Art Centre Basel News

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:17:27 GMT

Museums in the 21st Century is now on view at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark - see installation photos below. Please check the museum website for opening hours: www.louisiana.dk

Pergamonmuseum Berlin Visitor Statistics

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:49:52 GMT

The Pergamonmuseum Berlin recently hosted our exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings from March 12 through May 25, 2008.

We have just been informed that the show in Berlin had 90'728 visitors (~1'225 visitors per day).

The Art Centre Basel is very happy about this attendance figure and wishes to congratulate the Pergamonmuseum for this great success with our exhibition.

The exhibition is now on display at the Louisiana in Humlebaek/Denmark.

Museums in the 21st Century

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:07:54 GMT

The travelling exhibition "Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings" has officially been opened at its seventh host museum venue, the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.

The echo in the press was very positive. One of the most important newspapers in Denmark gave the exhibition 5 out of 6 stars, says Birgit Flügge, curatorial coordinator at the Louisiana.

Open House at Art Centre Basel

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:37:29 GMT

During the upcoming major event on the global art scene, "Art Basel 39" in June 2008, many museum and art scene professionals from all around the world will once again visit the beautiful and culturally rich city of Basel in the Northwest of Switzerland.

We would like to take this wonderful opportunity to get to know you or to meet you again and to inform you about the differences between the "Art Basel" art fair and our company, the art exhibition enterprise "Art Centre Basel". Therefore, we would like to cordially invite interested museum directors and/or exhibition managers and curators who are visiting Basel during that time to an informal Open House event at the Art Centre Basel on June 4, 2008 from 5 pm.

Our director, Suzanne Greub, will be happy to meet you and to discuss possibilities of collaboration between your museum and the Art Centre Basel in the fields of exhibitions creation and management and touring exhibitions. For a further, more detailed overview over our areas of expertise, please click here.

If you are interested to meet Suzanne Greub and her team on June 4, 2008 from 5 pm, please use our email form to let us know you will be coming. Notices must be sent latest by May 30, please.
After we have received your notice, we'll send you further details by email.

Suzanne Greub and her entire team are looking forward to meeting you!

Homer

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:10:10 GMT

The Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Switzerland (Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection), the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, Germany, and the Art Centre Basel, Switzerland, are jointly creating an exhibition which will focus for the first time on the myths and facts about the Greek poet-singer Homer and his two epics, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”, together with high-calibre works of art from the Bronze Age until today.

Also, as per March 16, 2008, the accompanying catalogue to our exhibition Homer: The Myth of Troy in Poetry and Art is available on amazon.de

Masterpieces of Medieval Art from the National Museum in Warsaw

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:16:48 GMT

The Art Centre Basel exhibition entitled Masterpieces of Medieval Art from the Nationalmuseum in Warsaw, shown recently at the Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere from July 15 - Septermber 16, 2007 has reached chart position 10 in The Art Newspaper no. 189 (March 2008).

With an attendance of 34'556 visitors in Austria alone, our exhibition is within the Top 10 attendance figures of all medieval exhibitions in 2007 worldwide. The exhibtion was however also shown in Switzerland, Portugal and the Netherlands.

The entire article from The Art Newspaper can be downloaded here.

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:14:47 GMT

We are proud to announce that on March 11, 2008 at 7 pm, our exhbition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings will be officially opened in a ceremony at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin/Germany.

This is a public event, you may attend without an invitation card.

Adress:

Pergamonmuseum
Museum Island Berlin
Am Kupfergraben 5
10117 Berlin-Mitte

Speakers at the ceremony will be:
Hermann Parzinger, President of the "Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz"
Peter-Klaus Schuster, General Director "Staatliche Museen zu Berlin"
Rebekka Rudin, Exhibition Manager Art Centre Basel
Moritz Wullen, Director of the "Kunstbibliothek"

Homer

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:27:06 GMT

Printing of Catalogues has begun

As communicated by Hirmer Verlag, Munich, printing of the catalogue books for our exhibition Homer: The Myth of Troy in Poetry and Art has begun yesterday. Delivery at the host museums and availability in bookshops is expected for March 13.

Homer

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:36 GMT

Preparations for the upcoming opening of our Homer exhibition are in full speed. Public relation communications for the first venue in Basel have begun, the catalogue is ready for printing and the media are starting to cover our exhibition already.

We are looking forward to March 16, when the exhibtion will be opening its doors at the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig in Basel/Switzerland.

Exhibition details: click here
Catalogue details: click here

recent article in Museen Basel Magazin 1/08 about our exhibition.

