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DAS ESSZIMER – space for art+ takes over the Weltraum (engl.: Outer Space) during Art Basel and invites you to our OFF-Space Lounge, with drinks, food, Art and more…

Parallel to Art Basel Weltraum becomes a place for exchange and transforms into the Headquarter for OFF-Space Projects. Together with Marina Gärtner, the founder of SPACES Guide for Germany, the makers of Zurich Art Space Guide as well as the initiative from Basle A Roland for an Oliver we invite you to the OFF-Space Lounge with Bar, Food, Video Program and unplanned events.

The whole art installation with works from 49 international artist from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Cuba and Argentina is for sale. (Price on request)

Programme

Wednesday, June 15th

  • from 10pm – open end: Party

Thursday June 16th

  • from 7 pm – open end: OFF-Space Lounge, Bar, Food Video and Art

Friday June 17th

  • from 7 pm – open end: OFF-Space Lounge: Bar, Food Video and Art
  • 8pm: Book presentation by Marina Gärtner, issuer of SPACES, the first OFF Space Guide for Germany

Material for the exhibition

Participating Artists

Katarzyna Badach (Havanna/Berlin) | Kathrin Borer (Basel) | Rainer Barzen (Köln) | Felix Baudenbacher (London) | Christoph Bucher (Düsseldorf) | Copa&Sordes (Basel) | Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh) | Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn) | Christine de la Garenne (Berlin) |  Petra Egg (Wien) | Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/London) | Sibylle Feucht (Bonn) | Corsin Fontana (Basel) | Franziska Furter (Basel) | Anja Ganster (Basel) | Magdalena Gerber (Genf) | Mireille Gros (Basel) | Marianne Halter und Mario Marchisella (beide Zürich) | Haus am Gern (Biel) | Rut Himmelsbach (Basel) | Anne Hody (Basel) |  Camenisch/Vetsch (Basel) | Celina Jure (BuenosAires) | Jan Kiefer (Basel) | Adam Knight (London) | Reto Leibundgut (Basel) | Lenzlinger/Steiner (Langenbruck) | Wenfeng Liao (Berlin) | Aldo Mozzini (Zürich) | Alfredo Ramos (Havanna/Berlin) | Monika Rechsteiner (Berlin) | Ingrid Roscheck (Köln) | Susanne Schär & Peter Spillmann (Basel) | Doris Schmid und Stella Veloce (beide Berlin) | Markus Schwander (Basel) | stöckerselig (Basel) | Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel) | Mathis Vass (Basel) | Selma Weber (Basel) | Bignia Wehrli (Berlin) | Erich Wiesner (Berlin) |  Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen (Basel)

Location: Auf dem Wolf 13, Basel (CH) / Where to find the Weltraum

photo of the artist Adam Knight

Adam Knight

London/UK

Adam Knight studied at the Royal College of Art, he lives and works in London (UK).

black and white portrait of Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez, background prints on the wall

Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez

Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB

A Cuban artist Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez lives and works on Kuba and in Berlin.

Anne Hody

Basel/CH

Swiss artist Anne Hody lives and works in Basel. Her performance art deals with identety and the role-playing in the society.

Selfie Christine Camenisch and Johannes Vetsch

Camenisch / Vetsch

Basel/CH

The artist duo has been working together since 2010. In their mostly site-specific and expansive video installations, they repeatedly question our viewing and perception habits.

Foto von der Künstlerin Christine de la Garenne, im Hintergrund ihre Werke

Christine de la Garenne

Berlin/GER

A German Artist Christine de la Garenne studied at the School of Design Karlsruhe (DE) with Prof. Dieter Kiessling. She lives and works in Berlin now.

work by a swiss artist Christoph Bucher

Christoph Bucher

Dusseldorf/CH

The Swiss artist studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Alfonso Hüppi and Helmut Federle. Transparency, layering and compression appear again and again in his work. After years of monochrome, he has returned to color.

photo of the artist Christoph Dahlhausen with one of his works in background

Christoph Dahlhausen

Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS

Christoph Dahlhausen born in 1960, has been an assistant professor at the School of Art in RMIT University Melbourne/AUS since 2013. His works follow light in abstraction.

