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Basis Frankfurt

Kunstverein und Atelierhaus basis e.V. fördert und präsentiert seit 2006 internationale Gegenwartskunst in Frankfurt am Main.

Um eine Vielzahl kreativer Prozesse am Standort Frankfurt anzustoßen und weiterzuentwickeln, nutzt der Verein ein umfassendes Modell der Förderung, das aus drei Hauptachsen besteht. Diese umfassen die Bereitstellung von günstigen Arbeitsräumen, die Präsentation von Ausstellungen sowie verschiedene internationale Austauschprogramme. eben den kostengünstigen Arbeitsräumen für junge Künstler*innen und Kreative an vier Standorten in Frankfurt bietet basis gemeinschaftlich genutzte Produktionsstätten sowie Ausstellungs- und Vernetzungsmöglichkeiten und unterstützt damit die erste Professionalisierungsphase. Das von basis kuratierte Ausstellungsprogramm zeigt herausragende Positionen der internationalen Gegenwartskunst in thematischen Gruppen- und umfassenden Einzelpräsentationen. Lesungen, Vorträge, Konzerte und Performances ergänzen das Programm. Im Rahmen der Austauschprogramme erhalten internationale Nachwuchskünstler*innen und Kurator*innen im Zuge mehrmonatiger Arbeitsstipendien in Frankfurt und aufstrebenden Kunstzentren weltweit die Möglichkeit, neue Perspektiven auf die eigene Praxis zu gewinnen und sich international zu vernetzen. Generelles Anliegen der Arbeit von basis ist die Vermittlung künstlerischer Inhalte und die Befragung der Rolle der Kunst in der Gesellschaft.

12/10/2026

Marianne Mispelaëre - From one hand to another
on view until december 6, 2026

You haven‘t seen our current exhibition ‚Marianne Mispelaëre - From one hand to another‘ yet? Here are some insights from the show.

The work ‚For you without you: against you‘ is adapted especially for each exhibition context. Information relevant to visiting the exhibition, such as the title and opening hours, is translated. For this reason, the work is already displayed on the building’s facade and remains visible outside opening hours too. In the run-up to the exhibition, researches which languages are spoken at the respective exhibition location, which in this case is Frankfurt am Main, and draws up an initial translation proposal accordingly.

All visitors and passers-by are invited to suggest another possible translation or to correct the existing one, and to overwrite it. The aim here is not to create the perfect translation, but to reveal the subjective, collective, and process-oriented character of language. This creates a palimpsest of languages, handwritings, and translations that are not usually represented in the context of art exhibitions. In the Frankfurt-specific situation, there are twenty blank sheets accompanying the 112 translated languages. As there are no official statistics on exactly which and how many languages are spoken in Frankfurt, Marianne Mispelaëre has identified 112 languages on the basis of various sources. However, as this list is almost certainly incomplete, the blank sheets serve as placeholders for other languages spoken in Frankfurt that could not be identified during the research.

Sheets of paper and pens are available at the reception desk for new translations.

photo: Artworks Documentation

Supported by Kulturfonds FRM

Opening hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 3–7 PM Thursday: 3–9 PM
Saturday/Sunday: 12–6 PM

01/10/2026

39 new studios available 📌

Basis is delighted to be opening a new studio building at Düsseldorfer Straße 12 in collaboration with Frankfurt’s Cultural Office FRANKFURT&CULTURE and the City Planning Office Stadtplanungsamt Frankfurt am Main.

Applications are open to both emerging and established artists and creative professionals. The first spaces will be available from November 1, 2026.

9 studios between 10 and 20 square metres
approx. €117.50 – €202.00

20 studios between 20 and 30 square metres
approx. €260.00 – €320.00

10 studios between 30 and 50 square metres
approx. €360.00 – €550.00

📆 First viewing appointments:
October 14, 2026, 16:00
October 21, 2026, 16:00

(Participation in a viewing appointment is subject to prior submission of application documents)

Application deadline:
Applications may be submitted until all studios have been allocated. A selection for the first available spaces will be made by October 26, 2026.

