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.
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.
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.
Christie's
Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business with a physical presence in 46 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, and flagship international sales hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. Renowned and trusted for our expert live and online-only auctions, as well as bespoke private sales, Christie’s unparalleled network of specialists offers our clients a full portfolio of global services, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s auctions span more than 80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $500 to over $100 million.
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 Parisian fragrance house launched in 2007 by Clara Molloy and her husband John see fragrance as a journey, forging its identity around magical destinations and potent raw materials. This desire for travels to far-off places and encounters is the very reflection of the founding couple: she, the Parisian-Catalan poet, he, the sporty Irish globetrotter.
Memo like memory. Like souvenir. Like sillage
Copperfield Verbier
Copperfield is the world's only ski-in, ski-out International Baccalaureate (IB) school, offering a globally focused education in the Swiss Alps. Combining rigorous academics with alpine sports, Copperfield fosters a balanced development of mind and body. Through an inquiry-led IB curriculum, students explore creativity, critical thinking, and global citizenship. Our Visual Arts programme emphasizes contemporary practice and engagement with local and international artistic communities. As part of the Dukes Education family, Copperfield benefits from international exchange opportunities and a network of like-minded educational institutions.
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
With around 2,100 Bachelor and Master students, Zurich University of the Arts is one of the major and most diverse universities of the arts in Europe. The study and research programme covers the areas of art education, design, film, fine arts, music, dance, theatre, and transdisciplinary studies. In the centre of Zurich, the ZHdK is a dynamic place where passionate people from over 75 countries work, study, teach, research and further their education. The university has numerous exhibition and performance venues, where students’ projects can be shown to the public.
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.
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.
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
Founded in 2012, Art Genève brings together around 80 modern and contemporary art galleries, alongside a variety of national non-commercial entities, including private collections, institutions, schools, art centers, and foundations. Art Genève fosters dialogue between the commercial and institutional art worlds, shines on the international stage, and enriches local cultural life with events held both within and beyond the fair’s walls.
