Annual Meeting 2013 Arts and Culture in Davos 2013 Davos, Switzerland 23-27 January World Arts Forum Co-Founders and Members Mrs Paola Antonelli* Mr and Mrs Philippe Bordier Mr Guy Demole Mr and Mrs David Feldman Mr and Mrs Charles Firmenich Mrs Elka Gouzer-Waechter Mr Michael Haefliger* Mr Günther Klinge Mr Pierre Mirabaud Mr and Mrs George Muller* Mr Philippe Nordmann Mr and Mrs Yves Oltramare Mr and Mrs Yves Paternot* Mr and Mrs Klaus Schwab* *Member of the World Arts Forum Board Contents Welcome Message 3 Welcome Message From visual arts to literature and music to 4 The Crystal Award Recipients theatre, the arts exert a powerful influence on society. Artists reconnect us to our senses and 12 Art Exhibition help us to re-imagine the world; they help us 16 Cultural Leaders and Programme understand issues in new ways and inspire us to reach out across cultures. The World Economic Forum is proud to engage a community of cultural leaders in its Alois Zwinggi Annual Meeting 2013. We look forward to their Managing Director Resources and valuable contributions on a variety of Processes compelling topics in the Cultural Programme and in the wider discussions taking place at the Annual Meeting. To further inspire participants, we have organized exhibitions in the Congress Centre: one highlighting the work of artist Daniel Orson Ybarra, and the other a special collaboration with the CERN. The Forum will also present its Crystal Award to three exceptional cultural leaders who are deeply committed to addressing the world’s challenges. We warmly congratulate Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Charlize Theron and Vik Muniz for their exemplary contributions. Arts and Culture in Davos 2013 3 The Crystal Award Recipients Previous recipients of the Crystal Award. José Antonio ABREU Gilberto GIL NOA Founder, Orquestra Sinfonica de la Juventud Musician and Minister of Culture Singer and Songwriter Venezolana Simon Bolivar Nadine GORDIMER Ben OKRI Vladimir ASHKENAZY Author Author and Poet Pianist and Conductor Barbara HENDRICKS Julia ORMOND Margaret ATWOOD Soprano Actress and Co-Chair, FilmAid International Author Ikuo HIRAYAMA Krzysztof PENDERECKI Shabana AZMI Painter Composer and Conductor Actress and Social Activist Tao HO Sidney POITIER Amitabh BACHCHAN Architect and Artist Actor, Director and Producer Actor and Director Jenny HOLZER Lord PUTTNAM Luc BESSON Artist Film Producer Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Producer Ibrahim HUSSEIN A. R. RAHMAN BONO Painter and Calligrapher Film Composer, Musician and Singer Singer JET LI Lionel RICHIE Mario BOTTA Actor and Founder Musician Architect Quincy JONES Mallika SARABHAI Wissam BOUSTANY Producer, Composer and Musician Artist and Activist Flautist Sumet JUMSAI Jorge SEMPRUN Wissam BOUSTANY Architect and Painter Writer Flautist Udo JURGENS Ravi SHANKAR José CARRERAS Singer and Composer Sitarist and Composer Opera Singer Dani KARAVAN Rodion SHCHEDRIN Yvonne N. CHAKA CHAKA Sculptor Composer Singer Amjad Ali KHAN Anant SINGH CHEN Kaige Composer and Sarod Player Film Producer Film Director Lang Lang Wole SOYINKA CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude Pianist Poet and Playwright Artist-Engineers James LEVINE Frank STELLA Paulo COELHO Conductor and Artistic Director Painter Author Julian LLOYD WEBBER Oliver STONE Michael DOUGLAS Cellist Director, Writer and Producer Film Director, Producer and Actor Yo-Yo MA TAN Swie Hian Umberto ECO Cellist Painter, Poet, Philosopher and Author Writer, Historian and Philosopher Amin MAALOUF Emma THOMPSON Hans ERNI Writer and Historian Actor and Writer Painter Richard MEIER Mario VARGAS LLOSA Ivan FISCHER Architect Author Conductor Lord MENUHIN Maxim VENGEROV Peter GABRIEL Violinist and Conductor Violinist Singer, Songwriter and Musician MIDORI Elie WIESEL Richard GERE Violinist Author Actor and President, Gere Foundation Nikita MIKHALKOV Benjamin ZANDER Valery GERGIEV Film Director Conductor Artistic and General Director, Mariinsky Theatre Es’kia MPHAHLELE Writer Youssou N’DOUR Musician and Singer 4 Arts and Culture in Davos 2013 The 2013 Crystal Award Recipients The World Economic Forum is pleased to present the Crystal Award 2013 to the following exceptional individuals who have made a difference in the world of arts and culture, and have reached out to other cultures, supporting the Forum’s mission to improve the state of the world. Vik Sharmeen Charlize MUNIZ OBAID CHINOY THERON Artist, Documentary Filmmaker, Actress and Founder, Vik Muniz Studio SOC Films Charlize Theron Africa USA Pakistan Outreach Project, South Africa Arts and Culture in Davos 2013 5 Vik Muniz Artist, Vik Muniz Studio, USA Vik Muniz was born in São In the United States, major solo exhibitions are: partnership with non-governmental and The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dirt at the not-for-profit agencies such as Stimulus and Paulo, Brazil. He lives and works Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Observatório de Favelas. In 2011, Muniz was in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Vik Muniz at The Tang Teaching Museum and nominated as Good Will Ambassador by Art Gallery in New York; Clayton Days at The UNESCO. A