July
16
Jul / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
18
Jul / Saturday / 2 pm
CURATOR'S TOUR
The curator-led tour with Samuel Leuenberger offers in-depth perspectives on the exhibition and its thematic focus. It centers on Chloe Wise’s artistic approach, key motifs of the presentation, as well as the conceptual and spatial relationships between the works on view.
The tour will be held in German and is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
30
Jul / Thursday / 6 pm | SPECIAL EVENT
'Past Futures' with Mattias Brand
Archaeology, astronaut gods, and enigmatic artefacts: alternative histories often rely on images that claim to be more than mere illustrations. They appear as supposed evidence, shift interpretations of archaeological findings, and connect historical fragments with modern imaginaries of the space age.
Taking Chloe Wise’s exhibition Extrasensory as a point of departure, Mattias Brand examines the visual strategies behind such narratives. At the center of the talk is the question of how images, modes of seeing, and iconographic motifs lend legitimacy to stories of extraterrestrial intervention, past futures, and alternative origins of humanity. Why do UFOs, astronaut gods, and unexplained artefacts serve so effectively as projection surfaces for the unspeakable? And how does the “extrasensory” affect us through the visible?
Mattias Brand brings together research in religious studies with questions of visuality, media history, and alternative historicity. The lecture explores how images generate evidence in religious, cultural, and popular contexts — and how ideas of past, present, and future become intertwined through them.
The talk will be held in German and is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
30
Jul / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour in English
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
August
02
Aug / Sunday / From 11 am
FAMILY & FRIENDS DAY | FIMO SOUVENIR MAKING
For Family & Friends Day, visitors of all ages are invited to create small souvenirs from modeling clay. This open workshop encourages creativity and offers space for shared making and personal mementos inspired by the exhibition.
Participation is free of charge. No registration required. For children aged 6 and above.
06
Aug / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
08
Aug / Saturday / 2 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
13
Aug / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
15
Aug / Saturday / 2 pm
Public Guided Tour in English
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
20
Aug / Thursday / 6.30 pm | SPECIAL EVENT
Cosmic Conversations with Dr. Andreas Anton
Exosociology, conspiracy narratives, and social imaginaries of the extraterrestrial: at the observatory, Dr. Andreas Anton will speak about how images, narratives, and speculations surrounding extraterrestrial life shape our understanding of knowledge, reality, and the future. Drawing on scientific and cultural-sociological perspectives, the lecture explores how the extraterrestrial functions as a projection surface for hopes, fears, and alternative interpretations of the world. It focuses on forms of observation, the limits of established knowledge, and the role of imagination where science, popular culture, and conspiracy thinking intersect.
The lecture will be followed by a short guided tour of the observatory, with the kind support of Astronomischer Verein Basel.
The talk will be held in German and is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
The event will take place at Sternwarte St. Margarethen, Venusstrasse 7, 4102 Binningen.
Directions
20
Aug / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
22
Aug / Saturday / 2 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
27
Aug / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
28
Aug / Friday / 11 am - 6 pm
KUNSTTAGE BASEL | 28 - 30 August
During Kunsttage Basel, the exhibition becomes a site for personal tarot readings with performer Mama Misha. For Extrasensory, she develops a performative format that brings together intuitive insight, theatrical exaggeration, and speculative visions of the future.
Between ritual, performance, and conversation, cards are drawn, signs are interpreted, and possible futures are playfully explored. Mama Misha’s practice moves between drag, performance art, pop culture, and absurd theatre. Through heightened personas, she combines humour, physicality, and social observation with deliberate staging, emotional intensity, and surreal disruption.
In Contact Zone, Chloe Wise is joined by guests who contributed to the film for a conversation. Taking the film as a point of departure, they reflect on bodies, perception, collective processes, and the making of shared images. The conversation opens a space for insights into the collaboration behind the work, as well as questions of proximity, representation, and sensorial experience.
With Sensory Sounds, Loke Rahbek presents an evening between sound, atmosphere, and live performance. Rahbek, who composed the film score as well as the music in the second exhibition room, will create an ambient live performance on site, extending the exhibition’s acoustic dimension into a physical experience.
Curator Samuel Leuenberger also invites visitors to read the signs of the exhibition — without cards, but with a sharpened eye for contemporary art. In a short Curatorial Reading, motifs, references, and possible interpretations of the exhibition will be explored together: What do the works reveal about our present, and what visions of the future might emerge from them? Places are limited; registration by 24 August via info@kbhg.ch is kindly requested. The event is held in German.
Participation in all events is free of charge.
