school. A place that is synonymous with belonging, security. People often move for study or for work, but—unfortunately and increasingly—crises, fear and danger also cause or even force many to leave their own four walls or home behind.

The artists invited to this year‘s Regionale at Kunsthaus Baselland all live and work in the region, in France, Germany or Switzerland – but their home is more. They come from Ukraine and have fled to Basel from Russia‘s war of aggression. They come from different cities and regions of Switzerland, Germany, France, Catalonia, Peru, Argentina, Eritrea, Ethiopia etc. to study, live and work as artists in the region. They have spent extended periods of time in places like South Africa on scholarships to work and experience the country. The region we are in, called the tri-border area, unites much more than three countries, because the people who live here for shorter or longer periods of time and enrich us come from all over the world – voluntarily or for political reasons.

What does homeland mean today, when many of us have left for new places or countries to make a new home? Why do we use the word homes so rarely, when it is what would correspond to many of us? Thus, the exhibition shows precisely these circumstances of our here and now; it addresses in different ways ideas or constructs around places of coexistence, of origin, of temporary residence, of emotional attachment – but at the same time also reflects on those that they had to leave behind. Moments of being on the move, whether voluntarily and involuntarily, are also thematized here. With their works, the invited artists pose the decisive and at the same time urgent question that needs clarifying today: How do we want to live in the future?

How do we want to shape the future together? And not least: What will it take for us to bring about change in society, culture, politics, nature – so that we can live together with respect and openness in all our differences and diversity? (IG)

The Regionale is an annual group exhibition developed in the context of a cross-border cooperation of 18 institutions in Germany, France, and Switzerland with a focus on local contemporary art production in the three-country region around Basel.

Alyona Grekova, Frequency illusion, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Alyona Grekova, Guardian fairy/When dreams come true, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Christine Camenisch & Johannes Vetsch, Hofgang, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Inka ter Haar, LOVE 3/15, 2019/2020. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Inka ter Haar, LOVE 3/15, 2019/2020; LOVE 3/15, 2019/2020. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Inka ter Haar, LOVE 3/15, 2019/2020; Ester Alemayehu Hatle, Immobilien Stadt, 2022; Durable plastic, trashed for the replacement, 2022; Looking at all that might be lost (Back to refurbishments and demolitions), 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Ester Alemayehu Hatle, Immobilien Stadt, 2022; Durable plastic, trashed for the replacement, 2022; Tenant and new tenants, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Ester Alemayehu Hatle, A prepared exit, 2022; Durable plastic, trashed for the replacement, 2022; No point of reference, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Jade Tang, Caresser l’histoire, ongoing, installation (Documentation, 2019-2022; Sonder le sol, 2020-2021; Stratigraphic units, 2019-2021; Typologie de tiges, 2021). Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Jade Tang, Caresser l’histoire, ongoing, installation (Sonder le sol, 2020-2021; Sculptures de graines [corn], 2011; Carpothèque, 2022). Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Nicolas Sarmiento, Live reduction, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Lea Fröhlicher, Yerevan for the Time Being, 2021; Nicolas Sarmiento, Live reduction, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Cheyenne Oswald, Ode to the pace of slugs – Variation 2, 2021, Courtesy the artist; Anja Ganster, En el estudio 1, 2017; En el estudio 2, 2017; En el estudio 3, 2017; Daniela Müller, How to get a mole out of a garden, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Daniela Müller, How to get a mole out of a garden, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Cheyenne Oswald, Ode to the pace of slugs – Variation 2, 2021, Courtesy the artist; Barnhill, 2018, Depósito de la Colección Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2021, Museo de Arte Jaime Morera de Lleida; Anja Ganster, En el estudio 1, 2017. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Cheyenne Oswald, Ode to the pace of slugs – Variation 2, 2021, Courtesy the artist. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Cheyenne Oswald, The garden became a boundless wideness – Episode 1, 2020, Courtesy the artist. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Josefina Leon Ausejo, Asymmetric Psychegeography, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Nadiia Rohozhyna, Tatarka, 2021, with Oleksandr Gorbunov. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Joan Pallé, Barnhill, 2018, Depósito de la Colección Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2021, Museo de Arte Jaime Morera de Lleida; Lena Laguna Diel, o.T., 2022; An empty table it’s like a dessert, 2022; o.T., 2022; TALK V, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Joan Pallé, Lowry’s letter, 2019; A magnificent place to live, work, or commit suicide, 2018; Komponierhäuschen, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Lena Laguna Diel, TALK III, 2020; Joan Pallé, Prospect Cottage, 2019. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Joan Pallé, Prospect Cottage, 2019; Barnhill, 2018, Depósito de la Colección Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2021, Museo de Arte Jaime Morera de Lleida; Lena Laguna Diel, Talk I, 2018; Talk IV, 2021. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry

Aida Kidane, A surprising thing happened to me, 2022; Mapping Casa M, 2022. Installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2022. Photo: Finn Curry