Masterpieces of Medieval Art from the National Museum in Warsaw

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:51:53 GMT

After having been shown in 4 museums throughout Europe (Switzerland, Portugal, Austria and the Netherlands), the exhibition tour of Masterpieces of Medieval Art from the National Museum in Warsaw has ended in Utrecht on January 6, 2008 after almost exactly 14 months.

The exhibition showed a selection of 27 of the most precious and exquisite medieval artworks from the National Museum in Warsaw, which holds a marvelous and extremely well preserved collection of works from that period.

Experts and critics alike were astonished that such fragile works could be allowed to travel to several museums over such an extended period of time, but the careful planning by the Art Centre Basel, as well as the excellent collaboration between the Polish transport company and the several international host museums proved to be perfect. Absolutely no damages were reported on any of the fragile artworks after the final inspection and all the objects have been safely returned to Poland, to again become a part of the permanent display at the National Museum in Warsaw.

Art Centre Basel would like to thank the National Museum in Warsaw for the loans and the collaboration, as well as all host museums for taking on this exhibition. We also would like to thank all other involved companies and persons (transport, insurance, escort, authors, experts, etc.) who have collaborated to make this exhibition a success.

The exhibition catalogue is available to buy here.

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:11:07 GMT

The Art Centre Basel is collaborating with Prestel Publishers, Munich to update and redesign the German and English catalogue editions for our museum architecture exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings.

Since its first edition in 2006, several of the presented buildings have been completed. A new article will be included and cover designs will be updated.

The intended date of publishing is end of February 2008. Please check your local or online bookstore.

Catalogue details click here
Exhibition details click here

Faces to Names

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:39:12 GMT

For your information, we have uploaded a staff chart document of our small but efficient team.

For phone numbers and email addresses of individual members of our staff, please refer to the contact page.

All the best for 2008

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:30:11 GMT

The Art Centre Basel would like to take this opportunity to wish all the best to its partners, lenders and host museums in the year 2008.
We are very much looking forward to further collaborating with you on the exciting projects in our exhibition program.

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:41:56 GMT

Art Centre Basel is proud to announce that Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings opened at Culturgest, Lisbon, on December 7. Culturgest is the 5th host venue of the exhibition.

Our exhibition is on view at Culturgest until February 3, 2008.

Further details about this exhibition on the exhibition page.

Art Centre Basel welcomes yet another new employee

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:56:11 GMT

The Art Centre Basel cordially welcomes Claudia Sedelmeier as a new employee.

Ms. Sedelmeier holds an MA in Art History, Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cologne.
Previously, she has worked as an intern in the Workshop Department of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein/Germany and as a Center Manager for the Berlitz Language School in Basel/Switzerland.

She is currently working for us on the conceptualization of new exhibitions that are as of yet unpublished on our website and she will be your contact person for those exhibitions, as soon as we present them to interested museums.

You will find all our team on our staff chart.

Art Centre Basel welcomes two new employees

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:51:55 GMT

The Art Centre Basel welcomes two new employees into our creative and efficient team:

Rebekka Rudin holds an MA degree in art history and museum studies from the City College of New York, CUNY and has last worked (2005 - 2007) at the Neue Galerie New York as Manager of Visitor Services. She is your contact for Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Project Buildings.
Daniel Boos holds a BA degree in art history and media sciences. He has graduated from the University of Basel in summer 2007. This is his first job as an art historian after graduation. He will be your contact for upcoming exhibitions in our programme which are currently in their planning phase.

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:01:46 GMT

We would like to officially welcome two new host museums to our exhibition tour entitled Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings

The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton/Alberta, Canada
The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA

and thank them for their interest in this fascinating exhibition.

Please refer to the exhibition page for exhibition details and the up-to-date itinerary.

Medieval Exhibition opened in Utrecht

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:37:59 GMT

The Dutch foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen opened the Art Centre Basel exhibition „Masterpieces of Medieval Art from the National Museum in Warsaw” in the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht on Thursday, October 5, 2007. Approximately 300 people attended the formal opening ceremony and then later had the occasion to wander through the excellently designed show in the museum. Our exhibition will be on display in Utrecht until January 6, 2007. See exhibition details.

Masterpieces of Medieval Art

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:33:20 GMT

This exhibition will open its doors, for the last time after 3 previous venues all over Europe, at the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht/Netherlands on October 5.
It will be shown until January 2008. After that, the artworks will go back to Poland and be integrated into the permanent collection of the National Museum in Warsaw.
For more information refer to the exhibition details.

Art Centre Basel Website

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:32:20 GMT

The Art Centre Basel is proud to announce the relaunch of the new and improved website with a completely new design. The new website was created by kubus media.