EXPLORING WORLDS - INVENTING WORLDS. Kunsttage Basel tour with Sophia Nava

Exploring Worlds — Inventing Worlds

“I see something you can't see, and it only exists in my imagination” – or, are reality and imagination really as distinct as we think? Art can describe, question and redesign narratives that lead to the construction of worlds and knowledge. Following in the footsteps of inventive and exploratory artists, our tour introduces us to places and perspectives we have not yet encountered and did not think were possible - but which we certainly will not want to forget.

We start at the group exhibition, “Future Reflections”, at the Kunstforum Baloise Park, where the artistic potential of visions of the future is explored. The familiar and the unfamiliar collide, as in the eponymous song by MGMT: “It was the future reflected, it felt familiar but new”. At the Gisèle Linder Gallery, the keen powers of observation of artist Ursula Palla introduce us to the cyclical repetitions of nature. These are increasingly thrown out of balance by human activity, yet continue as parallel narratives in the works. Finally, we immerse ourselves in the world of artist Zilla Leutenegger. In a room-filling installation at the STAMPA Gallery, she tells the story not only of a world, but of an entire universe – of the power of art and books.

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The tour takes approximately 2 hours on foot and starts at the Infopoint at Kunstforum Baloise Park, Aeschengraben 33, Basel.

Registration Saturday Noon (English) / Saturday Afternoon (German) / Sunday (German)

Participation is free of charge, and registration is binding.

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Sophia Nava (born 1992) studied Art History and German Language and Literature in Basel. Since 2024, she has been an assistant curator at the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur. She is involved in various projects there and is responsible for the upcoming exhibition "Fragments: Searching, Finding and Showing the Incomplete" (Fragmente. Vom Suchen, Finden und Zeigen des Unvollständigen), which highlights different strategies of fragmentation in artistic practice. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as well as at various galleries and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.