ART

Simonetta Rossetti

2021 Participant

I try to re-discover art looking at the “objets trouvés“. Using our eyes in the way suggested by Charlotte Perriand (les yeux en éventail) we can see more and more.

EXCHANGE

SUBHASH CHANDRA NATH

2021 Participant

If we try to do something good then everything is possible, art is the main means of good and beautiful work.

ART

Đinh Thị Lan Hương

2021 Participant

Awareness brings change. Art has surprising ways to amplify awareness. Being enchanted by non-human forms can be an exercise of "listening" to new ways to co-inhabit this globe. Hope to find more creative force in nature and in human connections like these to work for an ecological future.

ART

renata pelegrini

2021 Participant

Awareness brings change. Art has surprising ways to amplify awareness. Being enchanted by non-human forms can be an exercise of "listening" to new ways to co-inhabit this globe. Hope to find more creative force in nature and in human connections like these to work for an ecological future.

ART

Nathalie Jendly

2021 Participant

Celebrate
Create
Daily
Care
How I do
Together
With you

ART

Philip Lee

2021 Participant

To drive up awareness of the need for change we begin with small changes by me and you - from the smallest of scales that join together to become large scale and eventually global change for good.

ART

Paul Regan

2021 Participant

This is the last time for this time.

ART

Alessandra D’Aloia

2021 Participant

We need to make an effort to deeply connect with the necessities of our world and our environment. We will have to change ourselves, to open space for the new, to be less selfish and help people in need. Art is such a powerful tool to help us be more conscious.

EXCHANGE

Nicholas Serota

2021 Participant

At a time when the cohesion of society is threatened by visible inequalities in wealth, housing, health and education, the museum can provide a place in which ideas can be tested and new solutions proposed.

ART

Dorothee Elisa Baumann

2021 Participant

Unlearning modernity and progress is the (he)art of my work, research. Looking into the past to imagine a possible sustainable future. Listening carefully to all actors (not only humans, but also the biosphere such as plants and animals), giving them a voice.

EXCHANGE

Claudia Paetzold

2021 Participant

Among the keys to approaching the Resource Hungry theme is a genuine awareness of the interconnectivity of species and elements alike paired with a thorough exploration of the natural processes of growth and evolution the respect of which will necessarily lead to a responsible cohabitation."

ART

Tugba Tarim

2021 Participant

Art is a vehicle for social change.It can give voice to the politically or socially disenfranchised.Not only a painting or sculpture but a song, film or a novel can rouse emotions in those who encounter it,inspiring them to rally for change.We can build an engaged community & enliven it through art.

EXCHANGE

Matthias Böttger

2021 Participant

HOW CAN WE 
– HUMANS, ANIMALS,
PLANTS, FUNGI, BACTERIA
AND MACHINES – LIVE TOGETHER
ON THIS EARTH?

ART

Beatrice O'Connell

2021 Participant

Reaching out to collaborate with others to reevaluate our place in this world and behave as if we are a part of this marvellous ecosystem. Trying to break the cycle of overconsumption of resources.

ART

Elyssa Sophia Assaf

2021 Participant

Understanding the lifecycles of materials and their systemic implications can help dissect transhistorical narratives of oppression and inequalities within a variety of planetary chains and transform object-environment relations.

ART

Trojans Collective

2021 Participant

We are designers, yet our main aim is to expand and stretch the borders of design. We protest, we work on past and present, we are political, and we believe design is not about form or function, but a way of understanding and thinking our current context, now more than ever.

ART

HIER

2021 Participant

"We reach a point where rethinking the use of resources, materials, and energy should not be a vision but rather a given. A diet for everyone in their resource hunger."

ART

Tejal Gala

2021 Participant

Art, today, is a powerful medium to call forth leaders and individuals alike to reinvent resource consumption systems. Verbier Art Summit has started a powerful dialogue centered at the intersection of several existing industries and futuristic ideas.

EXCHANGE

Manoela Hartung

2021 Participant

I believe knowledge is one of our most powerful tools nowadays. Only by exchanging knowledge and actually listening to one another we can reevaluate our actions, change and move forward!

