Kunstmuseum Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee
Exhibition: Kirchner x Kirchner (12.9.2025-11.1.2026)
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Dear media representatives,
Between 12 September 2025 and 11 January 2026, Kunstmuseum Bern is showing the exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner. It features some 65 high-calibre works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) that have rarely been shown in Switzerland. The artist is one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern art. With this exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bern is recalling the most extensive retrospective in the artist’s lifetime, which was held in 1933 in Kunsthalle Bern, and which he himself curated. For the first time, Kirchner x Kirchner places the artist as the curator of his own work at the centre, and shows how he interpreted and presented some works from his artistic career through deliberate juxtapositions and reworkings.
One central event in the exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner is the reunification of the monumental pair of works Sunday in the Alps. Scene by the Well (1923-24 / ca. 1929, Kunstmuseum Bern) and Mountain Peasants on Sunday (1923-24 / 1926, cabinet room of the Federal German Chancellery, Berlin). Although they were conceived as pendants, the two monumental paintings have never been shown together since 1933.
We cordially invite you to the media preview with Nadine Franci, Curator of Prints & Drawings at Kunstmuseum Bern and curator of the exhibition, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 10:00 at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Please register via press@kunstmuseumbern.ch.
Please find the press kit as well as the press images in the press section on our website.
Warm regards,
Anne-Cécile Foulon
Head of Communication & Marketing
Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee
Press Office Kunstmuseum Bern Hodlerstrasse 8-12, 3011 Bern press@kunstmuseumbern.ch | +41 31 328 09 93 kunstmuseumbern.ch
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