Elisa Rusca
cultural manager and art curator
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.
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18.3, 10.30 am: Tuning In Book presentation with round table discussion "L'écoute comme compétence artistique, relationnelle et sociétale, Salon du Livre Genève, stand A20
19.3, 6 pm: Mapping My Way to... Drifted Memories
with Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Heywon Suk, and Marina Skalova
Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge,
Genève
Angelica Serech - Pach'Un Q'ijul is currently on view at the Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Geneva
Tuning In Book by EPFL Press is out ! Get your copy HERE
Member of
IKT - International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art
Chair of AICA Digital Strategies Committee 2015 - 2022
Selection of recent past conferences and talks
2026
Guest Lecturer, Cultural Data Sculpting MA class (prof. Sarah Kenderdine, Digital Humanities Department)
Feb 26
2025
Participation in Roud Table discussion: "Transmettre la paix"
Conference "Histoire(s) de la paix", 5-6.12.2025, Musée Guerre et Paix, Ardennes
Dec 12
Ishita Chakraborty, Nina Emge: "Mapping My Way to Borderless Echoes"
Moderation of Conversations and Performances, Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Geneva
Nov 20
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
Feb 12
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