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Curator Information Adelina von Fürstenberg Founder and Director of ART for the World Awards 1993- Special Mention of the Jury of the 45th Biennale of Venice for her direction of the

School of Curators of Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble. 2008- Cultural Event 2008 of the Council of Europe for the ART for The World film production

of Stories on Human Rights, in recognition of a handful of exceptional and innovative artistic projects organised in Europe.

2015- Golden Lion for the Best National Participation by the International Jury of the Biennale for the curatorship of Armenity, the National Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 56th Biennale di Venezia.

2015- Medal of Merit conferred by the President of the Republic of Armenia 2016- Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim, conferred by the Federal Office of

Culture, Swiss Confederation. Biography and Selected Projects Adelina von Fürstenberg is an internationally renowned curator, one of the field's pioneers in broadening contemporary art. A Swiss citizen of Armenian origin, granddaughter of Architect Dikran Kalfa Cüberyan, she was born in Istanbul. She is married to photographer Graf Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, son of fashion icon, Gloria Guiness and Count Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg. Von Fürstenberg was one of the first curators to show an interest in non-Western artists, as well taking a more global and flexible approach to contemporary art exhibitions, by bringing art into unique spaces such as monasteries, medersas, public buildings, squares, islands, and parks. Her objective is to endow a broader context to visual art making it a more integral part of our lives, and forging discourse and dialogue on major issues of our times. While studying Political Science at the University of Geneva, she founded and directed the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. She later directed Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain and its School of Curators in Grenoble, France. Among her most important projects with the Centre d'Art Contemporain, was the groundbreaking Promenades, 1985 on the shores of Lake Leman at Parc Lullin, Genthod, comprising in-situ sculptures and open-air installations. The project inspired the creation of several well-known sculpture parks which have been developed subsequently including Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France; The Gori Art Collection at Villa Celle, Pistoia,Italy: The Riehen Park, Basel, Switzerland; and the new The Kröller-Müller Museum's site-specific art installations in Otterlo, Netherlands. In 1988, at the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, she produced the The Line of Fire exhibition of American architect Daniel Libeskind, comprising a 35 meter long, 1:1 scale installation that later became the model for his design of the Jewish Museum Berlin. With the United Nations and their agencies, she has curated major exhibitions including Dialogues of Peace, 1995, presented at the UN Headquarters in Geneva on the occasion of the UN's 50th anniversary with the participation of 60 artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Ilya Kabakov, Chen Zhen, Tadashi Kawamata, and Alfredo Jaar. In 1996 on the occasion of the World Health Organizations’s 50th anniversary, she curated the sweeping traveling exhibition,The Edge of Awareness, opening in Geneva before showing in New York, São Paulo, New Delhi and Milan. In 2008, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), she conceived and produced the long feature film Stories on Human Rights, composed of a series of 22 short movies which were inspired by the UDHR, each directed by a prominent filmmaker. After premiering at the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero, in Paris on the anniversary of the signing of the UDHR, 10 December 2008, the film has since been screened in more than 90 film festivals around the world.

