Letter from the Editor
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Dear _____,

Basel is around the corner, which means it’s time to launch our new publication, PROVENCE Unconscious! Join us at the Basel Social Club, located between the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Münster church at Rittergasse 21-25, on June 18, from 4 to 7 pm, to celebrate and discover our dive into (post-)Jungian ideas.

We’ll also be present at June Art Fair with two special projects: The Garden Cinema and People’s Soup.

More info below.

Looking forward to having you, 
PROVENCE

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​​PROVENCE Unconscious

Our longtime editor Nina Hollensteiner is currently a fellow at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, on Lake Zurich. Prompted by her studies, the entire PROVENCE team came together to explore Jungian and post-Jungian ideas as they reverberate through contemporary art, fashion, and psychoanalysis. We assembled our usual suspects (artists, curators, critics, writers, art directors—this time joined by Jungian analysts), to craft an issue that lodges itself in the full shadow of the present.

Join us to discover PROVENCE Unconscious at Basel Social Club,  Rittergasse 21-25, June 18, from 4 to 7 pm.

You can also order the magazine here.

With Pamela Anderson; Valerie Smith on Mike Kelley; Sabrina Tarasoff on Jason Rhoades; Laura Langer; Bernhard Schobinger; Leda Bourgogne; Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff; Matt Mullican; François Aubart on Susan Hiller; Petra von Bechtolsheim and Elizabeth Leuenberger; David Tacey on Patrick White;  Rebecca Ackroyd and Salome Hohl on Emma Jung; Raphael Gygax on Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn; Jimmy Raskin; Séverine Heizmann; Olamiju Fajemisin; Antonia Lia Orsi; Claire Shiying Li; Nina Hollensteiner; Veronika Dorosheva; Lera Polivanova; Stefano Carpani on Robert Smith; Sophie Gogl; Delcy Morelos; and over 30 dreams.

PROVENCE Unconscious has been conceived by Paolo Baggi and Samuel Haitz (Editors-in-Chief); Nina Hollensteiner and Claire Shiying Li (Editors); Veronika Dorosheva (Fashion Editor); Tatjana Hub (Editorial Assistant); Philip Pilekjær (Special Projects); Pascal Storz (Founding Art Director); and Lucas Manser (Graphic Designer).

The Garden Cinema

Angharad Williams: Nature is nature is nature but it’s also much more depending on your perspective, 2021, video still. Courtesy the artist.

From June 16 to June 22, The Garden Cinema, presented by PROVENCE and June Art Fair, offers a curated selection of films, available to watch outdoors in the communal garden, providing a moment to unwind amid the intensity of fair week. Plant signs scattered throughout the garden double as title cards for each film–simply tap a sign to watch on your own device.

With films by: Angharad Williams; Chris Zhongtian Yuan; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; Gabriele Garavaglia and Miriam Laura Leonardi; Hermès; Jacques de Bascher; Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda; K. Desbouis; Mona Varichon; Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz; Rodney Graham; Samuel Beckett; Su Huy-Yu.

People’s Soup

At June Art Fair, Zurich based Chinese curator Li Zhenhua will prepare a different soup each day using fresh, locally sourced ingredients. The soup will be available to everyone for a set price of five Swiss francs. Bring your own bowl and spoon.