ART

Christian Mooney

2021 Participant

"Change is coming whether we like it or not"

Greta Thunberg

ART

Angharad Elliott

2021 Participant

Education is the cornerstone to driving social change through art.

ART

Barbara Seiler

2021 Participant

Our gallery’s objective is to provide a platform and initiate a discourse, talks and new forms of exhibition to question our sociological, political and ecological models. More than ever art can initiate change.

ART

Mark Damon Harvey

2021 Participant

Art and community have to work together. Resolving identity conflicts make it possible.

ART

Tainá Moreno

2021 Participant

Ever curious about all artistic practices that are committed on dismantling oppressive structures in our post-colonial society.

ART

Gabrijela Krmpotic Kos

2021 Participant

We all have to play an active part in our community, relate with the past and the future. I don’t always know why but it's important not to forget that art doesn’t always need to serve a purpose – it is an essential part of being human.

ART

Steven Giovinco

2021 Participant

My passion for photographing arctic environmental transformations at night stems from the primordial yet terrifying beauty, and see melting ice has a global impact, representing literal and metaphorical change.

ART

Sophie Kazan

2021 Participant

Art can provoke social change by sharing silenced perspectives and redressing narratives of the past.

ART

Rana

2021 Participant

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

{American proverb}

ART

Effie Burns

2021 Participant

My work is an ongoing process of investigation, cast in glass from original specimens foraged during the pandemic. It is a small act of rebellion making tactile work that fits in the palm of your hand.

ART

Vanessa Lamounier de Assis

2021 Participant

“Why should we behave in this way? What good will it does to us? But above all, how shall we manage to act like this? How will it be possible?” Sigmund Freud

ART

Caroline A. Geist

2021 Participant

R= Food > Body > Shit
R= Mat. Goods > Ego > Shit
R= Nat. Ressources > Governements > Shit.

the only R that survive the equations are R=Innovation and R=Creativity,
as R=I & R=C > Technology & Arts > Better Societies
(Where Exchange is the best Catalyst for I and C)

ART

Marion van der Marel

2021 Participant

"Art can make people see. It is a bridge between ideas and action."

EXCHANGE

Catherine Haccius

2021 Participant

"I support also our daughter who has created an ecological cloches firm!"

EXCHANGE

Sonia Barbey

2021 Participant

“The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy after another—prayers, potions, oaths—until all of the chickens are dead."Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.”― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Pover

ART

Kyra Wessels

2021 Participant

"We need exchange, debate, solidarity, art, science to help create solutions to turn the recovery from the pandemic into an actual opportunity to change the other global crisis (Climate change) and build a better future together."

EXCHANGE

Alice Surer

2021 Participant

"All social change comes from the passion of individuals." Margaret Mead

ART

Fernanda Brenner

2021 Participant

"We can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested." Fred Moten

ART

Céline Eidenbenz

2021 Participant

"SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC." Francis Alÿs

ART

Nikolaos Apostolides

2021 Participant

"The role of artists in society must be amplified to help save our planet for future generations."

EXCHANGE

Phoebe Cummings

2021 Participant

"Now is a time to reset, to be aware of the scale of even our smallest actions; individually and collectively."

EXCHANGE

Jane Beebe

2021 Participant

I send a quote I like very much from Salmon Nation new letter, December 2020: "Together, we can build the society we want, and change our relationship to Nature. In the words of Wa’xaid, “It is magic because it can make room for everyone who wants to come on board, to come in and paddle together."

ART

Alexa Jeanne Kusber

2021 Participant

As a curator, I must continue to adapt and learn how to support artists by giving them a voice to contribute and strengthen current ecological discourse.

ART

Sharon Castellanos

2021 Participant

"Demystify to make short the distance between the human and the idea of ​​nature."

ART

Sonja Glavas

2021 Participant

"Awareness of the planetary agencies that affect our very existence is a humbling experience and the central lesson that climate change is teaching us." Jeremy Rifkin, The Green New Deal.

ART

Hans Peterson

2021 Participant

"Contemporary community-building needs new solutions with demands for great care for the environment. Our vision is to add artistic competence to these projects, in collaboration with several other competencies. Complex problems require a wide range of skills."

