Kunsthalle Basel

Ghislaine Leung
Commitments

Opening
16.05.24, 19:00 – 22:00

Exhibition
17.05.24 – 11.08.24

Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Four Years in Ten Years in Twenty Years, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A three-tier anniversary cake to mark four years of being a mother, ten years of being an artist, and twenty years with her partner. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Four Years in Ten Years in Twenty Years, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A three-tier anniversary cake to mark four years of being a mother, ten years of being an artist, and twenty years with her partner. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Leave, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A wall is equivalent to all the days in a year. The 118 days between one exhibition by the artist and the next are shown as a tomato rectangle. The 37 days the artist was on unpaid sick leave in this period due to surgery are shown inset as a tangerine square. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Leave, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A wall is equivalent to all the days in a year. The 118 days between one exhibition by the artist and the next are shown as a tomato rectangle. The 37 days the artist was on unpaid sick leave in this period due to surgery are shown inset as a tangerine square. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Care, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A wall is equivalent to all the days in a year. The 2016 child care hours the artist would need to cover working full time are shown as a banana rectangle. The 1140 free childcare hours supported by the UK government are shown inset as a cobalt square. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Care, 2024, detail, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A wall is equivalent to all the days in a year. The 2016 child care hours the artist would need to cover working full time are shown as a banana rectangle. The 1140 free childcare hours supported by the UK government are shown inset as a cobalt square. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, One Hundred Seventy-Five, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A large black inflatable of the number of days the artist would work for her exhibition fee of 3.000,00 CHF according to Industria and a-n The Artists Information Company’s reported median wage in “Structurally F–cked” of 1.88 GBP per hour for an artist’s production of artworks and exhibition-making. The inflatable may be inflated for eight working hours daily, for a total of 175 days from the start of each exhibition period. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, One Hundred Seventy-Five, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A large black inflatable of the number of days the artist would work for her exhibition fee of 3.000,00 CHF according to Industria and a-n The Artists Information Company’s reported median wage in “Structurally F–cked” of 1.88 GBP per hour for an artist’s production of artworks and exhibition-making. The inflatable may be inflated for eight working hours daily, for a total of 175 days from the start of each exhibition period. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Jobs, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A list of jobs held by the artist. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Jobs, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: A list of jobs held by the artist. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Surgery, 2024, without image, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. Score: The portion of the artist’s body mass removed via hysterectomy as a portion of a room made unavailable. No reproductions may be made of this artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Surgery, 2024, without image, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. Score: The portion of the artist’s body mass removed via hysterectomy as a portion of a room made unavailable. No reproductions may be made of this artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Surgery, 2024, without image, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. Score: The portion of the artist’s body mass removed via hysterectomy as a portion of a room made unavailable. No reproductions may be made of this artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Surgery, 2024, without image, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024. Score: The portion of the artist’s body mass removed via hysterectomy as a portion of a room made unavailable. No reproductions may be made of this artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Holdings, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: An object that is no longer an artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Holdings, 2024, installation view, in: Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. Score: An object that is no longer an artwork. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.
Ghislaine Leung, Commitments, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel. All works courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Cabinet, London.

Artist
Ghislaine Leung

Curator
Mohamed Almusibli

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Location

Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7
4051 Basel
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

Published on: 28.05.24