Early in the new year, the Fondation Beyeler will devote a major retrospective to Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), focussed on her body of work. Featuring around 50 paintings, the exhibition will bring together approximately one third of her entire painted oeuvre. It will further present 15 characteristic drawings. As the first monographic exhibition of Frida Kahlo in Switzerland, it offers both a comprehensive overview of the artist’s work and a unique insight into an oeuvre that is rarely seen in Europe.

The exhibition will trace Frida Kahlo’s artistic development from the 1920s to the 1950s. It will centre on her fascinating and iconic self-portraits, as well as showcasing her complex still lifes and striking portraits of family members and friends. Frida Kahlo’s highly expressive and distinct imagery merges life and art, tradition and innovation, as well as reality, dream and phantasy. The exhibition offers a rare chance to encounter many of Frida Kahlo’s most important works firsthand.