John Skoog has been awarded the Baloise Art Prize at this year’s Art Basel | Statements (19 – 22 June 2014).
Skoog’s new installation, Pilar Corrias’ first booth presentation at Art Basel, comprises of the video Reduit (Redoubt) (2014), an archival found image, and three photographs.
The Baloise Art Prize is presented annually at the Statements sector of Art Basel and selected by a renowned jury. The 2014 jury is made up of: Karola Kraus (Director, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna); Susanne Gaensheimer (Director, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt); Dirk Snauwaert, (Artistic director, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels); and Martin Schwander (Fine Art Advisor of the Baloise, Chairman of the jury).
From the jury:
Skoog’s film bears witness to the Cold War on the borderline between personal and collective history. A collage of voices and sounds reinforces the atmospheric impact of his imagery while the autobiographical elements of the film are embedded in a larger whole through art historical references to Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Merzbau’ and Facteur Cheval’s ‘Palais Idéal’.
In addition to the prize of CHF 30,000, the Baloise Group will acquire a group of works by Skoog that will be donated to two key European museums, currently the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.
ART BASEL | STATEMENTS
19 – 22 June, 2014
Pilar Corrias, Booth S11
John Skoog