Program:
Friday, 28 August
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
Saturday, 29 August
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
4–5 pm · Contact Zone | Conversation with Chloe Wise and guests (EN)
7 pm · Sensory Sounds | Performance with Loke Rahbek
Sunday, 30 August
11 am–12 pm · Curatorial Reading | Interactive tour with Samuel Leuenberger (DE)
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
The exhibition includes a station of Kunsttage Basel’s official “Kunstpass” format for children aged 5 to 12.
Culinary offerings by Mystifry will accompany the weekend, available while supplies last.
29
Aug / Saturday / 11 am - 6 pm
KUNSTTAGE BASEL | 28 - 30 August
During Kunsttage Basel, the exhibition becomes a site for personal tarot readings with performer Mama Misha. For Extrasensory, she develops a performative format that brings together intuitive insight, theatrical exaggeration, and speculative visions of the future.
Between ritual, performance, and conversation, cards are drawn, signs are interpreted, and possible futures are playfully explored. Mama Misha’s practice moves between drag, performance art, pop culture, and absurd theatre. Through heightened personas, she combines humour, physicality, and social observation with deliberate staging, emotional intensity, and surreal disruption.
In Contact Zone, Chloe Wise is joined by guests who contributed to the film for a conversation. Taking the film as a point of departure, they reflect on bodies, perception, collective processes, and the making of shared images. The conversation opens a space for insights into the collaboration behind the work, as well as questions of proximity, representation, and sensorial experience.
With Sensory Sounds, Loke Rahbek presents an evening between sound, atmosphere, and live performance. Rahbek, who composed the film score as well as the music in the second exhibition room, will create an ambient live performance on site, extending the exhibition’s acoustic dimension into a physical experience.
Curator Samuel Leuenberger also invites visitors to read the signs of the exhibition — without cards, but with a sharpened eye for contemporary art. In a short Curatorial Reading, motifs, references, and possible interpretations of the exhibition will be explored together: What do the works reveal about our present, and what visions of the future might emerge from them? Places are limited; registration by 24 August via info@kbhg.ch is kindly requested. The event is held in German.
Participation in all events is free of charge.
Program:
Saturday, 29 August
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
4–5 pm · Contact Zone | Conversation with Chloe Wise and guests (EN)
7 pm · Sensory Sounds | Performance with Loke Rahbek
Sunday, 30 August
11 am–12 pm · Curatorial Reading | Interactive tour with Samuel Leuenberger (DE)
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
The exhibition includes a station of Kunsttage Basel’s official “Kunstpass” format for children aged 5 to 12.
Culinary offerings by Mystifry will accompany the weekend, available while supplies last.
30
Aug / Sunday / 11 am - 6 pm
KUNSTTAGE BASEL | 28 - 30 August
During Kunsttage Basel, the exhibition becomes a site for personal tarot readings with performer Mama Misha. For Extrasensory, she develops a performative format that brings together intuitive insight, theatrical exaggeration, and speculative visions of the future.
Between ritual, performance, and conversation, cards are drawn, signs are interpreted, and possible futures are playfully explored. Mama Misha’s practice moves between drag, performance art, pop culture, and absurd theatre. Through heightened personas, she combines humour, physicality, and social observation with deliberate staging, emotional intensity, and surreal disruption.
Curator Samuel Leuenberger also invites visitors to read the signs of the exhibition — without cards, but with a sharpened eye for contemporary art. In a short Curatorial Reading, motifs, references, and possible interpretations of the exhibition will be explored together: What do the works reveal about our present, and what visions of the future might emerge from them? Places are limited; registration by 24 August via info@kbhg.ch is kindly requested. The event is held in German.
Participation in all events is free of charge.
Program:
Sunday, 310August
11 am–12 pm · Curatorial Reading | Interactive tour with Samuel Leuenberger (DE)
1–6 pm · Tarot Reading | Performance with Mama Misha
The exhibition includes a station of Kunsttage Basel’s official “Kunstpass” format for children aged 5 to 12.
Culinary offerings by Mystifry will accompany the weekend, available while supplies last.
September
03
Sep / Thursday / 5 pm
Public Guided Tour in English
Discover the exhibition in our public guided tours. The tours offer an introduction to the exhibition’s topic, present selected works, and provide insights into the curatorial concept. Participation is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
05
Sep / Saturday / 2 pm
CURATOR'S TOUR
As part of the final program, the curator’s tour with Samuel offers another opportunity to gain deeper insights into the exhibition. The tour focuses on selected works, key themes, and the curatorial concept of the presentation.
The tour will be held in German and is free of charge. Registration via: info@kbhg.ch
