Exhibitions in Basel
August 2026
August 2026 at a glance: 4 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 8 more were on view across the city.
Opened in August
Boundless Printmaking: The Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft4 AugKunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
Prints from the Swiss Graphic Society, shown in the Hauptbau graphic cabinets.
- Studio Lemercier: Thresholds22 Aug
HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel)
Installations of light, water and projection plus plotter drawings by Studio Lemercier on the limits technology sets and we cross.
Roy Lichtenstein: Sweet Dreams, Baby!22 AugKunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
A Neubau retrospective of the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.
Gili Tal: Light and Airy28 AugKunsthalle Basel
The most comprehensive presentation to date of Gili Tal, centred on the commercial display refrigerator, with new drawings from supermarket brochures.
Was on view in August
Emil Ferris: Between Selvesto 15 NovCartoonmuseum Basel
Emil Ferris's first solo show in Europe, with original pages from My Favorite Thing is Monsters, its second volume and unpublished drawings.
New Constellationsto 6 DecKunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
A collection presentation in the Neubau.
Monira Al Qadiri: BENZENE FLOATto 24 Jan 2027Kunsthaus Baselland
Annual project: a large pictorial intervention on the foyer wall about the Gulf states' oil dependence and speculative futures.
Die Eule ist pinkto 24 Jan 2027Museum 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.
Frank Stella und die zerstörten Holzsynagogento 31 Jan 2027Jüdisches 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 2027Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
Drawings by Marc Bauer in the Neubau connecting wing.
Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Spaceto 9 May 2027Vitra Schaudepot
Marks Panton's 100th birthday with furniture from the Panton Chair to unrealised architecture, and a walk-in reconstruction of Fantasy Landscape (1970).
Image credits
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- Boundless Printmaking: The Schweizerische Graphische GesellschaftCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Roy Lichtenstein: Sweet Dreams, Baby!Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Emil Ferris: Between SelvesCourtesy of Cartoonmuseum Basel
- New ConstellationsCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Monira Al Qadiri: BENZENE FLOATMonira Al Qadiri, BENZENE FLOAT, 2023, inflatable sculpture (detail). Photo: Markus Tretter
- Die Eule ist pinkCourtesy of Museum der Kulturen Basel
- Frank Stella und die zerstörten HolzsynagogenMartin Oravec
- Marc Bauer: Fear Rage Desire, Still StandingCourtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
- Verner Panton: Form, Colour, SpaceVerner Panton Design AG
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