Exhibitions in Basel

April 2026

April 2026 at a glance: 1 exhibition opened, 0 closed, and 4 more were on view across the city.

Teaser image of the exhibition Die Eule ist pink

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Monira Al Qadiri, BENZENE FLOAT, inflatable sculpture (detail)

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Installation view of the Frank Stella exhibition

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Marc Bauer, Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing

Opened in April

Die Eule ist pink24 Apr
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Around 200 objects show how colours are made, traded and used for protection, decoration and communication, with hands-on stations and an audio guide.

Was on view in April

Monira Al Qadiri: BENZENE FLOATto 24 Jan 2027
Kunsthaus Baselland
Annual project: a large pictorial intervention on the foyer wall about the Gulf states' oil dependence and speculative futures.
Frank Stella und die zerstörten Holzsynagogento 31 Jan 2027
Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz
Original works from Frank Stella's Polish Village series and 24 models of destroyed wooden synagogues by Moshe Verbin.
Nicolas Darrot. Fuzzy Logicto 7 Mar 2027
Museum Tinguely
A Theatre of Automatons in five acts, with robot puppets activated by scanning barcodes on playing cards.
Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still Standingto 2 May 2027
Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
Drawings by Marc Bauer in the Neubau connecting wing.

Image credits

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Die Eule ist pinkCourtesy of Museum der Kulturen Basel
Monira Al Qadiri: BENZENE FLOATMonira Al Qadiri, BENZENE FLOAT, 2023, inflatable sculpture (detail). Photo: Markus Tretter
Frank Stella und die zerstörten HolzsynagogenMartin Oravec
Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still StandingCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

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