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2025

Media Kit

“Seeing Means Closing Your Eyes”

Wols on Paper

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Schenkungen und Ankäufe 2024

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Rückblick auf das Jahr 2024

2024

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Dan Flavin

Dedications in Lights

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Ingenious Women

Women Artists and their Companions

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Made in Japan

Color Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige, Kunisada and Hokusai

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When We See Us

A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

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Paula Rego

Power Games

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Painting by Henri Rousseau

Negotiations over compensation for “flight asset” purchase

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From Holbein to Trockel

Highlights from the Kupferstichkabinett

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Elena Filipovic Takes the Helm at the Kunstmuseum Basel

The New Director Introduces Herself

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Anri Sala

In the Midst of Old Masters

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2025 Manor Art Prize

Cassidy Toner

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Drawing Today

Recent Additions to the Collection

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Agreement in the Pissarro case

Kunstmuseum Basel compensates the heirs of Richard Semmel

2023

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Shirley Jaffe

Form as Experiment

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Charmion von Wiegand

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Andrea Büttner

The Heart of Relations

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Gina Folly. Autofocus

2023 Manor Art Prize

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Rückblick 2022

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Bernard Buffet

Existentialist and Popular Artist

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Sanierung Hauptbau

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Matisse, Derain and friends

The Paris Avantgarde 1904–1908

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Jasper Johns — The artist as collector

From Cezanne to de Kooning

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New director

Elena Filipovic (from 2024)

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Collecting through the Ages

The Museum Faesch at the Kupferstichkabinett

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Dynamics of the Organic

The Tschopp-Janssen Collection

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The Basel Artists’ Group Kreis 48

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Kalachakra-Mandala zur Ausstellung Charmion von Wiegand

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Carrie Mae Weems

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

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Picasso on Paper

The Baumgartner Gift in the Context of the Collection

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Singular. Monotype and Counterproof

2022

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Hermann Scherer

Grooves and Edges

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Louise Bourgeois x Jenny Holzer

The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page

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Picasso – El Greco

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Heute Nacht geträumt

An exhibition by Ruth Buchanan

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Brice Marden

Inner Space

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Fun Feminism

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Castaway Modernism

Basel’s Acquisitions of «Degenerate Art»

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The Collector Curt Glaser

From Champion of Modernism to Refugee

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2023 Manor Art Prize

Gina Folly

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Variation in Print

American Graphic Art

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Overdrawn

Caricatures by Honoré Daumier

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«Ich hätte gerne einen typischen Chagall»

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Vivian Suter

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Strategie für die Provenienzforschung

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Restitution Blockbuchblatt

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Born in Ukraine

The Kyiv National Art Gallery in Basel

2021

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Living Abstraction

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Continuously Contemporary (II)

NEW WORKS FROM THE EMANUEL HOFFMANN FOUNDATION

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Dorian Sari

Post-Truth

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Das Jahr 2020

Jahresmedienmitteilung

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Kara Walker

A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be

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Neuer Präsident der Stiftung für das Kunstmuseum Basel

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Holbein and Dostoevsky

The Dead Christ and its effect

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Stiftung Im Obersteg

Géraldine Meyer wird neue Kuratorin

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Tacita Dean

Antigone

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Camille Pissarro

The Studio of Modernism

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Miriam Cahn

Collection presentation

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24 Stunden - für Joseph Beuys

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Engravings and etchings

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Cuno Amiet

Early Children’s Portraits

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Exhibitions 2022

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Making the World

Spiritual Worlds

2020

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Luminous Figures

DRAWINGS AND STAINED GLASS PAINTINGS FROM HOLBEIN TO RINGLER

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Picasso, Chagall, Jawlensky

Masterworks of the Im Obersteg Collection

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Encountering Böcklin

Collection presentation

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The Incredible World of Photography

Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection

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Maja Wismer is new head of contemporary art

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Manor Kunstpreis

Dorian Sari

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Fauves

Fauvist works newly deposited on permanent loan

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Isa Genzken

Works from 1973 to 1983

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Continuously Contemporary

NEW WORKS FROM THE EMANUEL HOFFMANN FOUNDATION

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Four Years

Gifts and Acquisitions

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Tessa Rosebrock takes over as head of provenance research

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Rembrandt's Orient

WEST MEETS EAST IN DUTCH ART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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Rembrandt's Etchings

THE EBERHARD W. KORNFELD DONATIONS

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2021

Special Exhibitions

2019

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The Cubist Cosmos

From Picasso to Léger

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William Kentridge

A Poem That Is Not Our Own

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Gold & Glory

Gifts for Eternity

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Leiko Ikemura

Toward New Seas

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Helmut Federle

19 E. 21st St., Six Large Paintings

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Max Sulzbachner

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«Schau, ich bin blind, schau.»

The collection of Hans and Monika Furer

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A Passion for Paintings

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Circular Flow

On the economy of inequality

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Rundum Leonardo

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Controversial?

Selected Works from the Collection

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Ein Basler Blick auf die Moderne

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Surreal Masterworks from the Esther Grether Family Collection

Collection presentation

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2018

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Georg Baselitz

Works on paper

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Basel Short Stories

From Erasmus to Iris von Roten

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Theaster Gates

Black Madonna

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Art. Money. Museum

The Picasso-Story, 50 Years later

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Martha Rosler & Hito Steyerl

War Games

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Maria Lassnig

Dialogues

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The Music of Color

Sam Gilliam, 1967-1973

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Adolf Wölfli

Tiger = Zohrn = Riesen = Gletscher

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«Mein lieber Hodler!»

Dokumente aus dem Archiv von Carl Albert Loosli

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Museumsshop

Neukonzept und Kooperation

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Fuseli

Drama and theatre

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Nürnberger Meister

Neue Leihgabe ist ältestes Werk in der Galerie

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Worlds within

The gift of Betty and Hartmut Raguse-Stauffer

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Video / Film

Bestandsaufnahme

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Carl Burckhardt

Classical spirit - modern form

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Sophie Jung

The Bigger Sleep

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Annual Media Orientation 2019

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Art & Vinyl

Composition René Pulfer

2017

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Richard Serra

Films and Videotapes

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The Hidden Cézanne

From Sketchbook to Canvas

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Otto Freundlich

Cosmic Communism

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Chagall

The Breakthrough Years, 1911–1919

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Womanhood

Eros, power, morality, and death around 1500

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Swiss Mountains

Collection presentation

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Fokus Roman Signer

Sammlungspräsentation

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Three forward-looking personnel decisions

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Sammlungsmomente

Sammlungspräsentation

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Fokus Papier

Randgänge der Zeichnung

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Gerhard Richter bei den Altmeistern

Sammlungspräsentation

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Donation Eberhard W. Kornfeld

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Clegg & Guttmann

and twelve new spaces

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Program of exhibitions 2018

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