Exhibitions & Events

Smart classrooms, excursions to ancient Egypt by means of virtual reality: digitisation is opening up major opportunities in education but also confronting teaching staff with challenges. How can they help shape the digital transformation and what competences do they require? The answers can be found at didacta DIGITAL Swiss, our new meeting point for digitisation in education. From 28 to 30 November, new concepts and digital teaching resources, coding, robotics and infrastructure are being featured at Messe Basel for the first time. An interview with the Head of didacta DIGITAL Swiss, Encarnación Maria Dellai.

Star chefs and robots, expert round-table discussions and gourmet tours, a new guest fair and about 650 exhibitors. The Swiss hospitality scene is meeting up at Igeho from 16 to 20 November. About 70,000 people from the hotel trade and the catering, take-away and care sectors are expected at Messe Basel. For Corinne Moser, this is her first Igeho as interim exhibition director and her fourth as head of communications. In this interview, she speaks about this year’s highlights, the organisational challenges and the influence of digitisation on the sector.

What will Baselworld look like in the future? On the last day of this year's Watch and Jewellery Show, Managing Director Michel Loris-Melikoff presented the vision and strategy for 2020 and beyond. The objective is to make Baselworld the most important community for the jewellery and watchmaking industry and transform it from a classic trade fair into an experience platform.

The trade fair of the future is a personalised "wow" experience for visitors, exhibitors and the media alike, an interactive intermediary partner – all year round and in digital form even after the live event has come to a close. Data plays a decisive role here. Find out more about the possibilities and uses of data, how you can turn big data into smart data and use this to benefit your business. And what's more – most of this data is already being captured.

A week packed with exhibition openings and guided tours, talks, studio viewings and parties: the Art Basel Cities Week will be held in Buenos Aires for the first time from 6 to 12 September. The highlight of the week will be Hopscotch, an exhibition shown in three districts of the city and at the same time a journey to squares and parks, abandoned buildings and industrial spaces. Patrick Foret, Director Business Initiatives at Art Basel, talks about the Cities Week and the new Art Basel Cities Initiative.

Exceptional art objects from antiquity to the present day: from 28 June to 4 July Masterpiece London is showing old and contemporary art, furniture and sculptures, jewellery, design and a great deal more. Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Chairman of this leading cross-collecting fair, presents his personal highlights.

With all the highlights being featured at the forthcoming Art Basel in Basel have you still managed to retain an overview? We present five highlights to you that are not to be missed when the international art world meets up again in Basel from 14 to 17 June 2018. Update: Now includes highlight videos of the 2018 edition.

Will the members of the Swiss parliament be present in the parliament building in the form of 3D holograms in future? Since the current parliament building is no long in keeping with the times, a new, digitalised high-tech building has to be created. It is being built from 16 to 20 January by the visitors to the Swissbau construction trade fair. This fictitious new building forms part of the special exhibition on digital transformation – the Swissbau Innovation Lab.

Well-known galleries, cooperation with The Armory Show of New York and a new image recognition app: the first ART DÜSSELDORF will be starting in a few days' time at the Areal Böhler (17 to 19 November). Its directors wish to boost the Rhineland as an art location and address young collectors in particular. 

Two founders from NYC want to revolutionize the art fair experience and data management. MCH Group's Moenen Erbuer and Tobias Boonstoppel have developed PRNCPL, a new technology platform that connects fair organizers and collectors. An additional app uses image recognition to connect the physical artworks to the digital fair catalog. Art Düsseldorf is was the first fair at which visitors can use the app. An interview with Moenen Erbuer, Head of Design & UX.

Discover 22 works of art that have been assigned to specific locations in the historic centre of Basel: the Parcours segment of Art Basel is showing works by artists like Ai Weiwei, Katinka Bock, Pedro Cabrita Reis und Amanda Ross-Ho in particular locations around the Münsterplatz from 12 to 18 June 2017. In this interview the curator, Samuel Leuenberger, presents the highlights, reveals how he sets about finding the perfect location for a work of art and shares with us the other locations in which he would like to display works of art. 

A new name, a new home and the MCH Group as a new co-proprietor – 2017 is bringing a threefold premiere for the ART DÜSSELDORF art fair. In this interview its directors, Andreas Lohaus and Walter Gehlen, talk about the participation of the Swiss live-marketing company group, the move to Düsseldorf and how they want to develop ART DÜSSELDORF into the leading regional art fair in Germany and the Benelux countries. 

A never-before-seen perspective on Messe Basel; a drone flight over the Messe Basel site with the new complex  by Herzog & de Meuron, Exhibition Square and the Messe Basel tower building.

Exhibition grounds must meet their customers' requirements at all times and, in the ideal case, must more than meet their needs. Precisely what goes to make up a successful exhibition complex, and how an exhibition complex can equip itself for the future was set out by MCH Group CEO René Kamm at the UFI Global Congress in Shanghai, taking the example of Messe Basel. Around 600 industry leaders met there in early november, in order to discuss the future of the exhibition sector.