Swiss Summer Exhibitions: Marisol Retrospective, Pierre Huyghe, and More

A roundup of notable exhibitions opening across Switzerland in June 2026. At Kunsthalle Basel, Shuang Li presents 'Alliance,' her first solo institutional show in Europe, featuring a film installation developed through storm-chasing expeditions that blur physical and virtual experience. Museum Tinguely hosts Angelica Mesiti's 'Reverb,' a survey of video installations exploring communication through choreography and gesture, including her 2024 work 'The Rites of When.' Pierre Huyghe's first solo museum exhibition in Switzerland at Fondation Beyeler (Riehen/Basel) integrates film, biological mechanisms, and machine learning into evolving environments. Kunsthaus Zürich mounts the first major European retrospective of Marisol (María Sol Escobar), organized with Louisiana Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, featuring around 100 works. Galerie Urs Meile in Zurich shows Ju Ting's 'Summer,' with carved acrylic paintings from her 'Deep Waters Run Quiet' series. Vontobel presents Jiajia Zhang's 'And in 2084, You Are 62,' winner of the 2026 Art Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize, speculating on Switzerland in 2084. Galerie & Edition Stephan Witschi exhibits Fazal Sheikh's 'Erasure,' photographs from over a decade in the West Bank and Israel addressing Palestinian displacement. Museum Rietberg's group show 'A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art' features 20 international artists reworking colonial-era images.