Press Release Vaclav Pozarek Is Awarded the Paul Boesch Prize

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Vaclav Pozarek is Awarded the Paul Boesch Prize 2017

The Paul Boesch Foundation awards the eponymous prize endowed with CHF 50 000 to Vaclav Pozarek, thus honoring the conceptually and medially diverse oeuvre of the Bern-based artist. Vaclav Pozarek has presented his works since the 1980s in numer- ous museums and institutions and enjoys international recognition. His art has been extensively presented in solo shows in Berlin, Bratislava, Zurich, Basel, Winterthur, Aarau, Chur, and Bern. Significant stations of the artist include the retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2004 and the presentation of the work in progress Library Of Sculpture at the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur. His most recent show was in 2015 at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, where Pozarek arranged older and newer works to a spatial Gesamtkunstwerk. The award ceremony of the Paul Boesch Prize will take place on March 23, 2017, at the Kunsthalle Bern.

Vaclav Pozarek was born in C�eské Budeˇjovice (CS) in 1940. From 1965 to 1966 he studied at the Prague Film Academy and in 1968 moved to Switzerland. From 1969 to 1971 he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and in 1973 at the St. Martin’s School of Art in London under Anthony Caro. His oeuvre includes sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages, and architectural interventions. All media are part of his artistic strategy that starts with the spatial situation and creates a system of conceptual references: literature, cultural history, and everyday life are interwoven in Pozarek’s exhibition architectures to form complex spaces of knowledge and thought.

The Paul Boesch Stiftung was founded in 2014 and bears the name of the Swiss painter and graphic artist (1889 – 1969). In commemoration of her father and his influential art, Liselotte Boesch initiated the foundation in 2011. The non-commercial institution awards one artist each year for his or her outstanding work. In addition, four Advance- ment Awards, each endowed with CHF 5 000, are granted to the Schule für Gestaltung Bern + Biel (SFGBB). The members of the foundation’s Board of Trustees are:

Rolf Grädel, President Robert Wenger, Zunftgesellschaft zu Metzgern Stefan Gelzer, Schule für Gestaltung Bern + Biel Valérie Knoll, Kunsthalle Bern Claudia Engler, Burgergemeinde Bern Matthias Frehner, Kunstmuseum Bern Nina Zimmer, Kunstmuseum Bern / Zentrum Paul Klee