2021 Verbier Art Summit
Resource Hungry: Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact

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The 2021 Summit programme featured new and former speakers in five new debates from Beijing, Verbier, New York, São Paulo and London, and a special artist residency debate to deepen the debate on the Resource Hungry theme. 

2020 Verbier Art Summit
Resource Hungry: Our Cultured Landscape and its Ecological Impact

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The 2020 Summit was curated by Nathalie de Gunzburg Director Jessica Morgan of New York's Dia Art Foundation. The Summit asked how to envision a way forward in finding harmony between art, ecology and resources.

2019 Verbier Art Summit
We are Many. Art, the Political and Multiple Truths.

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The 2019 Summit was curated by museum director Jochen Volz of Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil, around the political power of art. The 2019 Summit talks engage the art world in critical reflection on their social and political responsibilities.

2018 Verbier Art Summit

More than Real. Art in the Digital Age.

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The 2018 Summit was curated by museum director Daniel Birnbaum of the Moderna Museet Stockholm around emerging technologies and their impact on art, culture, economy and environment. The 2018 Summit talks explore innovative possibilities for art in the digital age.

2017 Verbier Art Summit

Size Matters! (De)Growth of the 21st Century Museum

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The 2017 Verbier Art Summit was organised in partnership with Beatrix Ruf and her curatorial team at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands, around the transformation of institutions and their increase in scale. The 2017 talks asked what “Size Matters!” means for museums, artists and the wider art world.