Nolan Lucidi

Opening: February 28, 2026, 6 pm

For his first solo exhibition, Bildersaal, Nolan Lucidi (b.2000, living and working in Basel) shows an installation with video and objects dealing with male homosexual desire in literature and art history, as well as from personal experience. In so doing, Lucidi examines the form language and authority of Minimalism and its legacy in popular aesthetics, overwriting it with auto-fictional and erotic narratives.

The side hall of the Kunsthaus Glarus is transformed into an intimate and poetic choreography of moving images concerning seeing, being seen and desire that also incorporate the viewer. Metal objects, with echoes of Donald Judd, become screens for cinematic counter-stories that examine the relationship between safe space and public figure/performance in life, literature and art.

In the process, Lucidi works with a method of associative overlays. He prints archival images, his own photographs and 3D renderings onto transparent foil and films them on a lightbox. Through juxtaposition and overlapping, to the point erasure, relationships and connections/constellations between works, spaces and an array of images of masculinity are made visible without fixing them.

Curated by Annette Amberg.

Nolan Lucidi (b.2000, lives and works in Basel) completed his master’s degree at the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design in summer 2025. From 2019 to 2023 he studied at the ECAL in Lausanne, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has been variously exhibited, including: Kunstverein Freiburg; Kunst Raum Riehen; Kunsthaus Baselland; Kunstverein Olten (all 2025); Kunsthalle Basel; EAC (Les Halles) in Porrentruy ; Galerie Fabienne Levy, Genf; Der Tank, Basel; Bacio, Bern (all 2024); Art Genève mit CIRCUIT – Centre d'art contemporain Lausanne; HIT, Genf; CIRCUIT – Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne (all 2023); Locus Solus, Prilly (2022).

The realisation of the exhibition is made possible by the generous support of: Canton de Vaud, Oertli Stiftung, GGG Kulturkick