The Art Pilgrim is a curated guide to the world’s most exciting modern and contemporary art journeys
A new way to experience art, beyond the museum, where travel, place, and encounter are part the work.
*What is an Art Pilgrimage?
Since the 1950s, artists have increasingly sought new contexts for presenting their work beyond the traditional museum. An art pilgrimage invites the viewer to travel to destinations where art is embedded in landscape and environment, making the journey itself an essential part of the experience.
This is a different way of travelling, one in which art is the destination. Art pilgrimages lead to islands, parks, vineyards, farms, deserts, underwater sites, and other extraordinary settings where works are encountered in direct relationship with place. These journeys offer deeply immersive, life-affirming experiences, to be undertaken alone or shared with others, and take the traveller to the edges of creativity.
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Maya Binkin is an exhibition curator, writer, and art advisor with over 25 years’ experience working internationally across the visual arts. She has curated exhibitions featuring major artists and has written exhibition catalogues, critical texts, and articles on contemporary art and culture.
Alongside her curatorial and writing practice, she advises some of the world’s most significant private collectors and families, supporting the development of serious, long-term art collections. Her work in this capacity affords her privileged access to artists’ studios, private collections, and VIP art events, including international fairs, previews, and exhibitions.
Extensive travel for her professional practice has taken her from leading global art capitals to remote and lesser-known destinations, shaping a nuanced, place-based perspective on how art is experienced. She is a regular contributor to artuk.org, The Art Newspaper, Forbes, and WhitePaperBy, and continues to work at the intersection of curatorial practice, writing, advisory work, and cultural travel.