About | Elisa Rusca

Art historian, author, and curator, I am currently director of the exhibitions and collections department at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva.

EXHIBITIONS

TEXTS

BOOKS

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NEWS

23.1, 18h: Awards Ceremony "Prix Art Humanité 2024", HEAD, Genève

12.2, 18h: Moderation Round Table discussion: "Don't Keep, Just Music", with Grant Mitchell (IFRC) and Sarah-Joy Maddeaux (IFRC)

Musée international de la Croix-Rouge, Genève

TUNING IN - Acoustique de l'émotion, with works by Manal AlDowayan, Betty Danon, Marco Donnarumma, Gregor Hildebrandt, William Kentridge, Christine Sun Kim, Thomas Mader, Piero Mottola, Julia Scher, Dana Whabira, is currently on view at the Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Geneva

Human.Kind. book is out !

Get your copy HERE

LINKS

www.daydreamers.biz

www.kunstbulletin.ch

www.redcrossmuseum.ch

Member of

AICA Switzerland

IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art

AICA International

Chair of AICA Digital Strategies Committee 2015 - 2022

Selection of recent past conferences and talks

2024

"La bande-son du droit international humanitaire"

Rencontre/Discussion "Musique et droit international humanitaire"

Sciences Po, Paris

Nov 28

"The myth of Cura and the invisible cities, notes for a curatorial praxis"

IHEID, Graduate Institute Geneva

March 18

2023

"Human.Kind : Un nouveau regard sur la photographie humanitaire". With William Ewing

Société de Lecture, Genève

Nov 1

"La mission en images : le fonds d’affiches des collections du MICR"

Musée Historique Lausanne

Oct 31

"What if? Reflections on the Saudi contemporary art scene"

Talk: Curating Art in Challenging Times

Photographers' Gallery, London

April 21st

2022

Conversation with Jordi Ruiz Cirera, winner Prix FOCALE 2022

Galerie FOCALE, Nyon

November 22nd

2021

Prix AICA France pour la critique d'art - Lauréate du Prix spécial du Jury

Institut National de l'Histoire de l'Art, Paris

September 21st