New works: Beutler, Fleischmann, Hoener, Lee, Pohle, Reuter

»new works«

Michael Beutler
Dirk Fleischmann
Martin Hoener
Nayon Lee
Sascha Pohle
Mandla Reuter ...

»Backwards and forwards in the everyday« - Charlotte Ginsborg

The complex social web of personal experiences and public demands the individual is exposed to in various forms in today's globalised society takes on a tangible form in Charlotte Ginsborg's films in the form of an intensive pictorial language, without ever assuming a judgemental, one-dimensional position. ...

»Christi`s Antipasti« - Carmen Gheorghe

Gheorghe has produced a group of works – consisting of four new individual pieces – especially for the basis exhibition space. At the forefront of this project is the desire to explore the visual and conceptual aspects of diverse pictorial strategies. ...

VT ≠ TV

videotape is not television
Videofreex, TVTV, Ant Farm, Raindance

This group exhibition brings together for the first time in the German-speaking world works by some of the most important US American video collectives of the 1970s. ...

Sommerschau der Studios 2009

»basis« is pleased to present from July 24th to August 20th 2009 the 4th Sommerschau der Studios with recent works from the artists who work in the basis studio houses at Elbestrasse 10 and Gutleutstrasse 8-12 in Frankfurt Germany. ...

My idea, my name. Calling it after myself. - Jan Timme

In his artistic practice Jan Timme repeatedly quotes references to cultural and historical contexts in order to generate clear-sighted questions about our experience of ourselves and our world that are based on phenomenological, psychological and cultural parameters. ... ...

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces - Reynold Reynolds

The benchmark common to Reynolds films is the perennial question as to man’s position in the world in respect of such parameters as space and time, rationality and emotionality, control and compulsion. Phantasmagorical time-shifts, irrational occurrences, elements from dreams and the subconscious are alienated in grotesque, ex-pressive images. ...

Christoph Faulhaber - ich, wie es wirklich war

The German artist Christoph Faulhauber reports about his participation in a International Residency Program funded by the Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur in Germany. ...

Computer Simulation - Björn Renner

Björn Renner’s film and installational works range from claustrophobic and enigmatic images of psychic states to the ongoing construction and deconstruction of narratives or spatial arrangements. ...

ALWAYS ON YOUR MINDS - Stéphane Querrec

Stéphane Querrec’s film works follow a rigorously conceptual pattern that is underpinned by explorations into the viewer’s identity, the identities of the speakers in his films, and how these parameters interrelate. ...

Sink the boat before it sails

Project of the class Simon Starling
Städelschule Frankfurt am Main

Within the project »basis« is presenting works of Simon Starlings' students and a cooperative subproject. ...

Dies alles, Herzchen, hat einmal uns gehört - Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger

Katrin Hornek: May I introduce myself...

Sommerschau der Studios 2008

basis is pleased to present from August 1th to 16th 2008 the third Sommerschau der Studios with recent works from the artists who work in the basis studio houses at Elbestrasse 10 and Gutleutstrasse 8-12 in Frankfurt Germany. ...

Nayon Lee, Ulrich Becker and Nashun Nashunbatu

Nayon Lee
Ulrich Becker
Nashun Nashunbatu ...

Pioneer Point - Muzi Quawson/Tobias Zielony

The dual exhibition “Pioneer Point” shows current works by Quawson and Zielony and focuses on strategic common ground and kindred mediation strategies. Both artists are interested in youth- and countercultures situated at the edge or parallel to the social mainstream. ...

Amy Granat

Amy Granat’s formally extremely heterogeneous works reflect binary aspects of the processes of artistic production and experience. The materials of these works are generally 16 mm film and exposed photographic paper, which the artist then further treats. ...

Das schwache Haus - Michaela Meise

All of the works shown under the title “Das schwache Haus” go beyond merely formal concerns to draw on the multifaceted, polyvalent semantics of the architectural, thus illuminating the semantic plane that architecture inaugurates in its various contexts. ...

L.Y.S.S.A.-drawings - Peter Müller and Adrian Nießler

»„L.Y.S.S.A. wäre natürlich unpassend gewesen“ von Julia Bellberg, Toronto / „Syndrome und vier Dekaden Forschung“ von Stefan Poller, Brüssel« ...

summer show 2007

»basis« is pleased to present from September 1st to September 16th 2007 the 2th Sommerschau with recent works from the artists who work in the basis studio house at Elbestrasse 10 in Frankfurt Germany. ...

be-cause - Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt

In their art, the adoption and obfuscation of mass-media representations and the complex study of norms which manifest themselves in verbal communicative forms develop a broad horizon for the critical reflection of current social questions of cultural and national belonging. ...

Mister Security - Lukasz Chrobok / Christoph Faulhaber

From 2004 to 2006 the fictitious security company “Mister Security”, initiated by Chrobok and Faulhaber, took an interest in the security of US embassies and consulates in Germany and Poland. ...

SONGS, CITIES AND CIRCLES - Johanna Billing

Ongoing social change and how it affects the individual are Billings' central artistic interests, not that the suggestive force of her film projects is thereby lessened in favor of purely documentary elements. ...