Pierre Huyghe at Fondation Beyeler

This summer, Fondation Beyeler will present the first solo exhibition of Pierre Huyghe in a Swiss museum, bringing together new artworks, recent films and a selection early works by one of the most innovative artists of his generation. Within this context, Liminals is on view following its first presentation at Halle am Berghain in Berlin in the winter of 2026.
Conceived for the Fondation Beyeler, the exhibition becomes a site-specific experience where each work and the space in-between them form an ambiguous threshold. Through the interplay of moving images, sound, objects, living organisms and machine learning, the exhibition unfolds to the rhythms of Apnea (2026), an artificial breathing organ. Air, sound and subtle vibrations permeate the entire exhibition, forming a shared respiratory field, sometimes interrupted.

The recent films Liminals (2026) and Camata (2024) extend the artist’s exploration of a metaphysical and fictional approach to existence, reflecting on our condition as hybrid beings. Originally conceived for the space of Halle am Berghain, Liminals unfolds as a contemporary myth, it simulates a non-human condition and explores uncertainty. A faceless human-like figure emerges from shifting states and attempts to exist in a realm outside time and space. As inner and outer realms fold together, boundaries between body, environment and forces dissolve.

Liminals marks the second large-scale work in LAS’s Sensing Quantum programme, which was awarded the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration following the launch of Laure Prouvost’s WE FELT A STAR DYING in 2025.

Liminals was commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and co-commissioned by Hartwig Art Foundation.