UBS is the world’s largest wealth manager, a premier investment bank and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses. UBS combines financial strength with a global culture that embraces change.

UBS is deeply committed to the promotion of excellence and innovation in the arts and maintains a number of longstanding sponsorships of arts and cultural projects around the world including Australasia. Leaders in the artistic and cultural world share qualities, such as innovation, creative thinking and commitment to excellence, that are also integral to the bank’s success. These values underpin the partnerships that UBS has developed with the Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company.

UBS is proud to have supported the work of contemporary Australian artists through its partnership with the Australia Council’s Venice Biennale project since 2005.

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Founded by Neil and Diane Balnaves, The Balnaves Foundation has a commitment to support medicine and creativity in the arts.

The Foundation's particular interest in sculpture has generated the annual Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Projects at the Art Gallery of NSW. The inaugural group exhibition of 2003, Still life, included Ricky Swallow, who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2005. In 2007 the Foundation will support Callum Morton’s exhibition in Venice.

The Foundation is also the exhibition patron for Sculpture by the Sea and finances the Open House Program at the Sydney Opera House and the Youth Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Generation Next.