This is the first large-scale retrospective dedicated to the Polish-Belgian artist Tapta (1926–1997) outside of Belgium. In addition to about twenty original textile works, the exhibition will premiere the unique reconstruction of "Tapta’s Forms for a Flexible Space" (1974), an installation made of cords, into which the visitor can enter and take a seat.

This comprehensive show brings together works by 120 artists, for a survey of Black figurative painting over the last 100 years. In addition, sound stations and atmospheric staging provide complementary contextual elements as aids to interpretation.

Inspired by Friedrich Schiller’s 1795 quote, "Art is a daughter of freedom," this show focuses on Alberto Giacometti and Ferdinand Hodler, whose expressive figures and monumental landscapes are linked thematically and artistically to other masterpieces from the collection, including works by Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marlene Dumas and Pablo Picasso.

With more than 70 major works on loan from European and American museums as well as private collections, this exhibition focuses on the development and diversity of the Henri Matisse's pioneering oeuvre. It begins with paintings from his early period around 1900, guides visitors through the revolutionary compositions of Fauvism and the experimental works of the 1910s to the sensuous paintings of the Nice period and the 1930s, culminating in the legendary silhouettes of his late works in the 1940s and 1950s. The conceptual starting point for the exhibition is Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem Invitation to the Voyage from 1857.

This unusual show deals with the Bührle Collection, put together by the arms manufacturer and art patron Emil G. Bührle. The works on view bear witness to the crimes of the National Socialists. This show outlines the historical context in which the Emil Bührle Collection was assembled, reveals the close ties between Bührle and the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, and also shows the current status of provenance research into the history of some works that were owned by Jewish collectors who fell victim to Nazi persecution.