The Bâloise Art Prize is a prize awarded to two people each year at "Art Statements" sector of the international Art Basel

Art Basel

Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...

 fair. It is awarded by the Bâloise

Bâloise

Bâloise Holding AG is a Swiss insurance holding company headquartered in Basel. The company employs approximately 7,500 employees across Europe and is the third largest Swiss all-industry insurance service provider for individuals and businesses.-History:...

 group (insurance and banking), a company that works to promote contemporary, emerging art. The Prize has been in existence since 1999. Each winner gains CHF 25,000. The winners acquired works are then donated to the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna

Vienna

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 and the Hamburger

Hamburger

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 Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle

Kunsthalle is, generally, in German speaking regions a term for a facility mounting temporary art exhibitions. Some are run or supported by a local Kunstverein, an art association of local collectors and artists...

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1999 - Laura Owens, Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie

Ritchie attended the Camberwell School of Art 1983-86. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence.Ritchie's art revolves around a personal mythology drawn from creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics, and games of chance, among other...

2000 - Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, Navin Rawanchaikul

Navin Rawanchaikul

Navin Rawanchaikul is a Thai artist with Japanese permanent resident status whose ancestral roots are in Hindu-Punjabi communities of what is now Pakistan. He has developed a unique and vast body of works that rely heavily on team spirit and collaboration, and are most often produced under the...

2001 - Ross Sinclair, Annika Larsson

Annika Larsson

Annika Larsson is a contemporary artist living in New York. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm....

2002 - Cathy Wilkes

Cathy Wilkes

Cathy Wilkes is an artist from Northern Ireland, who creates video installations. She is a 2008 Turner Prize nominee.-Life and work:...

, John Pilson

2003 - Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska was born 1972 in Ryki, Poland. She studied at the Painting Department of the , and the in Amsterdam Monika Sosnowska was born 1972 in Ryki, Poland. She studied at the Painting Department of the (1993–1998), and the in Amsterdam Monika Sosnowska was born 1972 in Ryki, Poland....

, Saskia Olde Wolbers

Saskia Olde Wolbers

Saskia Olde Wolbers is a video artist who lives and works in London, England .-Background:She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, The Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and Chelsea College of Art and Design.Since the mid-1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries...

2004 - Aleksandra Mir

Aleksandra Mir

-Life and work:She studied Communications at Schillerska/Gothenburg University in Gothenburg , Media Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York , and Cultural Anthropology at The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research in New York...

, Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal is a British-German artist based in Berlin. His works, which he calls "constructed situations", involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist.-Early life and education:...

2005 - Jim Drain

Jim Drain

Jim Drain is an American textile artist whose work is knitted. He was the 2005 recipient of the Bâloise Prize.-Life and work:...

, Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander is a disabled English artist. He is a native of Chester.- Personal background :Ryan Gander is a wheelchair user with a long-term physical disability, however, he is reluctant to discuss his physical limitations in interviews with the press.. Some of his work makes reference to the fact...

2006 - Keren Cytter

Keren Cytter

-Biography:Cytter spent her childhood in Israel, where she went on to study visual art in AvniInstitute for Art, Tel Aviv. After her success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers....

, Peter Piller

2007 - Haegue Yang

Haegue Yang

Haegue Yang is a visual artist. Yang represented South Korea in the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. She has exhibited at Portikus, Frankfurt and Walker Art Center , she also participated in the 2006 Sao Paulo Biennial.-External links:...

, Andreas Eriksson

Andreas Eriksson

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2008 - Duncan Campbell, Tris Vonna-Michell

2009 - Nina Canell, Geert Goiris

2010 - Claire Hooper

Claire Hooper (artist)

Claire Hooper is an artist based in London.Claire Hooper's recent work has been concerned with Greek mythology, in particular the way in which Hesiod's Theogony gives an anthropomorphic familial relation to matter and experience...

, Simon Fujiwara

2011 - Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers is a contemporary experimental film maker and artist based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries throughout the world, and won numerous awards...

, Alejandro Cesarco