This exhibition will take the viewer on a journey through Pablo Picasso’s life (1881 – 1973) and work and highlight the turning points in his oeuvre by putting the spotlight on his muses.
“Picasso in Love” will introduce the six ...
Show ExhibitionBased on our very successful previous exhibition Gauguin Polynesia this rethought, updated and expanded exhibition will focus on the latest research results about Gauguin...
Show ExhibitionOne of the most popular and intriguing genres of Impressionism is that of landscape, as it allowed artists to freely investigate light and colour outdoors, en plein air.
Starting with the precursors of plein air pain...
Show ExhibitionThe Exotic in Surrealism is the first major show to explore the Surrealists’ relationship with non-Western cultures and to provide an unparalleled insight into the aesthetic worlds of the Surrealists, and their passion for the exotic.
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Show ExhibitionNative American Art / American Abstract Expressionism
The ways of creating art practiced by indigenous cultures has become a great source of inspiration to many Western artists in the first half of the twentieth century. Among them were some of the American Abstract Expressionist painters, who turne...
Show ExhibitionA Dialogue of Shapes within World Arts (working title). Works from Micronesia and the Cyclades as well as by the 20th century artists Constantin Brancusi, Amedeo Modigliani, Hans Arp, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Isamu Noguchi
The highly stylized human figures from the remote Nukuoro atoll in Micronesia are among the rarest objects of Oceanic art today and some of the most impressive stylizations of the human form ever created. Only eight figures o...
Show ExhibitionMuseums in the 21st Century
This major international exhibition extends beyond the remarkable new museum buildings of the 21st century to give voice to the many co-creators of museum projects – city builders, artists, curators and the public as well as the architects them...
Show ExhibitionSouth African Contemporary Art after the Post-Apartheid State
This exhibition sheds light on the many facets of South African art, representing one of the most stimulating, topical and constantly progressing art scenes in the world. Playing with Expectations invites the spectator to look beyon...
Show ExhibitionDocumentary Photography from the Farm Security Administration, 1935 - 1944
The iconic photographs from the vast collection of the Farm Security Administration, an US government branch from the 1930s and 40s, are among the most celebrated documentary images known today. The black-and-white image collection is considered ...
Show ExhibitionAn Elusive Paradise
This latest Art Centre Basel exhibition will examine the complex and dynamic relationship between the artworks of Paul Gauguin and the Polynesian art he encountered after his arrival in Tahiti in 1891.
The exhibition has been created an...
Show ExhibitionThe Myth of Troy in Poetry and Art
Scholarly curator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz, Basel, Switzerland
The Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Switzerland (Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection), the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, Germany, and the Art ...
Show Exhibitionfrom the National Museum in Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) and the Art Centre Basel (ACB) are jointly creating a travelling exhibition with 27 Masterpieces from the medieval collection of the NMW.
The medieval art collection of the NMW is the most valuable c...
Show ExhibitionConcepts Projects Buildings
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings is a follow-up exhibition of the highly successful exhibition Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings, which travelled to numerous museums throughout Europ...
Show ExhibitionConcepts Projects Buildings
This exhibition and its accompanying book present a cross-section of the most significant, expressive and high-quality museum structures and projects that have been designed and built within the last 10 years of the 20th century. Obviously every...
Show ExhibitionMasterpieces from Central Africa
The Royal Museum of Central Africa, commonly known as the Tervuren Museum, was founded in 1897 by King Leopold II of Belgium to promote commercial and public interest in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Tervuren Museum owns the ...
Show Exhibitionfrom the Han Coray Collection, 1916 - 1928
The Coray Collection of the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich (Museum of Ethnology, Zurich University), is one of the earliest and most significant collections of African art. Assembled by Han Coray - a teacher, gallery owner an...
Show ExhibitionMasterpieces of African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art from the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam
Expressions of Belief was the first exhibition in the company's history that was no longer exhibited on the premises of the Art Centre Basel itself. It was, as all subsequent exhibitions, conceived as an international travelling loan exhibition, ...
Show ExhibitionAuthority and Ornament
This exhibition was first shown at the Art Centre Basel and was then travelling to distinguished museums in Europe and the United States.
The 700-mile-long Sepik River originates in the north slopes of a mountain range in central New G...
Show ExhibitionFrom Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani
"Art of Northwest New Guinea" was not conceived as an exhibition, but only as a catalogue publication.
"On a map, the island of N...
Show ExhibitionTribal Art - Modern Art
The Art Centre Basel, at that time known as the Tribal Art Centre, was inaugurated in January 1984 with the exhibition Resonances, a juxtaposition of tribal art and modern art. The exhibition was shown at the Art Centre Basel's headquarters at S...
Show ExhibitionWatches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
The exhibition presents a collection formed in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries by brothers Thomas and Frederick Proctor, two of the Institute's founders.
Eighty of the most visually appealing, technically sophisticate...
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