Sulamith Tamborriello
A chimeral duet towards the end of time documents a year-long trans-species collaboration with a slime mould, transforming care, interdependence and vulnerability into an artistic methodology.
Basel Art Week 2026 · International group exhibition
SURVIVAL
RITUALS
An exhibition about living on the threshold and the rituals we improvise to stay there when there is no other side to reach.
Photo: Kateryna Sirenko
The exhibition
A constellation of contemporary artistic responses to vulnerability, transformation, resilience, memory, technology, ritual and survival.
Concept
Living in the threshold.
SURVIVAL RITUALS gathered artists working at the edge of a shared condition: living suspended between a world that is failing and one that has not yet arrived.
Drawing on anthropologist Victor Turner’s theory of liminality — the state of being “betwixt and between” — the exhibition treated the threshold not as a temporary passage, but as a place of habitation.
The body became the clearest site of this condition: wired into systems, shaped by screens, dependent on the machine yet hungry for what it cannot give. Each artwork functioned as a ritual in itself — a small, complete gesture of survival.
“We are no longer passing through a crisis; we are learning to live inside one.”
Anna Avetova, curator
Participating artists
31 artists. Six countries. One shared condition.
Kate BarvinskaFelicia BeckIllia BelAnna BiletskaBryan Hamilton ChadwickNoah BettschenXavier EscalaGautier HardyArtem HumilevskyIren IvanovaAlyona KoniSergey MelnitchenkoOlena MorozovaNina MurashkinaYuriy MusatovOlga Ottenheijm SelyshchevaTetiana PopykAlexej SachovSavkaMichael SchuetzIryna SemkoJasper SmitSulamith TamborrielloShaul TzemachLesya TeslyaMyriam de WurstembergerPavol ZelinaTetiana MalinovskaArtem VolokitinWaoneNikita Zigura
Selected projects
Rituals of care, form and endurance.
Shaul Tzemach
Sculptures developed between mathematics, algorithmic thinking and material reality preserve the memory of structures under pressure and ask how form survives continuous transformation.
Myriam de Wurstemberger
Safe Space — a full-body suit made from 24,000 brass needles — holds protection and threat in a single luminous, untouchable form.
A living programme
Exhibition became encounter.
Opening Brunch with artists, curators and collectors
Premiere of Bryan Hamilton Chadwick’s experimental film 365 Skies
Olena Morozova: Survival Circle, Blind Archive and Analogue Interface
Survival Books, Press Day, Art Dinner, Open Microphone and artist talks
Visitor information
Basel Art Center.
Visit
Rebgasse 31, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
15–21 June 2026
Admission was free with registration.
Opening hours
Monday: 11:00–20:00
Tuesday–Saturday: 13:00–20:00
Sunday: 13:00–18:00
International collaboration
Three organisations, one platform.
Basel Art Center
A contemporary art institution in Kleinbasel presenting gallery- and museum-scale exhibitions across the full spectrum of contemporary media.
TUASHO
Conceived and curated the exhibition, developed its public programme and brought together artists from Europe and the United States.
Rukh Art Hub
A women-led New York platform supporting artists and meaningful international cultural collaboration.
