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PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Tuesday, March 24, 6–8 p.m.
Der Wilde Weisse (2008), documentary film, 80 min. Followed by a discussion with filmmaker Renatus Zürcher.
An unbridled thirst for adventure led the Swiss ethnologist Paul Wirz on seven journeys to the South Seas, “where sea and jungle roar, and savages and cannibals dwell.” In New Guinea, the eccentric scholar found his personal paradise. Fifty years later, his son Dadi and grandson Pawi set out on a journey to discover why Paul Wirz felt so at home among the Papuans. (Quote: swissfilms.ch)
Thursday, April 16, 6 p.m.
Andres Müry in conversation. Moderated by Isabel Zürcher.
No one knows Peter Wirz’s work better than the journalist and biographer Andres Müry. In his book Wirziana. The Other World of Peter Wirz (Vexer Verlag, 2000), the author retraces the life of his uncle, marked by trauma, draws on sources from the family archive and patient records, and brings readers closer to the originality and narrative power of an oeuvre that—like the life of Wirz’s father—remains permeated by a drive for research and freedom.
No registration required · Free admission · Entrance: FOR ART, Rittergasse 25, Basel
The book Wirziana is available during the exhibition at the special price of CHF 30.00 (bookstore price: CHF 48.00).
more about FOR ART – A Temporary Art Intervention by Littmann Kulturprojekte. Basel 2025–2028