Elsa Tang – Zero Waste – China

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Neeshad V. Shafi – Qatar

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Alexandre Lumbosco – Movie director – France

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Upon studying Environmental Economics with a speciality in the operation of institutions, Alexandre co-founded, with Alexandre Attias, ”Comunidée,” a film production company specialized in web-documentaires on political ecology.

Tiffany Pattinson – Designer – Hong-Kong

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Thomas Ortiz – France

Sandrine Gintzburger, Sponsorship Officer

After graduating with a master’s degree from Essec and a career in print and digital magazine press groups (Lagardère, Marie Claire), Sandrine founded the Triptyc agency, specialising in art and business.

Passionate about contemporary and modern art, as you will have understood, she wants to help raise awareness of environmental issues through the power of art. In the light of the current health crisis, she has decided to become actively involved in the associative sector and so has joined Art of Change 21. She assists Art of Change 21 on matters concerning patronage, fundraising, and partnerships.

Between exhibitions, Sandrine tunes into podcasts about personal development from her elliptical.

Fanny Legros 

President and founder of Karbone Prod and co-founder of Plinth

Fanny Legros has extensive experience in the contemporary art sector, including five years as director of the Galerie Poggi in Paris. It was while participating in international fairs and organizing numerous exhibitions that Fanny became aware that the art world had not yet begun its ecological transition and decided in 2020 to create Karbone Prod, an eco-design production and environmental impact calculation consulting agency, which assists companies and cultural institutions in their ecological transition. In 2021-2022, her agency carried out the first eco-design process for the Art Paris fair. 

In 2022, Fanny created Plinth with Carole Vigezzi, a company that offers a tool for the re-use of materials and scenographic equipment for the visual arts, winner of the PIA4 of the France 2030 plan in 2022.
Fanny Legros has been an expert member of our association in eco-conception since 2020, and is involved in the organization of eco-designed exhibitions (Biocenosis21), the Art Eco-Conception Prize and all projects relating to the reduction of the environmental impact of cultural activities. 

www.karboneprod.fr 

www.plinth.fr

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Olafur Elliasson, renowned Icelandic-Danish artist, believes that art has the power to transform society.

A native of Iceland and Denmark, Eliasson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts before opening his studio, Studio Olafur Eliasson, in Berlin in 1995. Since then, he has realized numerous exhibitions around the world, such as The weather project at the Tate Modern (2013), Contact at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2014), or most recently Olafur Eliasson Versailles at the Château de Versailles (2016).

His work — which includes sculptures, paintings, photography, films and installations — is not limited to the confines of a museum or gallery, it also takes place in public space, such as Green river (1998-2001), The New York City Waterfalls (2008), and Your rainbow panorama (2011).

The relationship between man and the environment has always been a recurring theme in his oeuvre, but in recent years it has taken on a decidedly activist tone. His current work triggers a greater sense of awareness, particularly about climate change.

For the COP21 in Paris in 2015, Olafur Eliasson exhibited Ice Watch, an ephemeral installation in the place du Panthéon that consisted of a dozen icebergs, 80 tons of ice, coming from Nuuk, Greenland. Displayed in a circle, like the dial of a clock, the volume of each block ice represented the equivalent of the ice that melts each one-hundredth of a second. The aim was to make climate change palpable, spurring a desire to act.

Olafur Eliasson is also a social entrepreneur. Together with engineer Frederik Ottesen, Eliasson founded « Little Sun, » an NGO that creates, sells and distributes solar-powered lamps to communities without access to electricity across the world.

Sources:

olafureliasson.net

http://icewatchparis.com

http://littlesun.com