Fondation Beyeler
Bâle (Suisse)
Date : 1997
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14 sections and 119 items available
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Baselstrasse 101, CH-4125 Riehen / Basel
We recommend the use of public transport. The best way to get to the Fondation Beyeler is to take the No. 6 tram (from the city centre or the "Badischer Bahnhof") or the No. 2 tram from the main SBB station, changing onto the No. 6 tram at "Messeplatz".
Hours:
Nocturne wednesday
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (8 p.m. on Wednesdays)
Admissions :
Adults CHF 21.-
Pensioners, disabled persons, and groups of at least 20 people CHF 18.-
Students up to age 30 CHF 12.-
Children aged 11 to 19 CHF 6.-
Children up to age 10, Art Club members free admission
Family Pass CHF 42.-
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In a extremely sensitive response to the collection, its creators and the location, Renzo Piano has created an ideal building for presenting modern art. From outside, the approximately 127 metre-long building, which is shielded from traffic noise by a porphyry-clad external wall, resembles a ship lying anchored alongside the busy road.
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Over a period of fifty years, in parallel to their successful activity as gallery owners, Hildy and Ernst Beyeler built up an exceptional collection of works by modern masters. Their collection, which was transferred to a foundation in 1982, was first publicly exhibited in its entirety at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1989. Currently comprising around 200 works, the Beyeler Collection documents a very personal view of modern art and an unerring ability to recognize quality.
The opening of the Fondation Beyeler in October 1997 provided the Beyeler Collection with a public museum. The building was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. Works by modern masters such as Cézanne, Picasso, Rousseau, Mondrian, Klee, Ernst, Matisse, Newman, Bacon, Dubuffet, Baselitz are displayed alongside, and in direct interaction with, 25 objects from Africa, Alaska and Oceania.
The Fondation Beyeler sees itself as a public forum for innovation, not just as the custodian of a valuable treasure. One-third of its 3,800 square metres of exhibition space is therefore set aside for two to three special exhibitions a year. The purpose of those exhibitions is to create exciting interaction between the collection, which covers a limited time span, and the present.
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