Exhibitions in Basel

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

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

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.

Kunsthalle BaselFree

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

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

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

Museum Tinguely

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

Kunsthaus Baselland

First institutional solo show of the Basel artist and musician: an acoustic landscape and walk-in sculptural instruments across the upper floor.

Kunsthaus Baselland

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

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.

Fondation Beyeler

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

Kunsthalle Basel

The most comprehensive presentation to date of Gili Tal, centred on the commercial display refrigerator, with new drawings from supermarket brochures.

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.

Cartoonmuseum Basel

Emil Ferris's first solo show in Europe, with original pages from My Favorite Thing is Monsters, its second volume and unpublished drawings.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

Prints from the Swiss Graphic Society, shown in the Hauptbau graphic cabinets.

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

A collection presentation in the Neubau.

Kunsthaus Baselland

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

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.

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz

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

Museum Tinguely

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

Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)

A Neubau retrospective of the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

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).