Maria Finders

Maria has been bringing people and ideas together for over two decades, across industries and countries. Having grown up and studied art history and film in Quebec and Montreal, Canada, early on she developed an entrepreneurial edge and has created and managed dozens of initiatives, in Europe and in Switzerland, from curatorial projects in France and Greece and art criticism and journalism. Moving into private education with the Xinis organization in Greece, Maria went on to build the Educart program for intelligent internships in Art, with IESA Paris for the Canton of Vaud and the City of Lausanne. In 1995, she began working with the international watch industry as managing editor of Europe Star Magazine. Bringing Europe Star online, in 1997 was the first of many web projects that Maria worked on as designer, webmaster and editor. At the end of 1999, she accepted the position of International Project Manager for the Messe Basel, creating the Basel Forum, for the World Watch and Jewellery Show, the Orbit Comdex Europe Congress and management of Connecting Leaders, show managing the Content Summit and setting the foundation for A2B Architecture to Basel, International Architecture Symposium in 2002 and for Art Basel Conversations, launched at the first edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Today, Maria works as an independent advisor for different projects, including the FLUX Laboratory, Geneva, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, Reed MIDEM, Paris, Documenta 12, Kassel, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Messe Basel. Since joining Brunswick Arts her client accounts have included Maja Hoffman's LUMA Foundation and the Parc des Atelier project with Frank Gehry; Art Dubai and the Global Art Forum; ADHAH, Abu Dhabi; Axel Vervoordt, Artempo in Venice and Academia in Paris; Stella Art Foundation, Moscow; UBS; Enel Contemporary; and many others. She is one of the Correspondants for the 53rd Venice Art Biennale.

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