Image: HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel)
Basel’s HEK (House of Electronic Arts) will open ‘Studio Lemercier - Thresholds’ on 22 August 2026, presenting what the institution describes as the studio’s first major presentation in Switzerland. The exhibition runs through 15 November 2026 at HEK Basel, with an opening scheduled for 21 August at 19:00. According to HEK, the project will transform the space into an immersive environment built from light, water, projections and plotter drawings.
The exhibition title at the venue is given as ‘Thresholds – On the Values We Set and the Limits We Cross’, and the presentation focuses on questions of perception, technology and nature. HEK says the works in the show are structured around transitions: from technology to nature, from visibility to invisibility, and from imagination to responsibility. The installation format is intended to make the viewer aware of changing perception, with each work framed as a threshold at which different realities emerge.
Studio Lemercier is identified on the HEK website as Joanie Lemercier and Juliette Bibasse. The institution presents the exhibition as a survey of nearly two decades of the studio’s practice, tracing how its work has developed from earlier investigations into light, projections and digital technologies to more recent attention to ecological questions. HEK notes that the studio’s work has long examined how systems shape the perception of space and reality, moving from opaque black-box structures toward works that reveal their materiality, labour and limits.
The presentation also reflects a broader shift in the studio’s concerns, as described by HEK. The site says that in recent works the focus has increasingly turned to the ecological consequences of human action and to the role art might play in opening new perspectives on the relationship between people and the environment. That framing places the exhibition within HEK’s programme of media art and technologically oriented contemporary practices.
HEK’s August newsletter places ‘Studio Lemercier - Thresholds’ alongside a busy month of exhibitions and public programming, but the studio show is the next major in-person exhibition date listed. The newsletter also notes an exhibition tour on 30 August 2026 from 15:00 to 16:00. No further details about the contents of that tour are provided in the source material.
The venue information given by HEK lists the exhibition at HEK Basel, with the institution located at Freilager-Platz 9 in Münchenstein / Basel. On the HEK exhibition page, the show is described as the first comprehensive presentation of Studio Lemercier in Switzerland, offering an overview of the studio’s artistic practice and its evolving engagement with perception, technological systems and environmental questions.
