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Kunstmuseum Basel is currently showing the exhibition Ghosts. Dem Visualizing the Supernatural. Ghosts seem to be everywhere. Visual culture teems with specters, from Hollywood blockbusters like Ghostbusters (1984) to indie films such as All of Us Strangers (2023). They haunt screens, theater stages, and pages: literature, folklore, and myth are saturated with spirits that refuse to leave us in peace.
They have also always haunted art. As entities of the in-between, ghosts are mediators between worlds, between above and below, life and death, horror and humor, good and evil, visible and invisible. Any attempt to depict, record, or communicate with them thus offers a conceptual challenge and an emotional thrill.
This fall and winter, the Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates an extensive exhibition to these unfathomable entities. With over 160 works and objects created during the past …
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Image above: Tony Oursler, Fantasmino, 2017, Acrylic resin on canvas and digital hardware with moving image, 46.99 x 21.59 x 17.78 cm, Collection of Tony Oursler.
