Beehave

14.9.  —
11.11.2018

Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Mirko Baselgia, Aviöl I-IV, 2015; Luis Fernando Ramírez Celis, Corte, 2018, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Luis Fernando Ramírez Celis, Corte, 2018; Mirko Baselgia, Midada da structura, 2013, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Enrique Fontanilles, Economy Eats Democracy, Devours Bees, 2018, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Andrea Wolfensberger, Wachsstele, 1998; Vom Gesang der Bienen, 2018, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Brigham Baker, Weaving House, 2018; Hive, 2015, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
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Brigham Baker, Weaving House, 2018, photo: Brigham Baker
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Marta Margnetti, Wasp! Wasp! Wasp!, 2018, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
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Toni Serra *) abu ali, En el camino de las abejas (still), 2018, photo: Toni Serra *) abu ali
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Mike Hentz, Bees, 1981, photo: Mike Hentz, R. Pape
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Mike Hentz, BEES, 1981, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Till Velten, Gespräch mit dem Imker, 2001; Ketten, 2018, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
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Peter Regli, RH No 272, 2009, photo: Peter Regli
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Andrea Wolfensberger, Vom Gesang der Bienen, 2018; Philip Wiegard, Artist Screening #1, 2017, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Beehave, Installation View: Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly
Björn Braun, Untitled, 2016, installation view Kunsthaus Baselland 2018, photo: Gina Folly

Project partners


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The honey bee — we know about its important role as a useful insect and pollinator, but equally as a biological indicator of environmental change. The disproportionally significant part it plays in ecosystems is becoming better known, not least because it is under threat. On the other hand, neurobiologists study these insects in order to understand how communication functions between nerve cells. But what part do they play in art?

Numerous contemporary artists have positioned honey bees at the heart of their practice or in key works, either the creature itself with its highly complex social behaviour, or its products of honey or beeswax. This complex, societally relevant topic will thus be brought into focus and examined through important works from contemporary art in the Kunsthaus Baselland exhibition. The exhibition at the Kunsthaus is created in cooperation with the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and was curated there by Martina Millà. Beehave equally challenges our behaviour and our role within society. It also, however, poses the question of what responsibility we want or should take in relation to our environment. In addition, the exhibition will illustrate how artists today occupy a seismographic role regarding many important current topics, and how bees can serve us as a model organism. The topic will be further investigated through an extensive mediation and events programme, a symposium and a volume of texts. This latter contains contributions from Simon Baur, Martin Dettli, Ines Goldbach, Manuel Herz, Dieter Koepplin, Martina Millà and Hansmartin Siegrist, as well as an interview with the artist Sandra Knecht, and is published by the Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna.

Invited artists: Brigham Baker, Mirko Baselgia, Joseph Beuys, Björn Braun, Enrique Fontanilles, Mike Hentz, Leiko Ikemura, Sandra Knecht, Jan Kopp, Carmen E. Kreis, Xavi Manzanares & Alex Muñoz, Marta Margnetti, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Luis Fernando Ramírez Celis, Boris Rebetez, Peter Regli, Toni Serra (Abu Ali), Till Velten, Pep Vidal, Philip Wiegard, Katharina Anna Wieser and Andrea Wolfensberger.

Many thanks to the partners of the Kunsthaus Baselland, the sponsors of the exhibition, as well as to the supporters who wish to remain unnamed. Our special thanks goes to Martina Millà for her idea of the project.

Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) supports the participation of Spanish artists Toni Serra *) abu ali, Alex Muñoz & Xavi Manzanares and Pep Vidal in the group exhibition Beehave through the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE), in the framework of the mobility grants.

Curator: Ines Godbach