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Stefan Banz
Stefan Banz is an artist and writer. He studied art history, German literature, and literary criticism at the University of Zurich. In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Lucerne and was its artistic director until 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he was also an artistic consultant and curator for the Galerie Hauser & Wirth. As an artist he has participated in solo and group exhibitions in international museums and galleries such as Kunstmuseum Luzern, Migros Museum Zürich, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, MAMCO Geneva, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, orCentrePasquart, Biel. In 2000 he received the Manor Art Prize and the Recognition Award of the City of Lucerne, and in 2005 he was the curator of the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. With Caroline Bachmann he founded the KMD Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp | The Forestay Museum of Art(www.akmd.ch) in 2009 and organized and curated the event Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall in 2010 in Cully, Switzerland. Stefan Banz published extensively about Marcel Duchamp, amongst others the very first monograph about Marcel Duchamp’s Pharmacy. His comprehensive publication Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters received in 2016 the Peter C. Rollins Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Websites: www.banz.tv and www.akmd.