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Yanik Soland: Walking on Rubber Eggshells
First institutional solo show of the Basel artist and musician: an acoustic landscape and walk-in sculptural instruments across the upper floor.
Més a Basilea
First comes an inflated mouth whose red tongue is an air mattress. "Yes, you can lie on it," Yanik Soland told bz Basel. You lie back as on a waterbed, feel the bass through the plastic, and hear a high whistle: air escapes through a slit, down a hose and into a small flute.
It is the Basel musician's first institutional solo show, filling the upper floor's three rooms with his new album, taken apart and reassembled. Strings run over two Zen-garden sandboxes on oversized clothes pegs, and one instrument is strung through an existing wall. Bajour said the show "astonishes, pleases and raises a smile". A shrill pipe over a thumping bass in Basel usually means Fasnacht; this one you can lie down in.
The catch: the Kunst-Bulletin found the instruments mostly silent outside the performances, with visitors unsure whether to pluck, rake or lie down. It closes on 15 November, with a last evening tour on Thursday 12 November at 18:30. CHF 12, free under 26.
No et perdis
Breath Tunnel
Look for the hose by the fan at the back: it ends in a whistle that sounds loudly at irregular moments, turning the tunnel into what Soland calls an oversized bagpipe.
The rakes in the fan
Tiny rakes are tucked into Breath Tunnel's fan, one of the jokes Bajour's critic singled out.
Spioncino
Two guitar amps sit on a wooden frame while metal strings run through the plaster wall, the height of each hole setting the pitch, so movement in the room sets them humming.
The Zen-garden sandboxes
Two sandboxes with their rakes hung on the wall, each crossed by a string resting on an oversized clothes peg like a koto bridge, wired to guitar amps.
Ideal per a
- Visites al vespre
- En solitari
- Veïns que ja ho han vist tot
Millor evitar-ho si
You want to look rather than listen: the whole upper floor is one sound piece.
Amb infants
Everyone under 26 gets in free. Kids can lie on the tunnel's red air-mattress tongue, but its whistle is loud and goes off at irregular moments.
També a Kunsthaus Baselland
Ara a prop
A prop
Crèdits de les imatges
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- Yanik Soland: Walking on Rubber EggshellsPerformance von Yanik Soland mit Phoebe Bognár, Miriam Paschetta, Tomohiro Iino, Stefano Grasso und Larissa Rapold. Foto: Ivana Kresic © Kunsthaus Baselland
- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Emil Ferris: Between SelvesCourtesy of Cartoonmuseum Basel
- HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel)Bea Phi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- SchaulagerHans Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0