Igor Lah is a Slovenian entrepreneur and collector of Post-War and contemporary art, based between Ljubljana and Luzern.
He is the President of Vaider Group in Switzerland, the owner of Steklarna Hrastnik, a Slovenian glass producer specialising in premium glassware, and the owner of Srpska fabrika stakla, a glass producer from Serbia.
In addition to his business pursuits, he is a wine sommelier as well as an accomplished sailor, having won the World Championship in 2013 and 2016, and the 44Cup in 2016, 2017, and 2019, as the helmsman of Team Ceeref Vaider.
Mojca Lah is a Slovenian collector of Post-War and contemporary art together with her husband, Igor Lah, based between Ljubljana and Luzern.
Mojca is treasurer of The Vaider Group – a glass packaging company in Switzerland.
Beyond her professional responsibilities, she is actively involved in organising business and social events. Mojca is a member of the Association of Female Managers (FAM) and the former president of SILA–IWCL, the International Women’s Club, Ljubljana.
Numa Bischof Ullmann has been the artistic and executive director of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra since 2004. In 2020, he founded the International Piano Festival “Le Piano Symphonique”. During his tenure, the orchestra has become one of the leading Swiss orchestras performing in first-class venues all over Europe and Asia.
Numa is also guest professor at the arts management faculty of the University of Zürich as well as the Music Academy of Lucerne. He regularly acts as a jury member for competitions and award-giving institutions in Europe and the USA and serves on the board for several charity foundations active in the field of music and the arts.
Dr. Susanne A. Kudielka has worked for museums and art institutions in Basel, Paris and Berlin for many years. She was Ernst Beyeler’s long-time gallery and foundation curator before establishing her own business in Basel as personal curator for art collection management and exhibition and publication development in 2006. She has a Ph.D. in Art History and French Literature from the University of Basel.
Through her extensive experience of working with artists and art collectors, she is especially interested in introducing contemporary art, its challenges and pleasures, to a wider public.