1.1, Reinacherstrasse 105, Basel (2026)

23/09/2020

We're happy to share our last text commission 'Typical' by Sherian Mohammed Forster. Find the full text in English and French on our website (link in bio) now. With illustrations by Dagim Abebe Dubale
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Sherian was born in Cointrin in the 90’s, next to Geneva’s airport. While based in Geneva, he did an exchange at Ale School of Fine Arts, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, in 2018, before graduating from ECAL, Switzerland, in 2019.
During recent years, he has worked on institutional exhibitions, hip-hop music events, designs, video production, online and TV broadcasting and editing. Mainly writing, producing, installing and organizing cultural content depending on the needs and the demands of his environment, Sherian questions the contexts he works in.
In doing so, he discovers his political legacy and purpose, evaluates his own usefulness and legitimacy in said contexts and looks for relevancy within them as well as a purpose beyond validation or business.
Recently, he joined Inner Light, his most cherished project so far, which focuses on clothing and printmaking and started a MSc in Arts & Creative Industries Management in Paris.

01/06/2020

Artists, curators, gallery owners, museum directors, and all other cultural workers in Switzerland: If you profess outrage about the US in this moment, it is an imperative that you are active in the fight against racism and specifically against anti-Black racism. It is the work of white people (and non-Black PoC) to address these issues and put in the work of dismantling white supremacy everyday, even in closed-door meetings where being the only person to speak out can cost you your job or your reputation. In every instance where you are not doing this work, you are implicitly throwing a Black cultural worker under the bus by leaving this work up to us.
Slide 6-10 are reposted over from my personal account for context. @ Switzerland

04/05/2020

In celebration and complete awe of her latest release ORCORARA 2010, we're looking back at Elysia Crampton's live performance 'RED CLOUDS aka Twilight Rainbow' with Why Be, which we presented in collaboration with H.O.M.E. at schwarzescafé in May 2018.

Please go purchase her album on Bandcamp - all proceeds go to the American Indian Movement West/ AIM SoCal chapters.

Photos 1 & 2 by Jan Vorisek @ Luma / Westbau

26/04/2020

As 1.1 is slowly coming to a close, we are taking a look back at some of our past programming. Pictured above are pictures from Real Madrid's first solo exhibition in Switzerland "Reality, Leave Me Alone", organised by Mohamed Almusibli in 2016.
Reality, leave me alone refers to a double layered experience, in which a tangible truth superimposes a narrative one. Transformation happens radically within the coats.⁠

Like a letter from Hogwarts, the judgement of others is the desired key to the realm of adult life after the short hallway of puberty. While practicing to master the art of magic is hard to realize that a transformation is already there.⁠
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In pubertal time a door closed behind acts like a portal that leads to a moment of freedom where the public self sinks and the alias emerge. The exhibition space presents the safe room where the sorcerer’s apprentice sleeps and learns, trying to escape the space of the not-yet.⁠
A house of sentimental changes induced by chemistry on one side, and alchemy on the other. Hormones potions, pop song acting as a magical formula.

13/04/2020

We're excited to share our April text commission by artist and musician Cõvco: CONSCIENTEOFTHESOUL.
The text explores the mortality of a woman through rituals addressing limitations of the body and the mind and the fear of facing reality.
CONSCIENTEOFTHESOUL was originally part of a performance presented at South London Gallery and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 2019 and 2020. Listen to the soundtrack while reading - all linked in our bio!
Graphic design by

03/04/2020

"MAYBE THERE IS A SUBSTITUTE TO EXHIBITING", trace of a performance by Sanna Helena Berger, performed by Axelle Stiefel at 1.1 in November 2019 as a part of Alter-PhD, curated by theredthread () and ().
Photo: Gina Folly

30/03/2020

Canan Batur, curator of New Myths: Recordings of the Missing Channel (which ran 22 July 2019 - 1 March 2020), has written a response to the sonic exhibition. Read it now on our website - link in bio!
New Myths: Recordings from the Missing Channel was conceived as a series of soundscapes/sonic think tanks to assess, develop and propose new social languages and methods to understand, and create unlikely relationships between; the systems of representation, the emancipatory aspect of sound and the social constructs of identity. It takes its foundation from the idea that music is a myth, and myths’ ability to suggest – with primal narrative power- the conflicting forces and ideas that lie at the foundation of society.
It included nine episodes by Tabita Rezaire, , , , Harun Morrison (), , and (Precious Okoyomon).

14/03/2020

POSTPONED: In face of the current situation, we have decided to postpone our upcoming exhibition "Octavial Scape" by Maïté Chénière until further notice. Please watch this space for updates.

09/03/2020

A new text commission by the amazing Legion Seven is now online! Read Seven's poem "Anger's Benediction" in our story highlights or via the link in our bio now🌋
Legion Seven is an artist whose work is an erratic vehicle on a splendid path. Traversing worlds of expression with sharpened intuition; Seven’s projects emerge in bodies as diverse as the imagination, consistent only in their colourful departure from the literal cult rigidity into which Seven was born. The wreckage of this rigidity, and a bizarre usurping of its biblical language is among what can be found woven into the strange tapestries of story-telling we experience from Seven today.

26/02/2020

We are incredibly excited (and a little bit emotional) to announce our final exhibition at our project space in Basel:
OCTAVIAL SCAPE by Maïté Chénière (a.k.a. Mighty) opens on 21. March and runs until 18. April 2020.
Please save the date and join us for this last, extra special exhibition.
Maïté Chénière adopts theoretical research, music, performance or video to create hybrid experiences. In their practice, they merge the cultural productions of racialized q***r people, theoretical and popular knowledge to create an emancipatory discourse.
They have presented performances at Un lieu pour respirer, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Théâtre de l'Usine, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva; D.A.F. Festival at the reliure, Geneva; Mains d'œuvres, Paris or at the Ateliers Claus, Brussels. Their work has also been presented at the Magical Solutions Congress, Leipzig; in Focale, Nyon; at the Spreechsaal Gallery, Berlin; at Circuits and Curents, Athens; at the Lac, Brussels, among others.
Mighty is an Afro-futurist DJ and founding member of the Archipelagogo club events that promotes the works of q***r people of colour in Geneva. Through music, they travel in time and shed light on stories that have been ignored, in order to create a space of expression and gathering on the dancefloor for a multiplicity of bodies and identities. They've been playing in Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Johannesburg and throughout Switzerland, eclectic sets revolving around House, and Ballroom. @ 1.1

23/02/2020

We're happy to share a new text commission for our ongoing series published on our website. cribs is a new text by Jeremy Nedd, a Brooklyn-born, Basel-based choreographer and performer.
Go read the text on our website via the link in bio.

03/02/2020

A look back at Alter-PhD, which took place 9. November - 14. December.
See the full documentation online.
It's not an exhibition, it is not a symposium; it is a mapping, a set of relations, not established yet, the relation of research: not to an abstract category or entity, but to artists themselves, their lives and their modes of investigation. And if this relation does not exist, it has to be imagined, fantasised, and exhilarated.
From the perspective of our integrated relational practices in the field of theory, pedagogy and contemporary art, Alter-PhD is eager to convey how collective experience of production of knowledge leads to the creation of common spaces for uncommon knowledge and alternative modes of governance.
In times of intensification of accountability and a decentering of institutional authority, we want to conduct a project where art research is based on relational collaboration and self-organisation by being actively pursued and developed, and using theory in a nonorthodox and non-academic way.
All contributors relate to either textual, contextual, or time and space-based practices. They have conducted research. They have engaged into singular processes of production of knowledge. They have met real problems. They have impacted their field of investigation with their making. They challenge preconceptions, habits, formats, categories, and therefore fall out of usual supporting structures.
Time, in its variability, is here the unit of measurement that decides the agency of our assembly at 1.1. Each contributor comes along with a rhythm, that refers to a different speed of individuation and serves as a vector of encounter.
Alter-PhD was organised by () and (), with works and interventions by , Martin Jakob, Tegegne & Tiphanie Blanc, Salome Schmuki, Laura-Issé Tusevo and
Photos: Gina Folly @ 1.1

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