Founder and Chair of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza is an activist, philanthropist and patron of the arts. She has supported many artists in the production and creation of works that engage with the most pressing issues of our times, including commissions by artists Olafur Eliasson, Claudia Comte, Ragnar Kjartensson, Walid Raad, Rikrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei. In 2011, she co-founded the TBA21–Academy. Markus Reymann is co-founder and Director of TBA21–Academy, which fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange surrounding the most urgent issues facing our oceans today. 

In 2019, TBA21–Academy launched Ocean Space, a new global port for ocean literacy, research, and advocacy, located in the restored Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Italy. Markus Reymann is also Chair of Alligator Head Foundation, scientific partner of TBA21–Academy. Sonia Levy’s inquiry-led practice operates at the confluence of diverse knowledge practices tending to the reweaving of multispecies worlds whilst being attentive to histories of entanglements with western colonial extractivist logics. She is the 2022 recipient of the S+T+ARTS4Water’s “The Future of High Waters” residency hosted by TBA21, and was the 2021 commissioned artist at Radar Loughborough and Aarhus University’s Ecological Globalization Research Group.  Jane da Mosto is an environmental scientist and activist based in Venice. She is co-founder and executive director of the NGO We are here Venice, whose mission is to change the future of the city, by protecting its lagoon and rebuilding a more resilient resident population. Jane’s books include The Science of Saving Venice. In 2017 she was honoured with the Osella d’Oro by the city of Venice and in 2021 she received the Fondazione Masi prize for “vision and courage”. Nathalie Guiot is an author, editor, and exhibition curator, and the founder-president of the Fondation Thalie, an exhibition space and artist residency based in Brussels. She is a member of the Centre Pompidou International Circle and Design Acquisition Committee and an active patron of other cultural institutions in France and Belgium. In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, she launched a new online discussion format between artists and scientists, Creators facing the Climate Emergency, which aims to imagine alternative futures regarding the challenges presented by climate change. In partnership with TBA21. 👉 Subscribe to the newsletter to hear about new episodes: https://www.fondationthalie.org/en/newsletter Instagram & Facebook : @fondationthalie #CreatorsClimateEmergency 🔗 Images & references: https://t.ly/V-UH 📷 Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo © Enrico Fiorese 🎙 Production: Fondation Thalie. Programme coordinator: Stefano Vendramin. Music: Joseph Schiano di Lombo. Editing: Fabrizio d’Elia