Exhibitions: Current

Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat – Journal

7 April–2 June 2013

Journal is the title of Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat’s first exhibition in Switzerland, and also the title of their latest work. The two Israeli-born artists, now living in Brussels, present two works that both have photographic material at their core: Printed Matter (2011) and Journal (2013). The material in question is taken from the archives of André Brutmann (1947–2002), Sirah Foighel Brutmann’s father, who worked as a foreign freelance press photogra- pher in Israel …

Adrian Melis – The Value of Absence

24 March–26 May 2013

Kunsthalle Basel is pleased to present The Value of Absence, the first institutional solo exhibition by the Cuban artist Adrian Melis.

The main subjects in the works by the Havana-born artist, who has been based in Barcelona since 2010, are workers without work, both in the socialist and capitalist economy. It is they who make possible Melis’ work as an artist.
Melis’ early projects have been concerned with the working conditions and the employees’ slack attitude towards work in …