Happy Birthday

Viktor Briestensky
Bernhard Hegglin
Sveta Mordovskaya

June 14, 2022, 6pm

We are celebrating and everybody is invited!

Venue: St. Johanns-Vorstadt 69, 4056 Basel

The format is generously supported by the Albert Huber-Stiftung

Photo: SM

Photo: SM

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022, installation view.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Rats Playing Poker, 2019/2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Rats Playing Poker (detail), 2019/2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Bernhard Hegglin, Untitled, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Sveta Mordovskaya, Untitled, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, HBD, 2022.

Photo: Cedric Mussano

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022.

Photo: OB

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022.

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022.

Photo: OB

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022.

Photo: OB

Viktor Briestensky, Bernhard Hegglin, Sveta Mordovskaya – Happy Birthday, 2022.

Photo: OB

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Backrooms

A whisper behind a hand, a hatched plan, an embarrassing slip of the tongue, unexpected inspiration: these happen in the gaps, corridors and brief interactions on the way to other activities. In these liminal spaces — places as well as states — emerge zones of reverie with a psychological and social threshold character. They are marginal areas of ambiguous limbo where back doors are left open and free spaces unconstrained, thus generating potential for experimentation as well as for failure.

Under the title Backrooms, a programme of events, readings, performances, screenings, concerts and other artistic formats took place organised by Otto Bonnen.