LOOPS: Katharina Kemmerling, Kris Markiewicz
Opening hours:
Thursday/Friday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Finissage: Saturday, January 24, 2 – 6 p.m.
Artists: Katharina Kemmerling, Kris Markiewicz
Accompanying Program:
Dance Performance by Laurie Mlodzik – Thursday, 27 November, 6 p.m.
A body moves between fabric objects, pulls them on, tears them open, and wraps itself in them. The touch makes boundaries blur; between skin and material the form tips into the monstrous.
Music Performance by Yanik Soland – Thursday, 4 December, 6 p.m.
The performance combines self-built instruments, voice, and electronics into multilayered sound loops that are distributed across several speakers in the space. The asynchronous interplay of the sounds creates a continuously shifting sense of space.
Reading Performance by Skelt! – Thursday, 11 December, 6 p.m.
The human as an echo in empty landscapes. Accompanied by texts throughout the exhibition, it reads about the human echo in empty landscapes. From Renoir to Novartis. A circular journey.
Artist Talk – Thursday, 22 January 2026, 6 p.m.
In conversation, Katharina Kemmerling and Kris Markiewicz provide insights into the creation of the exhibition LOOPS, their artistic processes, and the role of landscape, perception, and time in their work.
Loops opens a space of perception where nature, time, and experience enter into a dense interplay. Katharina Kemmerling and Kris Markiewicz create a layered narrative in which moving landscapes, soundscapes, and sculptural forms oscillate between digital reproduction and analog painting. Markiewicz, deeply rooted in the landscape of the Basel region, gathers impressions of light, color, and movement on site and translates them into painted scenes that hover between memory and staging. Kemmerling complements the work with subtly integrated installations, sculptural objects, and soundscapes that expand the space and deepen visitors’ perception.
The question of how nature appears in an increasingly media-shaped world runs throughout the installation. Video sequences depict quiet landscape fragments, almost free of human traces. An easel in the foreground, showing the same scene as a painted image, shifts perception: nature becomes a projection, memory, and staged experience.
The temporally endless loops stretch perception and draw attention to subtle details of the landscape—the play of light and shadow, the movement of water and wind. In some scenes, a single fish figure appears, observed by Markiewicz in the surrounding environment and integrated into his painting; it functions as a recurring motif, pointing to the vitality and distinctiveness of the local ecosystem.
The exhibition also unfolds through an expanded dialogue. The accompanying program with performances, readings, and sound actions by Laurie Mlodzik, Yanik Soland, and Skelt! weaves movement, language, and sound into additional layers of perception, making the exhibition a living cycle. It remains a space for reflection, inviting visitors to reconsider notions of naturalness, artificiality, and human projection.
We would like to thank the Hans and Renée Müller-Meylan Foundation, the Mary and Ewald E. Bertschmann Foundation, as well as the Department of Culture Basel-Stadt for their support.
Location: Artstübli – Kunst & Kultur, Steinentorberg 28, 4051 Basel
Opening Hours:
Thursday/Friday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday: 2 – 6 p.m.
Vernissage: Thursday, 30 October 2025, 6 p.m.
Finissage: Saturday, 24 January 2026, 2 – 6 p.m.
