June 27, 2007 - July 20, 2008

A showcase for the museum’s extraordinary holdings of Asian art, including ancient pottery, classical Chinese paintings, religious art from Tibet, and provocative works by contemporary artists.

October 13, 2007 - July 20, 2008

In this recent installation, pioneering video artist Joan Jonas mines the cultural terrain of the American Southwest, as well as more personal territories. Jonas’s work is “at once mysterious and transparent, strange yet familiar in an almost universal sense. She is like a magician who dazzles us while revealing the secret to every trick.”—<i>N.Y. Times</i>

February 13, 2008 - May 18, 2008

Mickey Mouse meets Aztec gods and Francisco Goya meets Jerry Falwell in the first major museum retrospective of the work of Mexico-born, San Francisco–based artist Enrique Chagoya. Chagoya draws on the European canon, Mexican folk arts, and U.S. pop icons to create paintings, drawings, and prints that are politically charged, formally sophisticated, and often scathingly funny.

February 13, 2008 - August 3, 2008

The art of James Lee Byars could be as grand as a global gesture or as intimate and fleeting as a kiss. A new exhibition brings together the delicate and monumental sides of the artist’s work with artist’s books, mail art, performance documentation, and other ephemera from BAM’s Conceptual Art Study Center.

March 12, 2008 - June 1, 2008

In May 1968 in Paris, student and worker strikes against the conservative government of General Charles de Gaulle brought the country to a standstill. Images by French photographer Serge Hambourg provide a striking eyewitness account of this pivotal moment in political and cultural history.

March 9, 2008 - July 6, 2008

Over the past thirty years, BAM’s acclaimed MATRIX Program has charted a unique course through the landscape of contemporary art. This anniversary exhibition samples from the program’s history with special loans and works from the museum collection, including new acquisitions such as Kiki Smith’s <i>Cr&egrave;che.</i>

March 12, 2008 - August 3, 2008

Conceptual works by John C. Fernie and Lawrence Weiner from the BAM collection foreground the frame.

May 3, 2008 - August 3, 2008

A cornerstone of the Berkeley Art Museum collection is an extraordinary group of paintings by Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), the world’s most extensive museum collection of this German-born artist’s work. The exhibition on view draws on this collection to span nearly thirty years of Hofmann’s practice, from the figurative works of the 1930s to the explosive abstraction of the postwar period.