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ART for The World Mrs. Adelina von Fürstenberg founded ART for The World, NGO associated with the UN Department of Public Information, in Geneva in 1995. Its mission is to merge ethics with aesthetics to build cross-cultural relationships to create meaningful and lasting dialogue between peoples, cultures and worldviews through contemporary art and cinema, while fostering education, well-being, and sustainability as universal values. www.artfortheworld.net Permanent Collaborators Since then Mrs. von Fürstenberg’s activites have transpired across five continents, engaging and exhibiting well-known established artists, as well as young promising artists. In Brazil, she works in partnership with the Regional Direction of SESC São Paulo, the major cultural institution of the country, curating significant exhibitions, among them The Overexcited Body- Art and Sport in Contemporary Art, 2001 and Urban Manners 2, 2010, the first Indian contemporary art exhibition in South America. In Italy where she has many collaborators and followers, she has curated projects on regularly in Venice, Rome, Florence and Milan, including major shows at the 5’000 square metered Pirelli HangarBicocca, among them Balkan Epics by Marina Abramovic, 2006 and Urban Manners, 2007, introducing Italy to Indian contemporary art. More recently, her curation of Here Africa, received wide acclaim in Switzerland and Brazil, and will be presented in July 2017 under the auspices of the Mayor of Milan at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan. Media Coverage Mrs. von Fürstenberg's activities are covered regularly by major press and media. Her first show with Art for The World in 1995, Dialogues of Peace was featured prominently on the front page of the New York Times, marking an auspicious start for the organization. Thenceforward, her curatorial projects have been chronicled by publications including Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Libération, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, The Financial Times, Die Zeit, Le Temps, La Tribune de Genève. See ART for The World Selected Press on www.artfortheworld.net. Visitors Thanks to the collaboration with important international institutions, von Fürstenberg's exhibitions have had an extensive public reach around the world. The Mediterranean Approach attracted 152'000 visitors in São Paulo, FOOD 90'000 visitors in Marseille, and Armenity more than 120'000 visitors in Venice. From FOOD to AQUA Under the auspices of EXPO Milan 2015 and in partnership with the Department of Culture of Geneva, between 2012-2015, von Fürstenberg curated FOOD, an expansive art project on Mother Earth, Agriculture and Nutrition, inviting artists to explore various questions of food, simultaneously addressing issues of survival, health, the economy and culture. It premièred in Geneva at the Musée Ariana, then traveled to São Paulo and MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations et de la Méditerranée), Marseille. Continuing with the same concern on environment, health and well-being, in 2016 von Fürstenberg has conceived her latest exhibition: AQUA or The Old Jaguar Knows Where to Find Water, having already secured the patronage of UN Water/WMO, the City of Geneva, Les Services Industriels de Genève (SIG), and the Department of Development and Cooperation (DDC)/ Swiss Confederation. Through the works of contemporary artists from different parts of the world with varied backgrounds and perspectives, AQUA raises awareness of the long-term need to preserve our natural resources, maintain an overall ecological balance and reduce environmental damage. This new monumental project of ART for the World reminds us of our relationship and responsibility to water, and its wide ranging effects on contemporary society.

   

2015 ART for The World Activities

Curatorship and Exhibition GENEVA 29 January – 2 February 2015 MARTA DELL’ANGELO ArtGeneve, International Art Fair VENICE 6 May – 3 November 2015 ARMENITY/HAYOUTIOUN 56th Biennale of Venice National Pavilion of Armenia Golden Lion for Best National Participation Participating Artists: Haig Aivazian, Nigol Bezjian, Anna Boghiguian, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, Mekhitar Garabedian, Aikaterini Gegisian, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Aram Jibilian, Nina Katchadourian, Melik Ohanian, Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Rosana Palazyan, Sarkis, Hrair Sarkissian Catalogue : Armenian/English, 177 pages, 3000 copies Number of visitors: 120’000 SAO PAULO 19 November 2015 – 28 February 2016 AQUI AFRICA SESC Belenzinho, Sao Paulo African Contemporary Art Participating Artists: Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Omar Ba, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Edson Chagas, Kudzanai Chiurai, Romuald Hazoumé, Samuel Kane Kwei, Rigobert Nimi, J.D.’Okhai Ojeikere, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Chéri Samba, Abderrahmane Sissako, Barthélémy Toguo Brochure : Portugese, 48 pages, 30'000 copies Number of visitors: 90’000

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BROCHURE ART FOR THE WORLD English and French, 5’000 copies Brochure presenting the activities and goals of the organization. Widely distributed at ART for The World’s booth at ArtGeneve, Venice Biennale and at many other activities of ART for The World.

