Over the Rainbow

To mark the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) taking place in Basel this year, the Fondation Beyeler is putting on a special presentation of its collection. Based on the legendary song Over the Rainbow from the famous musical film The Wizard of Oz (1939), the exhibition pays homage to the music as well as the colorfulness and diversity that characterize the ESC.

The rainbow as a fascinating natural phenomenon that is created when sun and rain come together is the central theme of this collection presentation, which revolves around light and water as well as the power of color. Accordingly, Ugo Rondinone's spectacular rainbow light sculpture we are poems, 2011, will be installed on the roof of the museum especially for the ESC.

It was the ancient goddess of the rainbow, Iris, that Auguste Rodin elevated to a revolutionary figure in modern art. Based on her, the collection presentation at the Fondation Beyeler unfolds a colorful spectrum of artworks by famous artists that unite to form a multifaceted and unifying "rainbow". From Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso to Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas and Wolfgang Tillmans - the exhibition brings together masterpieces of modern and contemporary art.

On display are works by Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Elizabeth Peyton and Wolfgang Tillmans

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