Art for Nature mobilizes artistic and cultural practice as an active force in ecological care. The foundation supports practices that confront environmental reality directly and challenge how nature is perceived, valued, and treated. By binding contemporary art to conservation, research, and climate action, Art for Nature works to protect and regenerate threatened ecosystems. It aims to foster new imaginaries and redirect cultural power, resources, and attention toward the long-term defense and care of the living world, where delay carries material and often irreversible consequences.
Mission
Founded by artist Julian Charrière, Art for Nature is born from the conviction that art is not only integral to the perception and understanding of our planet’s ecologies, but a key to protecting them. Art shapes attention and enables forms of shared meaning and engagement that precede policy or data. Through artistic practice, ecological relationships are encountered not as abstractions, but as lived, sensory, and ethical conditions.
Art for Nature brings cultural practice into direct relation with nature conservation, environmental protection, and climate action. By mobilizing the resources, networks, and imaginaries of contemporary art, the foundation fosters a renewed sense of planetary awareness and responsibility in the face of rapidly transforming ecological realities. Each intervention is a catalyst for change, supporting the regeneration and long-term preservation of endangered habitats worldwide.
By creating contexts in which art operates within and alongside ecological systems, Art for Nature seeks to expand how nature is encountered, not as a resource or backdrop, but as a complex, interdependent field in which human activity is embedded. It supports artistic, educational, and research-based initiatives, including site-specific projects, public programs, studies, and collaborative platforms. Alongside cultural work, Art for Nature directs financial and institutional support toward concrete conservation measures, including ecosystem restoration, biodiversity protection, and lasting stewardship. By developing models that channel value generated within the arts toward environmental action, the foundation establishes durable links between cultural production and planetary care.
The foundation also functions as a platform through which artists can contribute to conservation through their own practices and projects. By bringing together diverse voices and initiatives, Art for Nature enables artists from around the world to align their efforts and act collectively in response to the ecological crisis. In this way, the foundation cultivate a growing community of contributors committed to environmental care through cultural action.
Art for Nature operates across disciplines, collaborating with artists, scientists, conservation organizations, cultural institutions, collectors, and the public. It commits to sustained engagement and structural experimentation, recognizing environmental repair as both a technical and cultural challenge. Through its work, Art for Nature contributes to a future in which art actively participates in the care of the world it reflects upon, and in which cultural practice remains inseparable from the ecological conditions that sustain it.
