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Constellations
About 230 works from the collection across the Wyss Museum, the Piano building and the park, on art, architecture and nature.
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Just inside the new Wyss Museum, a silver man squats tying his shoe. Step closer and you see he is naked and barefoot: Charles Ray's polished steel self-portrait, Shoe Tie, made from scans of his own body.
About 230 works from the collection and private lenders fill both buildings and the park, the first show across Peter Zumthor's Wyss Museum and Renzo Piano's original. Zumthor's three floors each have a theme: water and earth at ground level, Surrealism on the inward-looking middle floor, sky and lightness at the top. The Piano building keeps to figurative work, from Rousseau and Modigliani to a room of Picasso spanning six decades. In Room 3 the Fischli/Weiss animal turns out to be a peep box, and the peephole is under its tail.
Some rooms and groupings change with the seasons, so a spring visit won't repeat an autumn one. Entry is by timed ticket booked online, it covers every exhibition, under-25s go free, and Wednesdays run until 8 pm.
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Rousseau's lion and antelope
Look for the big jungle painting in Room 3 of the Piano building: the lion bares a set of milk teeth and the antelope is shedding a tear.
Calder's wooden Constellations
In the Wyss Museum's first-floor cabinet, the 1943 series that names the show: carved wood shapes like bottles, bowling pins and bones on wires, made of wood because wartime rationing kept him from metal.
Snow Flurry
Calder's mobile fills the second-floor cabinet with white metal disks on fine wire that move in the slightest breeze, based on winter snowfall at his Connecticut home.
Magritte's Les idées claires
On the Wyss Museum's middle floor a boulder hangs in the air over crashing waves, with one fluffy white cloud beside it, near other Magritte paintings that reuse the stone.
Monet by the lily pond
In Room 4 of the Piano building Monet's water lilies hang against the museum's own lily pond, beside Roni Horn's glass cylinders, which change with the weather and the time of day.
Idéal pour
- Visites en soirée
- Première visite
- Proches de passage
Avec des enfants
Children and young adults up to 25 get in free, though they still need a timed ticket booked online.
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- Yanik Soland: Walking on Rubber EggshellsPerformance von Yanik Soland mit Phoebe Bognár, Miriam Paschetta, Tomohiro Iino, Stefano Grasso und Larissa Rapold. Foto: Ivana Kresic © Kunsthaus Baselland
- Gili Tal: Light and AiryGili Tal, Light and Airy, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2026, photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
- Fondation BeyelerTaxiarchos228 / Wikimedia Commons
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