PARTNERS
The Verbier Art Summit collaborates across sectors to generate innovation and educational opportunities around art. The Summit and its partners share a vision for exploring and supporting the cultural value of art.
Verbier
Verbier, 4 Vallées, Switzerland is a destination synonymous with fun and inspiration. It is this unadulterated energy that makes the region so unique, a land of incredible sensations and powerful emotions. Whether you’re an adventurer or a pleasure seeker, the region offers perfect activities and ultimate experiences for all; be it at the top of Mont-Fort with its unique panoramic views over the Alps, the nature reserve in Haut Val de Bagnes, the Bisse du Levron walk or the Verbier Bike Park.
Loterie Romande
Since it was founded in 1937 with its objective to work for the public good, Loterie Romande has been organising and operating lottery games and sports betting in the six cantons of French-speaking Switzerland. It distributes 100% of its profits to non-profit-making bodies and organisations active in a broad spectrum of fields, such as social welfare, culture, sport, education and the environment.
Le Canton du Valais
Valais is known worldwide for its magnificent natural landscapes, its mountains and glaciers – and also its delicacies, from Raclette cheese to fine wines. But this is also a region that provides fertile ground for visionary ideas: a land of innovative thinkers and pioneers in their specialist field.
Jan Michalski Foundation
The mission of the Jan Michalski Foundation is to foster literary creation and encourage the practice of reading through a range of initiatives and activities. These include holding exhibitions and cultural events related to writing and literature, making a large multilingual library available to the public, awarding an annual prize in world literature, granting financial support, and hosting a writer-in-residence program.
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is China’s premier museum of modern and contemporary art. Committed to the belief that art can deepen lives and transcend boundaries, UCCA presents a wide range of exhibitions, public programs, and educational initiatives across four architecturally and programmatically distinct locations.
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
Founded in 1974 as Geneva’s “Kunsthalle”, the Centre is the first contemporary-art institution in French-speaking Switzerland. Its purpose is to develop exhibitions and to actively put the public in contact with these exhibitions, opening a space for dialogue around contemporary culture. Unlike a museum, the Centre has no collection. Focusing on the future, it showcases emerging artists from the local and the international scene.
UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. They work to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution, war or disaster at home.
Verbier 3-D Foundation
The Verbier 3-D Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating contemporary art to promote environmentalism, education, and culture to local and international audiences. Founded in 2010 by New York-based artist Madeleine Paternot and Verbier-based artist Kiki Thompson, the foundation creates an educational and cultural Artist Residency inspired by the stunning Alpine environment of Verbier, Switzerland.
Julie's Bicycle
Julie’s Bicycle is a London based charity that supports the creative community to act on climate change and environmental sustainability. Formed in 2007 by Alison Tickell, the organisation works with arts and cultural bodies and independent professionals across the UK and internationally to implement environmental sustainability into their operations, creative work and business practices.
EDHEA
EDHEA, The Valais School of Art, offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS), as well as professional training for graphic design recognised within the Swiss Design Schools. The school places special attendance to sound arts, and also to performance, art in urban and natural space, or even socially engaged practices rooted in the community. EDHEA is one of the five schools that make up the Valais section of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO).
HEAD–Genève
Created in 2006 from the merger of two prestigious schools, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Haute École d’Arts Appliqués, HEAD–Genève draws on a rich cultural and artistic heritage to nurture young creative talent nationally and internationally. Renowned for the quality of its bachelor's and master's degrees in Fine Arts, Cinema, Interior Architecture, Space and Communication, Visual Communication as well as Fashion and Accessory Design, it has established itself as one of the leading schools of art and design in Europe.
EPFL+ECAL Lab
EPFL+ECAL Lab is the design research centre of the EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) in cooperation with ECAL (University of Art and Design, Lausanne) that fosters innovation at the crossroads between technology, design and architecture. The Lab bases its activities along three axes: giving new meaning to emerging technologies, fuelling innovation by widening scopes of designers and artists’ work, and understanding the perception and acceptance of the public.
W Verbier
Perched in the Swiss Alps at 1,531 meters with direct access to over 400 km of skiing and hiking terrain, W Verbier Retreat mixes urban design with an alpine touch. Their 5 star hotels 123 rooms and suites, each with fireplace, Signature W bed and private balcony are perfect for an intimate escape after a full day of exploring. Their luxury spa hotel offers a wide range of culinary options, including the Bô!, the Eat-Hola Tapas Bar and the best mixology at W Living Room.
Deste
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution established in Geneva in 1983 by collector Dakis Joannou. Through its exhibition space in Athens, Greece, DESTE engages in an extensive exhibition program that promotes emerging as well as established artists and aims to broaden the audience for contemporary art, enhance opportunities for young artists, and explore the connections between contemporary art and culture.
Memo Paris
"The Journey is the destination" is Memo's motto: the time of the journey is an integral part of the experience, it is essential for the encounter with beauty to occur. Creating a perfume is part of the same movement; it is also a matter of patience and high standards in order to achieve the desired olfactory landscape. It is faithful to this vision of beauty that Memo redraws the map of a sensitive world rich in emotions, by creating a unique olfactory world map.
The New York Times
The New York Times is dedicated to helping people understand the world through on-the-ground, expert and deeply reported independent journalism. Their mission is simple: They seek the truth and help people understand the world. This mission is rooted in their belief that great journalism has the power to make each reader’s life richer and more fulfilling, and all of society stronger and more just.
SMArt
Launched in 2014 by the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions (FDDM), the Sustainable Mountain Art (SMArt) programme aims to increase the perception of both decision-makers and the population as a whole, of the challenges facing mountain regions through artworks, and more particularly photographs.
Crossmark
Crossmark offers concept-to-production digital content, livestreams, webina, virtual reality, augmented productions, and strategy services. Produced from their own Cabfabstudios, the Crossmark team started out as traditional filmmakers, but see themselves nowadays as Content Creators for all kinds of platforms.
artnet
artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online. Founded in 1989 with the goal of bringing transparency to the art world, artnet’s comprehensive suite of products offers a variety of art market resources to our audience of collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts.
Lampoon
Lampoon is an international magazine, published on a quarterly basis, dedicated to sustainable matters in the anthropocene. A global bible reference, published in Italian and a worldwide edition in English. The editorial activity is focused on circular economies and global forestry, whilst showcasing manufacturing and crafts, and reporting on the luxury and design industry.
horizon!
horizon! is an Out of Home brand of ESH Media, the leading media group in French-speaking Switzerland. Specialising in display, horizon! has its own development resources to offer local players modern, efficient and ecological tools. The Verbier|GATEWAY screen is the number one immersive screen in Switzerland located at the Médran ski lift in Verbier.
artgenève
Over the course of 10 years of continued development and consolidation, artgenève has taken root in the Geneva Lake region, establishing itself as a high end and internationally renowned contemporary and modern art fair. artgenève welcomes international galleries and also devotes a large area to public and private collections, as well as independent spaces and curators, promoting a dynamic dialogue between institutions and galleries.
