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Welcome to the Archive of the neuekunstschule Basel

The neueKUNSTschule in Basel is no longer accepting or training students. This website now serves as a permanent online archive and a retrospective of our creative work.

Thank you to everyone who shaped and supported our school throughout the years.

The three-year foundational program at the neueKUNSTschule Basel culminated in a collective final exhibition. At the end of their studies, students presented their works together in a major group exhibition held directly on the school premises.

This digital archive documents the diversity and creative development of the various graduating classes. Select a graduation year below to explore the exhibitions and the works of our alumni.
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001

The Diploma Year (4th Graduate Year)

Following the successful completion of the foundational program, the optional fourth year led to a Diploma specializing in either Painting or Illustration. The core requirement of this graduate year was to step into the public eye: students were tasked with organizing, curating, and publicly presenting their work in a self-managed exhibition, either individually or as part of a collective.

This section documents these independent diploma projects, organized by graduation year and field of study.

2022 2021

Da diese Ausstellungen an verschiedenen Orten stattfanden (und nicht nur in der Schule in Basel), ist es für das Archiv besonders spannend, folgende Details zu den Bildern zu speichern, sofern sie noch auffindbar sind:

  • Ort der Ausstellung: (z. B. 
    • Art der Ausstellung: Einzelausstellung (
      • Flyer / Plakate: Da die Studierenden die Ausstellungen selbst organisieren mussten, gehörten oft auch eigene Plakate oder Einladungskarten dazu. Diese sind wunderbare Zeitzeugnisse für das Archiv!

        Veranstaltungen & Kultur

        Veranstaltungen 

        Pfingstfestspiele

        Konzertreihe

        Wie sollte eine zukunftsorientierte Kunstausbildung aussehen?

        Introduction (Zvi Szir text)

        At the beginning of 1997, I, Zvi Szir, was repeatedly confronted from various sides with the question of whether there could be a program of study in which the complex fundamentals of painting could be taught and conveyed. As a result, I began to ponder the following questions:

        "What should a future-oriented art education look like if it follows entirely different foundational prerequisites—paradigms—than those rooted in late capitalism and its accompanying culture industry? What would it mean for painting if the teaching of artistic fundamentals went hand in hand with a study that opens up a more comprehensive view of the world and the human being? What should an art education look like if the human being is more than just the highest animal in an evolutionary chain? What would it mean for contemporary art if the human being is more than a body endowed with reason? What could it mean for the creative artist if the perceptible material world is only a part of reality? Is it possible to expand the boundaries of the visible in order to explore the invisible as well, meeting it with our thoughts and feelings? And if so, what will it mean for our artistic creation?"

        It was an enormous challenge and, at the same time, a task that at that moment became more significant for me and my co-founder, Julitta Lea Krebs, than the development of our own artistic careers. We then dedicated ourselves to this work for the next 25 years.

        The training at the neueKUNSTschule aims at unfolding and building artistic abilities

        In order to direct artistic abilities onto a future-oriented path of development, a careful path of practice and an intensive study of the evolution of art and humanity are required. Thus, the content on which we place our emphasis is always approached from two sides: practice and study, experiencing and attaining through doing, and opening up and recognizing through thinking.

        Julitta Lea Krebs and I focused on the training of painters because this provided a manageable and appropriate framework for the scope of our work.

        Starting in January 1998, we taught students, initially in three-year and later in four-year full-time programs, during which we simultaneously developed and explored the significance of a paradigm shift.

        The path of study that emerged from this can be divided into three main elements. To outline these, here are the central questions: How can I approach the non-sensory—thinking through and exploring those aspects of the real that are buried under terms such as life, soul, and spirit? How can I develop the skills I need in painting and drawing in a way that is in harmony with these thoughts? How can I develop a sensitivity to the elements of painting—line, surface, form, color, figure, space, composition, narrative, etc.—in such a way that they are no longer experienced as mere formal elements, but as active realities, as events taking place within us as creators and observers?

        Our Path of Study & The Diplomas

        In order to channel these future-oriented abilities into a concrete path of development, a structured, consecutive path of study established itself at the neueKUNSTschule over the course of 25 years:

        • Foundation Diploma: A 3-year full-time study program in art, painting, and anthroposophy—the foundation for connecting recognition in thinking with attainment through doing.
          • Specialized Diploma in Painting: A 1-year postgraduate/advanced study program to deepen painting skills and one's own artistic reality.
            • Specialized Diploma in Book Illustration: A 1-year postgraduate/advanced study program dedicated to visual narrative and the interplay of line, form, and space.
              • Pedagogical Degree: In cooperation with the Academy for Anthroposophical Pedagogy (AfaP), serving as a bridge to pedagogical practice.

                Leadership & Founders

                Julitta Lea Krebs

                Co-Founder, School Management & Lecturer in Painting and Art History

                Pedagogical training. Academic year: Institut per l'arte e il restauro, Florence. Advanced painting class under Franz Fedier, School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung), Basel. Teaching groups in her own studio. Training in art therapy: Institute for Art Therapy (Institut für Gestaltende Therapie), Zurich. General Anthroposophical Foundation Year at the Goetheanum.


                Zvi Szir

                Co-Founder, School Management & Lecturer in Painting, Anthroposophy, and Art History

                Photography studies in Caracas, Venezuela; art studies in Tel-Hai, Israel. Independent art exhibitions as well as journalistic and literary activities. General Anthroposophical Foundation Year at the Goetheanum, teaching painting during the foundation year.

                Website: https://www.zvi-szir.com/

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                Barabar Heidi Maurer

                Studies in Ethnology and Philosophy, 6 semesters, University of Zurich; Social Pedagogy, 4 semesters, FHS Oerlikon, Zurich. Caregiver at the "Morgentau" residential home, Wetzikon. Full-time studies at the neueKUNSTschule Basel, graduating with a Specialized Diploma in Painting. Independent artist in Basel since 2012. Member of the secretariat team since January 2014.

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