FR 17.10.25–MO 20.10.25
ZU GAST: Catching the Big Fish
Exhibition with Danae Hoffmann, Alice Tioli & Delphine Bertrand
Vernissage | Opening
Fr 17.10.25 | 18 h
By appointment only
Nur nach Vereinbarung geöffnet
EN
Catching the Big Fish brings together works by Danae Hoffmann, Alice Tioli, and Delphine Bertrand in an exhibition that unfolds like a dream just before waking — where images emerge before taking shape, and the world remains fluid, blurred, submerged.
This is not a show about water, but one underwater. A space already sunken, where memory seeps into every surface and stories haven’t yet solidified. The room becomes a vessel — holding the flicker, the trace, the dream. Each work listens, quietly, to what resists language: the shimmer of what almost vanished.
There are no maps, only the drift. Nets, salt, shells, and tulle become portals, relics of something dissolving. This is a show about what cannot be grasped — yet touches you all the same. Like catching the big fish — not to keep it, but to sit beside it, quietly, while it swims nearby.
DE
Catching the Big Fish vereint Werke von Danae Hoffmann, Alice Tioli und Delphine Bertrand in einer Ausstellung, die sich wie ein Traum entfaltet — jener Moment kurz vor dem Erwachen, in dem Bilder entstehen, bevor sie Form annehmen, und die Welt noch flüssig, verschwommen, untergetaucht ist.
Es ist keine Ausstellung über Wasser, sondern eine, die unter Wasser stattfindet. Ein bereits versunkener Raum, in dem Erinnerung jede Oberfläche durchdringt und sich Geschichten noch nicht verfestigt haben. Der Raum wird selbst zum Gefäss — für das Flackern, die Spur, den Traum. Jede Arbeit lauscht dem, was sich der Sprache entzieht: dem Schimmer dessen, was beinahe verschwunden ist.
Es gibt keine Karten, nur das Treiben. Netze, Salz, Muscheln und Tüll werden zu Portalen — Relikte von etwas, das sich auflöst. Dies ist eine Ausstellung über das, was sich dem Zugriff entzieht — und doch berührt.
Wie das Fangen des grossen Fisches — nicht um ihn zu behalten, sondern um still bei ihm zu sitzen, während er in der Nähe schwimmt.
Danae Hoffmann (1994, Germany)
is an artist whose work investigates sensory experience, spatial drawing, and thedialogue between materials and space. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her practice combines fabric, foam, and delicate steel rods, with fabric serving as a membrane between self and other. Her sculptures transform drawings into three-dimensional, malleable forms that act as fragile, ghostlike thresholds, mediating between the visible and the intangible. Lives and works between Karlsruhe and Basel.
Alice Tioli (1991, Italy)
is an interdisciplinary artist whose work challenges perception by merging reality and illusion. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice and holds a Master’s degree from the Art Gender Nature Institute at FHNW Basel, as well as a degree in Philosophy from the University of Padova. Her practice focuses on media painting and immersive installations, exploring themes of enchantment and the invisible. Exploring a vocabulary of signs and traces, her visual narratives weave intimate stories that inhabit the tension between revelation and concealment. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland, with her studio at Im Surinam.
Delphine Bertrand (1995, The Netherlands)
is an artist whose practice explores ephemeral, site-specific installations through organic and found materials. She holds a Master’s degree from EESAB Quimper, France, and the Art Gender Nature Institute in Basel. Her works unfold as hybrid landscapes that blur the boundaries between inside and outside, the visible and the felt, evoking fragile ecosystems rooted in memory, relation, and symbiosis. She works like an indoor landscape gardener, cultivating temporary, intimate worlds between the transient and the enduring. Lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.
Text and poster by Alice Tioli