🔊 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, …
🔊 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 …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A STRANGE BALANCE OF THE 2025 ART MARKET; MORE ART LESS MONEY! The latest Art Basel& UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, written by economist Clare McAndrew, describes a year in which art market did something unusual; it shrank in value but expanded in activity. This paradox was the …
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🔊 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 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: 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 CAKE FOR THE MUSEUM “OEDIPUS’S BIRTHDAY CAKE” IN THE MANNHEIM MUSEUM PEMANENT COLLECTION 🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva – Switzerland Irmak Donmez’s Oedipus’s Birthday Cake was presented at the MOTHER exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 2021, after which it joined the museum’s prestigious permanent collection. The acquisition of Irmak Donmez’s work by …
ART GENEVE 2025″SUR-MESURE” Curated by Nicolas Trembley Reported by Nazli Kok Akbas NKA Art Reports Switzerland-France-Istanbul Paul McCarthy ,White Snow Dwarf, Grumpy,2016 (Hauser & Wirth Gallery) The first edition of Sur-Mesure, the “Tailor-Made” section of Art Geneve, was inaugurated in 2024 and the curatorship was entrusted to Nicolas Trembley, who chose the theme “fun fair” for the 12th edition of the …
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