HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008
The HUGO BOSS PRIZE has established itself as a significant forum for recognizing achievement in contemporary art.
The PRIZE is the fruit of longterm cooperation between HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Founded in 1996, the HUGO BOSS PRIZE carries an award of $ 100,000 and is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2008, the HUGO BOSS PRIZE will be awarded for the seventh time.
Innovation and creativity are the sole criteria applied by a distinguished international jury comprised of museum directors, curators and critics. There are no restrictions in terms of age, gender, nationality or media. The first winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE in 1996 was American artist Matthew Barney, followed in 1998 by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. The HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2000 was awarded to Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrŏ, in 2002 to the French artist Pierre Huyghe,
in 2004 to the Thai artist Rikrit Tiravanija and in 2006 to the English artist Tacita Dean.
THE WINNER EMILY JACIR
Emily Jacir (b.1970, Bethlehem, Palestine) received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dallas at Irving and a Master of Fine Arts from the Memphis College of Art; she also participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1998-99 and currently lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine and New York. Jacir utilizes various media - photography, video, sculpture, and drawing - to address themes of movement, borders, displacement and belonging as they relate to individual experiences and to the national identity of Palestinians.
In 2007, Emily Jacir received the Golden Lion Award for an artist under 40 at the 52nd Venice Biennale and the Prince Claus Award from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague. She has participated in the National and International Studio Program at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (2000-01) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency Program, New York (1999-2000).
CHRISTOPH BÜCHEL
Christoph Büchel (b. 1966, Basel, Switzerland) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Cooper Union School of Art
in New York and the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel and currently works and resides in Basel. Büchel is best-known for his elaborate installations which, in blurring the distinctions between fiction and reality, art and everyday life, challenge the viewer’s physical, psychological and intellectual exploration of his often ominous and unnerving microcosms of material remains.
Christoph Büchel was a participant in the 2000-01 National and International Studio Program at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. He was awarded the Manor Kunstpreis, St. Gallen in 2000.
JOACHIM KÖSTER
Joachim Köster (b. 1962 Copenhagen, Denmark) studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and currently lives and works in New York and Copenhagen. Drawing on archival methods, Köster’s films and photographic installations explore an array of enigmatic historical narratives through their material remains, ultimately challenging the viewer’s understanding of the construction and degradation of history.
Joachim Köster was a participant in the ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence program in San Antonio, Texas in 2000 and received the Edstrand Foundation Art Prize in 1999.
PATTY CHANG
Patty Chang (b. 1972, San Leandro, CA) studied at the University of California in San Diego and currently works and resides in New York. Her earlier performance pieces, which often tested the limits of endurance and taste, and her more recent video and photographic projects have focused on the conflation of the real and the imagined in various cultural contexts.
Patty Chang has received numerous awards and grants including a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation (2005); The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award (1999); a grant for performance art from the Franklin Furnace Fund (1999); and a grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (1997). She has also participated in the Récollets International Residency Program, Paris (2006) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency Program, New York (2000).
ROMAN SIGNER
Roman Signer was born in Appenzell, Switzerland in 1938 and currently lives and works in St. Gallen. He studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich, the Schule für Gestaltung in Lucerne and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Signer’s sculptures manifest his attention to process and transformation across sequential phases of time; his sculptural events and his meticulous photographic and video documentation have expanded the conventional definition of sculpture through the inclusion of time as a dimension of artistic practice.
Signer has been the recipient of the Aachner Kunstpreis, Germany (2006); the Kulturpreis der Stadt St. Gallen, Switzerland (2004); the Konstanzer Kunstpreis, Germany (1998); the Kulturpreis St. Gallen, Switzerland (1998); and the Kulturpreis Bregenz, Austria (1995).
SAM DURANT
Sam Durant (b. 1961, Seattle, Washington) received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Through the manipulation of various cultural references, Durant explores the formation and sanitization of history in his ambitious projects, which range in medium from photographs to sculptural models and installations.
Sam Durant was a 2006 United States Artists Fellow and a finalist for the 2005 Ordway Prize granted by the Penny McCall Foundation of New York. He was an artist-in-residence at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2002-03.
