Award Ceremony

The Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2026 will be presented on 15 June 2026, from 4.30 to 6 pm, in the Swiss Art Awards exhibition hall, Halle 1.1, Messe Basel. The awards will be presented with speeches by Asma Barchiche for Fabrice Gygi, Eleonora Bitterli for Hilar Stadler, and Elli Mosayebi for Tilla Theus.

The ceremony is free and open to all, and will be followed by the vernissage of the Swiss Art Awards and Swiss Design Awards exhibitions.

About the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim

The Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim was created in 2001 by the Federal Office of Culture and the Federal Art Commission. It honours achievements in the fields of art, architecture and critique, publishing, exhibition. It is presented to artists and architects, curators and researchers whose work played a key role in enhancing engagement with art and architecture and have fostered cultural dialogue in Switzerland and beyond. Each award carries prize money of CHF 40,000.

Publication

The Federal Office of Culture is producing the publication Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2026 with portraits and interviews of the laureates. The interviews were conducted by Lionel Bovier with Fabrice Gygi, David Glanzmann (with Oliver Elser, Klodin Erb, Arnon Grünberg, Andreas Hertach, Rita Lötscher & Nina Zimmer) with Hilar Stadler, and Elli Mosayebi with Tilla Theus.

ISBN 978-3-907394-22-9
In German, French, Italian, English
Edited by Gina Bucher
Graphic design: Naima Schalcher
Film and Photography: Yumna Al-Arashi

The publication can be ordered free of charge by email swissart@bak.admin.ch.