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Nolan Oswald Dennis

NOLAN OSWALD DENNIS

a Recurse 4 [3] Worlds Kunsthalle Basel 1 October 2023–11 August 2024 Basel
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Nolan Oswald Dennis (*1988, Zambia) inaugurates a site-specific, monumental diagrammatic artwork spread across the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. Built on discussions with physicists, geographers, and writers, the project employs mathematical abstractions, African fractal geometry, and other representational models to chart the systems, logics, and meta-histories of a world dependent on racialized, gendered, classed, and geographic exclusions. This new work borrows from various earth divination practices shared across the Sahara to reimagine a different African-European (dis)continuum. As Dennis’s first such artwork in public space, the project is imagined as a tool for disorientation—a technical diagram offering viewers a method for reconsidering concepts of space, time, history, and possibility.

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About the Artist

Nolan Oswald Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. His practice explores what he calls ‘a black consciousness of space’ : the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

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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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Friday, 11 am – 6 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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