🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: In the past months, Louvre Museum has not been in the headlines for an exhibition, but for a chain of unsetting events. A spectacular heist in the Galerie d’Apollon -involving jewels once associated with Empress Eugenie shock the public. Then came revelations of long-running ticket fraud. Shortly …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: While the MAMCO building in Geneva is closed for a major renovation -planned to last several years and modernize the space of the museum standards, the institution has launched a series of-site projects and exhibitions across Switzerland. Instead of pausing its program entirely, MAMCO is presenting parts of its collection …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: From the contemplative silence of medieval devotional panels to the sumptuous surface pleasure of Baroque portraiture and still life, the exhibition, LIFE IN FULL, OLD MASTERS FROM DUCCIO TO LIOTARD offers a rare and generous survey of six centuries of European painting drawn from the Kunstmuseum Bern’s rich holdings. Curated …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Building the Market Before the Collectors; Art Basel’s arrival in Qatar marks a decisive shift in how global art infrastructure is imagined, deployed, and legitimized. Unlike Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, or Paris, Doha does not emerge from a dense, historically layered gallery ecosystem, nor from a …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: THE MUSEUM RE-OBSERVED; For the sixth time, the MAH Geneva has entrusted its collections to an artist through its Carte Blanche program, an initiative that invites a singular artist vision to re-interpret the museum from within. Conceived by Museum’s director as a space of radical openness, the Carte Blanche is not …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article Time and image have always shared a secret affinity. At the beginning of 2026, Geneva became the capital of haute horlogerie and an increasingly significant art hub. These threads came together in a way that feels less like marketing and more like cultural symbiosis, through Piaget’s ongoing …
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Post-pandemic shifts, local powerhouses, and the rise of the local art fairs as a global art-fair beacon. Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva-Switzerland 🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The art fair has survived the pandemic, but it was not emerged unchanged. Once dominated by a relentless calendar of mega-fairs, the post-pandemic art …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: WHERE THE EARTH BECAMES IMAGE Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva-Switzerland Julien Peltier’s artistic journey begins long before the studio, in a landscape shaped by family, memory, and a quiet attention to the natural world. Born and raised in France, he grew up in very close connection …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, GENEVA- SWITZERLAND Between intellectual precision and quiet intuition, Karin Handlbauer has shaped a singular voice within the Geneva’s contemporary art scene. Originally trained as an art historian in Austria, she founded Mezzanin Gallery in Vienna before relocating to Geneva, where she continues to …
Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva Switzerland As the new year begins, I would like to thank you for the meaningful exchanges, shared perfectives, and creative dialogue of the past year. May the year ahead bring clarity, thoughtful encounters, and inspiring artistic moments. I look forward to continuing our conversations with my new projects and …
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