Geister / Ghosts, Kunstmuseum Basel

Published November 28, 2025

Contributed by 205TF

Ghosts are everywhere – in popular culture, from Hollywood blockbusters like Ghostbusters (1984) to indie films such as All of Us Strangers (2023). They haunt screens, stages, and pages, inhabiting literature, folklore, and myth as restless spirits that refuse to leave us alone. Throughout history, they have also haunted art. As beings of the in-between, ghosts bridge worlds – life and death, horror and humor, good and evil, the visible and the invisible – making every attempt to represent, record, or communicate with them both a cognitive challenge and an emotional experience.

From September 20, 2025, to March 8, 2026, the Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates a major temporary exhibition to these mysterious entities. Featuring over 160 works and objects created over the past 250 years, Ghosts: Tracing the Supernatural explores the rich visual culture that has grown around ghosts in the Western world since the 19th century, fueled by the convergence of science, spiritualism, and popular media.

The exhibition’s identity was designed by Basel-based Studio Moono, using the Leopardo (Alexandre Bassi, 205TF) and Ghost (Nolan Paparelli, Weltkern) typefaces.

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The magazine-like exhibition catalog was published by Christoph Merian Verlag.

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