'From19 May – 11 August 2024 the Fondation Beyeler’s entire museum and its surrounding park will be transformed into the site of an experimental exhibition of contemporary art. The project is organised by Fondation Beyeler in partnership with LUMA Foundation and the show will bring together the work of 30 participants from different backgrounds and disciplines, including Michael Armitage, Anne Boyer, Federico Campagna, Ian Cheng, Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Marlene Dumas, Frida Escobedo, Peter Fischli, Cyprien Gaillard with Victor Man, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Wade Guyton, Carsten Höller with Adam Haar, Pierre Huyghe, Arthur Jafa, Koo Jeong A, Dozie Kanu, Cildo Meireles, Jota Mombaça, Fujiko Nakaya, Alice Notley, Precious Okoyomon, Philippe Parreno, Rachel Rose, Tino Sehgal, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Adrián Villar Rojas.
The experiment is developed and guided by Sam Keller, Mouna Mekouar, Isabela Mora, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Precious Okoyomon, Philippe Parreno and Tino Sehgal in close collaboration with all the other participants.'
This is a fragment of the press text of the exhibition I visited at the Beyler Foundation in Riehen during the Art Basel Art Fair in june.
The exhibition, who is an attempt to stimulate artistic freedom and question certain rules defining our traditional museum system created a lot of expectation and provoked different reactions, both positive and negative.
The project is indeed experimental and asks the participation of the visitor. It is an interdisciplinary offer, shortlisting well-known names of the presnt art scene, that request a special attention and demands the visitor an effort to spend considerable time in the museum space - inside the museum but also in its surroundings.