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Adelina von Fürstenberg

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Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg, an international and renowned curator, is one of the field’s pioneers in broadening contemporary art. Swiss citizen, Armenian born in Istanbul, married to the photographer Graf Franz Egon von Fürstenberg, she is one of the first curators who showed an interest in non-European artists, thus opening the way for a multicultural approach in art. She is also a curator who took a more global and flexible approach to contemporary art exhibitions. Her objective is to create a new context for visual art and make it a more vigorous part of our lives, create a more vivid dialogue for it with other arts, and relate it more to worldwide social issues.

Biography

During her studies of Political Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Adelina von Fürstenberg founded the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, which she directed until 1989, presenting several solo shows of artists such as Luciano Fabro, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Francesco Clemente, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovic. During the same period she organized performances with John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Joan Jonas, Trisha Brown, Robert Wilson and many group exhibitions, among them the well known open-air exhibition Promenades (1985), on the Lake Leman shores at Parc Lullin, Genthod. In 1989 she organized large exhibitions in the Geneva headquarters of international organisations such as the ILO (International Labour Organization), where she presented The Line of Fire a model by the American architect Daniel Libeskind, scale 1/1, that would later become the Museum of Holocaust in Berlin. From 1989 to 1994, she directed Le Magasin, Centre d’Art Contemporain of Grenoble, France, where she curated large solo exhibitions of many artists, such as Gino De Dominicis, Vito Acconci, Per Kirkeby, Alighiero Boetti and Ilya Kabakov, as well as symposia and lectures on architecture, science and art. Furthermore, for five years she has directed the Ecole du Magasin (School of Curators). In 1993 for the 45th Venice Biennale she co-curated the Italian Pavilion and the Russian Pavilion (Ilya Kabakov). She also curated the exhibition Trésors du Voyage on the Island of San Lazzaro. On this occasion the international Jury of the Biennale awarded her a prize for her direction of Le Magasin and her work at the School of Curators.

In 1995, on the occasion of the UN 50th Anniversary, she was invited to concieve and curate the exhibition Dialogues of Peace, an international exhibition presented at the UN Headquarters, in Geneva. Chen Zhen, Kcho, Tadashi Kawamata, Nari Ward, Robert Rauschenberg, Alfredo Jaar, Kingelez are some of the 60 artists who contributed to the exhibition. In 1996 she founded ART for The World, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) associate to the UN Department of Public Information for the diffusion and promotion of the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through art, the organization of exhibitions and events around the world. Adelina von Füstenberg has curated with ART for The World, at the occasion of the Venice Biennales, at the Armenian Monastery of San Lazzaro in Venice, one man shows of Robert Rauschenberg (1997), Philip Johnson (1999), and Jannis Kounellis (2003). In Milan at Hangar Bicocca, she has organized the world avant-première Balkan Epic by Marina Abramovic (2006) and two large group shows COLLATERAL When Art Looks at Cinema (2007, with Philippe Parreno, Mike Kelly, Pierre Huyghe, etc.) and URBAN MANNERS. 15 Contemporary Artists from India (2007, with Subodh Gupta, Sheba Chhachhi, Raghubir Singh, etc.).

Adelina von Fürstenberg initiated and curated the 1st and the 2nd edition of Contemporary Art on the Lake Maggiore, inviting Jannis Kounellis in 2005, and the artists William Kentridge, Liliana Moro and Robert Wilson with the composer Michael Galasso, in 2006 to create new works for the botanical garden and the Palazzo of the Borromeo Island, Isola Madre. Since 1998, she collaborates with the Regional Direction of SESC Sao Paulo, Brazil, in curating large exhibitions, among others Balkan Erotic Epic by Marina Abramovic (2006) at SESC Pinheiros, Mulher, Mulheres and COLLATERAL 2 (2007) at SESC Paulista, Voom Portraits by Robert Wilson(2008) at SESC Pinheiros and URBAN MANNERS 2 during January-April 2010 at SESC Pompeia.

Adelina von Fürstenberg shares the common belief that art and cinema are two of the strongest catalysts that can facilitate human relations, especially within the context of political, ideological or religious spheres. Knowing that cinema is peculiarly potent to familiarize cultures to each other, to create endless possibilities that regenerate and enrich our social lives, in 2008, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), she created and produced a long feature film inspired by the UDHR and composed a series of short movies directed by 22 prominent video artists and filmmakers from all over the world and screened in more than 50 film festivals. Currently she is working with the Burkinabe filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo on the production of a new long feature film, The Mango Tree, and with Alliance of Civilizations of the UN on a new series of short films Then & Now : Beyond Borders and Differences in involving independent well known filmmakers from the five continents to promote tolerance and encourage inclusiveness by creating films stories highlighting the long-standing historical spiritual and cultural links across cultures and beliefs despite the current tensions.

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