New UBS Planet Art Recharging Lounge debuts in Miami Beach
Botanical Garden: First public “pop-up” space hosted by UBS
offers free outdoor connectivity and access to art world
news
UBS partners with Swiss Institute to create artist-led video
series SI: VisionsNew film featuring Sean Raspet premiers
online and in Miami on December 3
Thematic exhibition curated from renowned UBS Art Collection
is presented in the redesigned UBS VIP Lounge, including
recent acquisition Native Land by Doug Aitken
UBS, global Lead Partner of Art Basel, celebrates the opening of
Art Basel in Miami Beach — the premier show of the Americas — with
several projects that extend the company’s longstanding commitment
to contemporary art. This year UBS marks its 22nd anniversary of
partnering with Art Basel, supporting the organization on a global
level and across all three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong
Kong.
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“Our partnership with Art Basel is a core component of our broad
involvement with contemporary art, which is inspired by our
company’s own role as an art collector,” stated John Mathews,
Managing Director and Head of Private Wealth Management, UBS
Americas. “From our initiatives this year in Miami Beach to recent
exhibitions of our collection in Italy and Denmark, to original
video collaborations with innovators such as online platform Artsy
and the acclaimed exhibition space Swiss Institute, our sustained
support of contemporary art is an essential part of our history and
corporate culture.”
UBS Planet Art – Recharging Lounge at Art Basel in Miami
Beach
This year during the fair, UBS hosts its first public pop-up
space at the fair in the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, the 2.6-acre
urban greenspace located directly across from the convention
center. Fairgoers and art enthusiasts are invited to experience
UBS’s signature art news resource—the app Planet Art, while
enjoying free access to Wi-Fi, phone charging stations and light
refreshments.
Planet Art for iPad was launched at Art Basel in Miami Beach in
2014. New developments in 2015 included: launch of the iPhone
version at Art Basel in Hong Kong; an updated user experience for
both iPad and iPhone; an improved keyword search capability; a
refined preferences section, called “My Stream,” which allows users
to personalize their Planet Art tags according to their interests;
and additional news sources so that the app currently includes
content from more than 80 international art outlets.
This first-of-its-kind app relies on a unique algorithm to
analyze and index thousands of articles and millions of data points
in real time, with a content stream that can be personalized to
follow news on a user’s favorite artists, institutions, cities and
events. Planet Art is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot in the
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2015, an international
competition for design in advertising campaigns, marketing
strategies and creative solutions. Click here for more information
on Planet Art and here to download Planet Art.
UBS Supports Art Basel’s Crowdfunding Initiative
As a continuation of UBS’s collaboration with Art Basel, anyone
who downloads Planet Art during the month of December also can use
the app to support Art Basel’s Crowdfunding Initiative, nominating
one of several visual art non-profits to receive a pledge of $15
from UBS (from among NuMu, Guatemala; TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica;
Ghetto Biennale, Haiti; SOMA, Mexico; The Andy Warhol Museum, USA;
Museo Tamayo, Mexico; Dallas Contemporary, USA and; Turquoise
Mountain, Afghanistan).
Swiss Institute Artist Video Collaboration
Continuing its commitment to developing innovative resources
that demystify the artworld and help audiences gain interest and
confidence in navigating its complex landscape, UBS has partnered
with the Swiss Institute in New York and its director Simon
Castets, to develop SI Visions. The online project, launched last
month, is a new artist-led video series that provides valuable and
engaging insight into the work of some of today’s most
forward-looking artists from a first-person perspective. The
multi-episode series focuses on a single artist and the special
interests that inform and inspire his or her work. (Such as CGI and
video gaming and our transforming relationship to the environment.)
The first four artists to be featured include: Dora Budor
(b. 1984, Croatia), Sean Raspet (b. 1981, USA), Tabor
Robak (b. 1986, USA) and Pamela Rosenkranz (b. 1979,
Switzerland). SI: Visions depicts the texture and energy of
creative processes and ideas, offering new viewpoint on the ways
artists see the world as they navigate specialist information, new
materials and networks of collaborators. Beginning on Wednesday,
December 3, the series will launch and will be hosted on the
websites of Swiss Institute and UBS, YouTube, vimeo, and youku, and
abbreviated versions will be released via social media channels.
UBS will debut the first video in the series at Art Basel in Miami
Beach, where they will be screened in the UBS Planet Art Recharging
Lounge (on screens and iPads) and at a private event co-hosted by
Swiss Institute on Thursday, December 3.
