LE CORBUSIER. THE ORDER OF THINGS

 
8 FEBRUARY–22 JUNE 2025
 
ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE | BERN, SWITZERLAND
 
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)
Nature morte au siphon, 1928
Oil on canvas, 134 × 115 × 7 cm
Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris © 2025, FLC/ProLitteris, Zurich
 

To coincide with its 20-year anniversary, the Zentrum Paul Klee is devoting a major exhibition to the Swiss-French artist-architect, designer and urban planner Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), world famous under the pseudonym of Le Corbusier and one of the most important guiding lights of modern architecture.

The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of his entire output from an artistic perspective, and includes both iconic items and groups of works that have so far remained largely unknown. It centers around Le Corbusier’s working process, his three-dimensional thought and the artistic experiment in the ‘studio of patient research’.

Throughout his life, Le Corbusier’s approach combined art, design and architecture. He saw drawing as a central way of capturing and treating what was seen in order to develop new ideas. The presentation includes numerous drawings and sketches from the studio to illuminate the sources that flow into the design process – from objects found on the beach to the architecture of Antiquity.

Curator: Martin Waldmeier