In an essay she wrote in 2016, the painter Amy Sillman—born in Detroit in 1955, now living in New York—described her work with color as “anthropomorphic, relational, emotional, psychological, and corporeal. . . . In other words, let us welcome the collision of mistakes, accidents, desires, contradictions, destruction, and possible disasters that color embodies.” In fact, this is what Sillman means when she calls her art a “physical thinking process”—she’s trusting instinct over intellect. In Bern, the Kunstmuseum presents works by Sillman from the past 15 years, including paintings, drawings, and digital animations. —Elena Clavarino