Please submit all applications via the online form on our website.
Check out the link in bio for more information ✨

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First picture Angelika Zinzow
Third picture Moritz Bernoully

29/09/2026

HAP - across hesse
next funding period: 01.03.2027–28.02.2029

HAP across Hesse is primarily adressed to creative people who live and work in Hesse outside of Frankfurt am Main. The aim is to support artists, collectives and studio communities located primarily in northern and eastern Hesse. This includes artists with spaces in rural areas, but also studios that are maintained or newly occupied in cities such as Offenbach, Kassel, Gießen or Fulda.

Funding is available to individual artists as well as studio collectives and groups. Individual funding takes the form of a grant with a maximum amount of 150.00 euros per month; the maximum possible funding amount for studio collectives is determined by the number of artists within the collective.

Funding requirements:

- outstanding artistic profile
- participation in exhibitions and events as well as an active artistic production
- a university degree relevant to the field and no enrollment at a university at the start of the programme
- main residence in Hesse at the beginning of programme
- The maximum individual funding period of four years under the HAP hessenweit programme must not be exceeded during the funding period; for studio collectives, funding may be granted for longer than four years.

Link to application form and details in bio!

Contact:
[email protected]

28/09/2026

HAP Studio Programme:
Free studio and professional assistance at basis e.V. in Frankfurt for four years.

Application deadline: 31.10.2026
Scholarship period: 01.03.2027 - 28.02.2031

Artists can apply:
- from and including year of birth 1987
- who have a university degree relevant to the field and are no longer enrolled at a university at the start of the programme
- who have their main residence in Hesse at the start of the programme
- also if they act as an artist group or collective

Selection criteria are:
- excellent artistic profile
- participation in exhibitions and events as well as an active artistic production
- motivation and ability to actively participate in the programme

Link to application form and details in bio!

Contact: [email protected]

21/09/2026

📌 AIR_Frankfurt: Exhibition
Bilingual without a Mother Tongue by Kwantaeck Park

Opening:
September 24, 2026 at 6 p.m.
basis Projektraum (Elbestraße 10)

We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition Bilingual without a Mother Tongue by Kwantaeck Park on September 24 at 6 pm.

Bilingual without a Mother Tongue considers the longstanding issue of the boundary between painting and sculpture through the consciousness and attitude of the artist who poses the question. Borrowed from the act of speaking two languages, the exhibition’s title points not to the bounded categories of medium but to the dual impulses and habits that emerge unpredictably in the creative process. The exhibition is also an inquiry into a creative self that cannot fully settle into the role of painter, sculptor, photographer, or performer—and for whom none of these can therefore readily be called a mother tongue.

The exhibition examines the two acts of drawing and making, which frequently intersect in the working process, as analogous to speaking two languages at once. Both take place through an awareness of the relationship between image and materiality, yet each assumes different structures and implications within the distinct conditions of the surface and object. Through the media of painting and sculpture, and the intertwined acts of drawing and making, Bilingual without a Mother Tongue explores the fundamental question of the language in which an artist thinks, and how that language is spoken.

The three-month residency in Frankfurt is a cooperation with mmca residency goyang 국립현대미술관.

More info in bio!

28/08/2026

SAVE THE DATE – basis celebrates its birthday! 🎉

On September 19, we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of basis e. V. and you’re warmly invited! 🥂

Together with the artists supported by basis, we’re opening our doors and sharing insights into what’s currently in the works. The programme also looks back on the past 20 years, with open studios, talks and guided tours.

And of course, there’ll be music, snacks & drinks. 🎶✨

Come by, have a look around, meet the artists, discover what basis is all about, and celebrate with us! We’re looking forward to seeing you.

Location: Gutleutstraße 8–12 & Elbestraße 10 (Hinterhof)

The full programme on our webpage - link in bio!

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21/08/2026

Curator in Residence
Sun Kim

Here is a video with Sun Kim, who took part in the Curator-in-Residence programme at basis in 2026. During her residency from February to March, she and Larry Bonćhaka developed the concept for a workshop called SOMETHINGS SMELL OF.

Sun Kim is a curator, performance director, and researcher exploring how memories, sensibilities, and narratives — shadowed by the “logic of light” of Western rationality and male-centred thought — continue to haunt and possess the present. Rather than presenting these shadows as objects of exhibition, she develops a curatorial approach in which performance and sound guide audiences to artworks within a narrative, leading them along a performative path to encounter the ghostly spatio-temporality of shadowed memories, sensibilities and narratives on a bodily level. This practice extends into the collaborative activities of the art collective (O)Kamemochi, which she founded.

