Past Exhibitions
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Chiaroscuro - Italian Colored Woodcuts of the 16th and 17th Centuries
04 May 2010 - 08 August 2010
Small presentation in the graphic cabinet
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Edward Burne-Jones – The Earthly Paradise
19 March 2010 - 25 July 2010
The fantastic discovery in spring
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Passage: Daniel Spoerri
02 March 2010 - 27 June 2010
This small homage is shown to celebrate the 80th birthday of Daniel Spoerri
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In the Cabinet: Tomas Kratky – Works on Paper
19 January 2010 - 25 April 2010
Small presentation in the graphic cabinet
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Rolf Iseli - Layers of Time
18 December 2009 - 21 March 2010
This retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern surveys the artist's fifty-year-career by means of about one hundred works - large groups of paintings and drawings, sculptures and prints -which Iseli produced in his studio in Berne and in St. Romain in Burgundy.
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Made in China - Scholarship holders of the Stiftung GegenwART
20 November 2009 - 14 February 2010
Over a period of two years, the GegenwART foundation and its patron Dr. h.c. Hansjörg Wyss supported this initiative and financed the stay of five artists/artist-couples there. These included the Geneva artists Marc Bauer, Sharyar Nashat and Pierre-Philippe Freymond, the Zurich artist Christian Vetter and the artist-brothers Cyril and Gregory Chapuisat from Founex.
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Giovanni Giacometti: Colour in the Light
30 October 2009 - 21 February 2010
Approximately one hundred paintings by Giovanni Giacometti focus attention on his ingeniously vibrant orchestration of light.
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In the Cabinet: From Ingres to Cézanne: French Drawings of the 19th century
13 October 2009 - 10 January 2010
Although the collection of 19th- and early 20th-century drawings and watercolors by international artists in the Kunstmuseum Bern is not large, it is of exceptionally high quality.
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Fury and Grace. Guercino - Baroque Drawings from the Uffizi of Florence
11 September 2009 - 22 November 2009
The Uffizi houses one of the world's largest and most important collections of drawings by Guercino. The exhibition in Bern comprises a selection of 50 sheets from all periods of his oeuvre and all genres - figure and compositional studies, landscape and genre scenes - and 42 drawings by his workshop staff and successors.
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Director's Choice:"Drink o eyes"
13 July 2009 - 04 October 2009
This large exhibition of works from the collection presents Swiss art form Albert Anker to Robert Zünd.
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In the Cabinet: Hendrick Goltzius – Engraver and Inventor
07 July 2009 - 04 October 2009
Following the Carracci exhibition in summer 2007, the Kunstmuseum Bern is continuing the revision and presentation of its stocks of old prints with the oeuvre of the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617).
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Peter Radelfinger - Everbody has got a blue finger. Drawings and Animations
24 June 2009 - 27 September 2009
Peter Radelfinger (*1953, Berne) has focussed almost exclusively on the medium of drawing since the 1980s. He has taken up an independent position in contemporary art which he gained him numerous scholarships and awards.
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Ricco. New works in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern
13 June 2009 - 18 October 2009
This is the first time Rocco's paintings and works on paper from the museum's own stocks are being shown in a small exhibition. The show is taking place within the framework of the research project related to a catalogue of works which is scheduled for publication in 2010.
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Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium der BKG
01 May 2009 - 01 June 2009
Das Louise Aeschlimann und Margareta Corti-Stipendium der Bernischen Kunstgesellschaft ist das bedeutendste private Kunststipendium des Kantons Bern. Seit 1942 werden jährlich (bis 2008: 179) junge Berner Kunstschaffende mit einem Stipendium oder Förderpreis ausgezeichnet. 2009 steht erneut eine Preissumme von insgesamt Fr. 70'000.- zur Verfügung.
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In the Cabinet: Bethan Huws - Watercolors
07 April 2009 - 28 June 2009
The exhibition in Cabinet presents a selection of watercolours and drawings dating from the years 1988 to 1997 which were purchased on the occasion of the solo-exhibition "Bethan Huws Watercolours" at the Kunstmuseum Bern in spring 1999.
