Adelina von Fürstenberg

Who is Adelina von Fürstenberg?

Adelina von Fürstenberg-Herdringen is a renowned international curator and one of the field's pioneers in broadening contemporary art. A Swiss citizen of Armenian origin — granddaughter of the Armenian architect Dikran Kalfa Cüberyan — she was born in Istanbul, and married when she was still at the university, to the photographer Graf Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, son of Gloria Guinness and Count Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen.

Von Fürstenberg was one of the first curators to show an interest in non-European artists, thus opening the way for a multicultural approach in art. She is also a curator who took a more global and flexible approach to contemporary art exhibitions, in bringing art in spaces such as monasteries, medersas, large public buildings, squares, islands, parks, etc. Her objective is to give a larger context for visual art in making it a more vigorous part of our lives, in creating a more vivid dialogue for it with other arts, and relating it more to worldwide social issues.