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A culture dispersed, a memory worn thin.

Drawing on her Circassian-Turkish heritage, Selin Nisa Açıkel approaches portraiture as a temporal condition, tracing how memory persists without a fixed centre: partial, fragile, enduring in fragments, in gesture, in what remains.
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Selin Nisa Açıkel
Searching, 2025
40 x 40 cm, charcoal on paper

On view through October 17 • On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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2 days ago

Michael Wang
The Last Emperor
Oil on Belgian Linen
150 x 120 cm

On view through October 17 • On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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5 days ago

Z.T. Nguŷen, currently on view in “On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name”

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Constructed from folded letter-size sheets of paper, Nguŷen’s drawings carry migration, secrecy and touch in the creases themselves. The graphite and acrylic figures, set on ominous glowing stages, don’t necessarily tell a story. They sit in an ambiguous space between stasis and change.

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Opening hours
Wednesday - Friday: 14:00–18:00
Saturday: 11:00–17:00
Hammerstrasse 121, 4057 Basel by @532gallery

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12 days ago

Armory Week energy 🗽

Throwback to 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel’s install at SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2023 — one of many NYC fairs we’ve been part of since our Chelsea days. Now cheering on this year’s edition from Basel. taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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17 days ago

Koji Nakamura
Can I Make 100 Friends?

Koji grew up in Shimosuwa, in Nagano, and studied Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts.
His father made the first puppet and gave it to him at birth. A fire later took the studio, and most of what had been around that childhood. Koji had taken that first puppet with him to university. From this first friend, he began to make more.
In Suwa the great wooden pillars have long been treated as more than wood — objects that hold a presence. The puppets come from that same pull.
Some are stitched from fabric offcuts that might have become a shirt or a dress. Each one is cut and stitched by hand. Koji gives it a number. Whoever takes it home gives it a name. The friend goes with them.

On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name
532 Gallery, Basel
through 17 October
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Koji Nakamura
Can I Make 100 Friends?, 2026
(No. 146, No. 144)
(No. 149, No. 148)
(No. 147, No. 145, No. 150) taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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21 days ago

Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez
Auriga, 2021
Pladur, wood and wallpaper retrieved from a ruined building in Havana
32 × 32 × 6.5 cm each

Fragments of plasterboard, wood, and wallpaper recovered from a once-distinguished 20th-century building in Havana — now a ruin — become abstract, wall-based sculptures. Glimpsed as if through a portal, they keep traces of a space shaped by time, neglect, and human presence. Detached from their original architecture, the remnants hold both rootlessness and nostalgia.

For Rodríguez, destruction is not only loss. Exposed layers of a ruin can reveal hidden structures, histories, and possibilities. They ask what counts as cultural heritage and how neglected spaces might still be remembered. Auriga sits in that tension between decay and transformation: fragments as vessels for memory, absence, and renewed meaning.

On view in On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name
28 August – 17 October 2026
532 Gallery Basel taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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Selin Nisa Açıkel
Veil, 2025 · Searching, 2025
Charcoal on paper, 30 × 30 cm

What remains when memory arrives in fragments?

For Açıkel, drawing is a way of tracing that remainder. Both sides of her family are Circassian-Turkish — descendants of a community displaced from the Northwest Caucasus in the 19th century and resettled across the Ottoman Empire. There was no fixed centre and no continuous story. What survived did so through practice: music, food, ritual, and codes of conduct.
The Veil series looks at that gradual thinning of transmission. Faces appear in pieces, recalled rather than observed, held between presence and disappearance. With charcoal, she treats portraiture as a kind of time record — a way of holding traces that last after clear recollection fades.

Shown in On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name, the works sit with the exhibition’s questions about displaced histories, blended identities, and the quiet residues through which cultures endure.

On view through 17 October 2026
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel
Basel, Switzerland taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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Michael Wang
The Last Emperor, 2025
Oil on Belgian linen, 150 × 120 cm
A ceremonial figure in a yellow-gold imperial costume and red hat — and white sneakers — stands against a vivid green field scattered with gold stars, on a black-and-white checkered base.
Heritage meets power and a little theater. Wang playfully reimagines official portraiture, suggesting that heritage is not fixed, but performed, questioned, and reinvented.
Part of On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name
On view through 17 October 2026 at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Basel. taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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A look back at Sunday’s artist talk at 532 Gallery, part of Kunsttage Basel ’26.

Morgan Ogilvie and Koji Nakamura came together to talk about their work and the ideas unfolding in On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the afternoon. A special thank you to Morgan for traveling from Tennessee, and to Koji and Meena for coming all the way from Tokyo!

The exhibition remains on view at 532 Gallery until October 17.

Featuring works by
@alberto.arguez @baked.ziti.nguyen @morganchristineogilvie @namahamustar @koji_nakamura__ @michael.whj @snacikel taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name
 Alberto Alejandro Rodríguez, Z.T. Nguyễn, Morgan Ogilvie, Shuto Mizukami, Koji Nakamura, Michael Wang, Selin Nisa Açıkel

Opening this Friday during Kunsttage Basel

Opening: Friday 28 August, 13:00–18:00
 Vernissage & Artist Talk: Sunday 30 August, from 13:00 — talk at 14:00 with Morgan Ogilvie and Koji Nakamura
Hammerstrasse 121, 4057 Basel

Image: Z.T. Nguyễn, Cats and Mosquitoes, 2024

@baked.ziti.nguyen

[exhibition link in bio]

#532gallerythomasjaeckel #kunsttagebasel #baselart #contemporaryart #532galleryOnABitOfEarth taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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2 months ago

Miracle Taro just turned 10.

As his cat gets older, Shuto Mizukami wanted to make something about him. He prefers small things, so he painted a tiny portrait of Taro (named by his mother) and gave it a house.

Cat House Chain takes its title from Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist work Head + House + Light.

First look — more to come.

On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Basel
28 August – 17 October 2026
On view during Kunsttage Basel, 28–30 August

@namahamustar

@kunsttagebasel

#shutomizukami #onabitofearth #532gallerythomasjaeckel #kunsttagebasel taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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2 months ago

Meet Mouse.

Another face from Morgan Ogilvie’s Obstinate Toy Soldiers.

With its cooler palette and flashes of candy-bright color, Mouse carries the same quiet unease beneath its playful surface. Painted alla prima, the figure seems to hover somewhere between costume, character, and memory.

Mouse (2026) joins Space Cowboy II in Basel this month as part of On a Bit of Earth Which Had No Name, opening 28 August at 532 Gallery.

Morgan Ogilvie Mouse, 2026 Oil on canvas 22.2 × 12.7 cm

#MorganOgilvie #532Gallery #OnABitOfEarth #KunsttageBasel #contemporaryart taken in 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel by @532gallery

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