Basel is considered the cultural capital of Switzerland. Not only because the oldest public art collection of all has been located here since 1661, but because the city with its world-famous museums and top-class events has simply developed into the hotspot of the art world.

Almost 40 museums with world-renowned exhibitions – this is unique in Switzerland and also top class in international comparison. With their different subject areas, they offer something for every taste and some have even made history. The Fondation Beyeler is the most visited art museum in Switzerland and inspires with first-class exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The most famous works by the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely are housed in the Museum Tinguely and in the oldest public art collection in the world, in the Kunstmuseum Basel, works from Holbein to Picasso as well as sensational special exhibitions can be admired.

In 2022, numerous exhibitions in the city on the knee of the Rhine will again impress visitors. Above all, the special exhibition “Mondrian”, which will be on view at the Fondation Beyeler from June 5 to October 9, 2022. To mark the artist's 150th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. As one of the most important artists of the avant-garde movement, he decisively shaped the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. From June 11 to September 25, 2022, the Kunstmuseum Basel is presenting the exhibition “Picasso – El Greco”, which deals with Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) confrontation with the old master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco ( 1541–1614), goes.

Around 40 juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace this dialogue, which is one of the most fascinating in art history. The Museum Tinguely is showing "Territories of Waste - About the Return of the Suppressed" from September 14, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The group exhibition focuses on positions in contemporary art and asks in which areas the examination of the rest is manifested today , in order to take a new look back at the art of the second half of the 20th century.