Events in Bern Region - Art exhibitions

A walk through the new display collection provides insight into current collection activity, modern research methods, and historical collections.

The special exhibition "Excellent! The Golden Star of Thun" explores the history of seals and coats of arms in Thun.

The new exhibition at the Museum Schloss Burgdorf shows the history of women in the region with a variety of portraits, audio pieces and objects to discover.

Skulpturen aus Holz / Beton schlicht, farbig, abstrakt

Barry, the most famous rescue dog in the world, died 200 years ago but remains a legend to this day.

Anlässlich des Jubiläums 750 Jahre Handfeste von 1273 hat das Museum gemeinsam mit Burgdorfer Chören und Bands eine neue Ausstellung entwickelt.

An artistic and political reflection on care, the body and community. How can an image touch, resist, heal?

The collection presentation focuses in particular on the Bernese Renaissance and early Florentine and Sienese painting from the 13th to 15th centuries.

Rich in detail, this picture takes a look at everyday life in Thun 200 years ago and, with its countless stories, becomes a hidden object picture for young and old alike.

Zurich artist Susanne Keller shows poetic worlds in model format.

Im Kabinett des Museum Franz Gertsch zeigt die junge Westschweizer Malerin Leanne Picthall (*1999) aktuelle Gemälde in Öl auf Leinwand. Es handelt sich um ihre erste Einzelausstellung in einem Museum.

The exhibition presents the foundation's assets in their entirety for the first time.

<strong>Ernst Ludwig Kirchner erfindet sich neu.</strong> <strong>Der Wandel zum 'Neuen Stil' mitten in der Davoser Jahren</strong> Galerie Henze &amp; Ketterer Wichtrach/Bern 21.10.2025 – 17.07.2026

A stagecoach, chips under the skin or an original getaway vehicle from a robbery of the century?

Wichtige Werkgruppen der letzten 15 Jahre treten in einen Dialog und zeigen, wie der Künstler seine malerischen Untersuchungen an der Schnittstelle von Abstraktion und Gegenständlichkeit vorantreibt.

The exhibition shows Schwitters' work from Dadaist collages and his reconstructed walk-in "Merzbau" in Hanover to naturalistic portraits and landscape paintings.

Switzerland's relationship with the polar regions has long been characterized by a strong attraction.

A new cinematic exhibition about climate change and decolonization, overtourism, the hunt for natural resources, the future of youth and the vibrant Greenlandic music scene.

French artist Fabrice Hyber combines art, ecology, research and humor.

Célèbre créateur de décors et de costumes de théâtre, membre de la Sécession berlinoise, peintre muraliste sollicité pour les villas cossues et illustrateur de livres d’éditeurs renommés : la

Swiss art from across three centuries

Provenance research study project

Ausgehend von den Sammlungen der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek tauchen wir mit der Ausstellung Seen, Spiegel der Schweiz in unsere Geschichte und unsere Mythen ein.

He combined literature and painting in his own way.

The most beautiful custom cars, bikes, and scooters from all over Europe gather in the stunning natural backdrop of the Simmental.

The German artist Anne Loch (1946-2014), who lived in Switzerland for a time from the 1980s onwards, played with the conventions of representation and explored the boundaries of painting:

Franz Gertsch (1930-2022) is considered a Swiss pioneer of photorealism and a master of the modern woodcut. The retrospective Franz Gertsch.

Silk in the limelight Quilts.Bern and Swiss Silk present silk quilts and the production of silk in an extraordinary exhibition. Large, small orangery and greenhouses Elfenau Bern

The exhibition Journey to Freedom. Capri - Skagen - Monte Verità sheds light on the phenomenon of the artists' colony in Europe between 1830 and 1930 with around 70 works.