SAHA supports basis e.V within Işık Kaya & Thomas Georg Blank’s solo exhibition between 13 February – 10 May 2026.

In photographs, videos, and installations, Kaya & Blank reveal the infrastructures that keep industrial societies running while simultaneously destroying them. Oil pumps, pipelines, and refineries produce fossil fuels; ports, container ships, and motorways enable the transport of goods; endless monocultures yield energy crops; data centres and radio masts make digital communication possible: modern societies are driven by systems that run non-stop. They span, shape, and consume the world and its limited resources.

Works bring to light the exploitation of raw materials by way of an intensive examination that employs early photographic techniques while also creating their own processes to expose their motifs on bitumen, sea salts, and living algae cultures. In this way, they develop a visual language that rethinks the material foundations of the capitalist world and calls into question the futures built upon them.

Kaya & Blank are lens-based media artists whose work explores the ways in which humans shape and inhabit the world. The influence of neoliberal politics on the way we live has been an important part of their practice in recent years. Their projects often focus on traces of economic infrastructures to examine politics in built environments and how humanity’s dominance over nature finds its manifestation in everyday architecture. In their work, they erase the physical distance in between existing structures and create dense compilations of industrial fragments to construct new landscapes that look both alien and familiar at the same time.

About basis e.V

basis e.V. has supported and presented international contemporary art in Frankfurt since 2006. In order to promote and develop a multitude of creative processes in Frankfurt, the association basis realises an extensive model of support that consists of three main elements. This includes the provision of affordable workspaces, the presentation of exhibitions and various international exchange programmes.