Three museum exhibitions worth seeing during Art Basel 2026
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Conceived exclusively for the Fondation Beyeler, the exhibition presents Huyghe’s practice, which inhabits a hybrid territory where cinema, technology, biology and digital systems intertwine within constantly evolving environments. What emerges, in the artist’s own words, is a soulscape: an inner landscape composed of multiple temporalities, voices and overlapping material states.
Pierre Huyghe, Fondation Beyeler (24 May – 13 September 2026)
Helen Frankenthaler, Kunstmuseum Basel (18 April – 23 August 2026)
This major retrospective dedicated to Helen Frankenthaler brings together over fifty works spanning six decades. A central figure of Abstract Expressionism, Frankenthaler revolutionised painting with her soak-stain technique, which involves saturating unprimed canvas with diluted paint, generating luminous surfaces and unprecedented chromatic fluidity.
Cao Fei is an undisputed pioneer in the creation of digital worlds who, for over twenty years, has been investigating the effects of social and technological transformations on human life, work that has cemented her reputation as one of the leading thinkers in the fields of art, media, technology and the future. The exhibition experience takes the form of a total, traversable environment in which visitors step directly into the artist’s narratives.
Cao Fei. Testimonies to the Near Future, Gegenwart (30 May – 11 October 2026)
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