Fondation Beyeler

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECES
From Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh by way of Picasso, Matisse, Klee, Giacometti to Warhol and Bacon as well as ethnographic art from Africa, Alaska and Oceania: with some 300 masterpieces from the 20th and 21st centuries, the Beyeler Collection’s main focus is on Classic Modernism.
Inaugurated in 1997 and set in an idyllic park, the museum was designed by the world-renowned architect Renzo Piano. The Fondation Beyeler, the most-visited art museum in Switzerland, owes its special appeal to its harmonious combination of exceptional art, picturesque nature and fascinating architecture. Every year, it shows up to four temporary exhibitions including projects in public spaces and just as many new presentations of the permanent collection. Recent exhibitions include “Gerhard Richter”, “Edgar Degas”, “Jeff Koons” and “Paul Gauguin”.

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Opening 1997

Current exhibitions

Rudolf Stingel

26.05.2019 - 06.10.2019

The Fondation Beyeler will devote its summer exhibition 2019 to contemporary painter Rudolf Stingel (born in 1956 in Merano, Italy, he lives and works in New York and Merano). Like few other artists, he probes and interrogates the status quo of painting. Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (After Sam), 2006, Oil on canvas, 335.3 x 457.2 cm
© Rudolf Stingel, Photo: Ellen Page Wilson

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E

Louise Bourgeois: Insomnia Drawings – Works from the Daros Collection

08.06.2019 - 30.09.2019

All her life the artist Louise Bourgeois suffered regular bouts of insomnia. Yet the long hours of the night proved immensely productive. Between November 1994 and June 1995, she filled a total of 220 pages with drawings and poem-like jottings: the Insomnia Drawings. Louise Bourgeois, Insomnia Drawing No. 174, March 13, 1995, Charcoal, pencil, red felt-tip pen, red ballpoint pen, 29.6 x 22.8 cm, Daros Collection, Switzerland,© The Easton Foundation / 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E

Collection Rudolf Staechelin

31.08.2019 - 29.10.2019

The paintings from the celebrated collection of Rudolf Staechelin (1881–1946) are returning to Basel,
after a four-year interval in which the pictures were shown (with works from the Im Obersteg Collection) in widely acclaimed exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Phillips Collection in Washington. Ferdinand Hodler, Le Grammont après la pluie, 1917, The Grammont after the Rain, Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 80 cm, Rudolf Staechelin Collection, Photo: Robert Bayer


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Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E

Next exhibition(s)

Resonating Spaces

06.10.2019 - 26.01.2020

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The exhibition brings together exemplary works by renowned contemporary artists, who give varied forms to specific qualities of spatiality – acoustic, sculpted or drawn.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E

Edward Hopper

26.01.2020 - 17.05.2020

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The Fondation Beyeler’s 2020 spring exhibition will show works by Edward Hopper (1882–1967), one of the 20th century’s most important American painters. Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940, Oil on canvas, 66,7 x 102,2 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund © Heirs of Josephine Hopper / 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2019 Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E

Goya

16.05.2020 - 16.08.2020

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The Fondation Beyeler is presenting one of the most important exhibitions ever devoted to Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) outside of Spain. Developed in collaboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid the show will feature rarely seen paintings from Spanish private collections, together for the first time with key works from the most renowned European and American museums. Francisco de Goya, Witches’ Sabbath (El Aquelarre),1797-98,Oil on canvas,Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E