Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2019

Created in 2001, the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim is awarded on the recommendation of the Federal Art Commission to artists, architects, curators, researchers and critics, whose internationally renowned work is of particular relevance and importance to Swiss artistic and architectural practice. Each award carries prize money of CHF 40,000.
For the nineteenth time, the Federal Office of Culture presents the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim to three outstanding Swiss culture professionals: architects Marcel Meili and Markus Peter, journalist and art critic Samuel Schellenberg and artist Shirana Shahbazi.