Zilla Leutenegger: Spaces Between / Museum Tinguely Basel

In the exhibition Spaces Between at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Zilla Leutenegger presents ten multimedia installations and monotypes that suggest mysteriously inhabited architecture and faint traces of a life. It is as if someone had moved into the building, leaving occasional shadows of their existence. These poetic moments invite visitors to rediscover the museum and see it with different eyes.

Zilla Leutenegger (born 1968 in Zurich) is a defining figure in Swiss contemporary art. Her work combines analogue and digital media in multimedia installations and “video drawings,” layering mural drawings with video projections so that a static space is animated by the shadow of a moving figure. She often appears as her alter ego Zilla, quietly performing everyday actions such as reading, waiting, or looking out of a window.

Her narratives are rarely linear. Instead, she captures atmospheric states and fleeting emotions in spaces built of light, projections, and sketches. These walk-in dream sequences blur the boundaries between fiction and reality and between two- and three-dimensionality. Her oeuvre forms an ongoing narrative on the poetry of everyday life, turning viewers into silent partners in her stories.

In dialogue with the Museum Tinguely collection, Leutenegger’s quiet, large-scale projections meet Tinguely’s mechanical dynamism, creating a new reflection on movement, light, and space. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Museum Tinguely, Basel, and the Museo de Arte Zapopan. Curator: Andres Pardey, in close collaboration with the artist.

Zilla Leutenegger: Spaces Between / Museum Tinguely Basel. Basel (Switzerland), November 4, 2026.