For the first time, Europe’s best endowed art award goes to a Frenchman. The Board of the
Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has awarded the 2013 Roswitha Haftmann Prize – worth
CHF 150,000 – to Pierre Huyghe. The presentation will take place on 16 May
2013 in the Kunsthaus Zürich.

The Prize was originally the initiative of Roswitha Haftmann (1924-1998), whose Foundation
has awarded it since 2001 to a living artist who has created an oeuvre of outstanding quality.

The winner is chosen by the Foundation Board, which is chaired by Christoph Becker, Director of the Kunsthaus Zürich, and whose members also include the directors of the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2012 the Board appointed two new members: Karola Kraus (Director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna) and Bernhart Schwenk (Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich).

Roswitha Haftmann Foundation

Roswitha Haftmann-Stiftung Zurich
c/o Kunsthaus Zürich
Christa Meienberg
Winkelwiese 4
8024 Zurich
Tel. +41 (0)44 253 84 02