Copa & Sordes

Basel/CH

The artist duo Copa & Sordes (Birgit Krueger & Eric Schmutz Krueger) have been working together since 1995. Central topics are the interfaces between art and everyday culture.

Doris Schmid

Berlin/GER

Doris Schmid is a visual artist working in the fields of video, installations and photography. The Swiss artist has already realised numerous international projects and exhibitions.

Die Künstlerin Dorothee von Rechenberg im Innenhof des Ausstellungsraumes das ESSZIMMER

Dorothee von Rechenberg

Basel/CH

Dorothee von Rechenberg born in Horb / N (GER) in 1947, has lived and worked in Basel (CH) since 1989. She mainly works with photography.

the artist Eric Cruikshank is sitting on the floor in the Esszimmer and preparing his works for the solo exhibition

Eric Cruikshank

Edinburgh/UK

The British painter Eric Cruikshank studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. His painting seems to have lost all materiality and to consist only of color and light.

Artist Felix Baudenbacher and work in the background

Felix Baudenbacher

London/UK

The Swiss artist has lived at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London since studying. For several years he has been working exclusively with the color Bau Pink, which he developed.

photo of the artist Ingrid Roscheck

Ingrid Roscheck

Cologne/DE

Born in Oberhausen, lives and works in Cologne. Since 2015 artistic-scientific assistant at the University of Cologne / GER. Their work is often reminiscent of modern chambers of curiosities (Wunderkammern).

Katarzyna Badach black and white photo

Katarzyna Badach

Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB

Katarzyna Badach is a polish artist who lives in and works in Berlin. Her large format art works deal with the representation of urban space.

Magdalena Gerber

Geneva/CH

Swiss artist Magdalena Gerber (Langenau/Emmental, CH) works primarily with ceramics and porcelaine, which she adapts for current times.

A portrait photo of the Swiss artist Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen

Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen

Basel/CH

Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen is a Swiss painter. She studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York (USA) and at the University of Art, Basel (CH).

Marianne Eigenheer

Basel/CH + London/UK

Marianne Eigenheer was a Swiss artist who preferred to work with gestural and free line drawings.

black and white photo, artist Marianne Halter exhibition view with diagonally placed box in the room, corner wall, wall drawing

Marianne Halter

Zurich/CH

The Swiss artist Marianne Halter is represented internationally in solo and group exhibitions with her work repeatedly issues of spaces and their corporate and social functions.

Monika Rechsteiner

Basel/CH + Berlin/GER

A Swiss Artist Monika Rechsteiner lives and works in Basel und Berlin. Central issues in her videos and installations is the urban space and its perception.

portrait picture of the artist Petra Egg

Petra Egg

Vienna/AT

Petra Egg was born in St. Johann/Tyrol (A) and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she currently lives and works.

The artist Rainer Barzen at the opening of his exhibition

Rainer Barzen

Cologne / GER

In addition to painting, the focus is always on the object, the sculpture, for the artist Rainer Barzen, who lives and teaches in Cologne, who studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and received numerous awards.

black and white portrait of the artist Selma Weber

Selma Weber

Basel/CH

Swiss artist Selma Weber studied in Basel, where she also lives and works now. She works with painting, installation, film and photo art.

The artist Sibylle Feucht in the background a work with a face

Sibylle Feucht

Bonn/GER

The Swiss artist Sibylle Feucht, *in Kaufbeuren (DE), lives and works since 2010 in Bonn (DE), previously in Basel (CH), conceptual approach to work with different media such as photography, video installation and fused plastic beads.

stöckerselig

Basel/CH

The Swiss artist couple Annette Stöcker and Christian Selig have been working together as stoeckerselig since 1987. Her multi-layered work moves between (video) installations, objects and large-format drawings.

schwarz weißes porträt der Künstlerin Celina Jure

Celina Jure

Buenos Aires/ARG

Argentinian artist Celina Jure was born 1963, he lives and works in Buenos Aires, Jujuy and Dusseldorf (GER).