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Francesca Bornemisza-Thyssen, Jane da Mosto, Sonia Levy, Nathalie Guiot & Markus Reymann

Ocean Space/TBA21

The series Creators facing Climate Emergency provides a platform for conversations between artists, thinkers and scientists to create new narratives, raise awareness and incite action in the face of climate change, using artists as mediators.
These conversations also propose new ways of producing and disseminating art in the face of our fragile environment and accelerating technological change.

How to save Venice?
Venice is a place of unique cultural heritage at risk from climate change, but also a symbol of the art world and its environmental inertia. How are artists and researchers collaborating to protect the city, as well as marine ecosystems worldwide?

On the occasion of the Venice Biennale and in partnership with Ocean Space/TBA21, Nathalie Guiot invites Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Founder and Chair of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Sonia Levy, visual artist, Jane da Mosto, environmental scientist and Markus Reymann, Director of TBA21–Academy for a conversation about the protection of the oceans.

Speakers

Founder and Chair of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza is an activist, philanthropist and patron of the arts. Thyssen-Bornemisza has supported artists in the production and creation of works that fuels engagement with the most pressing issues of our times. Since 2002, TBA21 has built an unparalleled collection of contemporary art including more than 300 commissions, by such artists as Olafur Eliasson, Claudia Comte, Ragnar Kjartensson, Walid Raad, Rikrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei.
In 2011, Thyssen-Bornemisza co-founded TBA21–Academy with Director Markus Reymann, and in 2019 TBA21–Academy inaugurated a new art space in Venice called Ocean Space. Thyssen-Bornemisza has received numerous honors, including a Distinction for its contribution to the Environment and Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Jamaica in 2021, the Simmons Award for Philanthropic Excellence in 2015 and the Merit Award in Gold for its cultural engagement in Vienna in 2009.