Kader Attia
Art Basel Parcours 2026

Monday–Wednesday, June 15–17, 2026, 10 am–8 pm
Thursday–Sunday, June 18–21, 2026, 10 am–7 pm

UBS Bank
Aeschenvorstadt 1, 4051 Basel
next to Kunstmuseum Basel

Nagel Draxler and Regen Projects are pleased to support the installation of Kader Attia’s Untitled (Rainsticks) (2024) as part of Art Basel Parcours 2026. The large-scale variable sculpture presents a balletic visual choreography of motorized rainsticks that speak simply and deeply to modernity’s promise of dominion over nature, the bifurcation of nature and culture, and the timely question of collectivity’s possibility.

Kader Attia’s practice highlights and challenges the enduring legacies of Western colonialism via a rigorous, research-based process that examines the psychoanalytical and sociological effects of shared histories. Attia often deploys evocative formal, critical, and material strategies to survey themes of colonial ambition in urban and natural environments, historical legacies of trauma and repair, and ongoing attempts to resist mechanisms of power.

Untitled (Rainsticks) visually and aurally speaks to the overlapping themes of Attia’s artistic practice. Activated by rotary motors, the titular percussive instruments are made from natural materials that evoke the sound of rain through poetic, circular movements that advance from a soft trickle to a heavy storm. Moving collectively and individually, the clock-like motion of the rainsticks alludes to the cycles of falling rain and the passing of time.

As Attia has stated of the work and regarding thoughts of rainfall, “while humans continually embrace the certainty of an illusory superiority over Nature that keeps them on the surface of their disappearance and produces unprecedented tragedies, they are the object of an agency that rainfall poetically illustrates. They rise and fall again, tirelessly...”

Untitled (Rainsticks) has been included in institutional exhibitions at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, MUAC Museo Universitaro Arte Contemporaneo, and Museo Amparo.