Global Arts and Culture

(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.

Charles-Philippe Jean-Pierre brings memory, soft power, and presence to Basel Captured Zeitgeist by Tallulah Patricia Bär What makes one...

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?

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...

This wasn’t a performance. It was a soft intervention and the creation of a collective energy leveling field.

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.

Markets have histories. Aesthetics have power. And geopolitics are embedded in the movement of objects, people, and narratives—whether explicitly declared or subtly encoded.

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.