Drawing Today

Artists

Michael Armitage, Martin Assig, Silvia Bächli, Miriam Cahn, Róza El-Hassan, Pélaige Gbaguidi, Leiko Ikemura, Renée Levi, Maja Rieder

Press release

Recent Additions to the Collection

Curator: Anita Haldemann

The Kunstmuseum Basel’s Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings) holds around 300,000 works from seven centuries. Through donations and acquisitions, this collection continues to grow. An exhibition now showcases around 200 contemporary drawings, the majority of which were added to the collections in the past ten years, including works by Michael Armitage, Martin Assig, Silvia Bächli, Miriam Cahn, Róza El-Hassan, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Leiko Ikemura, Renée Levi, and Maja Rieder.

The drawings reveal manifold facets. They are abstract or figurative, carefully considered or spontaneous. They probe questions of individual and collective identity amid differences of culture and religion. Or they boast broad strokes and rich colors, ignoring the line that divides the medium from painting.