Exhibitions and events at Basilea

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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Fondation Beyeler devotes an exhibition to Piet Mondrian, from early to more mature works

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Piet Mondrian (Amersfoort, 1872 - New York, 1944), the Fondation Beyeler in Basel is devoting an exhibition to the Dutch painter that brings together works in the permanent collection and major...
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Fondation Beyeler showcases landscapes between figuration and abstraction, from Monet to Richter

From February 12 to August 14, 2022, Fondation Beyeler presents the exhibition Passages - Landscape, Figure and Abstraction, curated by Raphaël Bouvier, the museum's curator. This is this year's first exhibition on its permanent collection and a...
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