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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February 16 - May 15, 2011
Arman
In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Arman was, with Tinguely, one of the founding members of the „Nouveaux Réalistes“. This exhibition offers a retrospective-like coverage, with a comprehensive survey of Arman’s oeuvre and presents amongst others his major work groups the “Poubelles”, the “Accumulations” and the “Colères”. Read more...
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April 6 – May 15, 2011
Mauricio Kagel. Zwei-Mann-Orchester
In cooperation with the Paul Sacher-Foundation and the Music Academy Basel
The third version of the "Zwei-Mann-Orchester für zwei Ein-Mann-Orchester", an orchestra machine, displayed at the Museum Tinguely in its most recent execution, will serve for concert performances during the run of the exhibition. Comprehensive source and performance materials will provide an historical backdrop. Read more...
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June 8 – October 9, 2011
Car fetish. I drive therefore I am.
The exhibition presents a diversified overview of the automobile in its role as most important cultural asset of the 20th century and its depiction in art, starting with the Futurists’ frenzy for speed, its mediatisation in Pop-Art and down to our present-day motorized cultural transfers.
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October 26, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Robert Breer. Retrospective
In cooperation with Baltic, Gateshead (GB)
With a rare independency of the art scene, Breer developed a diversified and highly original oeuvre from the 1950s on. His High-Speed-films and Super-SloMo sculptures go against the grain of the artistic landscape at the time of their creation. It is through our present-day viewing habits that they develop their full explosive potential. The exhibition will contribute to the re-discovery of this important "Artists’ artist".
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