Ausstellungen in Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

A Neubau exhibition of work by the American artist Lynda Benglis.

Museum Tinguely

The Munich artist's interactive object boxes of the 1970s and 80s, with paintings, works on paper and archival material.

Museum Tinguely

A Theatre of Automatons in five acts, with robot puppets activated by scanning barcodes on playing cards.

Cartoonmuseum Basel

First major solo show of German comics artist Barbara Yelin, with original pages, stand-alone works and magazine illustrations.

Museum Tinguely

Ten multimedia installations and a group of monotypes by the Swiss artist, shown with the Museo de Arte Zapopan.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

A Neubau retrospective of the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

Gold objects from the collection meet critical views on gold mining, from ceremonial value to ecological and social costs, with voices of people affected.

Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart

Works from 1970 to 2026 by more than fifty artists, almost half based in Basel, drawn from three Basel public and foundation collections.

Kunsthaus Baselland

Group show with the la Caixa Foundation collection: twelve artists, including Kapoor, Gordon and Neto, on perception as a bodily experience.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

Why people migrated in antiquity and how societies met the challenges, linked to today's debates on integration, identity and belonging.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

Drawings by Marc Bauer in the Neubau connecting wing.

Museum Tinguely

Around 100 works from the Baroque to today explore how we see, fifth in the museum's series on the senses.

Vitra Schaudepot

Marks Panton's 100th birthday with furniture from the Panton Chair to unrealised architecture, and a walk-in reconstruction of Fantasy Landscape (1970).

Fondation Beyeler

Switzerland's first monographic Frida Kahlo show: around 50 paintings and 15 drawings, centred on her self-portraits.

Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

The 100 best nature photographs from the international competition run by the Natural History Museum in London, chosen from over 65,000 entries.

Historisches Museum Basel (Barfüsserkirche)

Interactive stations trace the nuclear power debate since the 1960s, its risks and opportunities, and end with a vote on expanding or phasing out nuclear power.

Kunsthalle BaselEintritt frei

Back Wall Project: a site-specific commission turning the building's back wall into an expanded sundial, drawing on Mesoamerican timekeeping.

Fondation Beyeler

About 230 works from the collection across the Wyss Museum, the Piano building and the park, on art, architecture and nature.

Museum der Kulturen Basel

About 250 textiles from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America show how folding, stitching and binding cloth before dyeing creates patterns, with a hands-on station.