Artist Pamela Rosenkranz, metal casting specialist Felix Lehner and architect Miroslav Šik have been awarded the 2025 Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim.
Born in Altdorf in 1979, Pamela Rosenkranz is a Zurich-based multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, video, installation and painting. After obtaining her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bern, she studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her work critiques anthropocentrism and explores the materialities and biochemical processes that affect human behaviour and perception. In 2015, Rosenkranz represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale.
Felix Lehner, born in 1960 in St Gallen, Switzerland is the founder of the Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen, an art production workshop specialising in metal casting that collaborates with internationally renowned artists, museums and galleries.
Born in Prague in 1953, Miroslav Šik is a Swiss architect, architectural theorist and professor of architecture. His designs include the Catholic Centre St. Antonius in Egg, the congress and hotel centre La Longeraie in Morges and the musicians’ residence in Zurich. He was awarded the State Prize of the Czech Ministre of Culture in 2024.
The Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim, awarded by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture since 2001, grants practitioners in the fields of art, architecture, criticism, publishing or exhibitions with CHF 40,000 (£35,000 GBP). The prize will be presented as part of the Swiss Art Awards on 16 June in Basel.
