Regionale 26
Don’t try to find me
29 Nov 2025–11 Jan 2026
In a synopsis for a film about a break-up, Michelangelo Antonioni wrote: “The film is the story of those five years and those five minutes. Its title could have been Don’t try to find me, her last words on the phone.”
The exhibition borrows that title to explore various forms of withdrawal and strategies of rejection. These may consist of refusing fixed attributions and identities or attempting to break free from certain worldviews, behavioral patterns, or life circumstances, but also encompass states ranging from alienation to dissociation and depersonalization.
How does one reject an interpellation? How does one reflect back a gaze? What comes after flight, withdrawal, and rejection? What new avenues can open up? The subjects in Don’t try to find me are not to be found in the places where they are usually assigned. The exhibition also looks at spaces marked by absence, which—perhaps for that very reason—one cannot let go of.
The Regionale is an annual group exhibition developed in the context of a cross-border cooperation of 20 institutions in Germany, France, and Switzerland with a focus on local contemporary art production in the three-country region around Basel.
Artists: Sophie Benwell, Anas Kahal, Leonie Kellein, Ange-Frédéric Koffi, Nolan Lucidi, Maria Mayland, Harumi Mumenthaler, Thalles Piaget, Jade Tang, Kelly Tissot, Lidong Zhao
Curated by Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
Image: Leonie Kellein, Sophie, 2022, video still (detail), courtesy of the artist
Programm
Fri, 28 Nov 2025, 6:30 pm
Opening with an Introduction by Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
Fri, 5 Dec 2025, 4–7 pm
Junge Kunstfreund*innen
Walk to the Regionale 26 exhibitions in the Galerie für Gegenwartskunst in the E-WERK, DELPHI_space and Kunstverein Freiburg
Meeting point: Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-WERK, Eschholzstr. 77
Sun, 7 Dec 2025, 12:45 pm
Regionale 26 Bus Tour 1 Basel–Freiburg
Guided Tour with Dieu Thanh Hoang
Wed, 10 Dec 2025, 7 pm
Curators’ Tour with Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
Mun, 15 Dec 2025, 7 pm
Table Talk
Her last words on the phone
with Michelangelo Antonioni
Sun, 21 Dec 2025, 9 am
Regionale 26 Bus Tour 4 Freiburg–Basel,
Depature from Konzerthaus Freiburg
Sun, 4 Jan 2026, 11 am
Regionale 26 Bus Tour 5 Basel–Freiburg
Curators’ Tour with Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
Sun, 4 Jan 2026, 3–5 pm
Performance afternoon in collaboration with DELPHI_space
Welcome to our Island
Performance by Harumi Mumenthaler (Kunstverein Freiburg, 3 pm)
followed by: soft hours
Performance by Natascha Moschini (DELPHI_space, 4 pm)
Wed, 7 Jan 2026, 7 pm
Curators’ Tour with Heinrich Dietz and Johanna Thorell
Sun, 11 Jan 2026, 2–4 pm
Workshop for Children
6–12 years (registration required)
Sun, 11 Jan 2026, 4 pm
Guided Tour with Dieu Thanh Hoang