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2025

Medardo Rosso

Inventing Modern Sculpture

“Seeing Means Closing Your Eyes”

Wols on Paper

Schenkungen und Ankäufe 2024

Rückblick auf das Jahr 2024

E.L. Kirchners "Tanz im Varieté"

Exhibited for the first time in over a hundred years

New Presentation of Art from the 14th to 19th Centuries

2024

Dan Flavin

Dedications in Lights

Ingenious Women

Women Artists and their Companions

Made in Japan

Color Woodblock Prints by Hiroshige, Kunisada and Hokusai

When We See Us

A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

Paula Rego

Power Games

Painting by Henri Rousseau

Negotiations over compensation for “flight asset” purchase

From Holbein to Trockel

Highlights from the Kupferstichkabinett

Elena Filipovic Takes the Helm at the Kunstmuseum Basel

The New Director Introduces Herself

Anri Sala

In the Midst of Old Masters

2025 Manor Art Prize

Cassidy Toner

Pairings

Drawing Today

Recent Additions to the Collection

Agreement in the Pissarro case

Kunstmuseum Basel compensates the heirs of Richard Semmel

2023

Shirley Jaffe

Form as Experiment

Charmion von Wiegand

Andrea Büttner

The Heart of Relations

Gina Folly. Autofocus

2023 Manor Art Prize

Rückblick 2022

Bernard Buffet

Existentialist and Popular Artist

Sanierung Hauptbau

Matisse, Derain and friends

The Paris Avantgarde 1904–1908

Jasper Johns — The artist as collector

From Cezanne to de Kooning

New director

Elena Filipovic (from 2024)

Collecting through the Ages

The Museum Faesch at the Kupferstichkabinett

Dynamics of the Organic

The Tschopp-Janssen Collection

The Basel Artists’ Group Kreis 48

Kalachakra-Mandala zur Ausstellung Charmion von Wiegand

Carrie Mae Weems

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Picasso on Paper

The Baumgartner Gift in the Context of the Collection

Singular. Monotype and Counterproof

2022

Hermann Scherer

Grooves and Edges

Louise Bourgeois x Jenny Holzer

The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page

Picasso – El Greco

Heute Nacht geträumt

An exhibition by Ruth Buchanan

Brice Marden

Inner Space

Fun Feminism

Castaway Modernism

Basel’s Acquisitions of «Degenerate Art»

The Collector Curt Glaser

From Champion of Modernism to Refugee

2023 Manor Art Prize

Gina Folly

Variation in Print

American Graphic Art

Overdrawn

Caricatures by Honoré Daumier

«Ich hätte gerne einen typischen Chagall»

Vivian Suter

Strategie für die Provenienzforschung

Restitution Blockbuchblatt

Born in Ukraine

The Kyiv National Art Gallery in Basel

2021

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Living Abstraction

Continuously Contemporary (II)

NEW WORKS FROM THE EMANUEL HOFFMANN FOUNDATION

Dorian Sari

Post-Truth

Kara Walker

A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be

Holbein and Dostoevsky

The Dead Christ and its effect

Stiftung Im Obersteg

Géraldine Meyer wird neue Kuratorin

Tacita Dean

Antigone

Camille Pissarro

The Studio of Modernism

Miriam Cahn

Collection presentation

24 Stunden - für Joseph Beuys

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Engravings and etchings

Cuno Amiet

Early Children’s Portraits

Exhibitions 2022

Making the World

Spiritual Worlds