Raphael Hefti to be awarded 2026 Paul Boesch Art Prize

Raphael Hefti has won this year’s Paul Boesch Art Prize, which will be awarded at the Kunstmuseum Bern on August 25. Hefti is a visual artist whose works express a highly distinctive aesthetic language, according to the museum. It said Hefti, born in Biel/Bienne in 1978, was one of the most prominent Swiss artists of his generation. After completing an apprenticeship as an electronics technician, Hefti studied at the Ecole cantonale d’art (ECAL) in Lausanne and at the Slade School of Fine Art…