Exhibitions and events at Basilea

A major exhibition dedicated to ghosts is coming to the Kunstmuseum Basel

From September 20, 2025 to March 8, 2026, the Kunstmuseum Basel is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to ghosts. With more than 160 works and objects created over the past 250 years, Ghosts. Visualizing the Supernatural, curated by Eva Reifert, exp...
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The Kunstmuseum Basel dedicates a major exhibition to Medardo Rosso. He will be in dialogue with more than 60 artists

From March 29 to August 10, 2025, the Kunstmuseum Basel will host the exhibition Medardo Rosso. The Invention of Modern Sculpture, curated by Heike Eipeldauer and Elena Filipovic. Twenty years after the first and last retrospective in Switzerland dev...
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Yayoi Kusama's first Swiss museum retrospective in 2025 at Fondation Beyeler

In the fall of 2025, Fondation Beyeler will be the first museum in Switzerland to host a major retrospective devoted to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929). Organized in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition wi...
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At Fondation Beyeler a retrospective devoted to Henri Matisse, from early works to cutouts

From Sept. 22, 2024 to Jan. 26, 2025, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel presents the first retrospective devoted to Henri Matisse in Switzerland and German-speaking countries ever held in the past two decades. The exhibition, titled Matisse - Invitation...
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Basel, Hauser & Wirth opens new gallery with solo exhibition on Vilhelm Hammershøi

Hauser & Wirth 's new gallery in Basel, at Luftgässlein 4, will open with the first retrospective in Switzerland of Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi, which can be visited from June 1 to July 13, 2024: Vilhelm Hammershøi. Silen...
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Basquiat's Modena paintings reunited for the first time at Fondation Beyeler

Not everyone knows that the first European exhibition of Jean Michel-Basquiat (New York, 1960 - 1988) was held in Italy and to be precise in Modena, at Galleria Mazzoli, a sign that our country has always been, even in recent times, at the center of ...
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An exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler on Picasso's last decade of activity.

Until May 1, 2023, Fondation Beyeler is hosting, as part of the international celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's death, the exhibition Picasso. Artist and Model, curated by Raphaël Bouvier. A small selection of ten late pain...
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At Fondation Beyeler in Basel, an exhibition to discover Wayne Thiebaud, great American painter

In early 2023, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel is hosting a monographic exhibition that aims to introduce European audiences to the important American painter Wayne Thiebaud (Mesa, 1920 - Sacramento, 2021), hitherto little known in our latitudes. Titl...
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