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HEK - Haus der Elektronischen Künste

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HEK - Haus der Elektronischen Künste

Das HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste) ist das Schweizer Kompetenzzentrum für Kunstformen, die neue

Das HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste) ist das Schweizer Kompetenzzentrum, das sich mit allen Kunstformen befasst, die sich durch neue Technologien und Medien ausdrücken und sie reflektieren. Mit seiner interdisziplinären Ausrichtung ermöglicht das HEK einer breiten Öffentlichkeit Einblicke in Kunstproduktionen unterschiedlicher Gattungen in der Auseinandersetzung von Kunst, Medien und Technolog

ie. In einem vielfältigen Programm aus Ausstellungen, kleineren Festivalformaten, Performances und Konzerten widmet sich das HEK ästhetischen Entwicklungen. Neben der Veranstaltungs- und Ausstellungstätigkeit beschäftigt sich das HEK mit der Sammlungsmethodik und dem Erhalt digitaler Kunst. Die junge Institution, gegründet 2011, gehört zu den Pionieren auf dem Dreispitzareal, einem ehemaligen Zollfreilager in Basel

02/06/2026

Artist focus: Hind Al Saad

«404_LAND» opens online on virtual.hek.ch on June 12, 5 PM CET.

In collaboration with Martin Juras and Levi Hammett .location, Hind Al Saad presents «SELF(ENCODED)» in the upcoming online exhibition «404_LAND».
The interactive work places the visitor inside a recursive conversation with a machine. Facial features feed the loop with new data and return as fragmented frames, layers of encoding, compression and loss.
What remains of the self when the face is no longer seen as a face, but as extractable data?

Presented as part of the Tezos Foundation x HEK 2026 partnership with , curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti

01/06/2026

Feel it before you hear it.

Stefanie Egedy describes her compositions as “sub-bass massages”: low-frequency sound that moves through space, objects, tissue and bone.

As an audible extension of «New Rituals [for the End of the World]», «Sonic Energetics» invites visitors into 20 minutes of vibration, pressure and physical presence.

June 15–21, 10 AM–6 PM
HEK, basement

Graphic design: Simon Fernandes

01/06/2026

Artist focus: dmstfctn

With «The Models», dmstfctn stages an endless sequence of AI-driven scenes inside a 3D game engine.
Inspired by Commedia dell’Arte, two characters improvise around props, roles and contradictions. Friendly, deceptive, servile, antagonistic or absurd — they perform conversations that almost make sense.
The result is an interactive live simulation suspended between theatre, performance, procedural absurdity and generative AI.

«404LAND» opens online on virtual.hek.ch on June 12, 5 PM CET.

Presented as part of the Tezos Foundation x HEK 2026 partnership with , curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti .

30/05/2026

Artist focus: Gabriel Massan

In Victims, Gabriel Massan transforms machinima into a space of tension, repetition, and endurance.

Part of the ongoing series Ball Of Terror, the work unfolds in a simulated world where bodies fall, rise, collapse, and remain suspended in loops. Sound, movement, glitches, and abrupt transitions become the grammar of an experience that refuses to resolve.

A digital environment shaped by precarity, instability, and the fragile condition of bodies caught inside political and technological systems, where existing is already an act of resistance.

404_LAND opens online at virtual.hek.ch on June 12, 5 PM CET

Presented as part of the Tezos Foundation × HEK 2026 partnership with — curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti

30/05/2026

HEK presents five works of early net art from its collection at Zero 10, Art Basel’s global initiative dedicated to art of the digital era.

Bringing together web-based archives, game modifications, networked systems, glitches and data-driven sound, the presentation traces a moment when artists began using the internet not only as a tool, but as a medium, a space and a system to be explored.

Featured works:

Slide 1 — !Mediengruppe Bitnik, «Download Finished», 2006
Slide 2 — etoy, «hek.history.etoy.com», 1994–2016
Slide 3 — JODI, «Max Payne Cheats Only», 2004
Slide 4 — Studer/van den Berg, «Hotel Vue des Alpes», 2000
Slide 5 — UBERMORGEN, «The Sound of eBay», 2008/2009

Preview: June 16, 4–8 PM
Free public access: June 17–19
Access with Art Basel ticket or VIP card: June 20–21
Zero 10, Event Hall, Messeplatz

28/05/2026

HEK and the Tezos Foundation are announcing 404_LAND, a group exhibition curated by Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti .

A show where error becomes both metaphor and framework. Taking its name from the HTTP 404 error, 404_LAND treats the error as an entry point into spaces that resist being mapped, owned, or resolved.

The six artists participating, Gabriel Massan, dmstfctn, Varvara & Mar, Hind Al Saad (with Martin Juras and Levi Hammett), Kat Zhang the Poet Engineer, and Alida Sun, work across machinima, generative systems, interactive simulation, machine vision, AI dialogue, and speculative worldbuilding.

The show, premiering on virtual.hek.ch on June 12th, will run through August 9th, 2026 and is the first of two virtual exhibitions produced as part of the 2026 partnership, with one more to follow, alongside an outdoor presentation at the museum during Art Basel.

Slide 1 — Hind Alsaad (with Martin Juras and Levi Hammett .location)
Slide 2 — dmstfctn
Slide 3 — Gabriel Massan
Slide 4 — Kat the Poet Engineer .poet.engineer
Slide 5 — Alida Sun
Slide 6 — Varvara & Mar

27/05/2026

During art week, HEK brings together an online exhibition, sound installation, screening, reception, a dance party and more — across HEK and the city.

Explore new rituals, sonic encounters and immersive gatherings and plan your visit for the week.

Full programme via the link in bio.

HEK has special opening hours during art week (15.-21.06.2026): Mon-Sun: 10 am - 6 pm

21/05/2026

Quayola: En plein air

During Art Basel Week, and Foundation present „En plein air“, a new outdoor installation by

Drawn from his ongoing Pointillisme series, the work transforms laser scanner distortions and chromatic aberrations into new pictorial gestures.

Celebrate the installation and the ongoing partnership during the evening reception before continuing the night with a DJ set by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer aka DJ tacostan.

June 17, 8 PM–12 AM CET

RSVP Link: https://luma.com/hek-x-tezos-reception

Media Partner: ArtReview Magazine

08/05/2026

Even your phone might need a cleansing ritual.

In Purgr (2026), Anan Fries imagines a technospiritual purification device for the smartphone — an object both intimate and deeply entangled in systems of extraction, exploitation, and profit. By placing a phone onto the sculpture, an everyday gesture becomes a ritual of care, cleansing, and temporary detachment.

Blending body horror with Gothic form, the work reflects on how late-stage capitalism turns even repair into a commodity.

New Rituals [for the End of the World]
09.05.–09.08.2026

Curated by Anan Fries and Marlene Wenger

Credits: Anan Fries, Purgr, 2026. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by HEK (House of Electronic Arts).

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Freilager-Platz 9
Münchenstein
4142

Öffnungszeiten

Mittwoch	12:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 20:00
Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
Samstag	12:00 - 17:00
Sonntag	12:00 - 17:00

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+41612836050

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http://www.hek.ch/

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