Il grande artista francese Pierre Huyghe espone a Basilea il lato più inquietante del suo lavoro
French artist Pierre Huyghe has opened a major solo exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, featuring a complex, site-specific installation that spans eight rooms. The show includes new and recent works such as "Apnea" (2026), an artificial respiratory organ submerged in a tank; "Alchimia" (2026), a sound-control unit shaped like a worm; and films like "Liminals" (2026), "Human Mask" (2014), and "Camata" (2024). The exhibition is designed as a living, mutating organism, incorporating biological matter, pneumatic impulses, sound, and robotic elements, with no chronological or linear narrative.
This exhibition matters because Pierre Huyghe is one of the most influential contemporary artists working at the intersection of biology, technology, and art. His work challenges conventional notions of exhibition-making by creating environments that evolve and respond to their surroundings. The show at Fondation Beyeler, a prestigious institution, underscores the growing importance of immersive, process-based art that blurs the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, and it continues Huyghe's trajectory from Documenta 2012 to his recent show at Punta della Dogana in 2024.