20 years of Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva

In 2025 the Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva are celebrating their twenty-year existence. For the occasion, the cultural centre invites you to varied Jubilee programme with high-calibre exhibitions and special highlights in the fields of music, literature, art education and the Fruchtland agricultural project.
Jubilee weekend: free admission
Highlights of the anniversary year
Exhibitions
You can look forward to exhibitions on Le Corbusier, Anni Albers, Rose Wylie and Gego (Getrud Goldschmidt) - and our permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee with ‘Cover Star’ Paul Klee.
Read moreConcerts
World-class concerts - from Grigory Sokolov to Angela Hewitt. With Claude Eichenberger and Rolf Romei performing Mahler's Lied der Erde with the BSO Chamber Ensemble, we present a special highlight.
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With readings by Margrit Schriber, Martin R. Dean and Ulrike Draesner, you can expect exciting biographies and, with Dörte Hansen, a "Spiegel" bestselling author.
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Free entrance for to all exhibitions
Are you also celebrating your 20th birthday in 2025? Anyone born in 2005 has free admission to the exhibitions at the Zentrum Paul Klee all year round! Simply show an official ID at the ticket desk and benefit from free admission.

Music Contest. Live at Klee
To coincide with the Jubilee year, the Zentrum Paul Klee is organising a music contest. The competition offers musical talents, whether solo or in a group, whether acoustic or semi-acoustic, the opportunity to be evaluated by a specialist jury. Prizes will be performances at the 2026 Museum Night in the Zentrum Paul Klee, in the Mühle Hunziken and in the Gustav im Bierhübeli Bern. All information at
zpk.org/musiccontest

Paul’s festival beer – brewed with barley grown at the Zentrum Paul Klee
In 2024 we planted brewing barley in the big field in Fruchtland around the Zentrum Paul Klee. To coincide with the Jubilee, the Zentrum Paul Klee, along with the Bern Lohnbrauerei, is brewing an aromatic beer that can be tasted and bought in the museum shop and the museum café as well as the Schöngrün restaurant.
20 years in figures
- around 3.1 million visitors
- over 100 exhibitions
- more than 20,000 guided tours
- around 30,000 Creaviva workshops
- 60 interactive Creaviva exhibitions
- around 140,000 pupils in class groups
- approx. 760 concerts
- almost 700 readings
- over 3,000 meetings, congresses and events
- 744 expert reports
- 58 catalogues and own publications
Foundation
The Zentrum Paul Klee opened on 20 June 2005. With the new cultural institution, Paul Klee was given a monument with international appeal in the city of Bern, where he spent half of his life.
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Creaviva in Zentrum Paul Klee is Bern's competence center for analog art education with international reach. It promotes the interactive transfer of knowledge with a variety of artistic offerings in the studio.
Read moreArchitecture
With the Zentrum Paul Klee, Italian star architect Renzo Piano has created a light-flooded landscape sculpture made of glass and concrete. The building with the three iconic hills is located in the east of Bern.
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Supporters of the jubilee weekend:
Annamarie Schiffmann