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Perlenvorhang – Pipilotti Rist

Innovative and Inspiring: Helvetia's Commitment to Swiss Art

Helvetia sees art as part of its corporate culture. As well as collecting Swiss art and promoting young artists by awarding its own art prize, the Basel-based company also has a public exhibition room.
Learn more about our commitment to the arts:
Helvetia Art exhibition
Helvetia Art Foyer
Helvetia stages regular solo exhibitions as well as group shows centred on specific themes.
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Helvetia Art Collection
Helvetia Art Collection
Over a period of seventy years, Helvetia has amassed a collection of Swiss art dating from the early twentieth century to the present.
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Gina Proenza – Art Visuels
Helvetia Art Prize
The art prize reserved for the up-and-coming generation of artists is intended both as a badge of distinction and as a leg-up.
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Site-specific art projects – Hans Danuser
Site-specific art projects
Helvetia initiates site-specific art projects by inviting artists to contribute to its own construction projects.
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Helvetia Art Foyer

The Helvetia Art Foyer, a publicly accessible exhibition space at the insurer's head office in Basel, is an art space in which works from the collection are presented in solo shows, in dialogue, or in group exhibitions on a specific theme. Selected artists are also invited to stage solo shows there.

Exhibition
«Satt Sehen»

An exhibition about food and drink as an artistic motif with works by Olaf Breuning, Sabina Speich, Zilla Leutenegger, Shirana Shahbazi, Francisco Sierra, Stella, Marcel van Eeden, Marc Elsener.

Exhibition duration: 24 March to 30 July 2022
Opening hours: Every Thursday 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. (except 14.4. and 26.5.2022) – Steinengraben 25, Basel

Caption: Olaf Breuning, object from the installation "eatmes", 2007

We turn back time

Here you get a retrospective of our past exhibitions in chronological order.

2021
High 5 – Five artists
High 5
20 October 2021 – 6 January 2022
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Olga Titus – Guardians of the garden
«Guardians of the garden»
24 june 2021 – 30 september 2021
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Enjoy the Silence
Enjoy the Silence
3 december 2020 – 6 May 2021
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2020
Chameleon – Giacomo Santiago Rogado
Giacomo Santiago Rogado
20 August – 19 November 2020
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Summit meeting – Works of art on the company's own collection
Summit meeting
13. Februar – 30. Juli 2020
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Logo Basel Museum Night
Basel Museum Night
22 January 2020
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2019
Odyssee – Peter Wüthrich
Peter Wüthrich
17 October 2019 – 30 January 2020
Borrowed Light – Julia Steiner
Julia Steiner
6 June – 26 September 2019
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Gemischtes Doppel – A perfect Match
A Perfect Match
21 February – 23 May 2019
2018
Tief verwurzelt – Weit verzweigt – Works by various artists
Tief verwurzelt – Weit verzweigt
17 October 2018 – 31 January 2019
Ein langer Tag – Klodin Erb
Klodin Erb
7 June - 4 October 2018
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Have a Seat – Works by various artists
Have a Seat
8 February – 24 May 2018
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2017
Save Our Souls – huber.huber
huber.huber
7 September 2017 – 19 January 2018
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Hortus Botanicus – Works by various artists
Hortus Botanicus
28 April – 24 August 2017
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Fracisco Sierra / Camillo Paravicini
Francisco Sierra / Camillo Paravicini
19 January – 13 April 2017
2015 – 2016
Assemblage Bricolage Collage – Works by various artists
Assemblage Bricolage Collage
8 September – 15 December 2016
Studer / van den Berg
Studer / van den Berg
12 May – 11 August 2016
All-Risk
All-Risk
30 October 2015 – 29 February 2016
Tom Huber
Tom Huber
23 May – 11 September 2015

Contact Institute for Art

Nathalie Loch
Director Institute for Art
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