Swizz Art Biz

If you’ve been a regular VIP at Art Basel in the past few years, you know her name: Michèle Sandoz. She was the Global Head of VIP Relations at Art Basel for almost a decade and is now the Managing Director of Grisebach Switzerland, a German auction house. Michèle Sandoz has an intercultural background, having been born in Zimbabwe to Swiss parents and growing up in various Afr

From Los Angeles to Hong Kong, London to Monaco, New York’s East Side to New York’s West Side, Hauser & Wirth operates in 16 locations around the world. The gallery, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, just announced that it will open its first space in Paris in 2023. In this latest episode of Swizz Art Biz x Löwenbräukunst, Tanya König sits down with Ba

AIA stands for awareness in art and We Are AIA is the name of a new nonprofit association founded by Martina Huber last year with its own space at Löwenbräukunst in Zurich. The current show, The Mouth Is for Speaking, deals with the topic of human rights and ponders the question: What is needed to be able to speak or stand up? It includes pieces by Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem

In 2006, Lucerne-based Galerie Urs Meile became one of the first Western galleries to establish itself in China. Their first space in Beijing was created by none other than Ai Weiwei, who was also one of the first Chinese artists the gallery represented. René Meile, the son of the gallery’s founder, is co-director and mainly responsible for the operations in Beijing.  He sp

Nomad was founded in 2017 by Giorgio Pace and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte with the aim to be more exclusive and flexible than other fairs. While St. Moritz has hosted it on several occasions, Nomad, true to its name, has no fixed home, and over the past five years has also been held in Monaco, Cannes, and Venice. Next Tuesday the boutique fair will get underway in St. Moritz a

British artist Keith Tyson spoke to Tanya König in 2018 about his art , technology, and his upbringing. Hauser & Wirth is now showing his drawings and paintings at 22 Street in New York. On this occasion, Swizz Art Biz is re-sharing this honest conversation with the Turner Prize winner, which was aired on CNNMoney Switzerland in 2018.  The interview can also be watched on

Giorgia von Albertini is one of the youngest and most successful Swiss art curators at the moment. The 29-year-old started her career in the arts between her Bachelor and Masters degrees, when she collaborated with the renowned Swiss curator Bice Curiger, the renowned Swiss curator and co-founder of Parkett, who was only the third woman ever to curate the Venice Biennale in 2011. "

Alain Servais started collecting art some 25 years ago – photography, installations, and digital and video art, everything, that is, except painting. Instead, the Belgian native collects works that are not just about marketing but that touch the viewer or helps to open their minds. Art needs to help us get out of Plato’s cave. It’s like taking the “red pill” in The Matr

Alice Bucknell is a North American digital artist based in London. She focuses her work around the topics of architecture, cryptocurrencies, the environment, and capitalism. Bucknell recently showed her piece “Swamp City” in Zurich which was also part of the Venice Biennale for Architecture this year. In this latest Swizz Art Biz podcast what motivates her work, why she went fr

Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, made headlines earlier this year by selling a non-fungible token at Christie’s for $69 million. It was the most anyone paid for an NFT, and it catapulted Beeple to one of the best paid artists in the world. Now Christie’s just announced that it’s selling another Beeple piece, called Human One, in November. Noah Davis was one of the pe