For the start of the fall season, Galerie Nicolas Krupp in Basel (Switzerland) presents an exhibition of works by Kaspar Müller. Kaspar Müller, born in 1983 in Schaffhausen, lives and works in Basel. The exhibition, titled “Maintenance 3” runs from 28 August to 31 October 2026.
Maintenance 3 presents Kaspar Müller’s works, leftover studio pieces, found objects, private photos, and old drawings as if they were sitting in a storage room. The show looks overflowing and fragile at the same time. It asks how artworks and everyday things lose meaning, fall apart, and get reused.Works on the walls show Müller recycling earlier pieces: sculptures become drawings, photos are reassembled, colorful paintings are painted over in white. Objects in the space come from past exhibitions. A traffic cone is cut and cast in glass. Children’s workshop materials, new hardware-store buckets, and balloons are also on view.Each object seems to hold a quiet story of earlier use and contact. The works feel present precisely because they do not explain themselves. The exhibition is the third with this title and, in its arrangement, follows the previous exhibitions at Galerie Vavassori in Milan (Maintenance 2, 2022, and Maintenance, 2017).
Kaspar Müller (born 1983 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss artist working in painting, sculpture, glass, photography, video, and installation. He studied in Basel, co-founded artist-run spaces there, later worked in Berlin and Zurich, and has taught at ECAL Lausanne. His practice treats everyday objects and images—lamps, straw figures, decorative patterns, tourist footage—as slightly opaque motifs that reappear across media. Recurring themes include circulation, craft versus mass production, and how meaning shifts through reproduction. He has exhibited at Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Bern, Vleeshal, Art Basel Parcours, and galleries in Berlin, Zurich, Milan, and Paris, and received the Manor Prize and a Kadist production award.
