Athene Galiciadis’s site-specific installation Nachtwache ich (Variation for Basel), 2025, is a temporary structure providing shade and shelter to plants, artworks, and visitors. Continuing her research into makeshift architectures, Galiciadis’s sanctuary is made from simple materials such as tarps, ropes, wood, and earth. 

The readily available materials in Galiciadis’s work speak to urgency, adaptation, and how humans transform their environment through physical and social structures. Furthermore, the temporary architecture as a greenhouse continues Galiciadis’s interest in agricultural policy and social concerns.

Integrated into the installation are clay vessels painted with simple motifs and rudimentary forms such as rhomboids, triangles, and zigzags, alluding to Galiciadis’s interest in modernist architecture and design by Le Corbusier to Charlotte Perriand, and their vision that design could improve everyday life and change society. At Parcours, the installation offers visitors moments of retreat among plants that have been selected from a local nursery and brought to the city center for a week, after which they will be returned. 

Header image: Athene Galiciadis continues her interest in temporary architecture and agricultural policy, as shown at Biennale Bregaglia 2024, in Bondo, CH, with an installation for Art Basel's Parcours. Photo: Michel Gilgen

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