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Hunter Longe at City SALTS

Solo Show «Entgleitungen», November 30, 2025 until February 27, 2026

Artists

Hunter Longe

Institution

City SALTS

Location

Baselland

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Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

SALTS is pleased to present Hunter Longe’s first solo exhibition in Basel. The show features new works across the City SALTS site, including audio installations created with Basel-based artist and musician Janiv Oron.

Hunter Longe treats time as a material that can warp, spill, or come undone. In Entgleitungen, he draws visitors into states where the usual coordinates of space and history start to shift. Time loosens its grip, matter becomes porous, perception drifts into unfamiliar rhythms. The past seeps through the present, the sacred surfaces beside the mundane, the distant and the personal collapse while temporal experience fractures into loops, accelerations, and contemplative pauses.

In this exhibition, the artist responds to the particularities of SALTS by linking its various exhibition spaces and the space between them with light, repetitions of form, and sound. He weaves together video, drawings, 450-million-year-old fossils, a laser sensor, a meteorite fragment, acid, and dissolving concrete. These unusual combinations of materials, bathed in filtered light and resonant drones, create charged situations where distinctions such as nature and culture, found and fabricated, life and death no longer feel applicable.

Geologic processes are accelerated to a human scale, archaeological traces hint at forms yet to come, and found objects take on a numinous glow, while the collaborative sound installations are at once hypnotic and ominous—a tension that is present throughout the show. Sound becomes another material investigation, where electrical flows and frequencies toggle between noise and music. Together, Longe and Oron created precise audio arrangements for each space.

At the heart of the show is Longe’s concept of “weird materialism,” where a genuine fascination for how materials form and transform through time and physical force gives way to an almost animistic sense that consciousness permeates matter, but that underlying even this, is something eternally enigmatic—a mysteriousness that acts as a reminder to perpetually question consensus reality. This worldview makes room for the dead to have continued power and agency in the present.

All the works in the show were developed during and following a residency at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome, where visits to Roman ruins and Etruscan necropolises had a profound impact Longe’s practice.

Hunter Longe is originally from California (b. 1985) and currently lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a Master of Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.

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Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Presagio, 2025, portland cement, quicklime, volcanic ash, Albian sediments, pigment, beeswax, phosphosiderite, 28 x 5.5 x 6 cm» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Hunter Longe in collaboration with Janiv Oron, Omen, 2025, solar panel, chalcedony, amplifier, mixer, audio, transducer speakers, dimensions variable» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Degradation Pathway, 2025, (detail), laser distance sensor, mounting system, projector, video loop, lenses, dimensions variable» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Dissolution of the State, 2025, concrete, hydrochloric acid, water, plastic tank, peristaltic pumps, silicone tubing, aquarium heaters, 197 x 24 x 15 cm (pumps, tank, tubing variable)» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on the past inserts a finger into a slit on the skin of the present and pulls 4, 2025, meteorite fragment (~5000 years old, Argentina), LSD blotter tabs, projector, video loop, Dimensions variable» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Afterlife Navigator (for Tilman) II, 2025, fossil trilobites (~460 million years old, France), LSD blotter tabs, 4.5 x 28 x 2 cm» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Afterlife Navigator (for Tilman) I, 2025, fossil crabs (~13 million years old, Ukraine), LSD blotter tabs, 3 x 12 x 2.5 cm» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Gumby Haruspex, 2025, patinated bronze, phosphosiderite, 33 x 3 x 3 cm» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on The past inserts a finger into a slit on the skin of the present and pulls 3, 2025, phosphosiderite, magnetite crystal, thin slice of a mouse’s brain saturated in heavy metals: osmium, lead and uranium, LSD blotter tab, dimensions variable» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Hunter Longe in collaboration with Janiv Oron, High Static, Dead Lines, 2025, 8.1 channel sound installation - electric rely, coil, timer, contact mics, transducers, sub, mixer, media players, audio, starter, fluorescent lights, dimensions variable» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS

Exhibition View Solo Show Hunter Longe «Entgleitungen ; view on Albian Gate, 2024, gypsum, Albian sediments, copper, beeswax, two parts: 7 x 4.7 x 6.8 cm each» at City SALTS, Baselland, 2025-2026 / Photo: Nicolas Gysin / Courtesy: the artist and City SALTS