Bern

Intermezzo The Collection in Mouvement  |  Art, 05 28 2008 - 02 1 2009 Instead of the chronological, a thematic ordering has been arranged taking classical genres such as historical paintings, portraits, nudes, landscapes or still-lifes and studying them from the aspect of their manifestation in the past as well as their topicality for contemporary art. It is hoped the confrontation of old and new will illustrate in an entertaining way the continuities and breaks in an artistic view of the world. The exhibition comprises not only paintings and sculpture but also drawings, photographs and video works. Image: Franz Marc Blaues Pferd II, 1911 Oel auf Leinwand 113 x 86 cm Kunstmuseum Bern, Stiftung Othmar Huber Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern 7 Switzerland Hours: Tuesday 10 am - 9 pm / Wednesday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm  Closed on Monday Admissions Fees: Collection general CHF 7 / concessions CHF 5 / Exhibitions: up to CHF 18 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

"Im full of Byars" James Lee Byars - A Homage  |   Contemporary Art, 09 12 2008 - 02 1 2009 James Lee Byars (1932 Detroit, 1997 Kairo) was one of the 20th century's most unusual and elusive artist figures. A commuter between America, Japan and Europe, Byars has a particular affinity with Bern. The Kunstmuseum Bern is now devoting a large survey exhibition to this artist. Image: James Lee Byars Der Rosentisch des Vollkommenen, 1989 3333 Rote Rosen, Styropor,Ø 100cm Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern 7 Switzerland Hours: Tuesday 10 am - 9 pm / Wednesday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm  Closed on Monday Admissions Fees: Collection general CHF 7 / concessions CHF 5 / Exhibitions: up to CHF 18 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

Paul Klee - Movement in the Workshop   |  Photography, 09 13 2008 - 01 18 2009 The exhibition brings to life Klee's studios as venues where he worked and developed his ideas, as key locations of intellectual and creative activity. Some of these historic photographs feature works by Klee  which are replaced in the exhibition by the actual originals.  Arranged in thematic groups of works, the exhibition presents the formal processes that were characteristic of Klee. Zentrum Paul Klee Monument im Fruchtland 3, CH-3000 Bern 31 Switzerland Hours: Tue – Sun 10 am to 5 pm Monday closed Admission fee: Standard ticket CHF 16 / concessions  CHF 14 http://www.zpk.org/

Emil Zbinden (1908 - 1991). Time - for and against  |  Engravings, 09 19 2008 - 01 18 2009 For the exhibition, the almost untouched estate of the artist (works, printing press, printing blocks, library, correspondence etc.) is available to us. In order to illustrate correlations, some individual graphic works by artists with a close relationship to Zbinden such as George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Frans Masereel have been included. Image: Emil Zbinden Dimitroff, 1934 Holzschnitt, 25,7 x 15,7cm Privatbesitz © Nachlass Emil Zbinden Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern 7 Switzerland Hours: Tuesday 10 am - 9 pm / Wednesday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm  Closed on Monday Admissions Fees: Collection general CHF 7 / concessions CHF 5 / Exhibitions: up to CHF 18 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

A Collector¡s Eye on Paul Klee  |  Art, 11 8 2008 - 02 8 2009 Zentrum Paul Klee is offering visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view more than 20 outstanding, privately owned Klees in a concentrated display of the artist¡s work. The paintings, owned by a prominent private collector, are supplemented by selected works drawn from the Zentrum Paul Klee's own extensive collection, which help contextualise the works on loan and allow their quality and significance to shine through. Image: Paul Klee, Construction site for the strawberry house, 1921, 207, Kazumasa KATSUTA, Gallery K. AG, Schweiz Zentrum Paul Klee Monument im Fruchtland 3, CH-3000 Bern 31 Switzerland Hours: Tue – Sun 10 am to 5 pm Monday closed Admission fee: Standard ticket CHF 16 / concessions  CHF 14 http://www.zpk.org/

Ego Documents - The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art  |   Contemporary Art, 11 14 2008 - 02 15 2009 In her first exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern, the new curator of the contemporary department, Kathleen Bühler, will be taking as her theme what is autobiographical in contemporary art as an instrument of self-representation and self-discovery. The exhibition will be showing works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Bern and from private collections as well as some works created expressly for the exhibition by young Swiss and international artists. Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 12 3000 Bern 7 Switzerland Hours: Tuesday 10 am - 9 pm / Wednesday - Sunday 10 am - 5 pm  Closed on Monday Admissions Fees: Collection general CHF 7 / concessions CHF 5 / Exhibitions: up to CHF 18 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

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