CEZANNE,THE BEYELER FOUNDATION,THE ARCHITECTURE OF PERCEPTION

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: There are exhibitions that celebrate a master, and there are exhibitions that quietly reorganize our perception and understanding of art history. The current exhibition at The Beyeler, Foundation, Basel, devoted to Paul Cezanne belongs to second category. In the luminous architecture of Riehen, Cezanne does not appear …

MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) GENEVA, A MUSEUM IN MOTION

🔊 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 …

LIFE IN FULL,OLD MASTERS AT KUNSTMUSEUM BERN

🔊 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 …

JOHN M.ARMLEDER, FOREVER YOUNG!

🔊 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 …

CONVERSATION WITH KARIN HANDLBAUER FROM VIENNA TO GENEVA SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY ART LANDSCAPE

🔊 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 …

A FANTASTIC RETURN FROM THE SUMMER BREAK!

WHAT A FANTASTIC RETURN FROM THE SUMMER BREAK! Nazli Kok Art Reports, Geneva, Switzerland Pat Andrea,  ‘ Les Caissons bleus’ 2024,  September is well known as the time of new beginnings. After a wonderful summer break, it is time to return to reality, gently yet enthusiastically.  While discussions focus on the instability of world politics …

ALL IN ONE, MARCH/APRIL BEST ART SHOWS!

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 …

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

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, …

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

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

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 …