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19/06/2026

Did you know a wall can be a sculpture?
Coumba Samba installed 176 steel posts on the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel — spaced exactly 10.16 cm (4 inches) apart. That’s not an aesthetic choice: it’s the official spacing introduced under George W. Bush and adopted by the Trump administration for the U.S.–Mexico border wall.
From far away — a calm, minimalist composition of black and grey stripes. Up close — the desaturated palette of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Badge of Honor. Samba takes the colors of a state agency and stretches them across an entire wall, exposing how “neutral” greys can carry histories of control, exclusion, and violence.
This is the Wild Wild Wall.
Subtle and without aggression. Brilliant.
📍 Kunsthalle Basel — back wall (Klostergasse / Elisabethenstrasse)
🗓 19 Sept 2025 — 23 Aug 2026

Helen Frankenthaler spent decades in the story of Abstract Expressionism unfairly labeled as «second line»: the script o...
19/06/2026

Helen Frankenthaler spent decades in the story of Abstract Expressionism unfairly labeled as «second line»: the script opens with Po***ck, de Kooning, Rothko and only then lets her in.

Yet she was never a «forgotten» artist. She showed widely in New York, LA, Paris, London, and her work entered MoMA, the Met, Tate and the National Gallery in Washington early on. What made her truly radical was the soak-stain technique: heavily diluted paint poured onto unprimed canvas so that color seeps into the fabric instead of sitting on top. Those luminous «stains» somewhere between landscape, atmosphere and pure color, became a new language later painters, especially women in Color Field and lyrical abstraction, picked up and pushed further.

Since her death in 2011, a different story has been written in sync by foundations, museums and the market. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation doesn’t liquidate a core collection; it places works strategically in museums and university collections, building shows, research and teaching around them. New York auction results from «Spirits of Wine» (1972) in the low seven figures to «Cape Orange» nearing the eight-figure mark pushed her firmly into blue-chip territory. Against this backdrop, Kunstmuseum Basel’s first institutional Frankenthaler solo in Switzerland, curated by Anita Hürlimann and spanning more than fifty works across six decades, quietly locks her into the European canon alongside the usual male icons.

19/06/2026

Did you know a wall can be a sculpture?
Coumba Samba installed 176 steel posts on the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel — spaced exactly 10.16 cm (4 inches) apart. That’s not an aesthetic choice: it’s the official spacing introduced under George W. Bush and adopted by the Trump administration for the U.S.–Mexico border wall.
From far away — a calm, minimalist composition of black and grey stripes. Up close — the desaturated palette of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Badge of Honor. Samba takes the colors of a state agency and stretches them across an entire wall, exposing how “neutral” greys can carry histories of control, exclusion, and violence.
This is the Wild Wild Wal. Subtle and without aggression. Brilliant.
📍 Kunsthalle Basel
🗓 19 Sept 2025 — 23 Aug 2026

16/06/2026

Unlimited 2026 brings together large‑scale works by:

Isa Genzken’s airplane windows
Tracey Emin’s shaky beach hut
Bruce Nauman’s brain‑twisting classic
Theaster Gates’s soulful architecture
Ed Ruscha’s cool poetics
Thomas Ruff’s hyper‑images
Jorinde Voigt’s orchestral drawings
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s .andrew.nguyen vibrating bomb‑shell sculpture
Timur Si‑Qin’s sci‑fi rainforest
Wael Shawky’s glowing temples
Benoît Piéron’s hospital cairns
Moffat Takadiwa’s e‑waste tapestries
İnci Eviner’s double‑sided heaven
Edith Dekyndt’s chewed‑up vitrines
Vanessa Beecroft’s ghostly film‑set
Rochelle Goldberg’s fallen tower of Magdalene myths
Andreas Lolis’s .andreas marble scarecrows
George Rouy’s trance‑like procession
Antonio Dias’s militant diagrams of art
and Oskar Schlemmer’s resurrected Bauhaus body in metal.

And this is only the part I managed to capture in just two hours during the very first moments of the opening. Today I have to go back, when there are fewer people, to make sure I’ve really seen everyone. It’s unbelievable, seriously impressive so I recommend visiting to anyone who can.

16/06/2026

Art Basel Unlimited is basically the fair’s “go big or go home” zone: a huge hall where all the works are too large, too long, too noisy, or too weird to squeeze into a normal booth. It’s where galleries wheel out their trophies: monumental sculptures, immersive videos, full‑on performances, and let them breathe at 1:1 scale. Think of it as the place where the art world collectively shows off, and for once, the artworks actually get the amount of space they’re trying to occupy in your brain.

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