Seven days in Davos.
The ART DAVOS programme runs the whole week, while the world is in town for the World Economic Forum.
- Sat · 16 JanArrival
- Sun · 17 JanOpening Night
- Mon · 18 JanArt & Culture
- Tue · 19 JanArt & Wealth
- Wed · 20 JanArt & Luxury
- Thu · 21 JanArt & Technology
- Fri · 22 JanDeparture
The Programme
One continuous programme,
morning to late.
On stage
- Panels
- Fireside conversations
- Roundtables & gallery walkthroughs
Off stage
woven between the sessions, flying
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
Curated and hosted by ART DAVOS
Arrival
The week begins quietly.
Guests arrive in Davos. The gallery at Talstrasse 19 is open all day. The first conversations of the week happen in front of the exhibition.
- The exhibition
- Arrivals
- A first glass
Gallery Day & Opening Night
The last quiet day, and the first night.
The gallery is open all day, with private viewings on request and walkthroughs of the exhibition. In the evening, Opening Night: cocktails in the gallery, the first room of the week.
- Private viewings
- Walkthroughs of the exhibition
- Opening Night
Art & Culture
The day the art world sits down with the world.
A day about who makes culture and who keeps it. Artists and the galleries that show them. Museums, foundations and the patrons who fund them. The national collections and the estates that outlive the artists. The curators who choose what gets seen. The directors of the biennales, the fairs and the festivals, who set where the art world goes next. And the diplomats and ministers who decide what a country shows the world.
- Artists, museums & galleries
- Collections, estates & foundations
- Film, music & architecture
- Biennales, fairs & cities
- Culture & diplomacy
Art & Wealth
Collecting, patronage, and the business of art.
A day about what art is worth, and what owning it actually involves. Collectors and the family offices behind them. Private banks, the insurers who price what cannot be replaced, the lenders who will take a painting as collateral, and the houses that value and sell it. The corporations that have been collecting quietly for decades, and the sovereign money now doing it at national scale. Philanthropists, foundations, and the generation about to inherit all of it.
- Collecting & family offices
- Auctions, lending & insurance
- Corporate collections & sovereign wealth funds
- Patronage & philanthropy
- Legacy & succession
Art & Luxury
Watches, couture, jewellery, houses. The crafted world.
A day about craft at the level where it stops being production and starts being art. The maisons and the masters who make the objects, and the collectors who keep it. The architects and ateliers who build the rooms those objects sit in, to the same standard. The cars, the yachts and the jets now collected like paintings. The hotels and clubs where this world actually meets, and the tables where it eats.
- Watchmaking & jewellery
- Couture & the ateliers
- Hotels, residences & private clubs
- Motor cars, yachts & jets
- Collectible design & interiors
- Fine wine, spirits & gastronomy
Art & Technology
AI, crypto, robotics, science.
A day about what is being built right now. AI, and the labs and researchers training it. Music, film and images made by machine, and the studios, record labels and artists working out what that means. Crypto, tokens, and the infrastructure underneath. Robotics, science, design, and the materials that did not exist ten years ago. The founders building what comes next, and the funds already backing them. All of it in a room of collectors and institutions.
- AI & what comes next
- Crypto & tokens
- Digital art & assets
- Robotics, science & new materials
- Art in the age of the machine
Departure
An informal farewell.
A last day in the gallery for those still in town. Coffee, a final walk through the exhibition, goodbyes without a programme. The week closes, and the gallery carries on, as it does all year.
- Farewell in the gallery
- Last viewings
- Until next January