Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Noey invites you on this exclusive Swiss art odyssey in Zürich and Basel, featuring special access to Art Basel’s groundbreaking installations.
Exceptional Access to the World’s Leading Art Fair
Explore Europe’s richest modern art collection at the Sammlung Rosengart Luzern, where Picasso, Klee, and Chagall’s works hang in a 17th-century palace. At the Vitra Campus, join an expert-guided tour of an architectural wonderland, featuring Frank Gehry’s first European project alongside creations by 11 other Pritzker Prize winners. In Riehen, Renzo Piano’s light-filled Fondation Beyeler showcases Monet and Van Gogh masterpieces. Zürich’s Löwenbräu quarter reveals cutting-edge art in a converted brewery. Marvel at Jean Tinguely’s 23-foot Heureka Fountain, a kinetic sculpture on Lake Zürich’s shore. A curator at the Kunstmuseum Basel will introduce you to the world’s oldest public art collection, spanning from 15th–century Holbeins to Cézanne’s Post-Impressionist canvases.
Highlights
- Join Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and art historian Christopher Noey for an exclusive inside look at Swiss craftsmanship and artistry in Zürich and Basel
- Immerse yourself in Art Basel, the world’s most prestigious modern and contemporary art fair, going behind the scenes of its groundbreaking installations
- Enjoy a curator-led tour of the Sammlung Rosengart Luzern, home to one of Europe’s richest modern art collections, admiring iconic works by leading artists who were friends of the founder, such as Picasso, Klee, and Chagall
- Go behind the scenes with a curator at the spellbinding Vitra Campus, a living museum of contemporary furniture design and architecture, featuring structures by architects such as Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, and Zaha Hadid
- Stroll the light-filled galleries of Fondation Beyeler with a curator, encountering masterpieces by Monet, Van Gogh, and Bacon in a Renzo Piano-designed space outside Basel
- Navigate Zürich’s Löwenbräu art quarter with a leading gallerist, gaining insider access to cutting-edge exhibitions at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, housed in a transformed 19th-century brewery
- Take a special look at one of the world’s most remarkable modern sculptures, Jean Tinguely’s Heureka, a 23-foot-tall “purposeless machine” on Lake Zürich’s shore
- Delight in a private, curator-guided tour of the world’s oldest public art collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel, whose works span from 15th-century paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger to modern canvases by Van Gogh, Monet, and Cézanne
