Exhibitions
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.
Presentation of the collection | 25.5. – 31.8.2025
To coincide with the “Vija Celmins” exhibition, the Fondation Beyeler will show a presentation of the collection focusing exclusively on painting. There will be special artist rooms containing works by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and contemporary artists such as Wade Guyton, all of whom revolutionized this classical medium either by opening it up to new perspectives or by transgressing its traditional boundaries. Complementing these rooms, there will also be a gallery dedicated solely to the large-format works of the American artist Mark Bradford from the Daros Collection.
Jordan Wolfson: Little Room | 25.5. – 3.8.2025
The Fondation Beyeler is pleased to premiere Little Room, a new virtual reality (VR) installation by American artist Jordan Wolfson (*1980). This immersive work, on display for the first time at the Fondation Beyeler, invites visitors to step into an experimental environment where they play a central role in the unfolding experience.
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.