Events in Bern - Art exhibitions

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

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

To coincide with its 20-year anniversary, the Zentrum Paul Klee is devoting a major exhibition to the Swiss-French artist-architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).

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.

The permanent exhibition offers visitors a chronological overview of Klee's artistic oeuvre.

Sexuality, delusion, illness and death are the great human themes and elementary experiences to which Carol Rama (1918-2015) dedicated her art.

Marisa Merz (1926–2019) was one of the leading figures of the post-war Italian art scene, and closely associated with the Arte Povera group, the only woman to be so.

Why do so many - hundreds, if not thousands - of books on twentieth-century philosophy, psychotherapy or critical theory feature Paul Klee's art on their covers?

The exhibition focuses on five affected people, born between 1894 and 1963, and invites visitors to immerse themselves in their stories.

Rose Wylie. Flick and Float presents the nonconformist and fascinating work of the British artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934).

Swiss art from across three centuries

In 1933, the Kunsthalle Bern organized the largest retrospective during Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's lifetime.

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912 in Hamburg-1994 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a German-Venezuelan artist and pioneer of abstraction in Latin America.

Anni Albers (1899–1994) is one of the most important figures in the art and design of the 20th century.

In November 2025, the cheese world comes together for the first time in Switzerland, the land of cheese. And Bern - as host of the World Cheese Awards 2025 - becomes the Capital of Cheese par excellence for three days.