ART

Mats Olofgörs

2021 Participant

"Contemporary community-building needs new solutions with demands for great care for the environment. Our vision is to add artistic competence to these projects, in collaboration with several other competencies. Complex problems require a wide range of skills."

ART

Valeria Facchin

2021 Participant

"Nourishing the People comes as a direct effect of Nurturing the Planet."

ART

Tony Karman

2021 Participant

"We must face the many challenges confronting us together and commit to listening, engaging and acting on these issues with whatever resources we have at our disposal."

ART

Bracken Darrell

2021 Participant

"There are two underlying roles every organization and person should consider adopting: saving and then protecting the planet; and unlocking the power of every individual on earth (including eliminating all the social injustices and barriers to equality for all people). Resource hungry addresses the first. The second is at least as important."

EXCHANGE

Nico Dockx

2021 Participant

"I am thinking of a small postcard of Marcel Broodthaers in my personal archives, a card that he mailed out to Irène Hamoir in 1953 from the Swiss Alps, mentioning the following quote: "D'après nature, M.Broodthaers". I am very curious about this notion of 'd'après', this double meaning of 'after' as well as 'in relation to'".

HUSSEIN HASSANI

2021 Participant

"Every individual matters, The nature calls upon our joint effort to preserve it. The life of future generations depends on the actions we take now. Live in a sustainable way."

Sue Goldschmidt

2021 Participant

"You are not required to finish the work [of perfecting the world],
but neither are you free not to take it up."

The Talmud

Kersti Urvois

2021 Participant

"Secondary effects of all the artist actions."

Luc Meier

2021 Participant

"The ever more intertwined notions of nature, the environment, and of technology are at the core of contemporary preoccupations and of growing urgency. These themes feed into all disciplines of the arts – and artists are among those best equipped to map out alternative relationships to both technology and nature."

Sylvain Levy

2021 Participant

"It is interesting for me to follow and exchange on this subject and try to better understand how practically art can support this important issue."

Angela McFall

2021 Participant

‘Like the vanishing city, the body remains as the only concrete proof of existence. Yet, scattered and fragmented under the weight of technology, body and city can’t be recovered by means other than those that displace them: they must be recorded or registered anew.' Olalquiaga

John Slyce

2021 Participant

Unser Kopf ist rund, damit das Denken die Richtung wechselen kann. ––Francis Picabia

The earth is round–let's change ourselves and it.

Sibylle Feucht

2021 Participant

Only a permanent and global exchange of knowledge, ideas, concepts and dreams will enable us to cope with current and future problems and conflicts.

Johannes M. Hedinger

2021 Participant

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew". (borrowed from Marshall McLuhan)

Caitlin Southwick

2021 Participant

Culture has a unique role to play in the societal paradigm shift needed for a sustainable future. By connecting people to justice and climate issues on a personal level and creating empathy and understanding, we have the power to drive real change.

Jean-Philippe Jutzi

2021 Participant

Gone are the days of relying on others, there is an urgent need for individual action in favor of the planet. Think twice before you buy. Think twice before you throw away. Everyone must make a commitment.

Jorien Crol

2021 Participant

"Less is more!"

Emilia Keladitis

2021 Participant

"This last year has taught us that we are all connected, to each other, and to the natural world. Understanding the value of natural ecosystems and protecting them, benefits all life on earth."

Gautier Chiarini

2021 Participant

"703 kg = waste generated per capita per year in Switzerland. 3rd place on the European consumer frenzy podium. Reduce, reuse, recycle, renounce."

Arielle TSCHOPP

2021 Participant

Listening to all the participants' exchanges opened and broadened my views of the subject. It helps me see new, interesting, challenging but also creative and joyful solutions to evolve in a better balanced world, between human, animals and nature as a whole. Thank you all!

Robbert Sijbrandij

2021 Participant

because now is the time and chance to get inspired by creative thinkers on how to look at the world and the economics of the world differently!!

Mateo Chacon-Pino

2021 Participant

Art is a space to imagine and discuss possible futures of human survival and negotiate our relationship to this vast world. Let's take the chance.

Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat

2021 Participant

We need to explore how we can bring artistic research and practice into the heart of international policymaking related climate change-- and to better understand art's potential impacts.

Ute Esser

2021 Participant

"Try to change things by giving the good example myself."