iKunsthalle BaselAltstadt Grossbasel
Özgür Kar: Rock Bottom
Özgür Kar's first institutional solo show in Switzerland: a new theatrical production across several rooms, mixing video, sculpture, animation and sound.
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You walk into the first room and find a cow, larger than life, lying still across three 98-inch screens. Only the occasional rise of its flank shows it is alive. Flies circle it, and their faint hum grows the longer you stay until it fills the empty room.
Özgür Kar draws every figure by hand, animates it, then ties it to its own monitors in an endless loop. Five rooms, one figure each: a green figure curled in on itself, a reclining body after Holbein's Dead Christ in the Tomb with its nerves glowing like inflammation, an empty human skin hanging in mid-air, and a kneeling figure, voiced by Ivan Cheng, talking itself in circles.
The mood is the title: the lowest point, with no hint of what comes next. The five loops run 57 minutes end to end. Entry is CHF 12, including S AM, free up to 18, and Thursdays run to 20:30. On 18 November, 6 to 8pm, there is life drawing in the show.
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A larger-than-life cow lies still across three giant screens while the hum of circling flies fills the room. Özgür Kar's hand-drawn figures loop in five rooms, one each, including a body after Holbein's Dead Christ with its nerves glowing.
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Cow and the Flies
In Room 1, a larger-than-life cow lies still across three 98-inch screens while flies circle it, their buzzing building the longer you watch the 15-minute loop.
Transparent Figure (Anxiety)
In Room 2, a green monochrome figure curls in on itself across two 85-inch screens, which Kar treats as a canvas rather than a TV.
Transparent Figure (Pain Relief)
In Room 3, a reclining body after Holbein's Dead Christ in the Tomb stretches over 5.7 metres of screens, its nerve pathways glowing in bright colours and throbbing erratically.
Human Hide
In Room 4, a body's empty skin hangs across two 98-inch screens more than four metres wide, with no bones or nerves inside it.
Transparent Figure (Data Retention Plea)
In the last room, a kneeling figure voiced by Ivan Cheng talks to an unseen listener for 22 minutes, begging to be recorded and kept.
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- Iluntzeko bisitak
- Bakarrik
- Dena ikusi duten bertakoak
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You want paintings or objects: every work here is an animated figure looping on giant screens.
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Entry is free for anyone under 18.
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- Özgür Kar: Rock BottomÖzgür Kar, Cow and the Flies, 2026, installation view, in: Özgür Kar, Rock Bottom, 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, Jabari publikoa
- 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