214: Five rooms, one chair
Pierre Huyghe at Beyeler, a French bell tower as sound chamber, a sunken Seoul studio, a Ticino lake house, a Black Forest research lab, and a Pantin lounge chair.
Six projects, very different scales, organised around the same question: how does material set the terms of how a space is used. A film-and-installation organism at Basel‘s Fondation Beyeler, an unfinished medieval bell tower converted into a sound chamber, a single-storey studio dug into the ground, and at the other end a steam-bent ash chair built from two solid blocks.
Pierre Huyghe stages Liminal at Fondation Beyeler: sixteen works between 2011 and 2026, ants, aquariums, neural networks, a soulscape. At Le Parvis in Tarbes, Frederik Exner converts the unfinished bell tower into Door of Hearing, sound and sculpture set inside concrete masonry. In South Korea, goseong sinks In the Well into the landscape, a sunken studio with a single oculus. Ticino contributes the New House in San Nazzaro by Wespi de Meuron Romeo: aggregate-exposed concrete in a polygonal plot above Lago Maggiore. Lab02 in Lörrach by Mulder Zonderland and Moser Architekten anchors a research campus in steel frame and stained timber. And from Pantin, Perron et frères release Suspens, their first self-initiated chair, two lacquered ash blocks bridged by a single wool sling.
At the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel, Pierre Huyghe stages a survey-as-organism where films, ants, aquariums and neural networks share one shifting respiratory field.
At Le Parvis in Ibos, Danish artist Frederik Exner stages Door of Hearing on the Greenwich meridian: nine foam frogs with disc-halos, five Chest effigies and a six-metre needle that tells no time.
Korean artist goseong opens a childhood well in his grandmother’s backyard and looks in, building In the Well from the seduction of a darkness that swallows sound and rebuilds memory.
From Concrete Stories: On the eastern shore of Lago Maggiore in Switzerland, Wespi de Meuron Romeo shapes New House in San Nazzaro as a polygonal washed-concrete volume cut by two inner courtyards.
In Lörrach across the Swiss border from Basel, Mulder Zonderland and Moser Architekten build Lab02 for Runge Pharma, a translucent street facade that cascades into planted south terraces.
From The New Chair: From a workshop in Pantin, outside Paris, Perron et frères release Suspens, the studio’s first self-initiated lounge chair, built from two solid ash blocks and a single sling of wool melange.
