9 novembre 2026
Ruth Asawa's first European retrospective fills the Fondation Beyeler, Özgür Kar's cow breathes across three screens at the Kunsthalle, and Wildlife Photographer of the Year opens at the Naturhistorisches Museum on the 20th. Emil Ferris's ballpoint pages leave the Cartoonmuseum on the 15th; by month's end the Christmas market is up on Barfüsserplatz. Seven picks, one of them over the German border.
Fondation BeyelerUntil 10 January
Room 7 holds the redwood doors Ruth Asawa carved for her San Francisco house, beside life masks cast from visiting friends. Much of the retrospective is drawings and prints, a corrective for anyone who knows only the hanging wire.
Kunsthalle BaselUntil 24 January
A larger-than-life cow lies still across three giant screens while the hum of circling flies fills the room. Özgür Kar's hand-drawn figures loop in five rooms, one each, including a body after Holbein's Dead Christ with its nerves glowing.
Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)Until 7 February
Hodler chose the pink satin dress and painted the 23-year-old Gertrud Müller full length in fourteen days. The rest is her early collection: Van Gogh, Cézanne, a Klimt from her bedroom, and 3D projections of her own stereo photographs.
Vitra Design MuseumUntil 28 February
At the Polontalawa bungalow, Geoffrey Bawa let the rocks on the site become part of the house. Over 250 drawings, models and new Iwan Baan photographs follow that idea through his homes, hotels and the Sri Lankan parliament.
Naturhistorisches Museum BaselOpens 20 November
The 100 best images from the London Natural History Museum's competition, chosen from more than 65,000 entries. Under-13s get in free, and the museum's dinosaurs and whales are in the same building.
Jüdisches Museum der SchweizUntil 31 January
Frank Stella's 1973 relief Jeziory covers the facade, enlarged to the scale of the building. Inside, his Polish Village abstractions of destroyed wooden synagogues stand beside 24 models of lost synagogues by Moshe Verbin, who rebuilt the ones he grew up with.
Cartoonmuseum BaselCloses 15 November
Every page on these walls was drawn in ballpoint pen on lined paper, by an artist who taught her hand to move again after West Nile virus left her paralysed. Originals from both volumes of My Favorite Thing is Monsters.
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.
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.
Kunsthaus Baselland
First institutional solo show of the Basel artist and musician: an acoustic landscape and walk-in sculptural instruments across the upper floor.
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.
Kunsthalle Basel
The most comprehensive presentation to date of Gili Tal, centred on the commercial display refrigerator, with new drawings from supermarket brochures.
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.
Fondation Beyeler
The first European retrospective of Ruth Asawa, with wire and bronze sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings and public works.
Kunsthalle Basel
Özgür Kar's first institutional solo show in Switzerland: a new theatrical production across several rooms, mixing video, sculpture, animation and sound.
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.
Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
The Basel collectors Karl and Marianne Im Obersteg-Buess and their collection, in the Hauptbau.
Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
The collector and motoring pioneer Gertrud Dübi-Müller and her collection, shown in the Neubau.
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
A Theatre of Automatons in five acts, with robot puppets activated by scanning barcodes on playing cards.
Museum Tinguely
Ten multimedia installations and a group of monotypes by the Swiss artist, shown with the Museo de Arte Zapopan.
Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)
A Neubau retrospective of the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.
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).
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 BaselGratis
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.
Ogni tanto due righe, quando apre qualcosa che merita.
