Arab Bank Switzerland

Official account of Arab Bank Switzerland
- Swiss private bank active in traditional and digital assets
- Exploring digital art and culture

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Join us for the launch of A Field of Collaboration, the new monograph on Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) and Anna Ridler (@annaridler).

Published by @HatjeCantz and edited by Charlotte Kent (@Lucy2Scribbles), the book gathers the artists' five joint projects from 2023–2025 for the first time, alongside essays by Tega Brain, Doreen Ríos, Masako Shiba and Catherine Troiano, an interview by Nina Roehrs, and extensive documentation of their process. Together they trace how Crespo and Ridler bridge machine learning with photographic practice, botanical study and other tactile traditions — moving beyond the digital sublime toward a profound attentiveness to the contemporary moment.

See the book: https://t.co/fyWsz9Cz94

Friday 11 Sept, 5pm · HALLEN 07, Berlin — panel + signing.
#BerlinArtWeek

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The cheerful motifs of the early web, dancing across the hard-faced front pages of the news.

In Online Newspapers: Postfactual Edition (2017–18), net-art pioneer Olia Lialina (@GIFmodel) overlays Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung front pages of Trump, Putin and Kim with the amateurish glitter and modified cursors of the early web — setting the pageantry of political authority against the throwaway aesthetics of the early internet.

The triptych shows at HALLEN 07, running 5–13 September.
#BerlinArtWeek #netart

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An evolving choreography of characters, making and unmaking a grid of windows without pause.

Andreas Gysin's (@andreasgysin) Lattice (2025) builds evolving geometric patterns from the characters of the extended ASCII set. Each screen shows only a fragment of a much larger computational surface that runs on beyond the frame — at HALLEN 07, spanning six vertical LED panels, each 2 × 3.5 metres.

HALLEN07 runs from 5 – 13 September.
Experience Lattice at https://t.co/zVLRQnLJJg
#BerlinArtWeek

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A generative program, animated GIFs on political front pages, and AI-conjured Alpine flora — three practices, one presentation.

Arab Bank Switzerland makes its @BerlinArtWeek debut at HALLEN 07, bringing together three works that each think through technology, image and data in a different way:
▪️ Andreas Gysin (@andreasgysin) — Lattice (2025)
▪️ Olia Lialina — Online Newspapers: Postfactual Edition – Trump, Putin, Kim (2017–2018)
▪️ Anna Ridler (@annaridler) & Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) — 83 Seeds from a Vanishing Mountain (2023)

Curated by Nina Roehrs.

The presentation also marks the launch of a new monograph on Ridler & Crespo — ABS's 2025 Artist of the Year recipients. The book will be launched on 11 September at 5pm at HALLEN, in front of the artists' work, with a panel discussion moderated by Charlotte Kent, followed by a book signing with the artists.

HALLEN 07 | Sept. 05–13
📍 Wilhelm Hallen
#BerlinArtWeek #HALLEN07 #ArabBankSwitzerland #ABSDigitalArt

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For the first time, Arab Bank Switzerland will take part in HALLEN, the Berlin art festival held during @berlinartweek.

At HALLEN 07, ABS will present works by Andreas Gysin (@andreasgysin), Olia Lialina (@GIFmodel), and Anna Ridler (@annaridler) & Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91).

HALLEN 07 | 05–13/09/26
📍 Wilhelm Hallen
Opening: September 5, 11am

#ABSArtCollection

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The award carries a cash prize of 15,000 USD and will see the duo develop a newly commissioned work for the Arab Bank Switzerland Collection over a year-long engagement encompassing exhibitions, public programming and institutional collaborations.

#ABSArtistOfTheYear

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We are pleased to announce Eva & Franco Mattes as the recipients of the 2026 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year award.

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Among the pioneers of internet art, Eva & Franco Mattes are an Italian-American artist duo living between New York and Milan. Through videos, installations and websites, their work explores and dissects our contemporary networked condition, examining the ethics and politics of life online with a darkly humorous edge.

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The award carries a cash prize of 15,000 USD and will see the duo develop a newly commissioned work for the Arab Bank Switzerland Collection over a year-long engagement encompassing exhibitions, public programming and institutional collaborations.

#ABSArtistOfTheYear

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Stay tuned for the announcement of their nomination later this week.

#ABSArtistOfTheYear

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The 2026 Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year is nominated by an international jury that brings together leading curatorial and institutional perspectives:

Andrea Bellini, director of Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (@cacgeneve)
Rani Jabban (@RaniJabban), deputy CEO of Arab Bank Switzerland
Melanie Lenz, curator of digital art at the @V_and_A
Andrea Lissoni, artistic director of @HausderKunst
Irini Papadimitriou (@irini_mirena), director of exhibitions at @DAFmoc
Christiane Paul (@ChristianePaul2), curator of digital art at the @whitneymuseum

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Jury Statement:

Many of digital art’s most influential figures are respected by artists and curators yet lack the institutional visibility afforded to peers of comparable standing.

With this in mind, the jury selected a longstanding practice that critically examines how media shapes human connection, and that has consistently revealed the consequences of technological change rather than celebrating it.

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Trophy by Momentum Design.

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The Arab Bank Switzerland Artist of the Year is an annual jury-nominated award that forms the basis for a newly commissioned work and a year-long engagement with the bank encompassing exhibitions, public programming, and institutional collaborations.

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The 2026 Artist of the Year will be announced this week, ahead of the award's presentation at @berlinartweek in September.

Stay tuned for the announcement.

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Curated by Marco Franciolli, the exhibition positions Gysin and Vanetti's contemporary generative practice in dialogue with op art and arte programmata, including historic works by Gianni Colombo, Dadamaino, and Jean Tinguely.

Learn more here: https://t.co/Ntpw8mCkMs

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Three works from @andreasgysin & Sidi Vanetti’s Link 2 series, held in the Arab Bank Switzerland Collection, are now on view at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno as part of the group exhibition “L’occhio dinamico. Traiettorie della percezione” (The Dynamic Eye. Trajectories of Perception).