Invitation
Konzert-Galerie Maison 44,
Steinenring 44, 4051 Basel
Exhibition
7.2. – 21. 2. 2026
Opening: 7. February 2026 17.00-19.30
Phil Haddock
ElectricAffinities
Work in Porcelain 2025
Language travels on porcelain postcards, connecting people, past and present, who speak to one another through poems, songs and text fragments selected by the artist. Embedded in porcelain, they represent Electric Affinities that reveal themselves in a series of imagined conversations.
Three themes run through the collection: love, defiance, solidarity.
Judgement, polemic and protest at once, the postcards represent a form of solidarity connecting writers and readers in a spirit of resistance to inhuman cruelty.
Phil Haddock
Born in Seattle, Washington in 1951, Phil grew up in Vancouver, Canada, studied philosophy and languages in Germany and California and has lived and worked in Milan, Italy since 1989. Initial work in West Berlin in the early 1970s gave way to a focus on writing fiction, accompanied by forays into sculpture, printmaking and ceramics. Developed across extended stays in Shanghai in 2011 and 2012 and multiple visits since, the work on show was made in Jingdezhen, China in the fall of 2025.
Dadi Wirz – Brief-Romantik [The Romanticism of Letters]
Dadi Wirz grew up in Papua New Guinea and lives in Basel. In the course of his long life, he became a globetrotter and a traveler between worlds and cultures. As he set out, again and again, on journeys across our small planet, his plans became essays in self-discovery, and the world turned into an object of art. He made friends wherever he stayed, weaving a network of relationships that eventually spanned the world.
In the 20th century people still wrote letters, letters that traveled the globe – from Australia via Guinea to Brazil, for example. They reached their addressee after journeys that invariably took months to complete.
Opening Hours: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 3:00–6:00 PM