Exhibitions in Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart

Switzerland's first major survey of pioneering Latin American women artists, with over 70 artists including Frida Kahlo, Lygia Clark and Doris Salcedo.

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.

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.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

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

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 Tinguely

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

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.