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Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing
Drawings by Marc Bauer in the Neubau connecting wing.
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Four canvases hang from the ceiling in back-to-back pairs. For one, Them, Marc Bauer started from a press photo of Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration and smeared paint across the faces of the tech bosses beside him. On its back, Manifesto quotes Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto.
The show fills the connecting wing between the Hauptbau and the Neubau, much of it drawn in charcoal and pastel straight onto the walls. You walk along a row of small pencil drawings that tell Bauer's own story: a boy in profile, Babar, a surgeon uncle. Beside them, huge wall drawings rework Caravaggio's Doubting Thomas and Gentileschi's Judith and Holofernes, with a soundtrack referencing music that matters to the queer movement.
Its subject is violence against queer people, and one case holds drawings after hate mail from the Swiss Gay Archives. Bauer added to the walls in May and November, in front of visitors, and they will be painted over in 2027. It runs until 2 May 2027, and Wednesdays run to 8pm.
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Them
Look for the 3.6-metre canvas of Trump's 2025 inauguration, with paint smeared across the faces of the tech chiefs who attended.
The Crowd
On the back of the rave painting Ecstasy, a dense crowd mocks and humiliates Christ, taken from a Bosch follower's Carrying of the Cross.
Three teenagers lost in music
The large central wall drawing, added in May, recalls the queer raves of the 1980s that carried people through the AIDS crisis.
On the Grill
A small drawing of the surgeon uncle mocking the boy for pitying lobsters grilled alive, a softness he warned led to homosexuality.
Black Swans
Six sheets joined into one drawing of the swans from Louise Abbéma's 1883 painting of herself and Sarah Bernhardt on a lake.
Ideal per a
- Visites al vespre
- En solitari
- Friquis
Millor evitar-ho si
You want a light visit: the whole installation deals with violence against queer people.
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Crèdits de les imatges
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- Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still StandingCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Emil Ferris: Between SelvesCourtesy of Cartoonmuseum Basel
- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)Wladyslaw Sojka / Wikimedia Commons
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung LudwigBasmus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cartoonmuseum BaselCartoonmuseum Basel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunsthalle BaselCharles-François Marie Iguel (1827[1]-1897) / Wikimedia Commons, Domini públic
- Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)James Steakley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0