Constellations
Herbst 2026 bis Herbst 2027
«Constellations» is the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Beyeler’s newly expanded ensemble: for the first time, an exhibition will unfold across the new museum building designed by Peter Zumthor (Wyss Museum) alongside the museum building by Renzo Piano (Beyeler Museum), as well as the expanded park and the repurposed historical buildings. Bringing together around 230 works, the largest exhibition of its collection in the museum’s history will foreground the dialogue between art, architecture and nature for which the Fondation Beyeler is internationally renowned. Varied spaces, atmospheres and viewpoints will allow visitors to experience striking encounters with the artworks and their surroundings.
The title references Alexander Calder’s Constellations from 1943, several of which will be shown in the exhibition while also serving as its leitmotiv. Just as with star patterns perceived in the night sky, the shifting constellations of artworks will create new relations and open new perspectives. «Constellations» is an evolving exhibition: part of the rooms and work groupings will change on a seasonal basis, giving rise to new constellations. Visitors are thus invited to experience the art on display anew with each visit to the Fondation Beyeler’s expanded ensemble.
«Constellations» will bring together masterpieces from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries held in the collection of the Fondation Beyeler, including recent acquisitions and gifts, as well as significant loans from renowned Swiss and international private collections. The exhibition will feature important works by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois, Fujiko Nakaya, Gerhard Richter, Vija Celmins, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Thomas Schütte, Roni Horn, Fischli/Weiss, Elizabeth Peyton, Wolfgang Tillmans and Otobong Nkanga, alongside works by around 25 other artists.