Survival Rituals

Rukh Art Hub, TuAsho Agency, and Basel Art Center present the SURVIVAL RITUALS group exhibition.
The Art Show is taking place during Basel Art Week 2026 — one of the most important global events in contemporary art, gathering leading collectors, curators, critics, galleries, and institutions from around the world.

Concept
SURVIVAL RITUALS explores the condition of living in a world suspended between collapse and transformation. No longer moving through crisis, we are learning how to exist inside it. The exhibition focuses on liminality — the state of being “between worlds” — where old systems have already dissolved, while new realities remain undefined.

We are delighted to announce that Shaul Tzemach has been selected as the winner of the Survival Rituals artist competition following the decision of an international jury.

The jury included: Kateryna Tytarenko, Mykola Novikov, Anna Avetova, Eugenia Brodsky, Ihor Timankov, Kateryna Reznichenko, Mariia Manuilenko, Myroslav Duzinkevych, Oleksandr Gorbatyi, Yana Liashenko

The project investigates the rituals people invent in order to endure uncertainty: technological dependence and emotional isolation, fragile forms of connection, bodily vulnerability, memory, myth, survival and transformation.

The conceptual anchor of the exhibition is the work of H. R. Giger, whose biomechanical vision anticipated today’s blurred boundaries between human, machine and psychological reality.

Participating artists:

Following the exhibition, selected artists will receive long-term professional support and future collaboration opportunities with Rukh Art Hub and TuAsho Agency.

Organized by
Basel Art Center, TuAsho Agency (Basel) and Rukh Art Hub (New York)

Cover art by @olenamorozova.art