This museum, built by the architect Mario Botta (*1943), is like no other: it is dedicated to the memory of Jean Tinguely (1925 – 1991), the Swiss iron sculptor and master of kinetic art, whose colorful, noisy and rotating works reach out and engage the spectator in a dialogue. It is a museum in which to muse on art in general and its role in modern-day society.
Jean Tinguely, who grew up in Basel, was an active member of the avant-garde in Paris from the 1950s on, stimulating and revolutionizing the “static” art world with his kinetic art. The Museum’s permanent collections present a selection of the artist’s machine sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career.
The Museum Tinguely was inaugurated in 1996 as a gift to the people of Basel and to mark the centenary of the foundation of Roche. Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely’s widow, supported the project by donating over 50 machine sculptures and a considerable number of drawings and documents from the artist’s estate to a specially established Roche Centenary Foundation. Roche built the museum, contributed works from its own holdings and provided funding for additions to the museum’s collections. The museum’s operating costs and the costs of maintaining the adjacent Solitude Park have been funded entirely and exclusively by Roche since 1996. Roche sees the museum as a continuation of its longstanding commitment to contemporary music and the arts. Other major Roche-sponsored cultural projects include Roche Commissions and Roche ‘n’ Jazz.
Innovation, quality and sustainability are as central to the museum’s as they are to Roche’s mission.
The Museum also offers a varied and lively program of temporary shows devoted to Tinguely’s fellow artists and contemporaries, as well as to related subjects such as contemporary kinetic art.
The museum is open daily - except Mondays - from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Admission: CHF 15.00
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March 13 to June 20, 2010
Tinguely for Karola
Donation by Prof. Dr. Roland Bieber in memory of Karola Mertz-Bieber
Professor Roland Bieber’s donation in memory of Karola Mertz-Bieber brings a rich addition to the collections of the Museum Tinguely with letter-drawings dating to the period 1970 to 1988. A selection of 29 works from this donation is currently on exhibit.
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June 9 to September 12, 2010
Robot Dreams
An exhibition in cooperation with Kunsthaus Graz
The Museum Tinguely in Basel and Kunsthaus Graz are co-organising an exhibition that addresses the subjects of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Robotics”. The title Robot Dreams is borrowed from a short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction, in which Elvex, a robot, has to be destroyed because he has a dream in which he plans a revolt and starts to disregard the Three Laws that are intended to keep him subservient to humans.
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October 15, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Under Destruction
Group show co-curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer
“Under Destruction” is a group exhibition that examines the use and role of destruction in contemporary art through the work of nearly 20 international artists.
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