At the beginning of the year, the Fondation Beyeler is presenting the group exhibition "Northern Lights". The exhibition focuses on around 80 landscape paintings by artists from Scandinavia and Canada created between 1880 and 1930, including masterpieces by Hilma af Klint and Edvard Munch. They all share the boreal forest as a common source of inspiration. The seemingly immeasurable forests, the radiant light of the seemingly endless days in summer, the long nights in winter and natural phenomena such as the Northern Lights have given rise to their own modern Nordic painting, which still exerts a special attraction and fascination today. The boreal forest, which stretches south and north of the Arctic Circle and is one of the largest primeval forests on earth, was increasingly depicted as a landscape of the soul. This is the first time that these pictures have been shown in this constellation in Europe. The group exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Nordic landscape painting in modern art through selected works by Helmi Biese, Anna Boberg, Emily Carr, Prince Eugen, Gustaf Fjæstad, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Lawren Harris, Hilma af Klint, J. E. H. MacDonald, Edvard Munch, Ivan Shishkin, Harald Sohlberg and Tom Thomson, and to discover artists who are probably still unknown to many visitors. "Northern Lights" is an exhibition of the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York.