Nazli Kok Akbas

SWISS ART SCENE AUTUMN 2026; REDISCOVERIES, NEW PERSPECTIVES & THE ART OF “RELOOKING”

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Art Fairs October 24, 2026October 27, 2026No Comments

Share this article: By Nazli Kok Akbas From Basel to Zurich, Reihen, Bern and Lausanne, Switzerland’s autumn exhibition season invites us to reconsider art history, discover overlooked artistic voices, and explore the changing relationship between art, architecture, nature, and society. Switzerland enters the autumn of 2026 with an exhibition program that rewards curiosity. Across its …

MARIA LASSNIG AND EDVARD MUNCH,KUNSTHAUS ZURICH

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorGeneral, Must See Exhibitions October 13, 2026October 25, 2026No Comments

Share this article: Kunsthaus Zurich Maria Lassnig & Edvard Munch How two artists, separated by over half a century, transformed painting to reveal the mind and body. What does it mean to make the invisible visible? For Lassnig and Munch, painting offers exploring the fragile territory between bodily sensation and psychological experience. Although separated for more than half a century, both artists challenged the limits …

The Magic of MARISOL

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions August 15, 2026August 16, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: “I was born an artist. Afterwards, I had to explain to everyone just what that meant.” Marisol Where the wood becomes memory, silence becomes language, and the ordinary becomes spellbinding or uncanny. Marisol’s magic is stranger, quieter, and ultimately profound. In her sculptures- often being with remarkably …

ART BASEL 2026 “ALL ROADS STILL LEAD TO BASEL”

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorGeneral, Must See Exhibitions, The Art Fairs June 25, 2026June 28, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: For one week every June, Basel becomes the temporary capital of the global art world. Yet the 2026 edition of Art Basel fells different. More than a marketplace, it presents itself as a laboratory for the transformations currently shaping contemporary art: the emergence of digital native audience, …

CONVERSATION WITH CAO FEI KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions, The Conversation June 16, 2026June 16, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Cao Fei is one of the most influential contemporary artists to emerge from China in the 21st century. Born 1978 in Guangzhou, she is known for her multimedia practice combining video, photography, virtual reality, installation, and digital culture. Her work explores the rapid transformation of Chinese society through …

THE VENICE BIENNALE 2026, POSTHUMOUS CURATING AND THE POLITICS OF PRESENCE;“IN MINOR KEYS”

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorGeneral, Must See Exhibitions, The Art Fairs June 10, 2026June 10, 2026One Comment

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The 2026 Venice Biennale was meant to unfold in a minor key. Conceived by Koyo Kouoh -the first African woman to be appointed artistic director of the exhibition-it proposes a radical shift away from spectacle and towards listening, repair, intimacy and attention. In her curatorial statement, Kouoh …

PIERRE HUYGHE AT THE FONDATION BEYELER BASEL SWITZERLAND

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorGeneral, Must See Exhibitions, The Foundation Beyeler June 3, 2026June 3, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Few artists have challenged the conventions of exhibition-making as radically as Huyghe. Since 1990s, he has steadily abandoned the idea of the artwork as a fixed object. Instead, he creates situations: environments inhabited by animals, algorithms, microorganisms, weather conditions, artificial intelligence, and human visitors. At Beyeler, this …

BRANCUSI, CHRISTIE’S & NICOLE KIDMAN; HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR AND A $108 MILLION FOR DANAIDE!

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, General May 23, 2026May 25, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article HOW CHRISTIE’S STAGED BRANCUSI LIKE A HOLLYWOOD FILM When Constantin Brancusi’s Danaide crossed the $107 million at Christie’s in May 2026, the sale became more than a market evet. It revelated how the contemporary auction house now operates through cinematic storytelling, celebrity aura, and mythology. Nicole Kidman’s presence in …

MATISSE,1941-1954,GRAND PALAIS, PARIS,“SECOND LIFE”

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 26, 2026May 23, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The exhibition Matisse.1941-1954 at Grand Palais, Paris sheds light on the final years of Henri Matisse’s career. Claudine Grammont, exhibition’s curator, has realized a colossal work in bringing together more than 300 works between 1941 and 1954; paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles, and stained glass, from Centre Pompidou collection and major …

NAN GOLDIN,THIS WILL NOT END WELL,Grand Palais, Paris

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 15, 2026April 15, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A Poetics of Intimacy, Rupture and Survival Few artists have altered the visual language of intimacy as profound as Nan Goldin. In her latest exhibition, This Will Not End Well, Goldin does more than revisit the emotional territory that made her seminal work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a landmark: she deepens it, …