BERN.- At the beginning of the 20th century, Hermann and Margrit Rupf laid the foundations for a collection that is now regarded as one of the leading of its kind for European modern art. Due to the fact that a foundation was established in the 1950s in the Kunstmuseum Bern, the collection is open to the public and is being, up to the present and beyond, constantly enlarged. The exhibition presents modernist artworks in dialogue with contemporary art. Thus Pablo Picasso is confronted by Meret Oppenheim, Fernand Léger meets Donald Judd, and Paul Klee finds himself face-to-face with Ilya Kabakov. The exhibition is showing a representative selection of the Rupf Foundation accessions. The modernist artworks chosen for the exhibition are being shown in the immediate vicinity of contemporary art, encouraging a dialogue between the different epochs. As the joint proprietor of the haberdashery store Hossmann