The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Located in the Solitudepark by the Rhine, the museum was designed by the architect Mario Botta.
A variety of Tinguely’s kinetic art sculptures are on permanent display, complemented with illustrations, photographs and other documents related to the artist’s life and work. Tinguely’s wife, Niki de Saint Phalle has donated 55 sculptures to the museum.
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines (known officially as metamechanics) that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely’s art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.
He was born in Fribourg, Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France in 1952 with his first wife, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, to pursue a career in art. He belo
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Vladimir Tatlin Retrospective
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Jean Tinguely’s Four Méta-Harmonie Music Machines at Museum Tinguely, Basel
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: Dream Machines / Museum Tinguely Basel
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Jean Tinguely: Rotozaza II
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Christian Marclay: Meta-Concert / Performance at Museum Tinguely
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Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
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Jean Tinguely - Méta-Harmonie II
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Belle Haleine - The Scent of Art, Exhibition at Museum Tinguely, Basel