Issues of Our Time: An evening with Teju Cole on his new novel "Tremor"

A cooperation between Kunstmuseum Basel and the Literaturhaus Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau
Monday, June 24, 2024
7.30–8 p.m.
Tickets via Literaturhaus Basel

Teju Cole is a novelist, essayist, and photographer. Cole is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. His most recent book is a novel entitled Tremor (2023), named book of the year is being published in German now. In this novel, Cole dives deep into the colonial history of the USA and uses literary means to investigate how it leaves its mark to this day.

In the event series Issues of Our Time, important thinkers from various disciplines take a stand on pressing contemporary issues and shed light on critical contexts that are driving today’s societies.


24 October – 23 November 2024

October

Sat 26 Oct

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

November

Sat 2 Nov

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

Thu 7 Nov

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
18:30–20:00

Kurator:innen-Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Mit der Kuratorin Maja Wismer und dem Kurator Daniel Kurjakovic. Kosten: CHF 5.

Sat 9 Nov

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

Sat 16 Nov

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

Sat 23 Nov

GUIDED TOUR

GEGENWART
15:00–16:00

Führung in der Ausstellung «When We See Us. Hundert Jahre panafrikanische figurative Malerei»

FULLY BOOKED

In German. Kosten: Eintritt + CHF 5.

24 October – 23 November 2024