ACT Basel 2025: ACT x Medardo Rosso
Friday, April 25, 6.15–7.45 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
Participation free of charge, ticket required via ticket link
Overture with talk The Exhibition Space and the Expansion of Performance by artist Alexandra Pirici. This keynote lecture inaugurates the performance festival ACT Basel 25, which takes place at Kunstmuseum Basel the next day, on Saturday, April 26.
Saturday, April 26, 1–5 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
Participation free of charge, ticket required via ticket link
ACT Performances 2025 - Performance Festival
Newly developed performances and performative projects as part of the annual ACT Perfromance Festival of the Swiss art academies.
ACT is conceived as an open laboratory for students of Swiss Art Academies to experiment with performative artistic strategies. With sculptures, drawings and photographs, ACT Basel 2025 is given a meaningful context on the occasion of the exhibition “Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture”.
On Friday 25 April 2025, the festival opens with the talk The Exhibition Space and the Expansion of Performance by Alexandra Pirici, artist and Professor for Performance in Contemporary Art at AdBK Munich.
As the festival’s keynote speaker, Pirici sets the stage for ACT Basel 2025 with reflections on the historical and contemporary relevance of performance. Performance is a notion that names many things including movement, body experimentation, dance and expression. But in 2025 performance also underscores the fundamental importance of presence: being there, being there for each other as well as being there to be perceived and acknowledged. Pirici’s introductory talk connects performative practices to the convention of the exhibition space and the context of the museum. Looking at performance as an intermedial field, her contribution offers a brief survey of its history—its ongoing evolution and expansion into new forms and formats, in response to a transforming (art)world.
Furthermore, it emphasizes the potential of live action and/or other forms of agency to reshape and complexify traditional exhibition displays.
Alexandra Pirici, Photo: Andrei Dinu
Alexandra Pirici is an artist with a background in dance and choreography, working in the field of visual arts. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, two times included in the Venice Biennale—the 59th edition of the International Art Exhibition The Milk of Dreams in 2022 and the Romanian Pavilion at the 55th edition in 2013—and in the decennial art exhibition Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2017.
She works in museum contexts, in public space, and sometimes in theatrical frameworks. She choreographs ongoing actions, performative monuments and performative environments that fuse dance, sculpture, spoken word and music. Since February 2023, she is the first Professor for Performance in Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK Munich).
Weiteres
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
HAUPTBAU
12:30–13:00
Rendez-vous am Mittag: Rodin Rosso Rodeo!
In German. Wir umrunden ausgewählte Werke zweier Protagonisten, die jeweils auf ihre Art die moderne Skulptur eingeleitet haben. Mit dem Kunstvermittler Andreas Jahn. Kosten: Eintritt
Treffpunkt: Hauptbau, EG Foyer
CONVERSATION
HAUPTBAU
18:15–19:45
Modern Sculpture Through the Camera’s Lens: Medardo Rosso and Max Klinger
Lecture by Prof. Megan R. Luke
On the occasion of the special exhibition "Medardo Rosso. The Invention of Modern Sculpture", Prof. Megan R. Luke focuses on the relationship between photography and sculpture in the works of artists Medardo Rosso and Max Klinger. Participation free of charge, ticket required via ticket link
CONVERSATION
NEUBAU
18:15–19:45
Ouverture with talk "The Exhibition Space and the Expansion of Performance by artist Alexandra Pirici"
This keynote lecture inaugurates the performance festival ACT Basel 25, which takes place at Kunstmuseum Basel the next day, on Saturday, April 26, from 1-5 p.m.
13:00–17:00
ACT Performances 2025 - Performance Festival
Newly developed performances and performative projects as part of the annual ACT Perfromance Festival of the Swiss art academies. Participation free of charge
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Visite guidée de l'exposition « Medardo Rosso. L’invention de la sculpture moderne »
In French. Coût: Entrée + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
10:15–12:00
Mittwoch-Matinée: «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Ein Ausstellungsrundgang durch die Sonderausstellung, bei dem wir gemeinsam Rossos Einflüssen auf folgende Künstler:innen-Generationen nachgehen und uns im vergleichenden Sehen üben. Kosten: CHF 10 / bis 16 Jahre: CHF 5. Beschränkte Platzzahl
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Guided curator's tour of the exhibition "Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture"
Costs: Admission + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
12:30–13:00
Rendez-vous am Mittag: «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skultpur»
In German. Mit der Assistenzkuratorin Noemi Scherrer. Kosten: Eintritt
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
12:30–13:00
Rendez-vous am Mittag: «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skultpur»
In German. Mit Assistenzkurator:in Len Schaller. Kosten: Eintritt
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
18:30–19:30
Kurator:innenführung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Mit den Assistenzkurator:innen Len Schaller und Noemi Scherrer. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Visite guidée de l'exposition « Medardo Rosso. L’invention de la sculpture moderne »
In French. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Guided tour of the exhibition "Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture"
Costs: Admission + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
12:30–13:00
Rendez-vous am Mittag: «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skultpur»
In German. Mit der Assistenzkuratorin Noemi Scherrer. Kosten: Eintritt
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Visite guidée de l'exposition « Medardo Rosso. L’invention de la sculpture moderne »
In French. Coût: Entrée + CHF 7
GUIDED TOUR
NEUBAU
14:00–15:00
Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»
In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7
