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A PERFECT SWISS TOUCH ! THE FONDATION BEYELER HOSTS MAJOR ART SHOWS OF THIS SUMMER

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Foundation Beyeler June 17, 2025December 29, 2025No Comments

A PERFECT SWISS TOUCH! THE FONDATION BEYELER PRESENTS MAJOR ART SHOWS OF THIS SUMMER! Nazli Kok Akbas, Art editor, Geneva- Switzerland Vija Celmins, Gun with Hand # 1, 1964 .Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Fondation Beyeler is internationally renowned for its high-calibre exhibitions, its significant collection of modern and …

OH LA LA ! LES LALANNE ! WHY ARE THE COLLECTORS WILLING TO PAY ANY PRICE?

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market June 6, 2025April 27, 2026No Comments

ART MARKET OH LA LA! THE LALANNES Why are the collectors willing to pay any price? Nazli Kok Akbas ART EDITOR, Geneva-Switzerland Francois-Xaivier and Claude Lalanne,Photo Bruno Barbey, Credit Magnum photos.Courtesy of Sotheby’s Ostriches are among the most distinctive and unusual birds on the planet. They are striking examples of the diversity and strangeness of …

HAS SPRING SPRUNG THIS YEAR FOR THE ART MARKET?

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market May 16, 2025January 1, 2026No Comments

HAS SPRING SPRUNG THIS YEAR FOR THE ART MARKET ? Nazli Kok Art Reports Marlene Dumas, (B.1953), Miss January, (detail) Spring auctions in New York kicked off this week, with lots of items up for grabs. The spring art sales in New York have always served as an indicator of the state of the art market. Despite …

ALL IN ONE, MARCH/APRIL BEST ART SHOWS!

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions May 6, 2025January 1, 2026No Comments

ALL IN ONE ! March /April, 2025 Best Art Shows Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas NKA ART REPORTS Switzerland-France-Istanbul Marlene Dumas, Blindfolded, 2002 Corps et Ames, Bourse de Commerce, Paris.Nazli Kok Art Reports Miriam Cahn, Ritual, 2002, The exhibition“Corps et Ames”, which brings together around one hundred works from the Pinault Collection to explore the representation of the body …

OSCAR GHEZ : A PASSIONATE COLLECTOR, FONDATION DE L’HERMITAGE, LAUSANNE

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Collectioner Story, The Foundation Hermitage April 27, 2025January 1, 2026No Comments

OSCAR GHEZ, A PASSIONATE ART COLLECTOR Treasures of the Petit Palais Geneva FONDATION DE L’HERMITAGE, Lausanne 24.January-01.June Curators;Slyvie Wuhrmann Aurelie Couvreur Corinne Currat Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Felix Vallotton,(1865-1925, France) Nu couché au tapis Rouge, 1909, Oil on Canvas.The Fondation Petit Palais, Geneva. In spring 2025, the Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, hosts a particuarly unusual collection of impressionnist …

SOPHIE THUN, WET ROOMS, MUSÉE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS LAUSANNE, LAUSANNE

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 21, 2025January 1, 2026No Comments

SOPHIE THUN WET ROOMS MUSEE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS LAUSANNE 14.MARCH – 10.AUGUST Curator; Pierre-Henri Foulon Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas ‘To reproduce oneself is to disappear and even the most basic asexualized being is rarefied by reproduction. Those who reproduce themselves do not die if, by death, we understand the passage from life to decomposition, …

ALICE PAULI, MUSEE CANTONAL DES BEAUX -ARTS LAUSANNE, LAUSANNE

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMCBA, The Collectioner Story April 19, 2025January 1, 2026No Comments

ALICE PAULI Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron MUSEE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS LAUSANNE 14.February – 4.May Curator; Camille Leveque-Claudet Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Alice Pauli, photo was photographed by Enrico Bajon on mars in 1964. This exhibition is a tribute to the gallerist, collector and art patron Alice Pauli. It celebrates the extraordinary career of a pioneer. …

MARISA MERZ, LISTEN TO THE SPACE, KUNST MUSEUM, BERN

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 16, 2025January 2, 2026No Comments

MARISA MERZ LISTEN TO THE SPACE KUNST MUSEUM Bern 31 January – 1 June 2025 Curator; Livia Wermuth Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas Marisa Merz, Untitled, raw clay, copper wire, tracks. THE SUBTLE POWER OF MARIZA MERZ’S WORK The subtle power of Marisa Merz’s work is reflected in a vision that comes from within. She believed …

FRANCIS BACON, HUMAN PRESENCE, FONDATION GIANADDA, MARTIGNY

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions March 27, 2025January 2, 2026No Comments

FRANCIS BACON HUMAN PRESENCE In Collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 14 FEVRIER- 8 JUNE , MARTIGNY, SWITZERLAND Curator; Rosie Broadley Reporter; Nazli Kok Akbas 19 March, Martiny (Photography copyright, Nazli Kok Akbas, NKA Art Reports Switzerland-France-Istanbul Photography 2024. All rights reserved) (Detail), Francis Bacon, Portrait, 1962, oil on canvas, The Lambrecht- Schadeberg …

THE KEY TO DREAMS, SURREALIST MASTERWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION HERSAINT, BEYELER FOUNDATION, BASEL

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Foundation Beyeler March 18, 2025January 2, 2026No Comments

THE KEY TO DREAMS BEYELER FOUNDATION BASEL 16 February-4 May 2025 SURREALIST MASTERWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION HERSAINT Curator: Raphael Bouvier Reporter: Nazli Kok Akbas 14 March, Basel Max Ernst, The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism),1937 Oil on canvas. Collection Hersaint. “The Angel of Hearth and Home”, why Ernst called a destructive creature as an angel? This marvelous …