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Honorary President

Michael Møller

• Director-General United Nations Office at Geneva

Founder and Director

Adelina von Fürstenberg

• Recipient of the Golden Lion forBest National Participation 56th Venice Biennale 2015

• Recipient of the Prix Meret Oppenheim/Swiss Grand Art Award, 2016

ART for The World

1995Dialogues of Peace

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the United NationsPalais des Nations, Geneva

A project of ART for The World

AQUA Geneva, 22 March – 31 August 2017

Continuing its mission of merging contemporary artexhibitions with essential issues of our times, ARTfor The World, in the context of its programInterpreting Sustainability, is preparing a new artproject entitled AQUA.

Via the universal language of contemporaryart, AQUA is a strong medium to stimulate theongoing education of the UN SustainableDevelopment Goals, in particular No. 6 for thesustainable management of water and No. 15 forthe protection and promotion of ecosystems andbiodiversity.

The artworks will address the following topics:• Drinking water• Sanitation and hygiene• Water quality and wastewater• Water use and scarcity• Ecosystems• Transboundary waters• Water and climate change• Water and urbanization

With the institutional support of:

40 internationally renowned artists over 2 venues

Château de Penthes-Pregny, in International Geneva/UN area

Ile de Rousseau –situated on the Rhone River at the heart of Geneva

Eduardo Srur, BraziilHora da Onça Beber Água/Time for the Jaguar to Drink Water10m L x 4.25m H

at Île Rousseau

“Hora da Onça Beber Água” is a work of Brazilian,Eduardo Srur, depicting an endangered indigenousanimal of Brazil, now in danger of extinction.

The current water crisis in the Southeast and extremepollution of the Pinheiros river act in the symboliccontext of the sculpture and their representation in thelandscape of the city.

Sheba Chhachhi, IndiaThe Water Diviner, 2008video projection

Chhachhi’s large-scale installation The Water Diviner draws on Indian traditions,history and imagery to show the importance of water in Indian culture. The installationis complemented by a video that uses projections of fixed images and transparenciesto create an immersive environment—“suggesting the presence of water in every lifeform.”

Francesco Jodice, ItalyFilm still, A Water Tale, 2008

So starts a tale told by an old fisherman to his young companion, as they passthrough a desolate and arid environment where drought reigns. A Water Talerecalls that water is essential to life, land, and men. Francesco Jodice’s film giveswater the starring role as protagonist of the film, making it visible simply by itsabsence. Water becomes a myth, an oral history transmitted over generations. With draught affecting the sustenance of fishermen, it extends also to the people, fauna, and flora and as well, the environmental equilibrium of the planet.

Noritoshi Hirakawa, Japan

A WORLD MAP, model of a playground design for children2001“A World Map, is a playground for children to become attached to the earth. It is a topographical play-area which inverts our common perception of the world. The ‘land’ areas are solid and blue, while the ‘oceans’ are empty spaces filled with sand. Also the world is represented as ‘off-centred’ with the Asia-Pacific region in the middle, and Europe and the Americas on the edges at either sides.

Sylvie Defraoui, SwitzerlandFlood/Somerset , 2014, triptych, 255 x 130 cm each panel

Stephanie Nava, FranceLe cours figé des lignes, 2012

Le cours figé des lignes is a project realised during the artists’ residence at Moly Sabata of the AlbertGleizes Foundation, along the Rhone river. The installation focuses on the determination anddefinition of borders, as well as the idea of a natural frontier that can be represented by a riveras the Rhone. Even though lines are fixed, water can create connections and divide space in an organic way.

Participating Artists

Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestine)

Omar Ba (Senegal)

Nigol Bezjian (Syria)

Stefano Boccalini (Italy)

Alighiero Boetti (Italy)

Sheba Chhachhi (India)

Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil)

Silvie Defraoui (Switzerland)

Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (Denmark/Norway)

Michel Favre (Switzerland)

Fabrice Gygi (Switzerland)

Noritoshi Hirakawa (Japan)

Francesco Jodice (Italy)

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (Russia)

Shin Il Kim (South Korea)

Alexander Kosolapov (Russia)

Iseult Labote Karamaounas (Switzerland)

Andrea Marescalchi (Italy)

Antoni Miralda (Spain)

Marcelo Moscheta (Brazil)

Christian Philipp Müller (Switzerland)

Stéphanie Nava (France)

Dan Perjovschi (Romania)

Abraham Poincheval (France)

George Pusenkoff (Russia)

Shimabuku (Japan)

Veronica Smirnoff (Russia)

Eduardo Srur (Brazil)

Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon)

Maria Tsagkari (Greece)

Ulay (Germany)

Vivianne van Singer (Switzerland)

Velu Viswanadhan (India/France)

Gal Weinstein (Israel)

Chen Zhen (China)

Vasilis Zografos (Greece)

AQUA Parallel Activities

The exhibition will be accompanied by parallel performances, workshops and other educational activites devised to maintain a continuous dynamism of the project as well as promoting and facilitating access of the themes by widest possible audience, strengthening and amplifying the impact of the event. Corporate and client events may be arranged by our partnering sponsors in conjunction with these events.

Performances

Concerts, June-July 2017« Water Music », Handel, at Château de Penthes« Symphony for Water and Peace » by Geneva Water Hub/WMO

FilmsLong feature film series related to water

Family and ChildrenChildren’s activities and school programs during the school year

Family programs during the weekends and summers

ConferencesConferences on the theme of Water

AQUA Corporate Partner A unique sponsorship opportunity with one exhibition to be aligned with:• Support of Sustainability, Environment & Water Issues Awareness• UN and UN Agencies• Swiss Confederation and Ville de Geneve• Support of Contemporary Art

Benefits• Acknowledgement in all communications materials for the exhibition, with optional complementary inclusion

in Sao Paulo, Brazil exhibition (flyers, mailings, posters, press, etc to be distributed by all involved institutions)

• Acknowledgement in printed exhibition catalogue

• Invitation of partner to make a statement at Press Conference for exhibition

• Invitation of partner to make a statement at Official Opening for exhibition

• Invitations and complimentary entrance tickets for the exhibition as well as all parallel activities

• 100 copies of the exhibition catalogue

• 100 special numbered editions of the exhibition poster

• 20 invitations to the Official Opening reception.

• Opportunity to organize private viewings and special guided tours of the exhibition for guests and clients

• Opportunity to organize family & children events as part of the pedagogical parallel events program

• Opportunity to organize private staff or client receptions in conjunction with the parallel events program

(expenses to account of sponsor)

• 10% reduction on the purchase of an artwork exhibited in the show

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