--- type: exposition title: BC21 Art Award 2017 language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/bc21-art-award-2017-0" --- # BC21 Art Award 2017 ![BC21 Art Award 2017](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_499086539837.jpg.webp?itok=g9cVwFfz) **Duration:** 20 September 2017 - 19 November 2017 **On 3 October, Anne Speier received the BC21 BostonConsulting & BelvedereContemporary Art Award 2017**. **For the sixth time, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Belvedere awarded the the highly esteemed and most generous privately endowed art prize in Austria.** The BC21 Art Award was launched in 2007 by the Boston Consulting Group and the Belvedere and is awarded to artists under the age of 40 living and working in Austria. The prize winners to date have been Nilbar Güres (2015), Anna Witt (2013), Lucie Stahl (2011), Nadim Vardag (2009), and Constantin Luser (2007). Artists Judith Fegerl (born 1977), Anja Ronacher (born 1979), Toni Schmale (born 1980), and Anne Speier (born 1977), all living and working in Vienna, were nominated for this year’s BC21 BostonConsulting & BelvedereContemporary Art Award. This year’s **nomination jury** consisted of Séamus Kealy (Director, Salzburger Kunstverein), Simone Menegoi (curator and author, based in Milan), Cosima Rainer (Director, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz), and Vivien Trommer (curator and author, based in Frankfurt am Main). The jury members each chose one artist independently of one another. Anne Speier was awarded the price on October 3 by the **selection jury**, which consists of Marius Babias (Director, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Zdenka Badovinac (Director, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana), Francesco Manacorda (Artistic Director, V-A-C Foundation), and Stella Rollig (CEO and artistic director, Belvedere and 21er Haus). The works by Anne Speier are presented in an exhibition at the 21er Haus, alongside the works by the other three nominees Judith Fegerl, Anja Ronacher and Toni Schmale. The exhibition is curated by Luisa Ziaja and is on display until 19 November 2017. Curated by Luisa Ziaja. \#BC21 #BC21ArtAward2017 BC21 Art Award 2007 - 2015 ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ##### In cooperation with - [The BostonConsultingGroup](http://www.bcg.at/) ## Impressions - ![BC21 Art Award 2017 — BC21 Art Award 2017: Anja Ronacher, Judith Fegerl, Toni Schmale, Anne Speier — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086539837_0.jpg.webp?itok=c5lWHTr_) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Anja Ronacher, The Unnamable, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086539907.jpg.webp?itok=MuGJuBCb) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Toni Schmale, kontaktgrill, 2013 — Courtesy the artist & Christine König Galerie, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086539840.jpg.webp?itok=YbSZBIV_) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Judith Fegerl, cauter, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Galerie Huber Winter, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086539839.jpg.webp?itok=ccPHSetM) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Anne Speier, Feeling the Wall, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086539838.jpg.webp?itok=x3szW5ki) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Judith Fegerl, moment, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Galerie Huber Winter, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086536834.jpg.webp?itok=yc5o_BoK) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Toni Schmale, 500 grad, 800 grad, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Christine König Galerie, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086536833.jpg.webp?itok=xBddJbms) - ![Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017 — Anne Speier, A Door Is Just A Metaphor – Space, 2017 & A Door Is Just A Metaphor – Jaguar, 2017 — Courtesy the artist & Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086536830.jpg.webp?itok=2pzh3Esz) - ![BC21 Art Award 2017, Installation View — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086536828.jpg.webp?itok=wHE2Ri60) - ![BC21 Art Award 2017 — BC21 Art Award 2017: Antonella Mei-Pochtler, Anne Speier, Stella Rollig — Photo: Martina Draper - Photography](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086570334.jpg.webp?itok=6bOAmEiB) - ![BC21 Art Award 2017 — Photo: eSeL.at, © Belvedere, Wien, 2017](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086570335.jpg.webp?itok=giXTIaD5) - ![BC21 Art Award 2017, Installation View — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086536829.jpg.webp?itok=iF_WnU79)