St. Moritz Art Masters
24 August – 2 September 2012, St. Moritz / Switzerland
At this year’s St. Moritz Art Masters, Julius Baer will present an exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed artist duo, Lutz & Guggisberg. Andres Lutz (born 1968) and Anders Guggisberg (born 1966) are united by an insatiable, lively curiosity coupled with impeccable professionalism. Their collaboration since 1996 has a produced a great range of works that interweave associations and references rich in wry allusions to the history of art and culture.Lutz & Guggisberg, masters in the use of a variety of media and materials, will present new video works and sculptures in the Paracelsus building. Their works have previously been exhibited in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (2010), the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2009), at the IKON Gallery, Birmingham (2008), Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau (2008), Kunsthalle Zurich (2004) and St. Gallen Museum of Art (2002).
To coincide with the Lutz & Guggisberg exhibition in the Paracelsus building, Julius Baer will present works by the artist duo from its own collection in the St. Moritz branch. Julius Baer’s commitment has seen a highly interesting and representative collection from all areas of Swiss art accumulate over the last 30 years
St. Moritz Art Masters 2011
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Moreover the programme at the St. Moritz Art Masters invited visitors to experience truly 'exceptional discoveries': Art viewers were offered a unique symbiosis of gallery and art presentations on the one hand, as well as highlights of the international arts scene, assembled in St. Moritz especially for this occasion, on the other. The project “Lingua Franca” brought divers emerging and mid-career talents with Swiss artists to the Engadin. The exhibitions were developed and created in the Engadin.
Yves Netzhammer (*1970)
The internationally renowned media and installation artist uses his computer – with inspiration drawn from his everyday surroundings – to create a model like reflection of our lived reality, distinguished by an unmistakably powerful and poetic formal vocabulary.
At this year’s St. Moritz Art Masters, Julius Baer presented one of his video installations especially created for the Paracelsus building. Yves Netzhammer’s work was shown at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2010 and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2008, among other places; in 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
Play – selected video works from the Julius Baer Art Collection
Through the commitment of Julius Baer an extremely versatile and representative collection has been built up in the course of the last 30 years. It encompasses works from all areas of Swiss artistic endeavour. In connection with the exhibition of the media and installation arist Yves Netzhammer Bank Julius Baer presented selected video works from the company’s collection in its premises in St. Moritz as well as in a little caravan in front of the Kempinski Grand Hotel. Amongst others works from Yan Duyvendak (*1965), Eberli–Mantel (*1972/1966), Susanne Hofer (*1970), Marion Tampon-Lajarriette (*1982) and the duo Biefer / Zgraggen (*1959/*1958) were shown. Therewith the bank granted varied insights to its activities in this field.
For the first time this year Julius Baer hosted the Julius Bär Art Lounge which became a meeting place for all people interested in art and culture and offered interesting talks, food and drinks in a casual and distinctive surrounding.