The workshop explored scent as a language through which silenced memories and histories of care linger within the body and re-emerge through sensory experience. Taking the experiences of migrant care workers, particularly Korean nurses who migrated to Germany around 1960-70s as a point of departure, the workshop traced emotions and embodied memories that remain outside archives. Through multisensory experiences involving sound, touch, and the act of smelling, participants followed the traces of scent, weaving together their own memories with those of others. In this process, scent was proposed as a sensory and intimate archive that resonated within the body, carrying histories of care, labour, migration, and memories extending across generations.

video & cut: Soley Bärmann

29/07/2026

Here are some photos from the exhibition „SAMPLE AND HOLD“ by Marcell Marosfalvi at basis (June 25.-28, 2026). The exhibition was part of his AIR_Frankfurt residency at basis e.V. in cooperation with Budapest Galéria

Is there a way to think about the digital without a computer? A way of thinking that leads to understanding?

‚Sample and Hold‘ takes its title from an electronic function: an analogue signal-processing technique that captures a momentary state of an ever-changing signal in response to a trigger, then freezes it until the next trigger arrives. A continuous flow is interrupted, suspended, and translated into a sequence of steps. The original signal begins to resemble a staircase. But where do these stairs lead?

The exhibition considers sampling not only as a technical operation, but as a way of perceiving and organizing the world characteristic of modern systems of knowledge. Reality is divided into intervals, fragmented by Boolean logic, captured in momentary states, and held in place until an update is triggered. This rhythm of capture, pause, and refresh underpins the quantified life at large: a world increasingly made legible through measurements, thresholds, states, and discrete units.

Yet here, the digital is approached through the material and pictorial logic of painting. Collected 3D scans form the basis of the works in the exhibition, where they are subjected to the same logic of sampling, reduction, and repetition through which the world itself is increasingly perceived. Made uniform, arbitrarily enframed, and sampled at fixed intervals along the virtual depth axis — a dimension that painting can produce only as an illusion — the scans translate spatial data into the flatness of the picture plane. Their structures become visible as echoes of particular states. Monumental and ground-plan-like, the images suggest maps, circuits, infrastructural units, or ruins: places where the weightlessness of the digital encounters the spatial language of the built world.

📸: Artworks Documentation

16/07/2026

A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEW ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: KWANTAECK PARK

Kwantaeck Park will be staying at basis until end of September as part of AIR_Frankfurt: Seoul in cooperation with in Seoul, Korea

👉 Wednesday, July 22, at 6 pm

His artistic practice translates the phenomena of contemporary life into embodied experiences. Through a visual language that simultaneously disciplines and expands perception, he examines the blurred boundaries between linguistic forms of meaning-making and non-linguistic modes of experience.

📍Location:
basis reading room
Gutleutstraße 8-12

26/06/2026

basis art film schau - LINE UP🌟

Levent Kunt - 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰 (2017)

Mila Holl - 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘵 (2025)

Gabriele Rendina Cattani - 𝘔2 (𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘬𝘪) (2025)

Valentina Knežević - 𝘝𝘖𝘐𝘊𝘌𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙 (2017)

Sopo Kashakashvili - 𝘓𝘌𝘎𝘌𝘕𝘋𝘚 (2026)

Lisa Diandra Krüger - 24 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 (2026)

Paul Haas - 𝘔ü𝘩𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳/𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘵 (2023)

Lukas Rehm - 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢 (2020)

John Hussain Flindt - 𝘛𝘈𝘓𝘌𝘚 (2023)

Nicolaj Dudek - 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 (2025) & 𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (2026)

Nazlı Moripek - 𝘐𝘮 𝘒𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦 (2025)

Tatjana Stürmer - 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 (2025)

Hyunju Oh - 𝘌𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘵𝘦𝘮 (2026)

Aran Kleebaur - 𝘈 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 (2025)

📆Friday, June 26
🍾Doors & open bar: 7:30 pm
✨Screening starts: 8 pm
free entry

Please note:
📣 language: predominantly english
➡️ consider bringing a cushion for extra comfort
➡️ wheelchair accessible
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Adresse

Gutleutstraße 8-12
Frankfurt
60329

Öffnungszeiten

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Donnerstag	11:00 - 19:00
Freitag	11:00 - 19:00
Samstag	12:00 - 18:00
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