25th Baloise Art Prize awarded at Art Basel 2024

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25th Baloise Art Prize awarded at Art Basel 2024

11.06.2024 / 15:00 CET/CEST

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Basel, 11 June 2024. The Baloise Art Prize has been awarded to Tiffany Sia
and Ahmed Umar. The prize of CHF 30,000 will be presented at the Statements
sector of Art Basel by a jury of international experts. The prize includes
the acquisition by Baloise of works by the award winners, which are donated
to two important museums in Europe: the MMK Frankfurt and the MUDAM,
Luxembourg.

Tiffany Sia

Tiffany Sia's installation invites viewers to experience video in an
unconventional way. In the course of following the traces of King Hu - a
martial film director who shot his movies in the Taiwanese countryside - she
presents a visual meditation on the notion of what Salman Rushdie once
called the 'imaginary homeland'; that is, the (romanticised) view of their
native country often cultivated by people living in the diaspora. In her
collection of essays, On and Off-Screen Imaginaries, she critically examines
vernacular documentary cinema. By projecting the film 'The Sojourn' on a
curved curtain and 'Antipodes II' on a rear-view mirror, she conjures the
feeling of disruption and underscores the materiality of the image while
also introducing a painterly dimension to the medium of film.

Tiffany Sia, *1988, lives in New York City, NY, USA
Statements Stand M14, Felix Gaudlitz gallery, Vienna, Austria

Ahmed Umar

Ahmed Umar takes souvenirs that have hardened into clichés and transforms
them into poetic and spiritual forms, lined up like prayer beads in 15
different poses. He combines materials, such as wood, plaster, rubber or
metal, to create smooth, handmade assemblages that seem to glide through
one's hands. In this way, Ahmed Umar demonstrates the complexity of Islam,
the diversity of ways in which it is handed down and practiced in different
regions, while at the same time drawing attention to the mistaken conviction
that spirituality is confined to the written word.

Ahmed Umar, *1988, lives in Oslo, Norway
Statements Stand M17, OSL contemporary gallery, Oslo, Norway

This year's jury includes:

* Karola Kraus, General Director MUMOK Vienna and Chair of the Jury

* Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Curator/Head of collection MUDAM, Luxemburg

* Susanne Pfeffer, Director MMK Frankfurt

* Ann Demeester, Director Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

* Uli Sigg, Collector and patron of the arts

During Art Basel 2024 (from 13 to 16 June 2024) all the winners will be
presented at the Baloise Studio (Hall 2.2).

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