Conference

20 - 22 March 2025

Jean Tinguely Revisited: Critical Re-Readings and New Perspectives

Attendance is free of charge.
Please register by March 2, 2025 by email: tinguelybasel.conference@roche.com
Registration is not required for the performances.


To mark the centenary of Jean Tinguely’s birth, Museum Tinguely will host an academic conference from March 20 to 22, 2025. The conference aims to initiate, encourage, discuss, and publish new art-historical research as well as interdisciplinary studies on the work of Tinguely and his circle. The conference’s main objective is to update and critically examine Tinguely’s art in terms of contemporary issues, theories, and discourse.

Organized by Dr. Sandra Beate Reimann with Roland Wetzel, Dr. Andres Pardey, Annja Müller-Alsbach, Tabea Panizzi and Andrea Absenger.

The conference will take place in German and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be available.

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La roue = c'est tout. New permanent exhibition
2023 - 8 February 2025

La roue = c'est tout. New permanent exhibition

According to Tinguely, ‘we live in a wheeled civilisation’. Even today, our lives are shaped largely by the relationship between man and machine and the resulting dependencies that Tinguely deconstructed with such relish. Now, for the first time since the museum was founded, its enlarged collection of Tinguely’s own works is to return to the great hall. There visitors will be able to discover the intricate and poetic early works, the explosive happenings and collaborations of the 1960s, and the musical, monumental and sombre works of Tinguely’s late period, all presented in an entertaining and eventful tour with many opportunities for hands-on participation.


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