Cultural Trips with CATIL
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These cultural excursions last between two to four days and are thoughtfully curated to provide participants with a deep understanding of each city’s modern and contemporary art scene.
We visit prominent exhibitions, explore artist studios, and occasionally meet with collectors, offering a unique glimpse into the art world.
My trips are more than just visits; they are enjoyable moments spent together, allowing us to connect with the art and culture of each destination. I ensure that no exhibition visit ends without a comprehensive understanding of its significance, the history behind the museum, and its relevance.
Alongside our artistic explorations, we indulge in delicious meals, sharing not just food but also insights and experiences that enrich our journey. Our journeys are limited in size and highly personalised. Some experiences are not listed online to preserve the privacy of our hosts and the uniqueness of the experience
Join us to discover the beauty of art in a new light as we explore these incredible cities together.
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The next trip to book is now MADRID, Spain on 6 and 7 March 2026.
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After visiting the art fair ARCOmadrid, we will see two major contemporary Spanish artists: the painter Juan Uslé at the Museo Reina Sofía and the sculptor Juan Muñoz at the Prado, offering two very different yet complementary artistic voices.
To complete the journey, we will visit the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to see the Danish artist Hammershøi, and explore a more politically engaged exhibition, Liberty and Democracy, at La Casa Encendida, which offers a thoughtful reflection on current social questions.
This year I would also like to visit the masterpieces of the Palacio Real.
PREVIOUS TRIPS
Over the last two years, I have organised immersive cultural trips to some of the world’s most vibrant cities, including :
New York USA
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Cultural Trip to New York: Art in Motion Across Museums, Fairs & Conversations
This journey spanned iconic institutions like MoMA, the Guggenheim, and a gallery tour and the Whitney, and timed with major art fairs such as Frieze and TEFAF. We met with a curator working in film, a prestigious collector who showed us his collection and the director of a prestigious institution and explored how contemporary art lives within both institutional and private spheres.
Paris, France
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Paris | Contemporary Perspectives in the City of Light
I organised several trips to Paris, offering a curated program on Paris’s vibrant contemporary art scene. We visited Art Basel Paris (https://www.artbasel.com/paris?lang=en) and Art Paris (https://www.artparis.com/en), the city’s leading art fairs, where galleries from across Europe and beyond converged at the Grand Palais, offering insight into current market trends and emerging voices.
At the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, we explored bold, large-scale installations and cutting-edge curatorial projects housed in a masterfully restored historical building by Tadao Ando—where contemporary art dialogues with the architecture of commerce and empire.
The experience was enriched by several gallery tours in different Parisian districts, revealing different facets of Parisian artistic life, from established names to experimental project spaces.
Berlin, Germany
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Berlin | Contemporary Art Immersion
Berlin unfolded as a city where historical gravity and contemporary energy meet in striking ways. We explored powerful retrospectives—Gerhard Richter at the Neue Nationalgalerie—and caught a final glimpse of the Pergamon Museum before its long-term closure for renovation.
A private tour of the Impressionist collection at the Museum Barberini offered a moment of quiet reflection, while visits to a Berlin-based painter’s studio and a private collection brought us into the heart of the city’s living, breathing art scene.
Venice, Italy
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Cultural Trip to Venice: Navigating the Venice Biennale & Beyond
At the Venice Biennale, we explored how artists from around the world responded to the theme “Foreigners Everywhere”. Highlights included intimate guided visits through the Arsenale and Giardini, major exhibitions at the Pinault Collection, and encounters with cutting-edge contemporary installations in unexpected Venetian spaces and gardens.
Milan, Italy
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Cultural Trip to Milan: Art & Architecture
Milan revealed itself as a city where radical contemporary art and architecture meets refined historical context. At the Fondazione Prada, we explored the exhibition Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to the 21st Century in a space designed by Rem Koolhaas.
We continued at the Pirelli HangarBicocca where contemporary art is exhibited in a former factory and journeyed to Villa Panza in Varese—a serene 18th-century villa where American minimalism meets Italian elegance.
