Kunsthaus Baselland presents group show on memory and migration
Kunsthaus Baselland is hosting "Mémoires Voyageuses," a group exhibition featuring eight international artists who explore memory, displacement, family history, colonial legacies, and imagined futures. The show runs through August 16, 2026, and includes works by Raphaël Barontini, Onome Ekeh, Joana Escoval, Binelde Hyrcan, Mateo Maté, Sofía Salazar Rosales, Aline Motta, and Helena Uambembe. Across video, sculpture, textile, installation, sound, photography, and performance, the artists examine how stories travel through families, landscapes, bodies, archives, and oral traditions. The exhibition posits that memory is never fixed, with personal recollections and inherited narratives shaping identity.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'Mémoires Voyageuses' at Kunsthaus Baselland
- Features eight international artists
- On view through August 16, 2026
- Artists include Raphaël Barontini, Onome Ekeh, Joana Escoval, Binelde Hyrcan, Mateo Maté, Sofía Salazar Rosales, Aline Motta, Helena Uambembe
- Mediums include video, sculpture, textile, installation, sound, photography, performance
- Themes: memory, displacement, family history, colonial legacies, imagined futures
- Explores how stories travel through families, landscapes, bodies, archives, oral traditions
- Memory is presented as fragile and transformative
Entities
Artists
- Raphaël Barontini
- Onome Ekeh
- Joana Escoval
- Binelde Hyrcan
- Mateo Maté
- Sofía Salazar Rosales
- Aline Motta
- Helena Uambembe
Institutions
- Kunsthaus Baselland
Locations
- Basel
- Switzerland