Studio Banana interviews Theodora Vischer, director of the Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland.
Schaulager is a unique institution, half museum, half depository of contemporary art, closely linked to the Hoffmann Foundation. Schaulger opened to the public in 2003 in a state-of-the-art building by Swiss architects Herzog&deMeuron. It holds one exhibition every summer and its art storage rooms are open for researchers the rest of the year. In the past it has featured the work of Dieter Roth, Herzog&deMeuron, Jeff Wall, Francis Alÿs, Tacita Dean, Robert Gober, Monika Sosnowska and Andrea Zittel.
The summer 2009 exhibition was entitled “Holbein bis Tillmans” and was curated by Theodora Vischer herself. It contains an array of art pieces from the 15th century (Holbein) till the 21st century (Tillmans), many of them specially borrowed from the Kunstmuseum Basel. It pays special attention at issues that are constant throughout the history of art (portraits, human existence in nature, still lives…). Amongst others it exhibits pieces by artists as diverse as Hans Holbein, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Franz Marc, Alberto Giacometti, Bruce Nauman or Candida Höfer.
Interview by Studio Banana TV. Translation by Andy Marlow.
Schaulager official site
Schaulager on wikipedia
Holbein bis Tillmans show
Hoffmann Foundation
Herzog&deMeuron
Dieter Roth in Schaulager
Dieter Roth Museum
Jeff Wall in Schaulager
Jeff Wall on Wikipedia
Francis Alÿs in Schaulager
Francis Alÿs on Wikipedia
Tacita Dean in Schaulager
Tacita Dean
Robert Gober in Schaulager
Monika Sosnowska in Schaulager
Monika Sosnowska on Wikipedia
Andrea Zittel in Schaulager
Andrea Zittel
