Kunsthaus Zürich

The Kunsthaus Zürich holds one of the most significant art collections in Switzerland, spanning the Middle Ages to the present. The museum was formed around the collections of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, a local society of artists and collectors who exhibited the work of the pioneering Swiss Symbolist painters Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler. In 1920, the museum acquired a new impressionist and post-impressionist collection including paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Reflecting the museum’s location and origins, special emphasis is given to Swiss art and, in particular, the sculpture of Alberto Giacometti and the avant-garde dada movement which originated in Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire. The museum comprises a four-building complex, with its newest extension designed by David Copperfield opening in 2021. For more than a century, the Kunsthaus Zürich has presented temporary exhibitions and today it holds an average of three large exhibitions, three medium-sized shows and three cabinet exhibitions each year, most often with close links to the collection.

_{Photos: Kunsthaus Zürich, Chipperfield building Garden. Photograph by Juliet Haller, Amt für Städtebau.}
Kunsthaus Zürich, Bührle Collection. Photograph by Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich