{"id":244997,"date":"2026-01-18T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244997\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:16:14","slug":"swatch-art-peace-hotel-turns-15-as-the-brand-unveils-the-swatch-x-guggenheim-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244997\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatch Art Peace Hotel turns 15 as the brand unveils the Swatch x Guggenheim collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swatch Art Peace Hotel \u2013 one of the most prestigious residencies in the art world \u2013 celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The name of the residency originates from its location.<\/p>\n

Situated on The Bund<\/a> \u2013 the waterfront area along the Huangpu River in the heart of Shanghai \u2013 the building where the residency takes place was formerly the Palace Hotel and later the Peace Hotel South Building. In 2011, Swatch, the Swiss brand known for its design-led timepieces, took over the heritage building and transformed it into studios and apartments where every year artists from all over the world get to live and work for up to six months.\"TheThe Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai is housed in a heritage building in the heart of the city. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

The residency, which has so far welcomed more than 600 artists, is the brainchild of Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek Jr, who fell in love with the building while walking around Shanghai. Rather than turning the structure into yet another luxury boutique, Hayek wanted to celebrate \u201cart, the ultimate luxury\u201d, as he explained in a video message shown at an event in Shanghai to commemorate the anniversary.<\/p>\n

Both established and upcoming artists can apply for the residency, which doesn\u2019t have a specific brief and gives participants complete freedom to come up with their own projects. The only requirement is that they create something with a meaningful connection to the experience.<\/p>\n

\"ArtistArtist Luca Bray (left) at an event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredible,\u201d said Luca Bray, an Italian artist who joined the residency back in 2013 and was invited to attend the celebration in Shanghai. \u201cI love travelling, and when I came here, I went to all the local stores to buy art supplies like paint and even pencils used by children in schools, and used them to make my artwork because I wanted to have a connection with Shanghai,\u201d he added. \u201cI used to paint on canvas, but after coming here, I started painting on wood too and saw how my work changed thanks to all these influences from China. I did six months but I could have done a year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA watch depicting Edgar Degas\u2019 Dancers in Green and Yellow (1903) forms part of the Swatch x Guggenheim collection. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

The Shanghai event was also a chance for Swatch to unveil its latest Art Journey collection. Since 2018, the company has collaborated with institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou and the Louvre in Paris, and the Tate Gallery in London on capsule collections that feature masterpieces from those museums\u2019 holdings.<\/p>\n

The Swatch Art Journey 2026 range was created in partnership with the Guggenheim New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. It features four artworks: Dancers in Green and Yellow (1903) by Edgar Degas; The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (1908) by Claude Monet; The Bavarian Don Giovanni (1919) by Paul Klee \u2013 all from the Guggenheim New York \u2013 and Jackson Pollock\u2019s Alchemy (1947), part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swatch Art Peace Hotel \u2013 one of the most prestigious residencies in the art world \u2013 celebrates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,337,114,1657,438,184,146,3448,85,46,231,43,545,5959,2224,125,208,2711],"class_list":{"0":"post-244997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-asia","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-economy","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-hong-kong","19":"tag-il","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-lifestyle","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-opinion","24":"tag-south-china-morning-post","25":"tag-sport","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}