Full show Description

During Regionale 2024, Visarte Region Basel is curating a group exhibition at M54, featuring artists from Germany, France, and Switzerland. This exhibition brings together various generations, methods, practices, and themes, all unified by one central element: "social practice." This is an artistic approach that centers on social interactions and collaborative processes. The works include remnants of past projects, intermediate stages of process-based interventions, participatory performances, and artistically playful instructions for action. In this exhibition, the artists present diverse responses to current societal challenges like isolation, exclusion, and elitism, whether within art institutions, the educational sector, or political discourse. The creation and reception of the works rely on the engagement of various target groups, opening up spaces for collective experience. Many of the pieces can be understood as snapshots of social practices, constantly transforming over time. In interaction with visitors, a cycle of creation and reception unfolds, dissolving the clear division between artist and visitor roles. The focus is on accessibility and togetherness, while also questioning where a work begins and where it might ever end. Foto: Sabine Gysin