The Collection.
From Claude Monet to Johannes Itten, from Ferdinand Hodler to El Anatsui

The Kunstmuseum Bern owns an important collection of art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The collection exhibition includes selected works from the holdings, presented in changing displays.

On the ground floor of the old wing, works by El Anatsui and Kader Attia as representatives of global contemporary art form the prelude. A neighboring room features the very greatest names of international art history: Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. Landscapes by Swiss exponents of modern art such as Ferdinand Hodler, Félix Vallotton and Giovanni Giacometti complete the exhibition. 

A side cabinet is dedicated to the donation of Marion Lichardus-Itten. It presents eight paintings by the artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967), that his daughter donated to the Kunstmuseum Bern in an extraordinarily generous gesture in 2024.

A variety of other works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Bern can currently be discovered in the Collection intervention by Amy Sillman (till 2.11.2025).

Starting April 12, the highlights of modern art will once again be on display in the basement.