The Kunsthaus is home to the most important museum collection of works by Alberto Giacometti and the biggest assembly of paintings by Edvard Munch outside Norway, along with outstanding works of Impressionism and Classical Modernism – from Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Pierre Bonnard to Oskar Kokoschka and Marc Chagall. Further highlights include the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as works by artists such as Cy Twombly, Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz. Video installations and photographs by Fischli/Weiss and Pipilotti Rist extend its reach into the 21st century.

The Kunsthaus also holds the world’s largest collection of objects from the Dada movement, which was founded in Zurich in 1916: exhibitions that change every three months celebrate the work of Dada artists including Hans Arp, Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Man Ray and Tristan Tzara. Meanwhile, series such as ‘ReCollect!’ offer contemporary artists an opportunity to engage with the collection.

Since the extension designed by David Chipperfield opened in 2021, the Kunsthaus has had more space for contemporary art, and now exhibits major private loans featuring groups of Fauvist and Expressionist works in the Gabriele and Werner Merzbacher Collection, Impressionism in the Emil Bührle Collection, and American Abstraction in the Hubert Looser Collection.

Art that moves you

Image rights and reproductions

If you would like to reproduce works from the Kunsthaus Zürich’s collection in publications, you can obtain usage rights and order images. You can also obtain digital reproductions of all the works in the collection. Individual usage permits can also be supplied electronically, and data can be delivered in the same way.

Advice and contact
franca.candrian@kunsthaus.ch, +41 44 253 84 21