21 Oct 2026
Time: 09:30  - 12:30

Location: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, SNF-Projekt Modern Painting and the Lesbian Gaze: Queer Women Artists in Europe, 1900–1950

Workshop

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?
20 Oct 2026
Time: 18:15  - 19:45

Location: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, SNF-Projekt Modern Painting and the Lesbian Gaze: Queer Women Artists in Europe, 1900–1950

Public event

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.
16 Oct 2026
Time: 10:00  - 16:00

Location: Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Paul Morrow (eikones)

Events, Public event, Workshop

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.
08 Oct 2026
Time: 18:15

Location: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, St. Alban-Graben 8, 4051 Basel, Vortragsraum Nr. 131

Organizer: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Bereich Mittelalter

Public event

Forumsvortrag «SOUND ART HISTORY UND DIE KLANGLICHEN DIMENSIONEN DES AMBOS IN AACHEN» mit Joanna Olchawa

02 Oct 2026 - 03 Oct 2026

Location: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: eikones, Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, David Bucheli and Olexii Kuchanskyi, supported by the FAG (Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel)

Public event, Congress / Conference / Symposium

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,…
15 Sep 2026 - 17 Sep 2026

Location: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Marlis Arnhold and Warja Tolstoj

Public event

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).
11 Sep 2026 - 12 Sep 2026

Location: Kunsthistorisches Seminar, St. Alban-Graben 8, 4051 Basel, Vortragsraum 133

Organizer: Anja Delz (Universität Fribourg), Louis-Antoine Mège (Sorbonne-Université, Paris/documenta Institut, Kassel), Paula Stoica (Universität Basel), Emma Wils (Sorbonne-Université, Paris)

Workshop

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…
10 Sep 2026
Time: 18:00  - 20:00

Location: Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, St. Alban-Graben 8, 1. Stock, Room 131

Public event

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…
26 Jun 2026 - 28 Jun 2026

Location: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: Martin Schwarz & Daniel Tischler

Public event, Congress / Conference / Symposium

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…
11 Jun 2026 - 12 Jun 2026

Location: eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel

Organizer: eikones, Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes

Public event, Congress / Conference / Symposium

Aesthetics of Facts and the Medieval Image

Conference organized by Masha Goldin

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