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Kunstmuseum Bern

Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum Bern
The Kunstmuseum Bern is the oldest fine art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection. It enjoys a worldwide reputation thanks to works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler, and Meret Oppenheim. Its ever-growing holdings currently encompass over 4,000 paintings and sculptures, as well as some 45,000 drawings, engravings, photographs, films, and videos. This makes it not only one of the most outstanding and multifarious collections in Switzerland but also one of international significance due to its collections of works from the “classical” modern era. Besides it's permanent collection the Kunstmuseum Bern additionally shows themed and large monographic exhibitions.
Address

Kunstmuseum Bern

Hodlerstrasse 8-12
3011
Bern
Switzerland
+41 31 328 09 44
Opening hours
Open all year
Tuesday: 10:00-21:00
Wednesday - Sunday: 10:00-17:00

Closed on
Monday 01 April 2024 Easter Monday 10am – 5pm
Monday 20 May 2024 Whit Monday 10am – 5pm
Wednesday 01 January 2025 New Year 10am – 5pm
Thursday 02 January 2025 Local Holiday 10am – 5pm

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Chaïm Soutine, Le boeuf écorché, um 1925, Öl auf Leinwand, 72.5 x 49.9 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern, Legat Georges F. Keller 1981
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Opening: Chaïm Soutine. Against the Tide

Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943) captured in his works the atmosphere of an entire era. A generation marked by war, social grievances and the relentless conflict between religious and political world views ...

Event
Amy Sillman, Duel, 2011, Öl auf Leinwand, 300 x 214 cm, Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane London
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Opening: Amy Sillman: Oh Clock!

Amy Sillman (*1955) is an important voice in American painting and has since the 1990s consistently interrogated the medium in a trans-disciplinary approach through drawing, printing, writing, object ...

Event
AlbertAnker_CécileAnker
Bern
Albert Anker. Reading girls

Reading girls have been and remain a sign that a society invests in the education of women and thus seeks to improve their economic and social status. Albert Anker (1831–1910) was not only concerned ...

Exhibition
TraceyRose_The Prelude
Bern
Tracey Rose. Shooting Down Babylon

Originating at Zeitz MOCAA, the Kunstmuseum Bern is mounting the large scale retrospective of South African artist Tracey Rose (b. 1974). The artist has been a radical voice in the international art ...

Exhibition
ChaïmSoutine_peinture_Boeufécorché
Bern
Chaïm Soutine. Against the Tide

The exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding work of Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943). His expressive works show shaky landscapes, slaughtered animals and people on the lowest rungs of society who were his ...

Exhibition
AmySillman_Bild_Duel
Bern
Amy Sillman: Oh Clock!

Amy Sillman (b. 1955) is an important voice in American contemporary painting. Since the 1990s, she has consistently questioned the medium via drawing, printmaking and writing, as well as by making ...

Exhibition
Hermann und Margrit Rupf in ihrer Wohnung an der Brückfeldstrasse 27, Bern, ca. 1955 © Foto: Kurt Blum
Bern
A Collector and His Dealer. Rupf & Kahnweiler, 1933–1945

The Rupf Collection, on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Bern, is closely associated with the story of the important gallery owner and defender of the Cubists, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Bern ...

Exhibition