Mika Rottenberg: Antimatter Factory / Retrospective at Museum Tinguely, Basel

In one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of her work to date, Museum Tinguely in Basel (Switzerland) presents a survey of Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg’s diverse oeuvre. As well as key video works and installations made between 2003 and 2024, the show includes her feature film REMOTE (2022). The show, titled Antimatter Factory, also features a specially made fountain sculpture in the park outside the museum will be unveiled and there are new, hybrid sculptures made of organic materials and reclaimed plastic. Kinetic works, some of them interactive, complete this overview.

Curated by Roland Wetzel, assisted by Tabea Panizzi, the exhibition takes its title from a research department at CERN in Geneva that conducts experiments into antimatter. Rottenberg’s time there as artist-in-residence provided the inspiration for her work Spaghetti Blockchain (2019-2024), which will be shown for the first time as a three-channel video installation during the exhibition. The retrospective at Museum Tinguely runs until November 3, 2024.

Mika Rottenberg: Antimatter Factory / Museum Tinguely, Basel. Press Preview, June 4, 2024.