World Economic Forum Davos 2025

Sougwen Chung: meet the boundary-pushing pioneer of robot art

The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum

How the World Economic Forum is offering a global stage for collaboration between art and technology

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting in Davos

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change

Davos loses out on key Modern and contemporary collection after voters reject Kirchner Museum extension

The Ulmberg collection, comprising works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, may go to the city of Chur’s art museum in a different Swiss canton

Gary Tyler: the quilt artist who speaks up for the unjustly incarcerated

Released after being wrongly imprisoned for 41 years, the US artist spreads a message of hope and optimism

Jann Hanworth: a work in progress for recognition of women

The American Pop art pioneer’s mural project is closely tied to the concerns of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report

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Cristina Mittermeier: ‘It is now or never’ to address climate change

This pioneer in conservation photography combines her passion and skill to capture our planet’s fragility

Maria Balshaw: ‘Attitudes towards sustainability have shifted much faster in the last three to five years’

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and environmental crisis

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: the artist’s life in Davos

For 20 years, the troubled Expressionist found refuge, respite and inspiration in the Alpine town

Comment | Why seeing art by train should be the next big thing

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life