Museum Tinguely

The Tinguely Museum in Basel presents an exhibition about the life and work of one of the most outstanding Swiss painters and sculptors, a representative of new realism and kinetic art. In the building designed by Ticinese Mario Botta, you can admire the most important works of the artist from different periods (primarily movable sculptures), as well as documents, posters and photographs.

In front of the museum there is the original Tinguely fountain and a sculpture by his colleague - Bernhard Luginbühl. Temporary exhibitions are devoted to the activities of various artists associated with Tinguela. A large part of the exhibition was donated to the museum by the widower of the sculptor - Niki de Saint Phalle.

The new realism was a trend that assumed showing fragments of reality in art without creating artificial images. An important element of kinetic art was movement, spatial projects, so-called mobile, moved as a result of changes in air temperature.