Museums

Fondation Beyeler

Founded in 1997, Fondation Beyeler is one of the most beautiful and popular museums in Switzerland. Designed by Renzo Piano.

Baselstrasse 101, Riehen / Basel

Fondation Beyeler is one of the most beautiful and popular museums in Switzerland. The building, designed by Renzo Piano and surrounded by a wonderful park, houses one of the world’s finest collections of modern art. The Italian architect projected the building in order to radiate simplicity while maintaining harmony with its setting. The Fondation Beyeler organises high-quality and much admired exhibitions of Modern and Contemporary art, as well as projects in the public space.

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OPENING TIMES

Mon – Sun 10am – 6pm

Wed 10am – 8pm

Fri 10am – 9pm (On June 23, August 25 and September 15, the museum closes already at 6pm)

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T: +41 61 645 9700
M: info@fondationbeyeler.ch
W: Fondation Beyeler

ADDRESS
Baselstrasse 101, Riehen / Basel

ESTABLISHED
1997
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Current Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Dance With Daemons

For the first time in the Fondation Beyeler’s more than 25-year history, the entire museum and its...

19 May 2024 - 11 Aug 2024
Fondation Beyeler

Switzerland

Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Jeff Wall

The Fondation Beyeler devotes a comprehensive solo show to the internationally renowned artist Jeff Wall...

28 Jan 2024 - 21 Apr 2024
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Doris Salcedo: Palimpsest

In a large-scale installation, the Fondation Beyeler presents "Palimpsest" by internationally acclaimed Colombian artist Doris Salcedo.

09 Oct 2022 - 17 Sep 2023
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Doris Salcedo

The Fondation Beyeler devotes a comprehensive solo exhibition to internationally acclaimed artist Doris...

21 May 2023 - 17 Sep 2023
Fondation Beyeler

Switzerland

Exhibitions

Basquiat: The Modena Paintings

In the summer of 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) travelled to Modena in Italy. Gallery owner...

11 Jun 2023 - 27 Aug 2023
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Mondrian Evolution

Fondation Beyeler devotes a comprehensive exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, bringing together works from its own collection and major international loans.

05 Jun 2022 - 09 Oct 2022
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

CLOSE-UP

Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

19 Sep 2021 - 02 Jan 2022
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Silent Vision: Images of Calm and Quiet

Works of modern and contemporary art dealing with the topic of calm and quiet

13 Feb 2020 - 30 Nov 2020
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Edward Hopper

The exhibition focuses on Hopper’s iconic representations of the infinite expanse of American landscapes and cityscapes

26 Jan 2020 - 20 Sep 2020
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Resonating Spaces

Featuring selected exemplary works by Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz and...

06 Oct 2019 - 26 Jan 2020
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Rudolf Stingel

Curated by the Director of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie Udo Kittelman, the 2019 summer exhibition at Fondation...

26 May 2019 - 06 Oct 2019
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

The Young Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods

Fondation Beyeler presents an exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces of his early Blue...

03 Feb 2019 - 16 Jun 2019
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Balthus

The Fondation Beyeler presents a major retrospective dedicated to the late Balthasar Klossowski de Rola...

02 Sep 2018 - 13 Jan 2019
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Bacon – Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) and Francis Bacon (1909–1992) were friends and rivals: but even if...

29 Apr 2018 - 02 Sep 2018
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Georg Baselitz

Marking the artist’s eightieth birthday, the Fondation Beyeler presents a major retrospective of...

21 Jan 2018 - 29 Apr 2018
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Paul Klee: The Abstract Dimension

Fondation Beyeler presents a major retrospective dedicated to one of the most important painters of the...

01 Oct 2017 - 21 Jan 2018
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Tino Sehgal at Fondation Beyeler

Anglo-German artist Tino Sehgal (*1976) a series of six presentations that will be shown either in the...

22 May 2017 - 12 Nov 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Wolfgang Tillmans

The solo show presents around 200 photographic works by the German artist dating from 1989 to 2017, and...

28 May 2017 - 01 Oct 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Collection Beyeler Remix

The Fondation Beyeler presents its collection in its present state, which has been enriched with various...

09 Jun 2017 - 03 Sep 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Monet

Fondation Beyeler presents “Monet”, an exhibition featuring 62 paintings by one of the most important...

22 Jan 2017 - 28 May 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Kandinsky, Marc & Der Blaue Reiter

For the first time in thirty years, a comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland will be devoted to the...

03 Sep 2016 - 22 Jan 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Roni Horn: The Selected Gifts

Since the beginning of her career in the late 1970s, Roni Horn, who was born in New York in 1955, has...

11 Jun 2016 - 01 Jan 2017
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss

From 29 May through 4 September 2016, the Fondation Beyeler is presenting a comprehensive exhibition...

29 May 2016 - 04 Sep 2016
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

13 Works on Long Term Loan to the Foundation Beyeler

In the first presentation of the long-term loan nine paintings by Pablo Picasso from the Anthax Collection...

01 May 2016 - 14 Aug 2016
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Jean Dubuffet – Metamorphoses of Landscape

The Fondation Beyeler will open the year 2016 with the first retrospective in Switzerland in the 21st...

31 Jan 2016 - 08 May 2016
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Black Sun

The exhibition «Black Sun» is devoted to the lasting influence of Kazimir Malevich upon art right...

04 Oct 2015 - 10 Jan 2016
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Alexander Calder Gallery III

In 2012, the longstanding partnership between the Fondation Beyeler and the Calder Foundation (New York)...

27 Sep 2014 - 06 Sep 2015
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Works by Robert Ryman from the Daros Collection

For the first time, an exhibition room of the Fondation Beyeler will be dedicated to a number of works...

06 Jun 2015 - 30 Aug 2015
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Marlene Dumas

The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is devoted to the extensive oeuvre of Marlene Dumas (b. 1953,...

31 May 2015 - 06 Aug 2015
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Paul Gauguin

With Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903), the Fondation Beyeler presents one of the most famous and fascinating...

08 Feb 2015 - 28 Jun 2015
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

In the search of 0, 10- The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting

100 years ago, in the winter of 1915/16, a legendary exhibition took place in Petrograd (today St. Petersburg),...

04 Oct 2015 - 10 Jan 2015
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Philippe Parreno at Fondation Beyeler

Philippe Parreno‘s works occupy a poetic space between yearning and recollection. He experiments...

10 Jun 2012 - 30 Sep 2012
Fondation Beyeler

Basel

Exhibitions

Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler

The Fondation Beyeler in Basel is presenting the first exhibition ever devoted by a Swiss museum to the...

13 May 2012 - 12 Sep 2012
Fondation Beyeler

Basel