New Constellations

Art does more than reflect its time; it asks questions that cut across eras. This room brings together works from the sixteenth century to today, drawn from the collections of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. They share a focus on the darker sides of our existence: war and conflict, violence and destruction, and, ultimately, transience. The central, monumental installation functions as a conceptual crux. Its interplay of allure, threat, containment, and control shaped the thinking behind the room’s transhistorical selection of artworks.