Address
St. Alban-Graben 16, 4051 Basel
About
Home to the oldest public art collection in the world, the museum spans three buildings (Hauptbau, Neubau, and Gegenwart) and covers art from the late Middle Ages to the present.
Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibition
Open Relationship
Nele Stecher
The exhibition presents artworks from the museum's contemporary collection, reflecting on today's most urgent questions in a polyphonic and critical manner. It invites visitors to engage with the collection's mechanisms, gaps, and latent possibilities.
14 November 2026 – 21 March 2027
Past Exhibitions
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler
Artists
Andy Warhol
American · b. 1928
Donald Judd
American · b. 1928
Frank Stella
American · b. 1936
Gerhard Richter
German · b. 1932
Hans Baldung Grien
German · b. 1484
Hans Holbein the Younger
German · b. 1497
Isa Genzken
German · b. 1948
Joseph Beuys
German · b. 1921
Konrad Witz
German-Swiss · b. 1400
Louise Lawler
American · b. 1947
Pablo Picasso
Spanish · b. 1881
Reinhard Mucha
German · b. 1950
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch · b. 1606
Sam Gilliam
American · b. 1933
Sherrie Levine
American · b. 1947
Sol LeWitt
American · b. 1928
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Swiss · b. 1889
Theaster Gates
American · b. 1973
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch · b. 1583
Vito Acconci
American · b. 1940