{"id":24744,"date":"2024-02-07T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch\/museum\/partners\/best\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:50:52","slug":"best-art-collection-luzern","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch\/en\/museum\/partners\/best-art-collection-luzern\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation Best Art Collection Luzern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ugo Rondinone, sechstermaizweitausendundvierundzwanzig, 2024, Acryl auf Leinwand, 400 \u00d7 600 cm, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Depositum der Stiftung BEST Art Collection Luzern, vormals Bernhard Eglin-Stiftung, Foto: Studio Rondinone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Foundation Best Art Collection Luzern<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The foundation BEST Art Collection Luzern is dedicated to the gratifying task of acquiring art for the public. In so doing, it supports one of the museum\u2019s main objectives, which the Kunstgesellschaft Luzern (Lucerne Art Society) also set itself when it was founded in 1819, that of creating a picture archive for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundation BEST Art Collection Luzern regularly acquires important works and gives them to the museum on permanent loan. The acquisitions are made in accordance with Kunstmuseum Luzern\u2019s collection concept. All the members of the Board of Trustees provide at least 2,000 francs each annually for the purchases. In addition, the Board of Trustees of the foundation BEST Art Collection Luzern aims to persuade institutions, businesses and individuals from their personal environment to make bequests and donations in support of the Kunstmuseum Luzern\u2019s collection. Thanks to this commitment, the Kunstmuseum has received many important works in recent years, for example, by the Turner prize-winner Laure Prouvost, the painter Christine Streuli, who represented Switzerland at the 2007 Venice Biennale, the media artist Clemens von Wedemeyer, and Vivian Suter, who was honoured with the Swiss Grand Award for Art in 2021. The foundation currently owns some 200 works with a total value of 25 million francs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundation council is made up of personalities from Central Switzerland. The new acquisition projects are presented and discussed at the annual session of the foundation council. In the course of each year the foundation council members meet for various events involving art, debate and socialising. The varied programme is complemented by excursions to institutions that have borrowed BEST works and visits to artists\u2019 studios or other art venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contact<\/h2>
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Collection Curator<\/strong>
<\/strong>Alexandra Bl\u00e4ttler<\/a>, +41 41 226 78 93 (Di-Do)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c9v\u00e9nements et partenariats
<\/strong>Sonja Fuchs<\/a>, +41 41 226 78 12 (Di\/Fr)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bank account<\/h2>
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Credit Suisse
IBAN CH68 0483 5030 5900 8100 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Board of Trustees<\/h2>
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President<\/strong>
Martin Ege<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President<\/strong>
Andreas Schoch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board of Trustees <\/strong>
Christine Anliker, Laura Breitschmid, Janet Briner-L\u00fcthy, Ursula Burger, Andrea Cometti, Sonja da Silva dos Santos, J\u00f6rg Denzler, Patrick D\u00f6\u00f6s, Martin Ege, Simone Eggstein, Marc Emanuel Eggstein, Thomas Filzer, Gina Furrer, Jo\u00ebl Gessler, Philipp Gm\u00fcr, Walter Graf, Marianne Hess-Odoni, Hubert Hofmann, Nicolai Kalinowsky, Christine Luckhardt, Benedikt Marbet, Armando Meletta, Andrea Meule, Marcel Neuenschwander, Dino Pavic, Thomas Peter, J\u00fcrg Purtschert-Kuhn, Birgit Roller, Hubert R\u00fcedi, Susanne Ruoss, Andreas Schoch, Anne Schw\u00f6bel, Hanspeter Steiger, Edwin Steiner, Verena Theiler, Peter T\u00fcfer, Oskar Vonmoos, Nicole Ziltener<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ex officio<\/strong>
Andi Scheitlin, Kunstgesellschaft Luzern
Fanni Fetzer, Director Kunstmuseum Luzern
Alexandra Bl\u00e4ttler, Kunstmuseum Luzern<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Booklet (German)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Acquisition project 2024\/2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ugo Rondinone (*1964) is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Swiss artists. He has received numerous art prizes and represented Switzerland at the 52nd<\/sup> Venice Biennale in 2007. The artist grew up in Brunnen, but over the course of his international career has adopted New York as his main place of residence, while at the same time always maintaining close ties with Central Switzerland. Ugo Rondinone\u2019s connections with the Kunstmuseum Luzern go back a long time. In 1989 he took part in the Christmas exhibition Weihnachtsausstellung Innerschweizer K\u00fcnstler<\/em> and won the Exhibition Prize of the Kunstgesellschaft, which enabled him to mount a solo exhibition the following year. At that exhibition, the artist presented detailed ink landscape drawings, which today are in the Kunstmuseum\u2019s collection. Ugo Rondinone is returning to his home country in 2024 with the retrospective Cry Me a River<\/em>. For this exhibition he has created two new paintings in which he captures the view from Brunnen across the Vierwaldst\u00e4ttersee Lake, by day and by night. Visitors stand almost reverently in front of these striking landscapes rendered minimally with flat areas in five shades of blue. By way of a tribute to F\u00e9lix Vallaton and Ferdinand Hodler, both of whom captured the overwhelming beauty of the Swiss landscape, Ugo Rondinone joins the ranks of that tradition. Whereas the artist has donated the night-time version (siebtermaizweitausendundvierundzwanzig<\/em>, 2024) to the Kunstmuseum Luzern, the BEST Art Collection Luzern foundation collected funds to purchase the day version (sechstermaizweitausendundvierundzwanzig<\/em>, 2024) in the form of generous contributions from the foundation\u2019s council members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ugo Rondinone
sechstermaizweitausendundvierundzwanzig<\/em>, 2024<\/strong>
Acrylic on canvas, 400 \u00d7 600 cm
Amount: CHF 360.000 (incl. museum discount)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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