Mirabaud’s Contemporary Art
Collection is a Work of Art
Meta description: Mirabaud’s contemporary painting, photography and sculpture collection spans multiple mediums, eras and several countries.
International banking and financial services provider Mirabaud Group has an extensive history of supporting the arts.
The company’s leadership—which includes Senior Managing Partner Yves Mirabaud, Managing Partner Lionel Aeschlimann and several other co-owner/directors—have encouraged art appreciation and awareness through partnerships such as the one with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art or the Quartiers des Bains association in Geneva.
Mirabaud also has sponsored the Zurich Art Weekend, a public forum that involves numerous museums, entities and galleries in the city, and has supported the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris Hors les Murs (Beyond the Walls) open-air exhibitions at the Place Vendôme in Paris since 2017.
During Mirabaud Group’s more than 200 years in business, it has also built an extensive art collection of its own—featuring paintings, photography and sculpture pieces from well-known and up-and-coming contemporary artists.
The scope of Mirabaud’s contemporary collection reflects the company’s pluralistic view of how society’s history connects to today’s world—a notion that somewhat corresponds to Mirabaud Group, which, according to Yves Mirabaud, serves both as a “symbol of continuity” and a “synonym for foresight, growth and succession.”
Backing Classic and Budding Creators
Mirabaud’s contemporary art compilation includes a number of notable highlights—such as three prints from Thomas Ruff, an esteemed German artist who has created series of photographs involving stoic facial portraits, apartments and the night sky.
The collection also contains three of iconic performance artist Marina Abramović’s prints and several pieces from artist Olafur Eliasson, who has had exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and London’s Tate Modern, which featured his commissioned, large-scale “The Weather Project” installation in 2003.
Along with works from artists who hail from Mexico, the U.S. and other countries, the wealth and asset management company’s contemporary collection features items by celebrated Swiss artists such as Not Vital, Fabrice Gygi, and Yann Gross.
A number of pieces by some of these same artists were also on display, from December 2021 to early January 2022, in a special temporary exhibition by the Wilde Gallery in Gstaad, a Swiss town known for its ski resorts.
Wilde Gallery co-owner Barth Johnson told Sur la Terre magazine the featured Swiss artists’ works of art worked well in The Winter Show event, which had a snow and mountain theme, because they “resonate with Gstaad’s unique landscapes.”
With collectors having spent so much time in the past two years being isolated due to the pandemic, the recent exhibition in Gstaad, Aeschlimann told Gstaad My Love magazine, was a way to offer an opportunity for social connections and a shared experience.
“Cultural initiatives such as those in Gstaad are to be welcomed as ways to recreate social ties between people,” he said. “Culture allows this connection, dialogue and open-mindedness.”
In addition to sharing its artwork with the public in Gstaad, Mirabaud continuously displays pieces from its collection in its Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Paris, London, Luxembourg or Madrid offices and supports many art events. The objective being to make art accessible to the wider public, to make them encounter exciting new visual and material experiences. Art enthusiasts can also view Mirabaud’s contemporary collection on a dedicated website. The online information contains descriptions of the artists, the mediums they typically use and some of their work—including images of the paintings, photography and other items Mirabaud has obtained over the years.
