Zurich, New York, 10 June 2015 – Global financial services company UBS today announced that international art collection specialist, art historian, and lawyer Mary Rozell has been appointed as the Global Head of the UBS Art Collection, beginning in September 2015. She replaces Irene Zortea, who will retire at the end of September.
For the last six years, Rozell has been the Director of the Art Business program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, as well as a private art collection consultant. She is the author of The Art Collector’s Handbook, published by Lund Humphries in 2014.
In her new role at the UBS Art Collection, Rozell will oversee a global team including Jacqueline Lewis, Curator for the Americas, and Stephen McCoubrey, Curator for the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. The team of art experts oversees the acquisitions, exhibitions and overall management of the corporate collection.

The UBS Art Collection is widely recognized as one of the most important corporate collections of contemporary art in the world, with more than 30,000 artworks spanning the last 50 years by emerging and established artists. UBS’s collection is at the heart of the company’s longstanding, global support of
contemporary art. Works from the collection are on view in roughly 837 UBS locations in 56 countries around the world and shared with the public through exhibitions and loans.

President of Wealth Management Jürg Zeltner states: “We are delighted to have Mary Rozell leading the UBS Art Collection team. Her broad range of experience complements the many ways UBS is involved in the arts. We believe that collecting contemporary art brings innovative thinking and fresh perspectives into our offices every day. We look forward to working with Mary and her team to make the UBS Art Collection even more relevant in the future."

"I am thrilled to take on the challenge of developing and managing such an esteemed collection," states Rozell. "UBS's sustained commitment to art through all of its activities is unique and offers a broad platform for engagement in the art world. I look forward to working with the talented curators and art professionals as stewards of the UBS Art Collection."

About Mary Rozell

Mary Rozell has been an advisor to collectors, artists and estates on legal and strategic issues relating to the acquisition, management and deaccessioning of private art collections. An art lawyer with a master’s degree in modern art from The Courtauld, she was until recently the Director of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York. Rozell has also served as the director and/or consultant to several major private art collections, as well as Managing Director of the Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art in New York and Curator/Director of the European Studio Programme for the ACC Galerie in the city of Weimar, Germany. 
While living in Berlin for almost a decade, Rozell was also the German correspondent for The Art Newspaper, a curator of contemporary art and a consultant to galleries and Villa Grisebach Auctions. She has written and
lectured extensively about Berlin’s emerging art scene and architectural landscape, and is the author of numerous journal articles, catalogue essays and translations.

UBS Art Collection – Current Activities

Milan

From June 17 through October 4, 2015, Don’t Shoot the Painter. Paintings from the UBS Art Collection, curated by Francesco Bonami, will open at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, Italy (GAM). The exhibition, one of the largest to be organized to date, features more than 100 works from the UBS Art Collection by artists including John Baldessari, Jean Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Fischli/Weiss, Gilbert & George, Katharina Grosse, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Christopher Wool, among others.

Basel

In June during Art Basel, UBS will present an installation in the UBS lounge of nearly 30 works by renowned British artist Lucian Freud, curated in collaboration with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s Anders Kold. These works and others by Lucian Freud from the UBS Art Collection will make up the museum’s upcoming works on paper exhibition Louisiana on Paper: Lucian Freud, on view in Denmark from 3 September through 20 November, 2015.

About UBS and Contemporary Art

UBS’s long and substantial record of patronage in contemporary art actively enables clients and audiences to participate in the international conversation about art and the global art market through the firm’s various activities. UBS’s extensive roster of contemporary art initiatives and programs include: the UBS Art Collection, one of the world’s largest and most important corporate collections of contemporary art; the firm’s long-term global support for the premier international Art Basel shows in Basel, 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, Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. UBS also provides its clients with insight into the contemporary art world through the free iPad and iPhone app Planet Art, the UBS Art Competence Center and the UBS Arts Forum.

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).

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