Beyeler Foundation

Beyeler Foundation
Museum building view from the park (2014)
Data
place	Baselstrasse 77 4125 Riehen / BS Switzerland Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '17.3 "  N , 7 ° 39' 3.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred eighty  /  270849
Art	Art museum for classical modernism
architect	Renzo Piano
opening	October 18, 1997
Number of visitors (annually)	332,000 (2016)
operator	Beyeler Foundation
management	Sam Keller
GLAM	CH-001092
Website	fondationbeyeler.ch

The Fondation Beyeler is a Swiss art museum and foundation based in Riehen in the canton of Basel-Stadt .

development

The foundation, established in 1982, is the owner of the art collection that the married couple Hildy and Ernst Beyeler had put together for around 50 years . First shown publicly in 1989 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid , her focus is on classical modern and contemporary art .

Ernst Beyeler himself was in charge of the management, from April 1, 2003, Christoph Vitali , and Sam Keller since January 2008 .

Since September 2015, a sculpture path with twelve works by the sculptor Tobias Rehberger has connected the Fondation Beyeler with the architecture park “Campus” of the Weiler company Vitra . A further twelve sculptures were added in June 2016. The project is called 24 stops .

In 2016 the foundation counted 332,000 visitors.

In summer 2020, the museum submitted the building application to the canton of Basel-Stadt for an extension planned by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in the adjacent Iselin-Weber-Park, which was built in the 19th century . The total investment is 120 million Swiss francs; the three-part building with a "House of Art" with an additional 1,500 m ^{2 of} exhibition space as well as a service facility and an event pavilion is scheduled to open in 2023; construction is not expected to start until 2021 at the earliest.

From 2021, the museum will also be a location for filming in this context: Wim Wenders is planning a long-term 3D documentary about Zumthor's thinking and work, working title The Secret of Places . According to the supervising agency Boxfish Films, topics include the extension of the Beyeler Foundation in addition to the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also planned by Zumthor .

Museum building

Sculptures by Alexander Calder (front) and Ellsworth Kelly in the park of the Fondation

In 1994 the architect Renzo Piano was commissioned to build a public museum for the collection , which was opened on October 18, 1997 in the Berowergut park in Riehen BS . The museum building is characterized by its embedding in the environment, with a view of the orchards in the Lange Erlen , the meadow's river valley . The 127 meter long building is located on the busy Baselstrasse; it is shielded from their noise by a wall clad with porphyry tiles.

In January 2015, the Fondation announced its intention to build an extension in the neighboring, previously private Iselin-Weber-Park. In September 2016, a jury selected the project proposal from the Swiss architecture firm Peter Zumthor & Partner.

collection

The Beyeler Collection, which contains around 250 works of classic modern and contemporary art , documents the gallery owner couple Hildy and Ernst Beyeler's personal view of the art of the 20th century. Works by Edgar Degas , Paul Cézanne , Claude Monet , Henri Rousseau , Vincent van Gogh , Wassily Kandinsky , Henri Matisse , Fernand Léger , Alberto Giacometti , Pablo Picasso , Joan Miró , Alexander Calder , Paul Klee , Max Ernst , Piet Mondrian, among others , Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon . The Rothko Rooms are a unique presentation of works by the artist outside of the USA. The works of art of classical modernism are juxtaposed with around 25 objects of tribal art from Africa, Oceania and Alaska.

