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Spiders, puppets and avatars explore Zurich’s digital ‘Museum of the Future’

This content was published on Dec 29, 2025 Visitors can plunge into a medieval battle, step into the world of a spider, and even engage with an uncanny avatar that mirrors their own identity.

The four-metre-long painting "Sonntag der Bergbauern" [Sunday of the Mountain Farmers, 1923-24/26] had to be removed by a crane from the German Chancellery in Berlin for the exhibition in Bern.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: a ‘true German artist’ who found peace in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 14, 2025 Nearly a century after a solo exhibition that Kirchner curated himself in Bern, the Swiss capital is revisiting that show – with some help from the German chancellor.

Two Philippe Jaccard paintings side by side

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The extraordinary destiny of a former Swiss police officer who became an artist

This content was published on Dec 13, 2025 The astonishing journey of Philippe Jaccard, an ex-cop turned artist, whose rediscovered works are on display in Brussels.

Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais in Oct., 2025

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I hit the Art Basel superfecta

This content was published on Dec 10, 2025 A critic survives the four-season journey to the premium art fair in Hong Kong, Basel, Paris and now Miami Beach. Here are his takeaways.

Documenting Sri Lankan artifacts stored in Basel: it was just supposed to be a research for an art project that became a film that became a diplomatic conundrum.

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Sri Lankan artist challenges Swiss museums over looted heritage

This content was published on Nov 27, 2025 The documentary Elephants & Squirrels exposes Switzerland’s uneasy reckoning with its colonial entanglements.

Scene of "Rave", Patrick Muroni's VR film.

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Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile

This content was published on Nov 21, 2025 Domenico Singha Pedroli and Patrick Muroni ask what cinema becomes when audiences no longer watch from a distance but step inside the story.

A reconstruction of the studio of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti at the Institut Giacometti in Paris.

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Works of Swiss artist Giacometti in Paris headed for new, grander museum

This content was published on Nov 1, 2025 The Giacometti Museum is set to open in 2028 on the Esplanade des Invalides in central Paris, a prestigious location for an artist who spent most of his life working in a modest studio.

The curatorial team of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, from left to right: Keyna Eleison, Alya Sebti, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Henriette Gallus, Anna Roberta Goetz, and Thiago de Paula Souza.

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Decolonising and listening: a Swiss curator discusses the São Paulo Biennial

This content was published on Oct 31, 2025 Anna Roberta Goetz talks to Swissinfo about the inclusion of voices from the Global South in an exhibition that challenges the racial elitism of the Brazilian art scene.

Swiss museums feel safe even after Louvre robbery

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Swiss museums feel secure even after Louvre robbery

This content was published on Oct 22, 2025 Swiss museums don't see need to update security standards despite the Louvre theft.

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Recognising Emma Jung’s exploration of the unconscious

This content was published on Oct 12, 2025 As early as 1911, the psychoanalyst and artist Emma Jung feared that she would be overhshadowed by her famous husband. Over a century later, she is being recognised.

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