In Conversation: Shaping our Common Future Through the Power of Art

In celebration of the launch of FUTURE OURS, a public art exhibition across New York City in response to the upcoming United Nations ‘Summit of the Future,’ Hauser & Wirth and ART 2030 are pleased to host a panel discussion with UN Director of Communications Campaigns Nanette Braun, FUTURE OURS Co-curator Jeppe Ugelvig, Founder & CEO of ART 2030 Luise Faurschou and artist Maya Lin, on the impact of art in driving positive change. This event will focus on the vital role of artists in envisioning and shaping sustainable futures.

The panel discussion will explore the transformative power of art, highlighting its ability to inspire action for our collective future and alignment with the goals of the UN ‘Summit of the Future’ and the forthcoming ‘Pact for the Future.’ By examining the intersection of art, culture, and global sustainability, the event aims to emphasize how art can address and respond to some of today’s most pressing global challenges.

This event is free; however, reservations are required. 
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About FUTURE OURS
FUTURE OURS is initiated by ART 2030 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in partnership with JCDecaux, and co-curated by Patricia Domínguez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Jeppe Ugelvig. After launching in the United Nations Headquarters and across the streets of New York City, FUTURE OURS will travel to Denmark in 2025 to be exhibited in the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale in Copenhagen, as well as in streets, train stations, and bus stops on AFA Decaux street furniture throughout the country.

FUTURE OURS will be presented inside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City from September 13-29 and on hundreds of JCDecaux bus shelters throughout the five boroughs of New York from September 16-29, 2024.

About ART 2030
ART 2030 is a nonprofit organization that works with art as the key to achieve the UN Global Goals by opening people’s hearts, minds, and imagination – to inspire action for a healthy and sustainable future. Working with world-renowned artists and partners, ART 2030 facilitates exciting art projects connected to the UN Global Goals – including public events, art experiences, multi-platform communication, and educational activities – for all to engage with the plan for people, planet, and prosperity.

About Nanette Braun
As Director of Campaigns in the UN Department for Global Communications Nanette Braun oversees efforts to increase global visibility and engage audiences on the UN’s global priorities. Prior to this she served as Chief of Communications and Public Advocacy at UN Women, the women’s rights organization of the UN since its inception in 2011. Still earlier she oversaw communications at UN Volunteers, which deploys thousands of volunteers annually in support of the United Nations’ efforts. A journalist by training, Nanette worked for print media and broadcasters in her native Germany and abroad. She holds a M.A. in Modern History and North-American studies from Free University Berlin and Technical University Berlin.

About Jeppe Ugelvig
Jeppe Ugelvig is a curator, historian, and cultural critic based in New York City. He is a current Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, where his research focuses on artistic responses to consumerism in the global 20th century. Jeppe holds an MA degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Jeppe’s criticism appears regularly in Artforum, Frieze, and Spike Art Quarterly, where he serves as contributing editor. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Viscose, a journal for fashion criticism and analysis. Viscose has partnered with art institutions globally in pursuit of fashion research, including X Museum in Beijing and Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. His first book, Fashion Work: 25 Years of Art in Fashion was published by Damiani in 2020. Jeppe has staged exhibitions in institutions and museums around the world, most recently co-curating the large-scale New York City public art exhibition “Future Ours” with Hans Ulrich Obrist, a partnership between Art2030 and the United Nations. In 2021, he curated the Talks program at Frieze London. Other exhibitions include “The Cosmos Within” at ARoS (Aarhus), the 2023 edition of Charlottenborg Biennale (Denmark), the two-part “The Endless Garment” at X Museum (Beijing), “Witch-Hunt” at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and “Phantom Plane” at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.

About Luise Faurschou
Luise Faurschou is Founder and CEO of ART 2030, a nonprofit organization uniting art and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Global Goals. By combining the universal language of art with the Global Goals, ART 2030 promotes peace, equality, and a healthy world for 2030. Joined by visionaries from the art world, ART 2030 works to create art projects, platforms and experiences for everyone to engage with the Global Goals - the plan for people, planet and prosperity.

Luise Faurschou is also a curator, cultural entrepreneur and founding director of Faurschou Art Resources. With over 30 years of experience in the art industry, Faurschou has worked with an array of world-renowned artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Naumann, Ai Weiwei and others.

About Maya Lin
Maya Lin interprets the natural world through science, history, and culture, to create works that have had a profound impact on how we view our history and how we relate to the natural world.

From her very first work, the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, she has since gone on to a remarkable and highly acclaimed career in both art and architecture, whilst still being committed to memory works that focus on some of the critical historical issues of our time.

Lin has been recognized around the world for her distinct aesthetic vision with groundbreaking site-specific art installations such as Ghost Forest at Madison Square Park, to award-winning architectural projects from the library at Smith College to Novartis’ campus headquarters in Cambridge MA. Currently, projects include the new performing arts lab space for Bard College and the new design for the Museum of Chinese in America for downtown Manhattan. She is deeply committed to sustainable and site sensitive design methods in all her projects.

Her work asks the viewer to reconsider nature and the environment at a time when it is crucial to do so. A committed environmentalist, she is at work on her final memorial, What is Missing?; a cross-platform, global memorial to the planet, calling attention to the crisis surrounding biodiversity and habitat loss.

Lin is a member of the Bloomberg Foundation, the What is Missing? Foundation, and she is a National Geographic Explorer-at-Large, in 2016 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Barack Obama, the nation's highest civilian honor.