A Visit to the Pink Owl

It’s not just our owl that’s pink, but also a little mermaid in the exhibition ‘The Owl is Pink’. She and other exhibits have inspired students at the School of Design (SfG) Basel to create their own works, which are showcased in the pop-up exhibition ‘Visiting the Pink Owl’.

The Plinth
In the ‘InSzene’ project module of the preparatory course at the SfG Basel, students engage with questions relating to scenography and staging. They stage objects, exploring how space, environment and time influence their effect and meaning. The plinth, as a classic element of exhibition and staging, served as a given component in this project. Using, working with and through it, the students explored various staging approaches. The exhibited works arose from a personal engagement with a selected object from the exhibition ‘Die Eule ist Pink’. In doing so, the students took up an inspiring, stimulating or unsettling aspect of the objects and translated this creatively into other media.

Picture stories
In the ‘Colour and Image’ module of the preparatory course at the SfG Basel, students explore the perception and interaction of different colours, the relationship between colour and form, and investigate various possibilities for pictorial composition. In a project with the Museum der Kulturen, three classes drew inspiration from the exhibition’s title and created short picture stories in a leporello format. The resulting stories employed both abstract and figurative visual languages.

This is the second collaboration of this kind with SfG Basel. The students designed the installations and scenography themselves, in consultation with the MKB team.