HEK - Haus der Elektronischen Künste

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

Experience «Early Net Art» at Art Basel Zero 10 until June 21.Artists: , etoy, JODI,   Art Basel, Zero 10Event Hall, Mes...
19/06/2026

Experience «Early Net Art» at Art Basel Zero 10 until June 21.

Artists: , etoy, JODI,

Art Basel, Zero 10
Event Hall, Messeplatz

Tonight, 10 PM«No Hay Mariachi»DJ Takostán aka Rafael Lozano-Hemmer playing Tropical Gothic and Cumbia Fronteriza.
17/06/2026

Tonight, 10 PM

«No Hay Mariachi»

DJ Takostán aka Rafael Lozano-Hemmer playing Tropical Gothic and Cumbia Fronteriza.

17/06/2026

Come by today from 8 PM for the opening reception of «En Plein Air» by , presented in partnership with Tezos Foundation Art on Tezos.

The reception will be followed by No Hay Mariachi, featuring DJ Takostán, aka Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

See you later!

12/06/2026

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

A page not found. A destination missing. A search that leads somewhere unexpected.

Join us online for the virtual opening of 404_LAND, the first exhibition of the Tezos Foundation × HEK partnership.

Curators Auronda Scalera () and Alfredo Cramerotti () will guide audiences through the platform and introduce the featured works. Moderated by Isabella Maund ().

June 12, 5 PM CET
Online at virtual.hek.ch
Link in bio

Presented in partnership with .

404_LAND
12.06.–09.08.2026
virtual.hek.ch

Artists: .poet.engineer

11/06/2026

Currently on view at HEK: «New Rituals [for the End of the World]»

The exhibition looks at new rituals as ways of responding to crisis, uncertainty and the feeling of living through unstable times.

Through artistic positions from different contexts, «New Rituals [for the End of the World]» asks how collective gestures, speculative practices and new forms of attention can help us face the present.

Curated by Marlene Wenger and Anan Fries .

On view until August 9, 2026.

Extended opening hours during Art week:
June 15–21, 10 AM–6 PM

Video: Linus Weber

10/06/2026

Reminder: Stefanie Egedy — «Sonic Energetics»
Sound as somatic grounding. Sound as presence. Sound as a shift in perception.

As an audible extension of «New Rituals [for the End of the World]», Stefanie Egedy uses low frequencies between 30 and 40 hertz — wavelengths that travel through space, objects, tissue, and bone.

Here, the subwoofer is no longer a supporting device, but becomes the instrument itself.

June 15–21, 10 AM–6 PM
HEK, basement

Artist focus: Kat Zhang / the Poet Engineer .poet.engineerFor 404_LAND, Kat Zhang / the Poet Engineer presents «Hypomnem...
09/06/2026

Artist focus: Kat Zhang / the Poet Engineer .poet.engineer

For 404_LAND, Kat Zhang / the Poet Engineer presents «Hypomnemata: Forgetting as Invention».

Hypomnemata were ancient Greek notebooks: not diaries, but fragments worth holding onto.
Using a Hopfield network, the work hands this practice to a machine. Memory becomes an energy landscape, and recall is not retrieval, but reconstruction.

As memories decay, new unreadable glyphs appear from the ruins of the old. Forgetting becomes a way of inventing.

404_LAND 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

08/06/2026

At No Hay Mariachi, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, aka DJ Tacostán, will be playing tropical gothic and cumbia fronteriza.

¡Todos a bailar, todos a g***r!

Wednesday, June 17, 10 PM–1 AM
HEK basement
RSVP at [email protected]

Artist focus: Alida Sun With «The world isn’t ending / Their world is ending», Alida Sun presents a generative digital a...
08/06/2026

Artist focus: Alida Sun

With «The world isn’t ending / Their world is ending», Alida Sun presents a generative digital artwork on crisis, perception and ecological instability.

The title draws a sharp distinction: the world may continue, while specific worlds — social, ecological, cultural, emotional or political — are constantly ending for those who inhabit them.

Hand-coded in C++ on secondhand hardware, the work becomes a living structure of resistance, adaptation and collective imagination.

«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

Adresse

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

Telefon

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