Exhibitions in Basel

Fondation Beyeler

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

Kunsthalle Basel

Works by artists from the Basel tri-border region alongside invited artists based in Bangladesh, as part of the annual Regionale.

Historisches Museum Basel - Haus zum Kirschgarten

Christmas show with historic and modern decorated trees, a squirrel hunt, a craft table, open singing and hot chocolate.

Fondation Beyeler

The first European retrospective of Ruth Asawa, with wire and bronze sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings and public works.

Kunsthaus Baselland

Annual project: a large pictorial intervention on the foyer wall about the Gulf states' oil dependence and speculative futures.

Kunsthaus Baselland

Annual cross-border group exhibition of 14 artists from the Basel tri-border region.

Kunsthalle Basel

Özgür Kar's first institutional solo show in Switzerland: a new theatrical production across several rooms, mixing video, sculpture, animation and sound.

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.

HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel)

Fourteen artists from the Basel, South Baden and Alsace region translate the trompe-l'oeil tradition into digital illusion.

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

Original works from Frank Stella's Polish Village series and 24 models of destroyed wooden synagogues by Moshe Verbin.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

The collector and motoring pioneer Gertrud Dübi-Müller and her collection, shown in the Neubau.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

The Basel collectors Karl and Marianne Im Obersteg-Buess and their collection, in the Hauptbau.

Vitra Design Museum

Retrospective of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) with over 250 drawings, models, furniture, artworks and new photographs by Iwan Baan.

Museum Tinguely

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

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.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

A Neubau retrospective of the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Museum Tinguely

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

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 BaselFree

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.