Regional 26
Don't look for me
29.11.2025–11.01.2026
In a film sketch about a separation, Michelangelo Antonioni noted: "The film is the story of those five years and those five minutes. Its title could be Such mich nicht: her last words on the phone."
The exhibition takes up this title to explore different forms of withdrawal and strategies of rejection. They can consist in the refusal of attributions and fixed identities, in attempts to break out of values, behavioural patterns and life circumstances, or in states that range from alienation to dissociation and depersonalization.
How is an invocation denied, a look back reflected? And what follows escape, withdrawal and refusal? What can open up? Such mich nicht is populated by subjects who cannot be found where they are generally located. At the same time, the exhibition looks at spaces that are characterized by absence and perhaps for this very reason do not let go.
The Regionale is an annual group exhibition, developed in the context of a cross-border cooperation of 20 institutions in Germany, France and Switzerland, with a focus on local, contemporary art production in the three-country region around Basel.
Artists: Sophie Benwell, Anas Kahal, Leonie Kellein, Ange-Frédéric Koffi, Nolan Lucidi, Maria Mayland, Harumi Mumenthaler, Thalles Piaget, Jade Tang, Kelly Tissot, Lidong Zhao
Curators: Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
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