Photo credit: Leo Köhler
OPENING 26 November 2026, 6-9pm
Location: Volkshaus Basel| Rebgasse 12-14, 4058 Basel
Exhibition dates: 27.11.2026 - 26.03.2027
Liste Art Fair Basel, Friends of Liste and Volkshaus Basel warmly invite you to the opening of an exhibition by Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, presented as part of an ongoing collaboration between Liste and Room for Art. Curated by Nikola Dietrich, Director of Liste, the exhibition centres Dunkelberg’s SUN CITY series, in which the Berlin-based artist reconstructs the familiar forms of traditional tiled stoves in unconventional materials and covers them with synthetic fibres. Oscillating between functionality and abstraction, familiarity and estrangement, the sculptural objects play with our expectations of domestic spaces and the objects that inhabit them. Their presentation at Volkshaus Basel creates a particular dialogue with the building’s architecture and its history as a place of hospitality. Room for Art × Liste brings artists and galleries who have participated in Liste into the distinctive setting of Volkshaus Basel, creating new opportunities for the presentation of contemporary artistic positions. In this case, Dunkelberg is represented by Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, who participated in Liste 2026. With two exhibitions each year, Room for Art × Liste extends the fair’s presence beyond its annual edition.
About the artist
Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg (born 1987 in Bonn, Germany) is a sculptor. She studied at the HfBK, Hamburg University of Fine Arts and completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, UDK, where she studied with Manfred Pernice. Welding, forging, and lacquering the works herself, her labor-intensive practice involves industrial tools and production techniques. The playfulness of shapes and colors in addition to the influence of pop culture contradict the often heavy, cold materials (steel, aluminum, plastic). Interested in the push and pull relationship between the real and the abstract, furniture and other domestic objects and materials serve as an anchor upon which she can experiment. She lives and works in Berlin.
Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, SUN CITY (north), 2021, Synthetic fibre on MDF plywood
Courtesy the artist and Gunia Nowak Gallery. Photo credit: Marjorie Brunet Plaza