UBS Art Collection Highlights
This year’s annual presentation of work from the UBS Art
Collection explores the theme of Inside:Out, complementing and
drawing inspiration from the bright, airy and sophisticated
redesign of the UBS Lounge and its new hanging garden. The
installation features approximately 30 works of art by 15 artists
that reflect the notion of bringing the outside in, breaking down
barriers between fiction and reality and between public and private
space to create images inspired by fantasy, pleasure, sensation,
nature and alternative landscapes. A highlight is the newly
acquired Native Land (2014), a lightbox by Doug Aitken.
Filled with a mosaic of colorful roadside signs, this work
highlights the intrusion of advertisements in the American
landscape. Additional featured artists include Vija Celmins,
Francesco Clemente, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gilbert & George, Andreas
Gursky, Catherine Opie, Marc Quinn, Caio Reisewitz, Gerhard
Richter, Pipilotti Rist, David Schnell, Simmons & Burke,
Xaviera Simmons, Thomas Struth and Corinne Wasmuht. The
works, selected by UBS Art Collection Curator for the Americas
Jacqueline Lewis, represent a globally diverse range of artists,
themes and media, including installations, kinetic sculpture,
painting, drawing and photography.
UBS & Contemporary Art
UBS has a long and substantial record of patronage in
contemporary art and actively enables clients and audiences to
participate in the international conversation about art and the
global market through the firm’s contemporary art platform. UBS’s
extensive roster of contemporary art initiatives and programs
currently include: the UBS Art Collection, one of the world’s
largest and most important corporate collections of contemporary
art; the firm’s long-term support for the premier international Art
Basel shows in Switzerland, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, for which
UBS serves as global Lead Partner; and a collaboration with the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation on the Guggenheim UBS
MAP Global Art Initiative. These activities are complemented by a
number of regional partnerships with fine art institutions
including the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, the Nouveau Musée
National de Monaco, the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, the Galleria
d'Arte Moderna in Milan, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in
Sydney, Australia. UBS is also partnering with world-renowned
photographer Annie Leibovitz on WOMEN: New Portraits, a global
exhibition tour of newly commissioned photographs. Launching to the
public in London on 16 January 2016 at Wapping Hydraulic Power
Station, the exhibition will travel to 10 cities in 12 months:
(following London), Tokyo, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Mexico City, Istanbul, Frankfurt, New York, and Zurich. In
addition, UBS provides its clients with insight into the
contemporary art world through the free art news app Planet Art,
for Apple iOS; collaborations with the Swiss Institute and the
online resource Artsy; as well as services offered by the UBS Art
Competence Center and the UBS Arts Forum.
UBS & Art Basel
The relationship between UBS and Art Basel began in 1994 when
the Swiss financial services firm began serving as lead sponsor for
the original edition of the fair in Basel. In 1999, the partnership
was extended to include Art Basel’s ‘Unlimited’ exhibition
platform—which enables artists to realize highly original and
ambitious projects, and, in 2002, the inaugural edition of Art
Basel in Miami Beach. In 2014, UBS became involved with Art Basel
in Hong Kong, officially assuming its current role as global Lead
Partner of Art Basel for all three of its acclaimed international
venues.
About Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and
contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong.
Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is
reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and
the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with
local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious
stands featuring leading galleries from around the world, each
show's exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the
visual arts, offering visitors new ideas, new inspiration and new
contacts in the art world. For further information please visit:
artbasel.com.
About UBS
UBS is committed to providing private, institutional and
corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in
Switzerland, with superior financial advice and solutions while
generating attractive and sustainable returns for shareholders. Its
strategy centers on its Wealth Management and Wealth Management
Americas businesses and its leading universal bank in Switzerland,
complemented by its Global Asset Management business and its
Investment Bank. These businesses share three key characteristics:
they benefit from a strong competitive position in their targeted
markets, are capital-efficient, and offer a superior structural
growth and profitability outlook. UBS's strategy builds on the
strengths of all of its businesses and focuses its efforts on areas
in which it excels, while seeking to capitalize on the compelling
growth prospects in the businesses and regions in which it
operates. Capital strength is the foundation of its success.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has
offices in more than 50 countries, with about 35% of its employees
working in the Americas, 36% in Switzerland, 17% in the rest of
Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 12% in Asia Pacific. UBS
Group AG employs about 60,000 people around the world. Its shares
are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE).
Caption: Doug Aitken, Native Land (2014), © Doug Aitken,
courtesy 303 Gallery, New York; Victoria Miro Gallery, London;
Galerie Presenhuber, Zürich; Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
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