Ort: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
Veranstalter:
2026 NOMIS-Fellow Alena Williams, eikones, Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes
Energetic Transfers: Technics, Ethics, and Production
Organized by 2026 NOMIS Fellow Alena Williams in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this symposium investigates twentieth-century modernity, energy politics, and technics and their relation to the present.Ort: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
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Kunsthistorisches Seminar, SNF-Projekt Modern Painting and the Lesbian Gaze: Queer Women Artists in Europe, 1900–1950
Kirstin Ringelberg: “Toute La Flore Vivante”: Floral Still Life’s Gender Potential
Botanists and historians are increasingly returning to the taxonomical moment of the nineteenth century to undo the binary systems cemented into place in that era. Can we apply their work to art?Ort: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
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Kunsthistorisches Seminar, SNF-Projekt Modern Painting and the Lesbian Gaze: Queer Women Artists in Europe, 1900–1950
Both/And: Madeleine Lemaire Through a Queer Lens
Kirstin Ringelberg will introduce Belle Époque French painter Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928), using a queer lens to reconsider the artist’s images of nude, partially clothed, and coupled women.Ort: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
Veranstalter:
Paul Morrow (eikones)
Digital Simulations & Sites of Destruction
Modern media offer new ways to explore scenes of atrocity. Museums use these tools to allow visitors to see, hear, and feel acts of oppression. This workshop examines the peril and potential of digital simulations of sites of destruction.Ort: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, St. Alban-Graben 8, 4051 Basel, Vortragsraum Nr. 131
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Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Bereich Mittelalter
Forumsvortrag «SOUND ART HISTORY UND DIE KLANGLICHEN DIMENSIONEN DES AMBOS IN AACHEN» mit Joanna Olchawa
Ort: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
Veranstalter:
eikones, Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, David Bucheli and Olexii Kuchanskyi, supported by the FAG (Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel)
Ecologies of Mind in the Cold War
In the work of Gregory Bateson, psychological and ecological thinking meet in ways that were, in many respects, paradigmatic for the mind sciences and psychopolitics of the Cold War era. Organized by David Bucheli and Olexii Kuchanskyi,…Ort: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
Veranstalter:
Marlis Arnhold and Warja Tolstoj
Fragile Images: Conceptions and Configurations of the Image
Joint Workshop of eikones and the ERC project FRAGILE IMAGES, Kiel University, Germany, organized by Marlis Arnhold (Kiel University) and Warja Tolstoj (eikones).Ort: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, St. Alban-Graben 8, 4051 Basel, Vortragsraum 133
Veranstalter:
Anja Delz (Universität Fribourg), Louis-Antoine Mège (Sorbonne-Université, Paris/documenta Institut, Kassel), Paula Stoica (Universität Basel), Emma Wils (Sorbonne-Université, Paris)
Conceptual Art in the Expanded Field: Past, Present, Future Workshop
The workshop critically examines the complexity of artistic production from the late 1960s onward that has commonly been grouped under the term “conceptual art,” bringing together established scholars and emerging researchers from European…Ort: Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, St. Alban-Graben 8, 1. Stock, Room 131
Keynote lecture: The Gesturally Expanded Field of (Proto-Feminist) Conceptual Art: The Artistic Practices of Blythe Bohnen and Rosemarie Castoro with Sabeth Buchmann
Contrary to the assumption that nothing could be further removed from Conceptual Art than the brushstroke, the planned lecture examines the painterly practices of two artists who belong to the "expanded field" of an artistic movement that…Ort: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
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Martin Schwarz & Daniel Tischler
Workshop of Invention: Constructive Geometry and Architectural Form in Gothic Design
This conference, coordinated by Martin Schwarz and Daniel Tischler, is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which features key sheets from…Quick Links