At the Cannes Lions 2017, iart was awarded with a Gold Lion for the light frieze at the Kunstmuseum Basel in the design category. Valentin Spiess, CEO iart:

'We are very happy about the Cannes Lions Gold we won together with our partners, Christ & Gantenbein - the architects of the new Kunstmuseum building - and Ludovic Balland, who designed the font. Having won 13 awards in total for the project means that our work regarding media architecture shows the way forward'

The gold lion is the second lion iart has been awarded with: In 2014, the kinetic facade for the MegaFaces-pavilion in Sotshi received a grand prix in the innovation category. This gold lion is the first one since 2015 for Switzerland.