In 1999, the large hall in the north of the building was extended by twelve meters, so that since then a third of the total of 3800 square meters of exhibition space can be reserved for special exhibitions that complement the permanent collection or enter into a dialogue with it. In the surrounding garden of the museum there are also special exhibitions that are accessible without admission to the museum. The veiling of the trees in the park by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in November / December 1998 caused a stir . From September 2011 to January 2012, Louise Bourgeois ' monumental sculpture Maman was presented in Bern, Zurich, Geneva and at the Fondation Beyeler on the occasion of the 100th The artist's birthday. In 2005 the foundation was the partner organization of the Blickachsen 5 sculpture exhibition in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . In 2018 it became known that numerous Impressionist paintings by the Rudolf Staechelin Family Trust would be on loan "periodically" to the Fondation in the future.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2020: Eduward Hopper, January 26th to September 20th, 2020
• 2011: Constantin Brâncuși & Richard Serra
• 2011/12: Dalí , Magritte , Miró - Surrealism in Paris , October 2, 2011 to January 29, 2012 
• 2012: Pierre Bonnard , January 29 to May 13, 2012
• 2012/13: Edgar Degas , September 30, 2012 to January 27, 2013
• 2013: Ferdinand Hodler , January 27 to May 26, 2013
  • Collection Renard , March 9th to May 5th
  • Max Ernst , May 26 to September 8, 2013
  • Maurizio Cattelan , June 8th to October 6th, 2013
  • Thomas Schütte , October 6th to February 2nd, 2014
• 2014: Odilon Redon , February 2 to May 18, 2014
  • Gerhard Richter , May 18 to September 7, 2014
  • Gustave Courbet , September 7th to January 18th, 2015
• 2015: Paul Gauguin , among others with Nafea faa ipoipo , February 8 to June 22, 2015
• 2016: Jean Dubuffet - Metamorphoses of the Landscape , January 31 to May 8, 2016
  • Alexander Calder & Fischli / Weiss , May 29 to September 4, 2016
• 2016/17: Roni Horn - The Selected Gifts , June 11, 2016 to January 1, 2017 (curator Theodora Vischer)
  • Wassily Kandinsky , Marc & Der Blaue Reiter, September 4, 2016 to January 22, 2017. Catalog.
• 2017: Claude Monet , Light, Shadow and Reflection, January 22 to May 28, 2017. Catalog.
  • Beyeler Collection “Das Original” , February 5 to May 7, 2017.
  • Wolfgang Tillmans , May 28 to October 1, 2017.
• 2017/18: Paul Klee , October 1, 2017 to January 21, 2018.
• 2018: Georg Baselitz , January 21, 2018 to April 29, 2018.
  • Alberto Giacometti & Francis Bacon , April 29, 2018 to September 2, 2018.
• 2019: The young Picasso - Blue and Rose Periods , February 3, 2019 to June 16, 2019.
• 2019/20: Resonating Spaces with works by Leonor Antunes , Silvia Bächli , Toba Khedoori , Susan Philipsz and Rachel Whiteread , October 6, 2019 to January 26, 2020.
• 2020: Edward Hopper
  • Extended until the end of November: Silent Vision
• 2021/22 (planned October 10, 2021 to January 23, 2022): Francisco de Goya

Movies

• Museum check with Markus Brock : Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel. Documentary, 29:30 min., 3sat , script and direction: Martina Klug, with Dani Levy and director Sam Keller. First broadcast: November 13, 2011

literature

• Alexander Hosch: Architecture Guide Switzerland, the best buildings of the 21st century , Callwey, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7667-2149-5 , p. 258.

Web links

Commons : Fondation Beyeler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Beyeler Foundation
• Trees at the Fondation Beyeler in 1998 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped
• Photos in the image database of the canton of Basel-Stadt
• «Dalí, Magritte, Miró - Surrealism in Paris» - an exhibition by the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen. In: NZZ of October 29, 2011
• Exhibitions in the Fondation Beyeler on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Subscribe to read. Retrieved February 27, 2018 (UK English). 
2. ^ Ulrich Senf: Weil am Rhein: Art sets the region in motion. In: Badische Zeitung. September 28, 2015, accessed May 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Jochen Fillisch: Weil am Rhein: Schaudepot should bring new visitors to Vitra. In: Badische Zeitung. January 14, 2016, accessed May 5, 2016 . 
4. ^ Rehberger-Weg. Retrieved May 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Stefan Tolksdorf: Rehberger-Weg between Vitra Campus and Fondation Beyeler. In: Badische Zeitung. June 11, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Roswitha Frey: Exhibitions: Art in Nature: Rehberger's “24 Stops” from the Vitra Campus to the Fondation Beyeler. In: Badische Zeitung. June 14, 2016, accessed June 14, 2016 . 
7. ↑ The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen wants to expand by 2023. In: Badische Zeitung. Retrieved July 19, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Wim Wenders is shooting at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen. In: Badische Zeitung. Retrieved July 19, 2020 . 
9. ↑ expansion project. Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 
10. ↑ List of artists in the Fondation Beyeler Collection ( memento of March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 2, 2013.
11. ^ Louise Bourgeois ( memento of January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), fondationbeyeler.ch, accessed on April 16, 2013.
12. ↑ Michael Baas: Growth for the Fondation. In: Badische Zeitung. November 13, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Dalí, Magritte, Miró - Surrealism in Paris ( Memento of August 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Fondation Beyeler, accessed on October 30, 2011
14. ^ Edgar Degas ( Memento from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Homepage Fondation Beyeler, accessed on October 3, 2012
15. ↑ Donation Collection Renard Die Tageswoche, accessed on August 9, 2013
16. ↑ Maurizio Cattelan ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) My Art Guides, accessed on August 9, 2013
17. ↑ Resonating Spaces | Agenda. In: Museums Basel. Accessed January 21, 2020 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b c} Fondation Beyeler extends the Edward Hopper exhibition. In: Badische Zeitung. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .