The combination of word and light plays an important role in Jenny Holzer’s work: temporary light installations featuring monumental lettering …

‘The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page’ is the title of the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel that brings together two …

In this lecture, Timothy J. Clark, professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, shows that imperfection and understatement in …

Camille Pissarro’s work “Un coin de l’Hermitage, Pontoise” (1878) was the first Impressionist painting to enter the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, …

Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart hosts the Swiss premiere of Tacita Dean‘s 35mm film Antigone (2018). The presentation of the hourlong …

Alongside Hans Holbein the Younger, Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901) is one of the ‘patron saints’ of the Kunstmuseum Basel. The museum holds …

Paper is a central medium in American artist Kara Walker‘s creative practice. For the Kunstmuseum in Basel, she opened the …

The exhibition “Böcklin Begegnet” (Encountering Böcklin) at Kunstmuseum Basel is an excellent introduction to Arnold Böcklin’s oeuvre and his time. …

This is the second of four videos in which curator Eva Reifert introduces us to the oeuvre of Arnold Böcklin. …

During the Corona-Crisis, Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin’s symbolist painting “The Plague” (1898) became prominently displayed in the media as illustration …

“Living Abstraction” is the title of a huge retrospective on the work and life of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943). …

Isa Genzken is one of the most popular artists living today. She represented Germany at the Venice Art Biennale 2007 …