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Tracey Emin - 20 Years
19 March 2009 - 21 June 2009
Tracey Emin (born in 1963) belongs to the group of successful contemporary British artists. The Museum of Fine Arts Bern presents the first solo exhibition of Tracey Emin in Switzerland.
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Wilfrid Moser. Milestones - A Retrospective
06 March 2009 - 14 June 2009
Twelve years after the death of Wilfrid Moser (1914 - 1997) his work is being presented in a retrospective thereby emphasizing his contemporary relevance.
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Passage IV: Rudolf Durheim
31 January 2009 - 13 April 2009
Parallel to the exhibition "In Search of the Orient. From Bellini to Klee" at the Zentrum Paul Klee (7. 2.-24. 5. 2009)
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Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art
14 November 2008 - 15 February 2009
In her first exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, the new curator of the contemporary department, Kathleen Bühler, will be taking as her theme what is autobiographical in contemporary art as an instrument of self-representation and self-discovery.
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Emil Zbinden (1908 - 1991). Time - for and against
19 September 2008 - 18 January 2009
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Bernese artist Emil Zbinden, this retrospective will offer the opportunity to rediscover his work with its socially aware commentary on contemporary issues.
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"Im full of Byars". James Lee Byars - A Homage
12 September 2008 - 01 February 2009
James Lee Byars (1932-1997) was one of the 20th century's most unusual and elusive artist figures. A commuter between America, Japan and Europe, Byars, who was born in Detroit in 1932, has a particular affinity with Bern. The Kunstmuseum Bern is now devoting a large survey exhibition to this artist.
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Suzan Frecon painting - form, color, illumination
11 June 2008 - 28 September 2008
The exhibition presents a selection of works which were carefully chosen with the artist.
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Intermezzo - The Collection in Movement
28 May 2008 - 01 February 2009
In addition to the well-known highlights of the collection, many rarely exhibited works will be on show so that this "intermezzo" will offer new insights into the museum's collection.
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Ferdinand Hodler - A symbolist vision
09 April 2008 - 10 August 2008
The Museum of Fine Arts Bern presents one of the most important and extensive Hodler exhibitions with over 150 masterpieces of all the artist's periods. The exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum of Fine Arts Bern and the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest.
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Rudolf Mumprecht: white black red
13 February 2008 - 20 April 2008
The Kunstmuseum Bern pays homage to the artist with a presentation of a selection of works
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Adolf Wölfli Universe . A Retrospective
01 February 2008 - 18 May 2008
Today, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) is counted among the important artists of the 20th century. The exhibition presents Wölfli's personal and obsessive universe which is a unique reflection of the world he was excluded from.
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“The sky is blue“. Works from the Morgenthaler Collection, Waldau
01 February 2008 - 18 May 2008
The Morgenthaler Collection is of international importance. It comprises roughly 5,000 works by patients from the former cantonal “Waldau lunatic asylum, sanatorium and nursing home”. They were collected by the Bernese psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler who was assistant medical director in the Waldau clinic from 1913 to 1920.
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There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock). 40 years of fine arts from the Mondstudio Collection
25 January 2008 - 27 April 2008
The Mondstudio Collection has an international reputation as one of the most important collections of contemporary painting.
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In the Cabinet: Mili Jäggi - Gouaches and Drawings
18 December 2007 - 24 February 2008
Homage to a Bernese Artist
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Egbert Moehsnang - Presentation of large-format prints
12 December 2007 - 24 February 2008
On the occasion of Egbert Moehsnang's 80th birthday the Museum of Fine Arts Bern is presenting a selection of his newest works which have never before been exhibited.
