Artist talk with Renée Levi on the inauguration of “Mira” (2025)
The event is part of the Kunsttage Basel 2025.
Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau, Vortragssaal
In German
Participation free of charge. Tickets via link
In conversation with Elena Filipovic, director of the Kunstmuseum Basel, artist Renée Levi discusses the concept and creation of her new mural Mira (2025), which will be on view in the Kleinen Hofumgang of the Kunstmuseum Basel | Hauptbau.
Participants: Elena Filipovic (Director, moderator), Renée Levi (artist, discussion), Daniel Kurjaković (Curator of Programs, welcome and introduction)
Renée Levi (born in Istanbul in 1960) is one of Switzerland's most important artists working in painting and installation. Since the late 1990s, she has been questioning the medium of painting, reviving this discipline, which has been declared dead many times, with relish and a critical eye. With radical, powerful, concise, and precise interventions, Levi transcends the boundaries between painting and architecture. Her paintings are objects at the intersection of painting, drawing, and writing. The colors and forms often burst forth in enormous dimensions and retain their fragility despite their sensual force. This is where the astonishingly playful lightness of Levi's work lies.
Levi most recently exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Akaretler Artweeks in Istanbul, and designed the learning pool at the Rialto indoor swimming pool in Basel. She also won the competition to mark the 175th anniversary of the Swiss Federal Constitution and created the mosaic Tilo for the tympanum, the triangular gable above the entrance to the Bundeshaus in Bern.
The event is part of Kunsttage Basel 2025 and will open Super Saturday as the first item on the program. Super Saturday is a joint event organized by Kunsttage Basel, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Institut Kunst Gender Natur HGK Basel FHNW.
