AGAH UGUR
Executive Board Member & CEO of Borusan Holding, Turkey
Founded in 1944, The Borusan Group is a leading Turkish steel, distributorship, logitics and energy company. With revenues of €4.5bn, this global player counts 7000 employees across 10 countries.
The firm follows a long-standing policy of art patronage. Since the mid-90s, the focus on contemporary art and new media has increased. The group exhibits its art collection at its Perili Kösk headquarters, open to the public on week-ends, making it the first office-museum.
B. JULIEN-LAFERRIERE
CEO of Société Foncière Lyonnaise, France
Founded in 1879, la Société Foncière Lyonnaise owns the largest portfolio of prime commercial property in Paris, with assets worth €4bn, and an annual turnover of €150m. The firm counts 79 employees.
Bertrand Julien-Laferrière initiated a programme called «Mémoires Con-temporaines» (Contemporary Me-mories) allowing artists such as Per Barclay, Alain Bublex, Felice Varini and François Morellet, to create works for SFL’s exceptional architectural spaces.
​AHU SERTER
Head of Management Committee of Farplas Group, Turkey
Founded in 1968, the Farplas group is a leading supplier in Turkey to the automotive industry. With an annual turnover close to €150m, the group counts 2,000 employees in Turkey, India and the US.
Ahu Serter created a luxury hotel brand in Bodrum where works of art are exhibited. It also houses an art gallery, and the Casa Dell'Arte artist residency programme. Around a guest curator, artists from all over the world create works inspired by the local context over a six-week period.
ANASTASSIA MAKRIDOU
Mediator for Fondation de France’s Nouveaux Commanditaires
The programme created by artist Francois Hers, has an annual budget of €1.5m, resulting in 400 works of art commissioned across 8 countries since 1991.
The purpose of the Nouveaux Commanditaires (New Patrons) is to help any person or group to commission a public work of art from an artist, as illustrated by two case studies: Ettore Spalletti at the Garches Hospital, and Berdaguer & Péjus for Marseille' Federation of Central City Businesses.
PABLO JIMENEZ BURILLO
Head of the Cultural Institute of Fundacion MAPFRE
MAPRE, created in 1933, is the leading insurance group in Spain and Latin America, with €26bn revenues and 35 000 employees across 46 countries.
Fundacion MAPFRE, created in 1975, holds 55% of MAPFRE SA. It has two exhibition spaces in Madrid, and partnerships with museums around the world. It aims to complement governments' action in art and conservation by developing a broad programme of exhibitions, publi-cations, awards and courses.
BORIS MARTE
Director of Erste Group Hub, former Head of Erste Foundation
Founded in 1819, Erste Group is the first Austrian savings bank and leading financial services provider across the CEE region. With revenues worth €7.2bn, it counts 49 000 employees.
The Erste Foundation is the main shareholder of the Erste Group Bank AG. Since 2005 it has spent more than €50m in social and cultural projects across the CEE region including microfinance, education, the TRANZIT cultural network, NGO rewards and a unique collection of art works and archives from the region.
SPEAKERS
HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Co-director Exhibitions & Programs, Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery
Considered the artworld's most powerful figure by the Art Review in 2009, Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator, art critic and art historian. A member of the acquisition committee of the EVN corporate collection, he is also the author of The Interview Project, an extensive ongoing project of artist's interviews, and the creator of the Marathon series consisting in interviews over 24 hours of leading figures of contemporary culture.
ALINE PUJO
Forum Founder
Chair of IACCCA, the International Association of Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art, which brings together forty leading corporate collections worldwide.
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ABOUT US
SEBASTIAN LOMBARDO
Host of the Forum
CEO of Valtech Group, the leading independent European agency in digital marketing and technology, present in 8 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.
VERENA BUTT D'ESPOUS
Forum Coordinator
Economist and contemporary art collector.
TATIANA A. KOLOBOFF
Event Organisation Partner
Villadalésia & Co is a creative events and brand staging independent agency who assists companies and brands year-round with their non-media communications strategy.
A. RENOULT & S. HEYMANN
Media Team
Heyman Renoult Associées was founded in 1989 and is the leading communication agency in the French cultural space.
PAULINE DE LABOULAYE
Adviser to the Forum
Honorory Chair of Les Amis de La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert.
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