This new presentation extends over the second and third floors. The exhibit section on the theme of Europe and Beyond deals with a particularly up-to-date question: by displaying various types of cultural transfer across national borders and between various regions of the globe, as well as from one historical epoch to another, the topic of the transnational and global identities established by art is touched upon. This part of the collection is reached through a passageway featuring works from the environs of the ZERO artists' movement, whose meditative, mystical light creations sensitize, stimulate and carry viewers into other worlds, in a metaphorical sense, of course.

Serving as a model, Venetian art stands at the forefront of this thematic section. Here at the edge of Europe, so to speak, was a meeting place not only of the worldwide trade routes, but also of the artistic forms of expression prevailing in the orient and the occident. Thus, in front of a silhouette of this historical model of Venice, represented by painting and arts and crafts, the presentation allows the cultures to meet once again in the confrontation of abstraction and ornament, for instance. As examples of the interplay of art, spirituality, materialism and nature, stone sculptures of the Khmer meet with contemporary art and the timeless theme of calligraphy are paired with works of art informel.

This is where the collection volute Japanese Netsuke and Colored Woodcuts find their abode. This juxtaposition points out how non-European cultures have again and again been demonized as something "foreign" or "strange". By contrast, an observer looking at Europe from the outside is compelled to censure its colonial posturing.