Pierre Huyghe's Immersive Ecosystem Opens at Fondation Beyeler During Art Basel

The Fondation Beyeler in Basel presents the first solo exhibition of French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) from May 24 to September 13, 2026. Huyghe transforms Renzo Piano's architecture into a sensitive ecosystem inhabited by images, organisms, sounds, dust, algorithms, and presences between the biological and artificial. The museum becomes a living body traversed by invisible flows, intermittent rhythms, and ambiguous states of consciousness. Central to the show is 'Apnea' (2026), an artificial organ submerged underwater that breathes at a human rhythm, its membrane expanding and contracting like a body holding its breath. 'Alchimia' (2026) features a worm on a threshold that reacts to air, vibrates, and produces murmurs. The new film 'Liminals' (2026) presents an anthropomorphic figure without a face moving through mutable states where time and space dissolve. 'Adversary' (2026) is a large closed gate generated through human-machine collaboration, translating a single mental image into a physical presence. 'Camata' (2024), set in the Atacama Desert, shows enigmatic machines performing a perpetual ritual around a human skeleton; the film is remixed in real time by sensors responding to visitors and environmental conditions. Huyghe's practice, known from Documenta 13 and Skulptur Projekte Münster, challenges the idea of exhibition by creating open systems where human and non-human coexist without hierarchies.