Exhibitions
Matisse | 22.9.2024 – 26.1.2025
In autumn 2024, the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel will hold the first Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland and the German-speaking world in almost 20 years. Featuring around 80 works from major European and American museums and private collections, the exhibition will highlight the development and diversity of the artist’s groundbreaking oeuvre.
Northern Lights | 26.1. – 25.5.2025
Early next year, the Fondation Beyeler will be presenting the group exhibition ‘Northern Lights’. It will feature around 80 landscape paintings by artists from Scandinavia and Canada, created between 1880 and 1930, including masterpieces by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch. What unites them is the boreal forest as a common source of inspiration.
The Key to Dreams | 16.2 – 4.5.2025
In a worldwide first, the Fondation Beyeler will present Surrealist masterworks from the Collection Hersaint. The exhibition will feature around 50 key works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning and many more.
Vija Celmins | 15.6. – 21.9.2025
The Fondation Beyeler will devote a comprehensive solo exhibition the artist Vija Celmins (*1938, Riga), who masterfully works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Celmins’ visual language is both subtle and powerful. The exhibition will be the most significant presentation of Celmins’ work in Europe in almost 20 years.
Yayoi Kusama | 12.10.2025 – 25.1.2026
In the autumn of 2025, the Fondation Beyeler will be the first museum in Switzerland to devote a retrospective to renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (*1929, Matsumoto). Organised in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition will offer a complete overview of Kusama’s more than seven-decade career.