Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern

05.09.2020–24.01.2021

Life as a journey: the exhibition uses Paul Klee’s different life-stages and travels to provide an overview of his work. It presents places where Klee lived, worked or sought artistic inspiration.

Immerse yourself in Klee’s universe and listen to the accompanying podcast series.

18.09.2020–03.01.2021

Writer, journalist, photographer, traveller: Annemarie Schwarzenbach is one of the most dazzling figures in modern Swiss cultural history. For the first time in Switzerland, an exhibition is devoted exclusively to her photographic oeuvre, which comprises some 7,000 pictures taken on long journeys through Europe, Asia, Africa and America. With her social documentary eye, Schwarzenbach explores themes of astonishing poetry and astonishing topicality.

15.01.–30.05.2021

The exhibition refutes the widespread image of the artist Paul Klee as a schoolmasterly teacher and accountant of his work. As a grammar school pupil, art student and soldier in the First World War Klee resisted authoritarian behaviour with ironic detachment. He enjoyed life in private, loved to cook, drank a glass of red wine and smoked a pipe. The exhibition shows Klee's surprising sides as well as his free-spirited and hedonistic tendencies.

12.02. –16.05.2021

Max Bill was a painter, sculptor, architect, designer, graphic artist, typographer, but also a theoretician, collector, curator, publicist, teacher, politician and activist. As a member of important artists' groups and gifted networker, Bill cultivated worldwide contacts and promoted an international artistic dialogue. The extensive exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee shows Bill's multifaceted artistic work and his significant commitment to art and society.