20 years of Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva

The programme begins with the major exhibition Le Corbusier. The Order of Things, which opened in February and will be on show until 22 June. Le Corbusier, like Paul Klee in his day, crossed genre boundaries and shaped the architecture, design and visual art of the 20th century more than any other.  

With Anni Albers. Constructing Textiles (7.11.2025−22.2.2026) the big autumn exhibition is devoted to another artistic border-crosser between textile and architecture, between weaving and building. In the summer exhibition an impressive contemporary painter is presented, who proves that creativity is a principle: the works of ninety-year-old Rose Wylie (19.7.−5.10.2025) testify to a deep understanding of pop culture, literature and the zeitgeist, and are also full of subversive humour. In the constantly changing permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee we focus on Paul Klee’s relationship with music, Klee as ‘Cover Star’, i.e. Klee being chosen by many 20th-century philosophical authors to appear on their book covers, as well as a small concentrated exhibition of the German-Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt, known as Gego.  

With the interactive exhibitions, the family morning on Sunday and the daily Open Studios, Creaviva is establishing creative hands-on access for all generations to the three big special exhibitions and the permanent Paul Klee exhibition. To coincide with the 20th anniversary, the courses for adults also focus on 20 artistic techniques. And in order to actively involve the voices of the future, from the Jubilee year onwards Creaviva is accompanied by a children’s council.

Participation and cultural involvement are important corner-stones of the work of the Zentrum Paul Klee. Over the past few years many projects have been launched together with the neighbourhood, for example paul&ich and the community garden. Together we want this collaboration to go on growing. In the public workshop Paul Klee & Neighbourhood, the Zentrum Paul Klee has thought about previous developments and future collaborative work with the quarter. The programme of the Jubilee weekend in June is also assembled and put into operation together with the residents and associations of the quarter.  

With the project paul & bitzius, we have launched another participative and future-oriented project intended to establish the Zentrum Paul Klee as an out-of-school place of learning. In various subjects, the Bitzius School, an immediate neighbour of the Zentrum Paul Klee, will explore the Zentrum Paul Klee as an out-of-school place of learning.