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Expression and Abstraction - The Othmar Huber Foundation
10 October 2007 - 20 April 2008
Presenatation of the artworks owned by the Othmar Huber Foundation
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Horn Please. Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art
21 September 2007 - 06 January 2008
The exhibition Horn Please attempts to follow the journey of the narrative over three decades, from the 1980s to the present, by tracing certain ‘critical’ moments in Indian art – moments of both assimilation and intervention – through which a particular kind of narrative was constructed.
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Passage III: W.O. Leuenberger
04 September 2007 - 02 March 2008
On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the Kunstmuseum Bern is presenting a small homage to Werner Otto Leuenberger (born December 21, 1932), in the series "Passage".
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“Damned Guy!” - Karl Stauffer-Bern: Painter, Etcher, Sculptor
17 August 2007 - 02 December 2007
The 2nd of September, 2007, marks the 150th birthday of Karl Stauffer-Bern. The artist, who died young, is one of the most important artists of his generation in the field of portraiture.
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Paul Senn Photojournalist
07 June 2007 - 02 September 2007
The retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts presents over 300 vintage prints, secondary prints and colour photographs in addition to a rich fund of documentary material.
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In the Cabinet: Lascivie e santità - Printed works by the Carraccis
29 May 2007 - 05 August 2007
Together with their cousin Ludovico Carracci, the brothers Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) were among the founders of baroque painting.
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Ueli Berger - Works on paper 1967 - 2007
09 May 2007 - 05 August 2007
The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern focuses on a lesser-known aspect of Ueli Berger's work and, in an overview of his work, shows works on paper from the last forty years.
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Expressionism from the mountains - Kirchner, Bauknecht, Wiegers and the Group "Rot-Blau"
27 April 2007 - 19 August 2007
This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Bündner Art Museum Chur and the Groninger Museum, presents for the first time in such a comprehensive form the intense artistic and human exchange between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) and a group of younger colleagues during his early years in Davos.
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In the cabinet: Maria Eichhorn - The share certificates of the Kunsthalle Bern
17 April 2007 - 20 May 2007
For her exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bern in 2001, Maria Eichhorn became interested in the owner and property circumstances of the institution. She analysed the financial background
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Oscar Wiggli. Body - Space - Sound. A creative output overview
16 February 2007 - 13 May 2007
Oscar Wiggli is one of the leading artists of his generation. His contribution to metal sculpture, commencing in the 1950s, is of international significance.
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Chinese Window: Ji Dachun, Liu Ye
07 February 2007 - 01 April 2007
Within the framework of the "Chinese Window", that is, the presentation of some important aspects of the Sigg Collection following on from the very successful exhibition Mahjong in 2005, we will be showing two parallel solo exhibitions from two important painters of the middle generation: Liu Ye and Ji Dachun
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Manet - Guest in the collection: La maîtresse de Baudelaire couchée, 1862
30 January 2007 - 06 May 2007
The Szépmûvészeti Museum is offering the Museum of Fine Arts Bern the opportunity to host an important work from its collection: Edouard Manet's La maîtresse de baudelaire couchée, 1862
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Louise Bourgeois - Fugue
16 January 2007 - 08 April 2007
Presentation of groups of works from the museum’s graphic collection
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Presentation of the competition for the building extension
19 December 2006 - 06 January 2007
From December 19, 2006 to January 6, 2007 all projects concerned with the first and second phases, including the winning project, will be exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern.
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Gao Xingjian. Ink drawings
28 November 2006 - 16 December 2006
Gao Xingjian was born in China in 1940. He is a painter, writer, dramaturge, director and translator.
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Six Feet Under - Autopsy of our relation to the dead
02 November 2006 - 21 January 2007
Violence and death are omnipresent in the media, yet our society avoids direct contact with dead people. The corpse has been definitively removed from our field of vision and replaced by a new system of rituals and symbols intended to help us deal with the finiteness of human existence.
