The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP), formerly the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on policies and issues affecting Pasifika communities in New Zealand. MPP seeks to promote the status of Pasifika peoples in New Zealand by keeping them informed of the issues, then acting as an advocate in dealing with other state sector organisations.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is one of the most important museums of European and American art of the twentieth century in Italy, and it is the personal collection of the legendary patron of the arts Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), a niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim. It includes major holdings of Cubism, Abstraction, Surrealism, early American Abstract Expressionism, and postwar European and American painting and sculpture. Artists comprise masterpieces by Jean Arp, Umberto Boccioni, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Germaine Richier, Gino Severini, Clyfford Still, and Emilio Vedova, among others. Housed in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal in Venice where Guggenheim spent the last thirty years of her life, the collection is the Italian branch of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The museum’s mission is to preserve the legacy of Peggy Guggenheim through education and the promotion of art as a tool for personal growth and the development of critical thinking. Art is paramount and should remain accessible to everyone.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection also exhibits the Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Collection of European and American art that was added to the collection of the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice in 2012. In addition, exhibitions are organized and presented in temporary exhibition galleries of the museum.
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni
Dorsoduro 701
30123 Venezia
(39) 041 2405 415
guggenheim-venice.it
The Fondazione Querini Stampalia is a unique cultural entity in Venice. A splendid palace in the heart of the city, it contains important historical collections and works by great contemporary architects.
Ancient and modern, past and present are placed in constant juxtaposition to one another: in the eighteenth-century museum home, in the vast library and in the spaces redesigned by Carlo Scarpa, Mario Botta, Valeriano Pastor and Michele De Lucchi. Numerous echoes of its history are reinterpreted in a contemporary light. This is the Querini Stampalia’s mission: conserving the future!
'Conserving the Future' is the Fondazione’s decades-long contemporary art programme, of which the Danh Vo, Isamu Noguchi and Park Seo-Bo exhibition is the latest example.
Ideated and curated by Chiara Bertola, for over twenty years the project has asked contemporary artists to relate to and dialogue with the spaces of the Fondazione, drawing inspiration from them to create new expressions through vital experimentation. Their gaze helps us not only understand the times we are living in but also to see our past in a different light.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Campo Santa Maria Formosa
Castello 5252, 30122 Venice
tel +39 041 2711411 fax +39 041 2711445
fondazione@querinistampalia.org
www.querinistampalia.org
Formed in 2014, the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (NMVW) is an overarching organization encompassing three major ethnographic museums in The Netherlands: Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. Since 2017, the NMVW has established a partnership with Wereldmuseum, whose collections belong to the city of Rotterdam. Beyond this, the NMVW hosts the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC): a flagship research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary research on ethnographic collections in The Netherlands, in collaboration with international colleagues.
The NMVW manages a worldwide collection, comprising stories with themes like love, mourning, celebration and conflict. These authentic stories are the key to a world in which we are all linked to each other.
The Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) is a cross-disciplinary research centre at the University of Melbourne bridging disciplinary silos through creative practice and cultural research. Research priorities at CoVA include: Art + Science, Postnational Art Histories, Feminism and Intersectionality, and Art Networks in the Asia-Pacific. Utilising residencies, responsive exhibitions and publications, and creative collaborations, CoVA promotes innovative practice-led research in the creative arts.
Located in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand, Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is a charitable trust dedicated to championing Pacific arts and artists. Tautai was founded in 1986 by Pasifika creatives with a shared aspiration to support and promote Pacific visual arts. Over the last 40 years Tautai has grown to become one of Aotearoa’s premiere Pacific arts organisations with a multi-disciplinary focus. Our purpose is to grow a rich ecology of Pacific creative art practice and provide leadership, support and unique opportunities for the Pasifika arts community.
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) is a research Centre aiming to produce transdisciplinary environmental scholarship and public engagement initiatives where environmental humanities can play a major role, in partnerships with natural sciences and the creative arts. The Centre was launched in 2021 and is co-funded by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and by the German Foundation THE NEW INSTITUTE. www.unive.it/niche
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, and popular culture.
Headquartered in London, it has a sister company in New York City, and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In Paris it has a sister company, Éditions Thames & Hudson, and a subsidiary called Interart which distributes English-language books. The Thames & Hudson group currently employs approximately 150 staff in London and approximately 65 more around the world.