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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 …

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, …

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 …

MORE ART, LESS MONEY! ART BASEL & UBS GLOBAL ART MARKET REPORT 2026

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, The Art Fairs March 12, 2026March 18, 2026No Comments

🔊 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 …

ART BASEL QATAR, BIENNALE OR ART FAIR?

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Art Fairs February 9, 2026February 10, 2026No Comments

🔊 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 …

TIME AS ART: WARHOL, HILDEBRANDT, SYLVESTER II CELEBRATING TIME AND CREATIVITY

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, The Art Fairs, The Conversation February 4, 2026February 6, 2026No Comments

🔊 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 …

TOO MANY FAIRS, TOO LITTLE TIME! The Art World Rewrites Its Calendar

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, General, The Art Fairs January 23, 2026January 24, 2026No Comments

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 …

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

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, General, Must See Exhibitions, The Art Fairs, The Conversation January 12, 2026January 17, 2026No Comments

🔊 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 …

IRMAK DONMEZ

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Art Fairs December 18, 2025January 17, 2026No Comments

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 …

“SUR-MESURE” CURATED BY NICOLAS TREMBLEY, ART GENEVE 2025

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorThe Art Fairs January 26, 2025January 2, 2026No Comments

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 …