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Ta-Nia in Conversation: (What You’ll Find) On the Way to Becoming
(What You’ll Find) On the Way to Becoming is not a play that explains itself. It creates a shared space and observes what happens when people are trusted to arrive on their own terms. Participation is invited, never required. Stillness is as valid as movement. What unfolds is not spectacle, but attention — collective, unranked, and quietly transformative.
Tallulah Patricia B
Dec 24, 202514 min read


Rethinking Chemistry: Light, Logic, and the Systems That Shape Understanding
I did not attend Professor Greta Patzke ’s recent lecture on artificial photosynthesis as a scientist. My presence in the room was that of a systems thinker — someone who moves between disciplines, between art and analysis, between the symbolic and the structural. The title — Welche Zukunftsfragen löst die künstliche Photosynthese? — translated to Which future questions does artificial photosynthesis solve? But what it really asked, at least to me, was something deeper: wh
Tallulah Patricia B
Dec 8, 20254 min read


Afrotopia in Zurich: Between Vision and Implementation
It was not an academic seminar, nor a corporate showcase, but something in between: a dialogue between entrepreneurs, financiers, policymakers, and diaspora leaders about what it really takes to build self-determined futures.
Tallulah Patricia B
Oct 19, 20257 min read


The Artistic Conversation • Beyond the Frame
To go beyond the frame is to recognize that the power of storytelling lies not only in what is shown, but in what is left unsaid — in the silences that demand to be heard.
Tallulah Patricia B
Oct 14, 20254 min read


Adaku’s Uche Experience 2.0: Lagos and Accra Stage a Culinary Dialogue in Zürich
Adaku. In Igbo, it means “first daughter.” In Zürich this week, it means something else too: a gathering, an experiment, a pop-up that insists food is never just food. When Naomi Adaku Biaduo said the word to me, it felt less like a brand than a confession — rushed but intentional, unprepared yet honest.
Adaku is her second name, but also her claim: the first-born of a vision years in the making. From a sold-out cookbook in 2017, co-created w/chefs across West Africa, to Uch
Tallulah Patricia B
Sep 5, 20256 min read


The Science of Artistry: Thabiso and the Living Legacy of Botaki Factory
Thabiso’s work is not just art — it is lineage, memory, and the future of Zurich’s cultural fabric. His grandmother’s painted walls carried the geometry Europe later claimed as “modernism.” His canvases today carry those invisible legacies forward, while Botaki Factory, housed in a UBS building at Albisriederplatz, transforms unutilised space into a living gallery month after month.
Tallulah Patricia B
Aug 29, 20256 min read


From Howard Halls to VOLTA Walls: Quilting Diaspora, Painting Legacy
Charles-Philippe Jean-Pierre brings memory, soft power, and presence to Basel Captured Zeitgeist by Tallulah Patricia Bär What makes one...
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 23, 20254 min read


Untitled Might Be the Most Honest Label of All: A Heart-to-Heart with Ghada Kunash on Seeing Art Before Origin
In a global art economy defined by metadata—artist bios, national origin, trauma narratives, funding brackets—what happens when someone proposes stripping all of that away?
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 23, 20254 min read


From Brooklyn to Basel: How The Bishop Gallery Is Redefining Global Art Fair Strategy
When The Bishop Gallery touched down in Basel for its debut at VOLTA Art Fair 2025, it was not merely a new pin on the map—it was a...
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 22, 20256 min read


Curating Complexity: What the Geopolitics of the Art Market Reveals About Power, Presence, and Soft Infrastructure
This wasn’t a performance. It was a soft intervention and the creation of a collective energy leveling field.
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 21, 20254 min read


Artistic Conversations • Between Frequency, Freedom, and Funding: Why Culture and Commerce Aren’t Enemies
That’s how the inaugural edition of Artistic Conversations • began—hosted inside The Artistic, the cultural wing of Zurich’s most future-forward co-working space, HeadsQuarter. No panels, no hierarchy, no pretense. Just a collective container for conversation—for artists, producers, musicians, curators, thinkers, and those who build culture with their hands and hearts.
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 13, 20258 min read


VOLTA at 20: Reframing the Art Fair in a World Where Visibility Is No Longer Enough
Markets have histories.
Aesthetics have power.
And geopolitics are embedded in the movement of objects, people, and narratives—whether explicitly declared or subtly encoded.
Tallulah Patricia B
Jun 6, 20255 min read


Infrastructure, Intelligence, Intention: Why Peter Lu’s Quiet AI Revolution Deserves Switzerland’s Attention
By Tallulah Patricia Bär It was during a brief interlude at the inaugural Europe-Asia Economic Summit in Davos—a summit I’ve had the...
Tallulah Patricia B
May 30, 20255 min read


Pressed Into Presence — On Flesh, Memory, and the Quiet Weight We Carry
Michael had read Sticker Diplomacy — the piece I wrote after first stumbling into Lim’s gallery — and reached out. We’d been in touch that week. And now, he simply showed up. No fanfare. No expectations. Just presence.
His work hung behind us. Funnily enough — so did his testicles.
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 26, 20256 min read


Sticker Diplomacy
Singapore sells the future, but Mr. Lim archives the resistance.
In a second-floor room above a nondescript street, I met a man who has spent years collecting the kinds of stories most cities erase. Cancer survivor. Ad executive turned archivist. Now clinically blind, Mr. Lim doesn’t just show you his art—he narrates it, piece by piece, like sacred memory...
Two Humans from two Different Cities.
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 17, 20259 min read


Coffee with Oibel1: On Labels, Legibility & the Politics of Controlled Expression
With AfroSwiss Love and Admiration, by Tallulah Patricia Bär Morning Coffee at my HeadsQuarter Office in Zurich, April 2025 Zurich loves...
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 12, 20254 min read


Two Women, One Conversation, and the Unfinished Work of Thriving
With Love, Respect and in Admiration, by Tallulah Patricia Bär We weren’t on a panel. We weren’t pitching, performing, or proving. We...
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 9, 20257 min read


Can Dignity Be Scaled? Reflections from Room to Read’s Swiss Roundtable on Africa, Literacy, Language & Learning
When I accepted the invitation to the Room to Read Roundtable in Zurich, I didn’t overthink it. I was simply and honestly curious. I’m...
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 8, 20253 min read


Pink Chairs, Serendipity & The Universe’s Art of Artistic Alignment
It was a Monday morning like any other—until it wasn’t. I was about to head out to work on usual project stuff and had barely started my...
Tallulah Patricia B
Apr 8, 20252 min read


Owning My Cringe – Why Vulnerability Is My Rebellion Against Cultural Hegemony
I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve, yet for some, this openness is labeled "cringe." It’s funny, isn’t it? The way vulnerability,...
Tallulah Patricia B
Oct 6, 20246 min read
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