A renowned international curator and one of the field’s pioneers in broadening contemporary art. 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. In 1994 she founded Arts for the World, an NGO associated with the UNDPI (United Nations Department of Public Information). Its mission is to create, through the universal language of art a meaningful and enduring dialogue among diverse peoples, cultures, and world views in order to encourage tolerance and solidarity and to foster education as a human right. ART for The World organizes exhibitions with the participation of artists from all over the world. These events are based on the ideals of human rights, dignity, freedom, peace and solidarity enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and proclaimed as fundamental values by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.