Wild at Art Exhibition 2026

Wild at Art: Rivers of Life is a group art exhibition of international and Swiss artists.

from 11th to 20th June during Art Basel 2026

at Atelier Mondial, Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein

Tram 11, Freilagerplatz

next to the Academy of the Arts, above the HEK, behind Kunsthaus Baselland

The Wild at Art is a group art exhibition of local and international artists, embracing the energies and dynamisms of the city during Art Basel 2026.

We gather together at Atelier Mondial on the Campus of the Arts in Basel to present works from renowned multidisciplinary artists of Argentinian, British, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Italian, Serbian, South African, Swiss decent, showing our varied contexts, lifes' journeys, settings and struggles.

Rivers of Life is a collective consciousness of interwoven visualisations through divergent heterogenities, in contradicting cultures of contempt and 'cancel culture', where many are denied basic communication and expression. In this special year, people gathered around important cultural waters of Basel, Venice and Kochi, exchanging their ideas and visions of the world. We would like to extend this conversation, inspired by flows, confluences of water, glacial melts and seas, as we meander through our lives.

2024 and 2025 were years of intense warring and 2026 continues with tremendous terror and obliterations in the Middle East, in a savage hunger for depleting fossil fuels. How does it matter, whether we are from the Global South or Global North ? Can we reduce societal tensions and be peaceful whilst there are further destabilising structures of social and economic importance ? Can there be contructive dialogue, preserving empathy and understanding ?

Wild at Art shows life flows, milestones and achievements, alongside changing geographies, opportunities and uncertainties. Willingly and unwillingly many face migratory re-settlements, re-integrations and changing patterns in our daily lives, affecting us on existential levels. The contemporary consequences of colonial legacies reveal mechanisms of stereotyping, exclusion, the forces of pronounced matriarchy and patriarchy issues, group versus individualistic motivators and how these position and shape our everyday social realities. Each piece stands as a testimony to the ongoing struggles over identity, belonging and place within the global order.

The exhibition was inspired by an exercise from a Peace Circle session, run by Creators of Peace, to explore the pursuit of peace. Despite the continued challenges of dehumanisations and systemic violence, how do we contend with social divisions, trans-national identities, complexities and ambiguities through our human experiences, in an era of increasing polarisations ? Can we still think about, honour and strengthen objectives to encourage efforts and commitments to re-grow solidarities between one another, across national and international borders, in such times of conflict ?

By recognising the importance of sustainability, this exhibition will trigger an art collective and community workshops, both locally and internationally, in doing so, we can collect valued expressions for future exhibitions.

Artists

Ana Vujic
Barbara Peyer
Brendhan Dickerson
Daniela Beck
Dunia Idoya Eglin
Emmanuel Henninger
Eva Borner
Ingeborg TUTU Eglin
Joanna Layla
Judith Nussbaumer
Juliette Lepage Boisdron
Maruee Pahuja
Nadine Bitterli
Karin Bussmann
Kathryn Vogt Häfelfinger
Koshika Yadava
Parvez
Petra Keinhorst
Rama Kalidindi
Roya Noorinezhad
Saba Niknam
Sibylle Laubscher
Sivasankaran Thambi
Sofia Rossi Bunge
Tarlan Lotfizadeh

Events

Friday 12th June, 11:00-18:00, 18:00 - Opening
Saturday 13th June, 11:00-18:00
Sunday 14th June, 11:00-18:00
Monday 15th June, 11:00-18:00
Tuesday 16th June, 11:00-18:00
Wednesday 17th June, 11:00-18:00, 18:00 - ART BASEL at Campus, Performances 'As the river meanders', Rama Kalidindi, Koshika Yadav **
Thursday 18th June, 11:00-18:00, 18:00-19:30 'Waters' Art Therapy Workshop, Maruee and Rama
Friday 19th June, 11:00-18:00
Saturday 20th June, 11:00-15:00, 12:00 Finissage

** The timeline for Art@Dreispitz which will move around campus on Wednesday the 17th

Civic: 4-5pm (food performance)
AtMo: 5-8pm (Open Studios)
Tank: 6-9pm (Exhibition)
KHBL: 7-8pm (Exhibition)
HeK: 8-10pm; 10am-6pm normal opening, party from 10pm

Communications mainly on Social Media. All events are public.

Donation

There are many fabulous art works for sale. Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to culture projects to run at QTP Lola, promoting intercultural relations and social integration with locals and people on the move.

Hash Tags

#RiversOfLife #journey #path #diversity #unity #spirituality #struggle #adversity #decolonise #deconstruct #divided #humanrights #identity #international #laws #nationalism #prejudice #rights #warwealthidentity #war #wealth #universal #unite #united #ego #individual #group #storytelling #sharing #sharingiscaring #community #togetherness

Interesting References

Creators of Peace
Initiatives of Change
On Being (Rivers of Life)
Krishnamurti Foundation
Draw for Change !
CAS Art & Peace - CAS is a Collaboration between HGK Basel, swisspeace and Atelier Mondial.
Geneva Graduate Institute
Tarlan Lotfizadeh
Swiss Peace

Publicity

Agenda Basel
Art Agenda
Atelier Mondial
Oslo House Studios Cooperative
Visarte
This is Basel
Baselland Tourismus
My Switzerland
My Basel
PROZ