Marc Bauer

The Kunstmuseum Basel presents a project by the internationally renowned Swiss artist Marc Bauer (b. 1975). Bauer’s drawings grapple with history, memory, gender, and identity from a queer perspective. Titled Marc Bauer. Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, the presentation intertwines motifs from art history, from artists such as Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450-1516) and Nasta Rojc (1883-1964), with photographs from the internet and archival material. Bauer’s work focuses on the construction of masculinity and the violence it unleashes in society and—that is the central theme in this project—against…