Other Activities JURY CINEMA PLATFORM (ATCP) - YEREVAN Member of the jury workshop ATCP proposed in the context of the 12ème edition of the GOLDEN APRICOT Yerevan International Film Festival (July 2015) JURY PREMIO MAXXI - ROME Member of the Jury of the Grand Prix of Italian art, MAXXI Rome 2016 (December 2015)

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2016 ART for The World Activities

20th Annivesary of ART for The World

Curation and Exhibition GENEVA 28 – 31 January2016 PLAYGROUNDS & TOYS - AN ONGOING PROJECT, 2000 ArtGeneve, International Art Fair Artists exhibited: Omar Ba, Fabiana de Barros, Sergio Augusto Gio, Fabrice Gygi, Los Carpinteros, Tony Morgan, Liliana Moro

GENEVA 3 – 4 April 2016 ULAY - PERFORMANCE ET PROJECTION Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) In collaboration with the MAH Film Screening of Performing Life, Auditorium Attendees: 200 persons Performance Invisible Opponent, Salles Palatines Spectators: 350 persons

GENEVA 28 April – 17 July 2016 URS FISCHER, FALSE FRIENDS – EXPOSITION Musée d’art et d’histoire In collaboration with the MAH With a selection of works from the DESTE Foundation and the Dakis Joannou Collection Participating Artists : Pawel Althamer, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Fischi&Weiss, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith

Number of Visitors: 30'000 persons

Other Activities VENICE 28 May 2016 EXPERIENCING THE MUSEUM – Conference and debate Organised by Le Pôle Muséal* and the Swiss Foundation for Culture, Pro Helvetia Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi In the context of the 15th International Biennale of Architecture Debate on contemporary architecture and the museum experience Introduction and moderation by Adelina von Fürstenberg, Director, ART for The World Speakers: Anne-Catherine Lyon, State Counselor, Canton of Vaud, Pascal Broulis, State Counselor, Canton of Vaud; Chantal Prod’Hom, Director of mudac, Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, and President of Pôle muséal, Lausanne; Christoph Gantenbein, Architect, Christ & Gantenbein, Basel; Fabrizio Barozzi, Architect, Barozzi/Veiga, Barcelona; Manuel Aires Mateus, Architect, Office of Aires Mateus, Lisbon. Attendees : 400 persons

BASEL 13 June 2016 SWISS GRAND AWARD FOR ART / PRIX MERET OPPENHEIM Conferred by the Federal Office of Culture to Adelina von Fürstenberg, Director ART for The World

« PARTICIPATION », ART FOR THE WORLD 1995-2016 Book retracing the 20 years of activities of the organization. May 2016

Mousse Publishing, Milan, ART for The World Color, black and white, and images 256 pages, English 2'000 copies

http://www.artfortheworld.net/participation

GENEVA 21 October 2016 THE ROLE OF THE ARTS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Library of the UN Office of Geneva UN Library Talk in the context of the Geneva launch of PARTICIPATION Speakers : Charles Beer, President of Pro Helvetia and Former President of the State Council of the Canton of Geneva/ Head of Public Education, Culture and Sport, Switzerland; Danilo Santos de Miranda, Regional Director of SESC, São Paulo, Brazil; Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director of documenta 14, 2017, Athens, Greece/ Kassel, Germany; Bathélémy Toguo, Artist and Founder of Bandjoun Station Project, Cameroon. Upcoming Projects 2017-2018 LANCY/GENEVA FABRICATION OF THE PLAYGROUND BY FABRICE GYGI – A PUBLIC PROJECT for the 20th Anniversary of ART for The World June 2017, Lancy

GENEVA 22 March – 31 August 2017 AQUA – The Old Jaguar Knows Where to Find Water Les Berges de Vessy – L’Ile Rousseau – Le Château de Penthes Traveling to other locations globally 2017-2018 AQUA or The Old Jaguar Knows Where to Find Water is a sweeping contemporary art exhibition now in preparation in Geneva, in venues close to Lac Leman, the Rhone and Arve Rivers, and the park and Chateau de Penthes. Composed of paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and performances of numerous internationally renowned artists. AQUA's aim is to bring public awareness to the issues on the preservation of our environment and sustainability, in particular to issues linked to water and the impact of human activity on the equilibrium of our ecosystems. The exhibition will be inaugurated on 22 March, 2017, World Water Day at three venues in parallel. With the patronage of UN Water, the UN inter-agency mechanism on freshwater related issues, AQUA is organized in partnership with SIG (Services industriels genevois), The City of Geneva, Geneva Water Hub, and the DDC/ DFAE of Switzerland.