Kostas Maros New Exhibition - TRACES OF ABSENCE

Kostas Maros lives and works in Basel. In his photographic practice, he explores landscapes, urban spaces, and traces of human presence. His works oscillate between documentary observation and atmospheric condensation, focusing on places where interventions, movements, and transformations remain visible even after the people involved have long since disappeared.

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In the exhibition Traces of Absence, Maros brings together the two photographic series Myths of Everyday Life and Cicatrice. Both groups of works revolve around landscapes as repositories of human actions and the question of how time, use, and change are inscribed in spaces. Light sources, architectural interventions, fences, or treated surfaces become silent clues to past processes and forms of human influence.

Myths of Everyday Life moves between nocturnal urban scenes, tropical landscapes, and everyday situations. The photographs create a dense, almost cinematic atmosphere in which absence appears just as present as the visible itself. Objects, light, and spatial constellations become vehicles for open narratives and subtle tensions. The series Cicatrice focuses

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www.kostasmaros.com

Location: Artstübli – Art & Culture, Steinentorberg 28, 4051 Basel

Opening hours:
Thursday/Friday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday: 2 – 6 p.m.

Opening: Thursday, June 4, 2026, 6 p.m.
Special event with the artist: Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 6 p.m.
Closing: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 2 – 6 p.m.

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