The Baloise Art Prize, the largest prize associated with editing Switzerland of the Art Basel art fair, was awarded this year to the artists Tourmaline and Helena Uambembe , who will receive more than $30 thousand dollars each.

El prize is awarded to the artists of the section Statements , which is for galleries that present works by emerging artists and is run by the Baloise Group , a Basel-based Swiss insurance company that has financed museums such as the Mumok in Vienna. and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in Germany.

Therefore, this year the works of the winners will go to two museums: the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt and the MUDAM in Luxembourg.

Tourmaline's work was brought to the fair, which will take place from Thursday June 16 to Sunday June 19, by his gallery of NY , Chapter NY.