During the 2025 edition of Art Basel, the SALTS art association opened three new solo exhibitions in its City SALTS spaces, featuring works by Deborah-Joyce Holman, donna Kukama, and Yumna Al-Arashi. In this video, we visit the exhibitions on the occasion of City SALTS' summer festival, which also included a book launch by donna Kukama and a drum set performance by Peter Conradin Zumthor. The exhibitions run until September 14, 2025.
Deborah-Joyce Holman (*1991) presents Repose - Extended Play, a solo exhibition in the City SALTS Garage. Based between London and Basel, their multidisciplinary practice is concerned with the relationship between popular visual cultures and capital and the intertwined politics of representation.
South African artist donna Kukama (*1981) presents a solo exhibition in the City SALTS Cabane, In breath, wind, and water. donna Kukama's practice offers thought-provoking, socially engaged art that uses unconventional storytelling methods to destabilize existing historical metanarratives and challenge how we perceive reality. Kukama proposes new ways of sensing, remembering, and seeing the world.
Zurich-based artist Yumna Al-Arashi (*1988) presents her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Tears For The Future, in the City SALTS Box. Through striking visual compositions, her work reclaims lost narratives, challenges colonial legacies, and redefines the representation of women, the Arab world, and the environment with an unflinching, poetic gaze.
The three exhibitions were curated by Benedikt Wyss and Samuel Leuenberger.
Deborah-Joyce Holman, Yumna Al-Arashi and donna Kukama at City SALTS (XL). Birsfelden (Basel, Switzerland), June 19, 2025.
