At a glance
Charcoal and graphite spill across the museum’s architecture, creating a large-scale confrontation with masculinity, social aggression, and the lived realities of queer history.
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Why go
Marc Bauer transforms the Neubau’s static walls into a living, changing surface. This site-specific intervention evolves over fourteen months, ensuring the physical space becomes an active participant in the narrative.
You'll see
Large-scale wall drawings · Intimate paper works · Historical imagery · Sound installations · Evolving surfaces
Pace of visit
The installation is layered and dense, requiring a steady pace to absorb the interplay between sound and large-scale imagery.
Don't miss
The expansive wall drawings that bridge the gap between intimate figurative sketches and the museum’s monumental architecture.
Artlovers Tip
Planning a second visit after the scheduled reworking in November allows you to see how the installation has physically altered and responded to the passage of time.
Inside the exhibition
Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing — Marc Bauer brings a massive, site-specific intervention to the Kunstmuseum Basel Neubau in Switzerland. Bauer utilizes the museum's interior architecture as a canvas for sprawling figurative drawings that address the complexities of modern masculinity and the systemic violence directed at queer individuals.
The presentation spans a range of media, blending temporary wall murals with soundscapes, traditional paintings, and delicate works on paper. By integrating historical imagery into these contemporary installations, Bauer creates a layered environment where archival references meet the immediate, physical energy of drawing directly onto the gallery surfaces.
This exhibition is significant for its temporal nature; the installation is designed to be reworked midway through its year-long run. By allowing the work to change in situ, the Kunstmuseum Basel highlights a dynamic approach to political art that resists the permanence of the traditional museum collection.
Worth travelling for?
A powerful, site-responsive intervention that offers a gritty, contemporary contrast to the more traditional historical collections housed within the Kunstmuseum.
Experience as an Artlover
The exhibition runs for over a year at the Kunstmuseum Basel Neubau, providing several months to witness the installation in different phases.
Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing — Marc Bauer
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