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Lausanne’s new MAF museum puts women artists centre stage

"Heritage", by Daniela Markovic. Born in Rambouillet, near Paris, to a family of Serbian origin, the artist has been based in Lausanne since 2010.

This content was published on Mar 26, 2026 Switzerland’s first Musée Artistes Femmes (MAF) opened in Lausanne on March 4, a museum dedicated exclusively to showcasing works by women.

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Fifty years of the Lausanne Collection de l’Art Brut: between raw and rose-tinted

This content was published on Mar 18, 2026 The Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne is turning 50 – and is marking the occasion with an exhibition, taking visitors back to the early days, when art created in psychiatric clinics went unseen for a long time.

Kunsthaus Zürich presents the E.G. Bührle Collection in a new form

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Kunsthaus Zurich presents Bührle Collection in new form

This content was published on Mar 12, 2026 The controversial Bührle Collection is being presented in a new exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich.

Global art market on a slight upward trend again in 2025

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Art Basel CEO: global art market at ‘inflection point’

This content was published on Mar 12, 2026 The global art market has returned to growth in 2025 according to a report by Art Basel and UBS.

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When Swiss traditional customs offer up a mirror to the ridiculous

This content was published on Mar 6, 2026 French photographer Charles Fréger has produced images that reflect Swiss winter rites while posing questions about the present-day.

The modern apartment, assembled at the Art and History Museum in Geneva for the exhibition "And it began so marvellously". More than a historical movement, Modernism became a marker of taste, refinement, and connoisseurship. Its influence extends to today’s fascination with secondhand Modernist furniture.

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One size does not fit all: Zurich architects reevaluate Modernism’s legacy

This content was published on Jan 4, 2026 Le Corbusier never rests in peace: two professors from ETH Zurich discuss how to reframe the forgotten narratives and exclusions that lie beneath Modernist architecture.

Opening day of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais last October: the French capital became the most exclusive venue of the world's leading art fair, but the money and the glitter are flowing to the Persian Gulf.

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Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality

This content was published on Jan 2, 2026 From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.

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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.

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