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Dala Nasser

DALA NASSER

Xíloma. MCCCLXXXVI Kunsthalle Basel 16 May–10 August 2025 Basel
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Dala Nasser works through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making. Integrating sound, performance and film in her practice, Nasser remains quintessentially a painter as she thinks specifically through this medium and its most elementary materials: fabric, pigments, stretcher bars, lines. Her indexical paintings of land, made through direct contact on location, stand in opposition to the sweeping vistas offered by traditional landscape painting.

Considering materials as witnesses, she has developed a growing body of work that foregrounds non-claimed histories, ecologies of slow violence, colonial theft, and infrastructural failure in times and places where human language has been rendered insufficient or out of reach. For her initial exhibition in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Basel, Nasser envisions a reconstruction of the Byzantine church of Kabr Hiram in Qana, Lebanon—a site now no longer extant, in a landscape that is impassable. As part of this project, she works for the first time with image through cyanotype-treated fabrics, making lost spaces tangible.

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About the Artist

Dala Nasser is a Lebanese contemporary artist whose materially driven abstractions and large-scale installations explore landscape, memory, and the entanglement of ecological and political violence, with major presentations including Adonis River at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, and participation in the Whitney Biennial 2024.

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Dynamic, experimental, rigorous, open-minded, and accessible, Kunsthalle Basel is a place for audacious art and exhibitions by emerging artists. Established in 1872 by the Basler Kunstverein (Basel Art Association), Kunsthalle Basel is world renowned for engaging with pioneering practices in contemporary art.

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Thursday, 11 am – 8:30 pm
Friday, 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
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Basel Steinenberg 7
Kunsthalle Basel contemporary art institution in Basel Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7, Basel, Switzerland
+41 61 206 99 00
http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/en

Opening hours
Tuesday – Wednesday, 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday, 11 am – 8:30 pm
Friday, 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
Closed Monday
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