Prix Meurice for Contemporary Art 2010/2011

Bernard Zürcher

Gallerist and consultant for the Meurice prize

Non voter

Bernard Zürcher is an art historian and the author of several major books on modern art (Georges Braque, monograph, Rizzoli, New York, 1988; Les Fauves, Hazan, Paris, 1998). Between 1979 and 1988 he curated exhibitions at the Musée de l'Orangerie, the Grand Palais and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has also worked in publishing with L'Office du Livre in Fribourg.
An authority in the field of corporate art patronage (he co-wrote, with Karine Lisbonne, L'art avec pertes ou profit?, Flammarion, 2007), Bernard Zürcher founded Galerie Zürcher in Paris in 1992, and in 2007 opened the Zürcher Studio in New York, near the New Museum.
Vice-Chairman of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art between 1994 and 2004, and Vice-Chairman of the Interprofessional Contemporary Art Congress (CIPAC) since 1998, Bernard Zürcher co-founded the contemporary art space on the HEC school of management campus, where he sits on the advisory board for the Masters programme in Media, Art and Creation.