Baloise Art Prize

The Baloise Art Prize is a prize awarded to two people each year at "Art Statements" sector of the international Art Basel fair.^[1]

The prize is awarded by the Bâloise group (insurance and banking), a company that works to promote contemporary, emerging art. The Prize has been in existence since 1999. Each winner receives CHF 30,000.^[2] The winners' acquired works are then donated to a museum in Germany – either the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin^[3] or the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt –^[4] and the Mudam (Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean), Luxembourg.

Prizewinners

• 1999 – Laura Owens, Matthew Ritchie
• 2000 – Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, Navin Rawanchaikul
• 2001 – Ross Sinclair, Annika Larsson
• 2002 – Cathy Wilkes, John Pilson
• 2003 – Monika Sosnowska, Saskia Olde Wolbers
• 2004 – Aleksandra Mir, Tino Sehgal
• 2005 – Jim Drain, Ryan Gander
• 2006 – Keren Cytter, Peter Piller
• 2007 – Haegue Yang, Andreas Eriksson
• 2008 – Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell
• 2009 – Nina Canell, Geert Goiris
• 2010 – Claire Hooper, Simon Fujiwara
• 2011 – Ben Rivers, Alejandro Cesarco
• 2012 – Karsten Födinger, Simon Denny
• 2013 – Jenni Tischer, Kemang Wa Lehulere
• 2014 – John Skoog
• 2015 – Beatrice Gibson, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
• 2016 – Sara Cwynar, Mary Reid Kelley^[5]
• 2017 – Martha Atienza, Sam Pulitzer^[6]
• 2018 – Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Suki Seokyeong Kang
• 2019 – Giulia Cenci, Xinyi Cheng^[7]
• 2021 – Hana Miletić, Cameron Clayborn
• 2022 – Tourmaline, Helena Uambembe^[8]
• 2023 – Sky Hopinka, Sin Wai Kin^[9]

See also

• List of European art awards