Complementing this were gallery visits, offering insight into Milan’s dynamic commercial scene.
This trip balanced intellectual engagement with aesthetic delight—an ideal encounter with Milan’s layered cultural landscape.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Cultural Trip to Amsterdam & The Hague: A Journey Through Masterpieces
Centered around the once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, this journey unfolded across both historical and contemporary landscapes—from the Girl with the Pearl Earring in the Hague to modern photography at FOAM and avant-garde exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum.
The photo is blurred deliberately to keep the privacy of the group members
Madrid, Spain
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Madrid Through Art: An Exclusive Cultural Journey
We embarked on an unforgettable trip to Madrid centered around the vibrant ARCOmadrid art fair. We experienced the city’s rich artistic heritage through guided visits to masterpieces at the Reina Sofía and Prado Museums. We wandered through the halls of a stunning historic palace and gained exclusive access to a private art collection rarely open to the public. To top it off, we enjoyed a special meeting with a prominent local gallery, gaining unique insights into Madrid’s contemporary art scene. This curated journey blended iconic culture with insider experiences, creating a truly special experience.
Vienna, Austria
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Cultural Trip to Vienna: Art, Memory & the 20th Century
A deep dive into Vienna’s 20th-century history through its art, this trip moved from Klimt’s gilded opulence to the quiet weight of Rachel Whiteread’s Holocaust memorial. Highlights included Louise Bourgeois at the Belvedere and exhibitions around Michelangelo and the American photographer Joel Sternfeld at the Albertina and a rare studio visit with a celebrated Austrian artist.
This was an intense and thought-provoking trip—designed to deepen our appreciation of how art reflects, resists, and remembers history.
Düsseldorf, Germany
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Cultural Trip to Düsseldorf & Cologne: Two major contemporary art centres in Germany
Exploring the post-war avant-garde and its living echoes, we encountered Gerhard Richter’s masterworks at the KunstPalace in Düsseldorf in a major retrospective, Fluxus interventions at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and Sheila Hicks’s sculptural threads at the Kunsthalle and discovered masterpieces in important museums. A gallery tour and an exclusive artist studio visit offered insight into the Rhineland’s lasting influence. This trip bridged iconic names and emerging voices, institutional landmarks and private encounters—an immersive look at the cultural richness of Germany’s Rhineland.
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cultural Trip to Copenhagen: Light, Form & the Spirit of Danish Art
Our Copenhagen trip was a curated journey through the best of contemporary, modern and classic art, set against the refined aesthetics of Denmark’s cultural landscape.
This journey traced the poetic intersections of contemporary art, architecture, and sensory experience. From James Turrell’s immersive light works to Anish Kapoor’s monumental forms, private foundations, the stunning Glyptotek, a walk at the harbour and Danish 19th and 20th century history at SMK, we explored the Danish rich capital.
This was a thoughtfully layered experience—where art, architecture, and history came together in true Scandinavian harmony.
Lyon, France
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Lyon Trip: Tracing “Rivers of Meaning” Through Art
We traced the 17th Biennale de Lyon across former factories, cloisters, museums, and gardens—each space hosting powerful installations under the theme “Crossing the Water.” The experience offered a unique look at how contemporary art can flow across histories, spaces, and identities.
Lille, France
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Lille & Surroundings | Architecture, Art & Industrial Elegance
This quiet journey through northern France revealed a dialogue between space, memory, and art.
At Villa Cavrois, Robert Mallet-Stevens’ modernist masterpiece stood as a vision of total design—where architecture became a language of clarity, rhythm, and restraint.
In Roubaix, La Piscine offered a dreamlike setting: a former Art Deco swimming pool transformed into a museum, where stained-glass light framed art drawn from both craft and industry.
We ended at LaM, where modernist icons meet the raw immediacy of Art Brut. The visit invited reflection on what counts as art, and how institutions shape the stories we tell about it.
RAJOUTE SUD DE LA FRANCE !!!
South of France
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