Since our sabbatical in 2009, we have been working without a gallery in the art world for 15 years. (18 years as an artist duo)
After our sabbatical, Ado & I simply wanted to have some peace and quiet, organize ourselves, build up our own network
and see where the wind takes us.
Can we survive in the art market without a gallery? Are we considered by curators in group exhibitions? Will the art world take notice of us? How long will it take
before we are no longer ridiculed for our project?
Here we are in an important private collection.
The first 2 pictures are part of the installation „Paradise Now“ which we made with „Carte Blanche“ for their collection. The installation consists of 24 works.
(Thanks for the trust)
Ado & Comenius, since 18 years, fuck yes!
We are grateful that we are allowed to do what we want, at any time.
#art #jahic_roethlisberger #ado_comenius #artist #artistssupportingartists #neon #neonlights #neonvibes #colorful #installation_art #artcollection #artcontemporain #artofinstagram #artwork #artworks #mood #neonlove #kunst #kunstimöffentlichenraum #kunstfüralle #basel #artoftheday #artdaily #artofvisuals #artgram #artlovers #artistoninstagram #arte #artcollective #art_spotlight
Win a artwork 😊
Win 1 out of 10 handsigned artist posters.
Write in the comments: - i kissed a girl -
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones in the prize draw.
The neon installation „I DROVE ALL NIGHT, THINKING ABOUT YOU“ on the rooftop at Klybeckstrasse 18, Basel, which was produced
specially for the Eurovision Song Contest, will certainly remain in place until the beginning of fall.
A massive thank you to Letizia Elia, Josepha, Selma, Sophie, Sina and the whole team at Basel Tourism who worked tirelessly to make this project happen.
A huge and heartfelt thank you to Stephanie & Raphael from the KBH.G Foundation
from Basel with the best team for their fantastic and continuous support.
And last but not least thanks to Philip Brogli from Artstübli who got the ball rolling,
to Manuel from Neonatelier Bern for the beautiful production.
I KISSED A GIRL - I KISSED A BOY - I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT IM LOOKING FOR
Big big warm hugs, Ado & Comenius
Credits KBH.G & Jahic / Roethlisberger
#baselswitzerland #kbhg #neon #neonvibes #handlettered #handwriting #handwrite #neonsign #artposter #postereveryday #posterart #poster #posterdesign #basel #baselswitzerland #esc #eurovisionsongcontest #eurovision #eurovision2025 #art #artist #artistic #artists #ado_comenius #jahic_roethlisberger #kbhgeiger #kunstimöffentlichenraum #kunst #neonlights
You sublime people gave us a carpet, now we‘re giving you DATES💦 (the danceable kind)!
Check your calendars, start counting the days (we are!) & come move your bodies & ❤️🔥s with us.
Artist duo @ado_comenius are inviting us to dance in their temporary studio in Kesselhaus @franck_areal . They‘re diligently working on something big and luminous as we write this:
it‘ll make us glow
while tuning in
to the depths
of our beats
of our bass
of our beings
while we shake things
up
out
around
inside
and out.
A BIG THANK YOU to @ado_comenius , to @franck_areal and to all of YOU for making it happen 🔥🔥🔥
counting the days to move with you again:
06/06 27/06 25/07 28/08
Catch us here:
Kesselhaus Horburgstrasse 103 4057 Basel
Photo Credit: studio jahic roethlisberger @ado_comenius
WE ARE COOKING
WE ARE OPEN
RAGOUT DI MANZO MIT HÄRDÖPFELSTOCK
„CHEZ LES ARTISTES“:
SPALENBERG 64, BASEL
FROM NOON UNTILL MIDNIGHT
23 / 24 / 25
LA VITA E BELLA 🧑🍳
#baslerfasnacht2026 #ragout #basel #baslerfasnacht #ado_comenius
Recently we are experimenting a lot with neon. Manuel Cota from Neonatelier Bern @neonatelierbern has been the long-time
companion of ours when it comes to this subject. Our neon works are just as experimental as we are, challenging and even overwhelming Manuel in his craft.
Here work in progress, a shape, we are not happy already.
We are planning something big for our studio this sommer.
#neon #neonvibes #artist #basel #installationart
I drove all night thinking about you
In Basel, I wanted to meet people who could tell me something about borders. As an outsider looking into a city on the edge of France and Germany, governed by Switzerland’s ‘magic formula’ of consensus democracy and cycles of referenda, I wondered how any of this shaped how people live together or negotiate each other.
I met cross-border commuters (grenzgänger/innen) who told me about the songs they listen to on the way home from work. I had a conversation about mandatory conscription with a seventeen year-old about to turn eighteen, spent time with two generations of ferrymen who told me about a life on the Rhine and met organisations supporting sex workers navigating the city’s streets. I waited 42 minutes on hold to the media enquiries department at pharmaceutical company Roche and on the 43rd minute a voice said ‘thank you for this invitation to be interviewed, but the answer is no’.
From my studio window @kasernebasel , every night I looked upon this neon on the roof of an apartment block by @ado_comenius - made by bringing together two song titles (I Drove All Night by Celine Dion and Thinking About You by Whitney Houston).
In collaboration with Ado and Comenius, and informed by all the people I had met in this place, I staged a performance response on the rooftop behind the neon at dusk in Basel.
A kind of linguistic game, two strangers meet on the rooftop - a border between the street and the sky - and complete each other’s sentences. Given a series of prompts developed from the conversations I’d had with people in the city, each person takes turns to begin and to end, call and respond - two voices speaking as one. Opinions, statements, dreams or fears coalesce and contradict - and different perspectives find a new structure.
Fun to make something quickly, play with what I had access to and meet new people.
Images by @guillaumemusset
Supported by @kasernebasel@transform_leeds with additional support by @creativescots
The world is our Studio.
I kissed a girl
I kissed a boy
I still haven‘t found what im looking for.
On our way into the core. We came to stay.
#neon #art #photography