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Ernst Kreidolf and his painter friends
27 September 2006 - 07 January 2007
Ernst Kreidolf (1863–1956) is known, not only in Switzerland, as the creator of successful and still-popular picture books such as “Blumen-Märchen”, “Die Wiesenzwerge”, “Sommervögel”, “Lenzgesind” and “Ein Wintermärchen”. The popularity of the picture book illustrator still doggedly disguises the fact that Ernst Kreidolf was first and foremost a painter and graphic artist and always regarded himself as such.
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Werner Witschi - Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection
04 August 2006 - 31 December 2006
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Werner Witschi (born June 10, 1906, in Urtenen – died December 24, 1999, in Bolligen), the Museum of Fine Arts Bern is showing a selection of paintings and sculptures by Werner Witschi from its collection.
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Suzan Frecon: Watercolours - Works on Paper from the Graphic Collection
04 July 2006 - 24 September 2006
The American artist Suzan Frecon (born 1941) is known primarily as a painter. However, her graphic work, consisting mainly of watercolours, represents much more than mere preparation for her oil paintings. A selection of her versatile works on paper is being presented in the graphic cabinet.
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Meret Oppenheim - Retrospective: An Enormously Tiny Bit of a Lot
02 June 2006 - 08 October 2006
Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985), once scandalous muse, mysterious model and eternal myth of the surrealists, was one of the most unconventional and far-sighted artists whose creative oeuvre – painting, sculpture, poetry, drawings and design objects – represents an extremely significant contribution to the art of the 20th century.
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Berns mächtige Zeit
21 April 2006 - 09 July 2006
On April 20, 2006, the third volume in the series Berner Zeiten will be published: Berns mächtige Zeit. Das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt. The presentation of this sumptuous book is to be accompanied by a small exhibition
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BERN/GEGENWART - Travelling with Art - Stiftung Kunst Heute
12 April 2006 - 18 June 2006
The topic is travelling with art. Travelling to distant places, travelling in familiar spheres that disclose unfamiliar perspectives, travelling through inner worlds
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Serge Spitzer: Re/Search (Alchemy and/or Question Marks with Swiss Air), 1996 – 2002
22 March 2006 - 11 November 2007
This installation was being redesigned and adapted by Serge Spitzer to a new space at Kunstmuseum Bern.
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Cécile Wick - Visions of the World
22 March 2006 - 25 June 2006
The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern is dedicated to a so far little-known aspect of Cécile Wick’s work. It offers a comprehensive overview of the print works created in the last ten years.
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Serge Spitzer - Round the corner
22 March 2006 - 21 May 2006
The exhibition “Round the Corner” by Serge Spitzer combines various older and more recent works of this New York-based artist
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Sam Francis and Berne
15 March 2006 - 18 June 2006
The Californian artist Sam Francis (1923 - 1994)had an intense relationship with the city of Berne
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Guangzhou – Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection
11 March 2006 - 07 May 2006
The very successful exhibition "Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection" (2005) presented by the Museum of Fine Arts Bern offered a panoramic view of contemporary Chinese art. As of this year, Uli and Rita Sigg are making further works from their collection available for an annual" Window on China" in the museum.
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THE COLLECTION
01 January 2006 - 02 February 2009
The Museum of Fine Arts Bern presents the collection as a special exhibtion
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Rupf Collection - Cubism in the Corridor
30 November 2005 - 26 February 2006
The exhibition presents a closer look at the superlative collection which includes such signifi-cant genres as Fauvism (Derain, Friesz) and Cubism (Braque, Picasso, Gris and Léger), as well as works by Klee and Kandinsky.
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Franz Gertsch - The Retrospective
13 November 2005 - 12 March 2006
For the occasion of Franz Gertsch’s 75th birthday, the museum franz gertsch is compiling a truly comprehensive retrospective of his works in cooperation with the Museum of Fine Arts Bern. The exhibition will be shown from November 13, 2005, to March 12, 2006, in both museums.
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Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection
13 June 2005 - 16 October 2005
Uli Sigg has been following the evolution of contemporary Chinese art from its beginnings in 1979 and, together with his wife Rita, has been the first to collect Chinese contemporary art in a systematic way since the 1990s.
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