Pierre Huyghe, summer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler
Published on 08/21/2026 at 14:07 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Pierre Huyghe leads Fondation Beyeler’s 2026 summer season in Riehen near Basel. As the Switzerland Tourism event listing confirms, the exhibition runs from May 24 to September 13, 2026 at Fondation Beyeler, with newly created works shown alongside key pieces from recent years. Switzerland Tourism event page
Summer show at Fondation Beyeler
The Fondation Beyeler presents a major exhibition simply titled Pierre Huyghe, described as a large-scale environment that combines film, sound, vibration, dust and light into a shifting ecosystem. The Swiss Tourism listing highlights the run from May 24 to September 13, 2026, positioning the show as a core summer destination near Basel. HENI exhibition report
Hartwig Art Foundation notes that this environment debuted at Halle am Berghain with LAS in Berlin in early 2026 and then became part of Huyghe’s major solo exhibition at Fondation Beyeler before traveling on to Amsterdam, underscoring the show’s role as a regional anchor during Art Basel week and beyond. Hartwig Art Foundation programme
Biennial & fair echo around Basel
The timing of Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler overlaps with Art Basel in Basel, turning the museum into a key satellite venue for fair visitors and professionals. The Art Newspaper notes that Huyghe’s exhibition in Riehen runs until September 13, 2026, framing it as a site-specific experience in dialogue with the Basel fair circuit. The Art Newspaper review
Within this context, works such as Apnea (2026), an artificial breathing organ submerged in a glass tank, and the environment expanding from Halle am Berghain position Huyghe’s practice close to biennial-scale projects. The clustering of his exhibition with Art Basel reinforces his standing in the top international fair tier.
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The work core between Basel and New York
Beyond Switzerland, Pierre Huyghe’s project UUmwelt expands in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at MoMA in New York. The museum’s film, media and performance announcement states that UUmwelt runs from July 1 to November 29, 2026, using machine learning and fMRI data to generate deep image reconstructions. MoMA exhibition text
Working with neuroscientists in Kyoto, Huyghe asked a human subject to imagine images while brain activity was recorded, then trained an artificial neural network on this data. The installation activates in real time through visitors’ gazes and virtual simulations of cancer cell mutations, turning the Sculpture Garden into a living ecosystem of images, sensors and biological inputs.
Where Pierre Huyghe stands now
Pierre Huyghe currently holds a major solo exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen until September 13, 2026, while UUmwelt remains on view in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden in New York through November 29, 2026.
Key facts on Pierre Huyghe
- Artist: Pierre Huyghe
- Medium / Genre: Installation and conceptual environments
- Born: 1962, Paris, France
- Place(s) of practice: Works across Europe and North America
- Active since: Late 1980s, with international recognition from the 1990s
- Key work groups: UUmwelt, Human Mask, Liminals, large-scale environmental installations at LAS Berghain and Fondation Beyeler
- Current/last exhibition: Pierre Huyghe, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, May 24–September 13, 2026
- Major collections: MoMA (New York), LUMA Foundation (Arles), Serpentine Galleries (London), Hartwig Art Foundation (Amsterdam)
- Awards: Hugo Boss Prize 2002
- Next date: UUmwelt, on view at MoMA’s Sculpture Garden, New York, July 1–November 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions about Pierre Huyghe
Where can I see Pierre Huyghe’s work in August 2026?
In August 2026, his major exhibition Pierre Huyghe is on view at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, and the project UUmwelt runs in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at MoMA in New York.
What defines Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition at Fondation Beyeler?
The Beyeler exhibition presents a large-scale environment combining film, sound, vibration, dust and light, including works like Apnea (2026) and pieces that first appeared at HALLE am Berghain with LAS, forming a continuously reconfiguring ecosystem.
How does UUmwelt at MoMA work conceptually?
UUmwelt uses fMRI scans of imagined images and an artificial neural network to generate deep image reconstructions, which are then sequenced in real time using visitors’ gazes and data from virtual cancer cell simulations, creating an evolving nonhuman visual field in the Sculpture Garden.
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