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Art, Culture, and Community
How does art shape the way we connect and understand each other? In this category, I reflect on the powerful ways art and culture foster community. Through the people I meet—artists, creatives, and cultural leaders—I hear stories that show how creativity transcends boundaries and sparks dialogue. From gallery spaces to community events, I’ve seen firsthand how art can challenge narratives, build bridges, and create a sense of belonging.
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
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
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
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
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