Tinguely a 100 ans!
Jean Tinguely, who died in 1991, was born in Friborg on May 22, 1925. He is the other Swiss centenarian of the year. His hometown, which already dedicates a permanent space to him, will dedicate to him, at the end of the year, an exhibition entitled “Jean Tinguely, poetic transmitter”. On May 22, it is in Basel, in the park surrounding the Tinguely Museum, that a tribute in the shape of a ghost train, imagined by the English artist Rebecca Moss and the Swiss Augustin Rebetez, will be installed. In Geneva, the Rath Museum will present Jean Tinguely, 100 years of mechanical kineticsfrom May 23. Note that, a few days later, in Paris, a vast exhibition dedicated to Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Pontus Hultén will open at the Grand Palais.
“Jean Tinguely, poetic transmitter”, Friborg Museum of Art and History, from November 21, 2025 to February 22, 2026
“Art Ghost Train” by Rebecca Moss and Augustin Rebetez, Tinguely Museum grounds, Basel from May 22 to August 20, 2025
“Jean Tinguely 100 years of mechanical kinetics”, Rath Museum, Geneva from May 23 to September 7, 2025
“Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén”, Grand Palais, Paris, from June 6, 2025 to January 4, 2026
Teenage ceremonies
Large colored washes, monochrome engravings, red, black or adorned with deep hues, videos and even sculpture. All these mediums tell, at the Jenisch Museum, the sensitive and mysterious art of Françoise Pétrovitch. Playing with paper, drawing, colors, savings, rhythms, the French artist explores the time of youth, childhood, adolescence, she reveals the solitudes, the challenges, the secrets.
Françoise Petrovich. Of absenceJenisch Museum, Vevey, from January 29 to May 25, 2025
Marisa Merz in majesty
He is an essential figure in the Italian art scene of the second half of the 20th century. Marisa Merz (1926-2019) developed her own works, poetic and powerful, referential, composed of raw or domestic materials, within the very masculine group of Arte Povera artists. The Kunstmuseum Bern presents a vast and rare retrospective of the work of this artist, often exhibited in duo with her husband, Mario Merz, as was the case, in 2022, at the Rath Museum.
Marisa Merz. Listening to space/Ecouter l’espaceKunstmuseum Bern, from January 31 to June 1, 2025
Carol Bove, return to Geneva
It’s still a matter of birth, in Geneva this time. It was there, in 1971, that the American artist Carol Bove was born. She then grew up in Berkeley, studied in New York and now works in Brooklyn. At the invitation of Marc-Olivier Wahler, she returned to her hometown to grab, after Ugo Rondinone and Wim Delvoye, the Carte Blanche XL format offered each year by the Museum of Art and History (MAH ). The opportunity for a new conceptual and inventive dive into the very eclectic Geneva collections to go back in time over some 1500 years.
Carol Bove, The Genevan. Carte Blanche XL at MAH from January 31 to June 22, 2025
An aesthetic of neutrality
Caroline Bachmann and her view of our landscapes, Guerreiro do Divino Amor and her staging of Swiss myths; Thomas Hirschhorn and his art of collage, of accumulation, of poor materials which points to our policies and our wealth, as well as a whole series of other Swiss artists are brought together by the Aargauer Kunsthaus to question the principle of neutrality which claims Switzerland in international politics. An exhibition which promises to be fascinating, and which, once again, after Stranger in the Village en 2023will address a political and social question through art.
Neutrality ModelAargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, February 1st on May 11, 2025
Le Corbusier at Klee
“The workshop of patient research”, this is how Charles-Edouard Jeanneret known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965) described his approach. Experiment, research, sketch, elaborate by drawing, arranging space, shapes, colors. It is to the heart of the work of the great architect of the 20th century that the Zentrum Paul Klee takes us, who, with the didactic talent that distinguishes his exhibitions, wants to show and understand “the order of things”, according to Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier. The Order of ThingsZentrum Paul Klee, Bern, from February 8 to June 22, 2025
Hodler, throughout Switzerland
After Hodler and Lake Geneva in 2018, the Pully Museum reunited with the painter for Hodler – A model for Swiss art, an exhibition organized with the Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel (MAHN). Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) did not leave his contemporaries indifferent, such as Cuno Amiet or Félix Vallotton, whom the exhibition aims to compare with his works. In Neuchâtel, three contemporary artists, Claudia Comte, Didier Rittener and David Weishaar will in turn question Hodler’s posterity. Another dialogue, with Ticino native Filippo Franzoni, will take place in an exhibition presented this spring in Lugano.
-Hodler – a model for Swiss artPully Museum from February 14 to May 15 then at the MAHN from June 22 to October 12, 2025
Ferdinand Hodler, Filippo Franzoni at the Museo d’arte della svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano from April 13, 2025 to August 10, 2025
The elusive Medardo Rosso
Can we translate an impression into a sculpture? Can we, in matter, capture the fleetingness of an expression, the time that flees, the impalpable atmosphere that surrounds a subject? The Franco-Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) attempted this crazy adventure. If you do not yet know this astonishing artist, whose works sometimes seem on the verge of dissolving in the air, take this opportunity to discover the works of bronze, plaster, wax, photographs and drawings that bear witness to his extraordinary artistic quest.
Medardo RossoKunstmuseum Basel, from March 29 to August 10, 2025.
Expand Valais
The Valais Art Museum is launching its first annual cycle of exhibitions which combines gems from its collection and contemporary art offerings. Under the title The Great Outdoorsthe museum will scrutinize the landscapes taken from its collection, which move between figuration and abstraction; contemporary artist Vivian Suter, winner of the Meret Oppenheim Prize in 1991, will imagine, under the title Moving Nature a large installation on the top floor of the building, while Magali Dougoud, with To the promised waters, explores the aquatic universe and its myths, from Valais to the Republic of Congo.
The Great OutdoorsValais Art Museum, Sion, from April 6, 2025 to January 11, 2026
Suzanne Duchamp, Dadaist
It is an invitation to discover, in the city of the Dada movement, a Dadaist who remained in the shadow of her artistic siblings. Suzanne Duchamp, born October 20, 1889 in Blainville-Crevon and died September 11, 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is the sister of Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon. She is nonetheless at the origin of a work which counts in the history of the avant-garde, and which combines, says the Kunsthaus which will present around sixty of her works, aesthetics and humor.
Suzanne Duchamp. Kunsthaus Zurich from June 6 to September 7, 2025
From Kandinsky to Miró, back to the 1930s
Miró, Taeuber-Arp, Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian, all were shown in 1935 in Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesisa memorable exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, which had recently opened. At the same time, Nazi Germany classified these artists, major figures of the avant-gardes, as “degenerates”. Lucerne, 90 years later, intends to reassemble this historic exhibition, thus inviting not only to contemplate masterpieces, but also to reflect on the relationship between art and extremes in troubled times.
Kandinsky, Picasso, Miró et al. Return to LucerneKunstmuseum Lucerne, from July 5 to November 2, 2025
Yayoi Kusama, Pea Woman
We no longer present Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist, born in 1929, who tirelessly presents her acid colors, her polka dots, her mirrors, her lines, her gourds, her opulent and serpentine curves. The Fondation Beyeler is organizing its first retrospective in Switzerland, the opportunity to discover the multiplicity of supports and universes – paintings, sculptures, environments, drawings, collages, happenings, fashion and performances which welcome its singular grammar.
Yayoi KusamaFondation Beyeler, Basel, from October 12 to January 25, 2026
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