comprehensive retrospective Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh; and of Muniz’s work travelled through Seeing is Believing at the International Center Muniz has also been a guest speaker at major Brazil in 2009-2010 after making of Photography in New York. universities and museums, including Harvard, Yale, the TED Conference, New York rounds through the United Muniz was a guest artist at the 49th Venice University, the International Center of States, Canada and Mexico. The Biennale; the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Photography, the Museum of Modern Art in Whitney Museum of American Art; the XXIV New York, the Museum of Modern Art of São venues for the show included Bienal Internacional de São Paulo; and The Paulo, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and, the Miami Art Museum, Seattle 46th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition: Media/ most recently, at the Massachusetts Institute Art Museum, P.S.1 MoMA, the Metaphor at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Washington DC. A catalogue raisonné of Museum of Contemporary Art in Muniz’s entire oeuvre (1987 to 2009) was San Diego, Museum of Art São published by Capivara Ed., Rio de Janeiro, in December 2009. Paulo and the Museum of We talk about the Contemporary Art in Montreal, Major publications about Muniz’s work include environment, discuss it, but with an audience of over Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer, Portuguese version published by Cosac Naify, SP, Brasil in 2007 with a train of thought that is 500,000 people. and English (original version) by Aperture, New York, 2005; Incomplete Work, published by the always evolving. The artist is National Library Foundation, Brazil, 2004; and constantly changing these The retrospective began its European tour in Vik Muniz, Natura Pictrix: Essays and Interviews September 2011 at the Museum Colecção on Photography, published by Edgewise Press perceptions of the Berardo in Lisbon, and will open next at the (New York, Turin, Paris), 2004. environment; this is what I Centro de Arte Contemporânea in Malaga, Spain. A major retrospective of his work is Muniz’s work is included in the collections of call landscape. The way in currently on view at the museum Collection museums around the world such as the Art which we see the Lambert in Avignon, France. Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, environment today has an In December 2008, Muniz was the guest artist the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum evolutionary history that was at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition series of Modern Art (New York), Museu de Arte Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz-Rebus. Other Moderna de São Paulo, and the Victoria and heavily developed within art, international solo exhibitions in recent years Albert Museum in London, among others. through people who were are: Vik Muniz at the House of Photography; The Beautiful Earth at Paço das Artes e Galeria Besides making art, Muniz is involved in social concerned with the way in Fortes Vilaça in São Paulo; Pictures of People projects that use art-making as a force for which we relate to nature.. at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in the change. One of these projects can be seen in United Kingdom; Vik Muniz at the Irish Museum Waste Land, a 2010 documentary about his of Contemporary Art in Dublin; Vik Muniz at the work with Brazilian garbage pickers, which Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea in was nominated for an Oscar and won the Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Vik Muniz at Sundance Audience Award for Best Film, the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; among other prizes. He has also developed and the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo. education programmes for Brazilian youth in 6 Arts and Culture in Davos 2013 Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy Documentary Filmmaker, SOC Films, Pakistan Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is an In 2007, Obaid Chinoy was awarded the As a public speaker, Obaid Chinoy has Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award in the spoken on different platforms about her work Academy Award and Emmy United Kingdom by One World Media for her including TED, The World Affairs Council, Asia Award winning documentary work on a series of documentary films for Society, and Harvard and Yale Universities, as Channel 4, which included a film about well as at various high schools and events filmmaker. Her recent films xenophobia in South Africa, The New across Europe and North America. include Saving Face, Apartheid, and Afghanistan Unveiled. Her Additionally, she has written for several local Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open other films have been awarded The Overseas and international publications including The Press Club Award, The American Women in Independent, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Secret and Pakistan’s Taliban Radio and Television Award, The Cine Golden Globe and Mail, and Dawn and The News Generation, which aired on Eagle Award and the Banff Rockie Award.