Ausstellung Adelheid Duvanel open art museum

While her fine, laconic text miniatures have long been among the most independent voices in Swiss literature, her pictorial work is still little appreciated today.

As early as 2009, the open art museum presented its first retrospective with loans from the Swiss Literary Archives, the UPK Basel and the Dammann Collection. With this exhibition, an important group of works from the collection of her brother Felix Feigenwinter came to the museum. In 2021, another 40 drawings were added. At the same time, numerous publications were published that shed light on Duvanel's literary and pictorial work from new perspectives.

The current exhibition now brings together groups of works from the museum's collection with paintings from the picture warehouse of the UPK Basel. It makes Adelheid Duvanel's impressive visual world visible again – an art that tells of otherness, loneliness and the longing for security in an unembellished and at the same time sensitive way.