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Gauguin and Polynesia

South Pacific Encounters (working title)

The Art Centre Basel, in collaboration with the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen and another international museum partner, are jointly creating this exhibition which will examine the complex and dynamic relationship between the artworks of P...

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Homer

The Myth of Troy in Poetry and Art

Scholarly curator: Prof. Dr. Joachim Latacz, Basel, Switzerland

The Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Switzerland (Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection), the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim, Germany, and the Art ...

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Masterpieces of Medieval Art

from the National Museum in Warsaw

The National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) and the Art Centre Basel (ACB) are jointly creating a travelling exhibition with 27 Masterpieces from the medieval collection of the NMW.

The medieval art collection of the NMW is the most valuable c...

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Museums in the 21st Century

Concepts Projects Buildings

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings
A follow-up exhibition to “Museums for a New Millennium: Concepts, Projects, Buildings”

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings is a foll...

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Museums for a New Millennium

Concepts Projects Buildings

This exhibition and its accompanying book present a cross-section of the most significant, expressive and high-quality museum structures and projects that have been designed and built within the last 10 years of the 20th century. Obviously every...

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Jewels of Time

Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

The exhibition presents a collection formed in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries by brothers Thomas and Frederick Proctor, two of the Institute's founders.

Eighty of the most visually appealing, technically sophisticate...

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The Tervuren Museum

Masterpieces from Central Africa

The Royal Museum of Central Africa, commonly known as the Tervuren Museum, was founded in 1897 by King Leopold II of Belgium to promote commercial and public interest in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Tervuren Museum owns the ...

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African Art

from the Han Coray Collection, 1916 - 1928

The Coray Collection of the Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich (Museum of Ethnology, Zurich University), is one of the earliest and most significant collections of African art. Assembled by Han Coray - a teacher, gallery owner an...

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Expressions of Belief

Masterpieces of African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art from the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam

Expressions of Belief was the first exhibition in the company's history that was no longer exhibited on the premises of the Art Centre Basel itself. It was, as all subsequent exhibitions, conceived as an international travelling loan exhibition,...

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Art of the Sepik River

Authority and Ornament

This exhibition was first shown at the Art Centre Basel and was then travelling to distinguished museums in Europe and the United States.

The 700-mile-long Sepik River originates in the north slopes of a mountain range in central New G...

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Art of Northwest New Guinea

From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani

"Art of Northwest New Guinea" was not conceived as an exhibition, but only as a catalogue publication.

"On a map, the island of N...

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Resonances

Tribal Art - Modern Art

The Art Centre Basel, at that time known as the Tribal Art Centre, was inaugurated in January 1984 with the exhibition Resonances, a juxtaposition of tribal art and modern art. The exhibition was shown at the Art Centre Basel's headquarters at S...

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