Haroon Mirza: hrm199 Ltd.

Museum Tinguely hosts in Basel the most extensive exhibition to date of work by the London-based artist Haroon Mirza (1977).

Mirza’s large spatial installations often include sound, light, video and film as well as randomly found objects and works by other artists. In this way, Mirza creates an immersive experience that challenges the eye, the ear and our spatial orientation.

By showing existing works alongside several new pieces created especially for the exhibition and specific to the site where they are placed, Museum Tinguely presents the work of Mirza across a broad spectrum. The “Haroon Mirza/hrm199 Ltd.” exhibition focuses on the collaborative nature of the artist’s practice. The exhibition’s title, the name of Mirza’s studio and company hrm199 Ltd. implies the essence of his approach. Artistic work is inherently a process with many contributors. It includes co-workers in the studio, the architect or the people involved at the museum as well as other artists. In this case the latter includes Alexander Calder, Channa Horwitz and Anish Kapoor, all of whom have either contributed their own work or engaged in a creative dialogue to lead to artistic innovation. Various forms of interaction such as appropriation, dialogic structures and complicity between the different contributors including the act of curating itself are presented. Accompanying the exhibition there is a catalogue that takes an experimental format by rendering the creative and practical interactions visible, mirroring the creative processes in the exhibition itself.

until September 6, 2015
Haroon Mirza/hrm199 Ltd.
devised by Roland Wetzel, Director of Museum Tinguely.
Contributing artists: Mattia Bosco, Alexander Calder, Jeremy Deller, Francesca Fornasari, Gaia Fugazza, Alexander Heim, Gary Hill, Channa Horwitz, Anish Kapoor, Haroon Mirza/hrm199 Ltd., TJ O’Keefe, Guy Sherwin, Richard Sides and Jean Tinguely
Museum Tinguely
Paul Sacher-Anlage 2, Basel