iKunsthalle BaselAltstadt Grossbasel
Gili Tal: Light and Airy
The most comprehensive presentation to date of Gili Tal, centred on the commercial display refrigerator, with new drawings from supermarket brochures.
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A kids' Spider-Man lunchbox hangs in front of a single-door fridge. In another, a teddy bear, a pink flip-flop and a glass of orange soda float where the drinks should be. None of these fridges is real: each is a product shot printed on a clear window sticker, mounted on Perspex or mirror and propped on metal brackets like stock for sale.
Gili Tal used to show working fridges stocked with cans. In her bar jobs, she told Ocula, she was asked to pull the cans forward when a fridge was emptying so it looked full. Here you look straight through the fridges to the wall. Between them hang colour-pencil drawings copied from supermarket brochures and developers' renderings of new-build estates.
Come for 17 works that are thin and flat on purpose, not for objects with heft. It closes on 15 November. Entry is CHF 12, including S AM, and Thursdays run to 20:30. The last Espresso Tour, 20 minutes in German, is Sunday 15 November at 3pm.
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The Spider-Man fridge
Look for a kids' Spider-Man lunchbox suspended in front of the glass door of a single-door fridge, the one object standing in for the drinks.
Spaces for Everyone (Grass)
A fridge cloaked in lush green grass lifted from an architect's rendering, printed on the perforated one-way film used on outdoor adverts.
Limpid Contemplation, twice
The title belongs to an empty, see-through fridge three metres wide in Room 1 and to the show's only line drawing, of sliced bread, in Room 2.
The Language of Commodities (Three Croissants)
Three croissants from a supermarket brochure float in an expanse of blue, drawn in colour pencil in hyperreal, near-gaudy colours.
Riverside Life
A colour-pencil drawing Tal made from a developer's render of a new-build space in Woolwich, London, to tie her fridges to new-build landscapes.
Ideal para
- Visitas de noche
- Secretos locales
- Días de lluvia
Mejor evitar si
You want objects you can walk around: every fridge here is a flat print, not an appliance.
Con niños
Entry is free for anyone under 18.
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- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Atomkraft: Deine EntscheidungCourtesy of Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)
- Boundless Printmaking: The Schweizerische Graphische GesellschaftCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Kunsthalle BaselCharles-François Marie Iguel (1827[1]-1897) / Wikimedia Commons, Dominio público
- Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)James Steakley / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung LudwigBasmus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Historisches Museum Basel - Haus zum KirschgartenCourtesy of Historisches Museum Basel - Haus zum Kirschgarten
- Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)Wladyslaw Sojka / Wikimedia Commons