Where Memory Turns to Light Vernissage
Sat, May 16
|Erlenmattstrasse 93


Time & Location
May 16, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Erlenmattstrasse 93, Erlenmattstrasse 93, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
About the event
Galerie Sechs warmly invites you to the opening of Where Memory Turns to Light, a special group exhibition that reflects on the fragile and transformative nature of memory.
What once feels precise and tangible gradually begins to dissolve — shifting into fragments, colors, sensations, and quiet distortions. In this exhibition, memory is not approached as a fixed archive, but as a living, evolving process. Landscapes soften into emotional atmospheres, figures become indistinct, and surfaces carry traces of what has been altered, lost, or reimagined over time.
Bringing together works across painting, photography, and material-based practices, the exhibition unfolds as a subtle dialogue between presence and absence, clarity and dissolution. Color emerges not as description, but as a language of feeling — intensified, displaced, and luminous.
The vernissage marks the beginning of this immersive experience, set within the warm and lived environment of
Matt & Elly Brewery & Kitchen — wher…
