05 May 2020

#57 My favourite: Martha Rosler

Employees of the Kunstmuseum Basel present their favourite works. Today: Hannah Horst, Head of Education & Mediation.

04 May 2020

#56 Inspired by her – Ottilie Roederstein

A rare early self-portrait of the Swiss painter Ottilie Roederstein can be found in our collection. It suits perfectly into our guide series "Inspired by her".

03 May 2020

#55 My favourite: Alexandre Calame

Employees of the Kunstmuseum Basel present their favourite works. Today: Regina Weisgram, Assistant to the Head of Finance & Operations.

02 May 2020

#54 Controversial? – Paul Camenisch

There are numerous objects in the Kunstmuseum Basel that can be perceived as controversial, depending on one's point of view. Some are even censored, such as works by Paul Camenisch from Basel.

30 Apr 2020

#52 Museums and sustainability

How sustainable is a closed museum? A contribution by director Josef Helfenstein.

25 Apr 2020

#47 Provenance Research: Jacques Lipchitz

Provenance researcher Vanessa von Kolpinski presents one of her cases: Jacques Lipchitz' sculpture "Joueur de guitare" from 1922.

23 Apr 2020

#44 Artworks in the bzBasel

The series "Kunst in der bz" is a joint project of the newspaper bzBasel with the Kunstmuseum Basel and Kunsthaus Baselland. Today, Franziska Furter has been invited by us to present her work "Korona 2020".

21 Apr 2020

#42 Gerhard Richter's Motorboat

Masterpieces from our collection, in a nutshell: this is what our practical collection guide offers. Among the numerous works described is Gerhard Richter's "Motorboat".

20 Apr 2020

#41 Inspired by her – Selma Weber

The series of guided tours "Inspired by her" on current female positions at the Kunstmuseum Basel enjoys great popularity. Instead of on site in the house, Iris Kretzschmar now presents the artworks here as text, for example "Bello" by Selma Weber.

16 Apr 2020

#38 Controversial? – Degenerate Art

There are numerous objects in the Kunstmuseum Basel that can be perceived as controversial, depending on one's point of view. These include, for example, the works of "Degenerate Art" from the acquisitions of 1939.

11 Apr 2020

#31 Holbein and Mucha

The juxtaposition of Reinhard Mucha's "Walsum" and the "Dead Christ in the Grave" by Hans Holbein the Younger is an experiment that asks to what extent not every artist has an 'imaginary museum' stored in his or her mind.

10 Apr 2020

#30 Provenance Research: August Macke

On the occasion of the Day of Provenance Research, provenance researcher Lena Lehmann will present one of her cases to us: August Macke's drawing "Landscape with children and goats".