Finalists Art Prize 2023

Kiefer Hablitzel │ Göhner Art Prize

The Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Art Prize applies to Swiss and Switzerland-based artists or artists registered in a Swiss university under 30 years of age. The Prize is awarded in close cooperation with the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK) and the Ernst Göhner Foundation. As a precondition for participation in the award process, we now expect applicants to have obtained at least a Bachelor’s degree. Artists may apply for the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize a total of three times (from 2021), and the same artist may only be awarded the prize once (from 2021).

Additionally to the maximum of seven prizes of 15’000.- CHF each, as a special award, we will organize a solo exhibition at a Swiss institution for one artist, accompanied by a publication. This solo exhibition will take place in the year after it is awarded – for the first time at the Kunsthaus Fri Art in Fribourg in 2022.

Jury and process
The jury consists of notable Swiss artists and curators and a representative of the Ernst Göhner Foundation. In the context of the annual public exhibition Swiss Art Awards, organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK) coincidental to the Art Basel, the works on display undergo a second evaluation by the jury and the winners are decided.

Selection of past prize winners
John M. Armleder, Olaf Breuning, Stefan Burger, Julian Charrière, Claudia Comte, Martin Disler, Sonia Kacem, Friedrich Kuhn, Manon, Shahryar Nashat, Markus Raetz, Christine Streuli, Hannah Villiger, Hannah Weinberger, Rémy Zaugg and may others

Prizes à CHF 15'000 and a special prize: solo exhibition at a Swiss institution, accompanied by a publication

Members of the Jury

Claire Hoffmann, president of the jury, curator Centre culturel suisse, Paris
Denise Bertschi, artist
Dr. Corinne Linda Sotzek, art historian, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Zug

Guest Jurors 2023:

J. Emil Sennewald, art critic
Kabelo Malatsie, Director at Kunsthalle Bern
Liza Trottet, curator at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel
Nicolas Raufaste, curator at CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel

Guest Jurors 2022:
Dr. Céline Eidenbenz, commissaire d'exposition, curator Aargauer Kunsthaus
Tadeo Kohan, independent curator Paris/Geneva

Jury member 2015–2021:
Elise Lammer, independent curator, Basel/Berlin

President of the Jury 2015–2021:
Dr. Judith Welter, director Kunsthaus Glarus, Zurich

Jury member 2015-2021:
Marc Bauer, artist and lecturer for painting and drawing at the ZHdK, Zurich/Berlin

Guest Jurors 2021:
Nicolas Brulhart, artistic director Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg
Mai-Thu Perret, artist

Guest Jurors 2020:
Nicolas Brulhart, artistic director Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg
Eva-Maria Knüsel, research assistance, Kunsthaus Langenthal

Guest Jurors 2019:
Felicity Lunn, director of Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel
Julia Moritz, art historian and cultural scientist, curator and art educator, Zürich/Berlin

Guest Jurors 2018:
Renée Levi, artist and lecturer for installation, drawing and painting, HGK Basel

Guest Jurors 2017:
Stefan Burger, artist, Zürich
Elio Schenini, curator of the exhibition Unter 30. Junge Schweizer Kunst XII. – Kiefer Hablitzel Preis 2017, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano

Guest Jurors 2016:
Valérie Knoll, director Kunsthalle Bern
Noah Stolz, curator of the exhibition Unter 30. Junge Schweizer Kunst XII. – Kiefer Hablitzel Preis 2016, BAC Geneva

Partner-Links

Ernst Göhner Foundation

Federal Office of Culture