ACT Basel 2025: ACT x Medardo Rosso

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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.

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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.

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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.

About Alexandra Pirici

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).

To the exhibition "Medardo Rosso"

Weiteres

Sat 29 Mar

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
14:00–15:00

Kuratorinnenführung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

In German. Mit der Kuratorin Heike Eipeldauer. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7

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Wed 2 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
18:30–19:30

Guided curator's tour of the exhibition "Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture"

With the curator Elena Filipovic. Cost: Entry + CHF 7

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Thu 3 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
16:30–18:00

Lehrer:innen Einführung zur Sonderausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

Ein dialogischer Ausstellungsrundgang mit pädagogischem Fokus.

In German. Ein dialogischer Ausstellungsrundgang mit pädagogischem Fokus. Wir bieten regelmässig Einführungen zu unseren Sonderausstellungen an, um Anknüpfungspunkte zu Lehrinhalten aufzuzeigen. Kosten: CHF 15 (inkl. Eintritt)

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Sat 5 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
14:00–15:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7

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Sun 6 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
14:00–15:00

Guided tour of the exhibition "Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture"

Costs: Admission + CHF 7

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Tue 8 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
12:30–13:00

Rendez-vous am Mittag: «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

In German. Mit Assistenzkurator:in Len Schaller. Kosten: Eintritt

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Wed 9 Apr

CONVERSATION

NEUBAU
18:15–19:45

Conversation on the occasion of the special exhibition "Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture"

In German. Artist Nairy Baghramian in conversation with curator Elena Filipovic. Participation free of charge, ticket required via ticket link

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Sat 12 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
14:00–15:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7

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Sat 19 Apr

GUIDED TOUR

NEUBAU
14:00–15:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «Medardo Rosso. Die Erfindung der modernen Skulptur»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 7

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Tue 22 Apr

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

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Thu 24 Apr

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