Art space “attitudes” in Geneva receives first SWISS EXHIBITION AWARD
Zurich, 2.4.2009 - The first Swiss Exhibition Award goes to Western Switzerland: to the Espace d’arts contemporains “attitudes” by Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser in Geneva. They are receiving the prize for the exhibition “The Example” by Shahryar Nashat. Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, Director of the Federal Office of Culture, and Jan A. Bielinski, member of the board of the Julius Bär Foundation, handed over the prize money to the winners of the award for the art space as part of a public ceremony today at the Schiffbau in Zurich. The new Swiss Exhibition Award of the Julius Bär Foundation and the Federal Office of Culture will award a prize each year for an outstanding exhibition of Swiss contemporary art. It is endowed with CHF 40,000 and was now awarded for the first time.