Curriculum Vitae/English

“Like Vasco da Gama, we are all explorers of our own destiny. Close to major terrestrial capes, rage the most violent, contradictory, tumultuous ocean currents. Beyond lies the unknown territory of our inner treasure, the way to our vocation and deepest identity. It is then a question of perseverance. Countless are those who abandon the voyage at the first swirls of great waters, even before sighting the cape in the distance.”

Celina K.

Celina Kosinski specializes in “collectionism”, anthropological objects and archaeological methodology during her first Master. At the end of her studies in archaeology and art history at the Universities of Fribourg and Bern, she works as a trainee archaeologist at the research center of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich. Then she settles in Tasmania (state island of Australia), to undertake readings preparing her Master dissertation and experience a lifestyle outside the Western “branding”. 

Back to Switzerland she meets Daniel Spoerri who provides invaluable information to her dissertation. Her Master memoir later integrated the prestigious “Daniel Spoerri Archive” at The Prints and Drawings Department of the Swiss National Library (NL), an organ of the Federal Office of Culture.

Along with the writing of her dissertation, she works for Patricia Low, an art dealer highly renowned on the international scene of contemporary art. Near this brilliant business woman who displays a considerable creative energy and avant-garde taste, Celina Kosinski receives a professional training of excellence, rubs closer the Gstaad jet set and cosmopolitan eminent artists. 

Exploring the backstage of celebrity magazines inspires her abundant societal reflections, particularly on the Western values based on consumption, accumulation of commodities, the power of objects and appearances. She discloses her analysis in her Master memoir through the experimental works of Daniel Spoerri, who 40 years earlier, proceeded to such societal, anthropological and ethnological study.

Celina Kosinski succeeds her Master of Arts in 2008, carries out an internship in journalism, founds Geneva UnderCover, then she is the director of the Mimesis Contemporary Art gallery in the old town of Geneva, until 2011. As a farewell to her professional activities in the art business, she devotes in 2013 to structural and editorial collaboration of the first monograph of the artist Rita Mancesti, with whom she has wonderfully collaborated for a few years.

During a transitional period, she worked for a renowned law firm in Geneva, founded by the eminent Pierre Lalive d’Epinay. She assisted a partner in the firm – then a rising star in international arbitration – and immersed herself in a professional field where challenges were carried out through hard work and inflexible discipline. In this multilingual climate, insatiable with skills, zero tolerance for mediocrity, inconsistency and weak character, she understands that uncompromising determination, perseverance and surpassing oneself are the sine qua non conditions for undertaking and succeeding in her next degree.

In September 2013, she is admitted to the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva, to undertake a Master in Environmental Science. She specializes in Water Science and has great interest for hydrology and geology. She succeeded her Master of Science in early Spring 2017 and is since, working as an environmental engineer for AFRY (ÅF – Pöyry), a Swedish international company in engineering services and consulting. –> LinkedIn

Celina Kosinski is a member of the Network of female Water Engineers (NeWI) and a volunteer for the protection of amphibians in the « Batrachians Group » Pro Natura.

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