• Léna Romand Lacrabère (in collaboration with Linus Weber, Delphine Bertrand & Clara Álvarez), The other‘s bed (Here I lay my clutter), 2025, installation view A Friend of a Friend of a Friend, der TANK, photo: Nolan Lucidi

  • Installation view A Friend of a Friend of a Friend, der TANK, photo: Nolan Lucidi

  • Installation view A Friend of a Friend of a Friend, der TANK, photo: Nolan Lucidi

  • Nicole Padrutt, charm club, 2024, installation view A Friend of a Friend of a Friend, der TANK, photo: Nolan Lucidi

Students’ Realm

A friend of a friend of a friend

Mariam Abashidze, Clara Álvarez, Delphine Bertrand, Miriam Borella, Andrea Davila Rubio, Fanny Adriana Dunning, Elyla, Alyona Hrekova, Robert Kirov, Valeria Leiva, Loka, Zanbagh Lotfi, Nolan Lucidi, Nicole Padrutt, Alberto Papparotto, Irie Qiwen Cao, Irene Rainer, Léna Romand Lacrabère, Yann Slattery, Mila Superstar and Lisa Jäger, Linus Weber, Julie/Julot Wuhrmann, Ilja Zaharov

Curated by Cruz

Opening 21 January 2025, 6 pm  
6.30 pm participative performance by Alberto Papparotto 
7.30 pm performance by Miriam Borella

23 January 2025, 8 pm
Sound Performance by Robert Kirov

Exhibition 22 – 23 January  

Opening hours: 6 – 9 pm

→ Floor plan (pdf)

Driven by the diverse backgrounds and origins of the Master of Fine Arts students, A Friend of a Friend of a Friend was born thanks to otherness.

Otherness has emerged and developed through various philosophical and social discussions. It seems that it has always been an elusive object of study; to quote Jacques Lacan: “The Other is always beyond reach, a forever receding horizon.”

In this exhibition, otherness is reachable. It is an attitude imbued within the artists’ and the curation of this show. The works overlap, merge, collaborate, and cohabitate. A Friend of a Friend of a Friend lives through trust, intimacy, tolerance, and genuine curiosity toward one another.

The exhibition, with its multiplicity displayed in a confined space, builds a scenario, it stages an everyday situation of the needing to know how to get to the other and how the other can get to you.

All the participants are current students of the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW.

Cruz