Astrid Klein
George Brecht
A chemist by education and an inventor of hygiene articles, George Brecht wanted to use his art to ensure “that the details of everyday life, the random ...
read more Heinz Gappmayr
One important factor is that Gappmayr’s works are not only made of language, i.e. the form of their presentation – be it textual, oral or on data carriers ...
read more Yoko Ono
In the exhibition:
Yoko OnoTHE WALK TO THE TAJ MAHAL, 1964/2021From six film scripts by Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 Facsimile print27,94 × 21,59 cm© Yoko ...
read more Mark Tobey
In his picture series White Writings, Mark Tobey creates labyrinthine rhizomatic entanglements out of repetitive, white brushstrokes on dark backgrounds. ...
read more Lucio Fontana
The museum is a conventional institution. Equally conventional is the practice of giving introductory talks at exhibition openings. We won’t waste our ...
read more Ulrike Draesner
In the exhibition:
Ulrike DraesnerBe-Sprechbarkeit, 2021Space Essay, Text, White print on textileCourtesy of the artist
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read more Katharina Fritsch
When, in 1987, as part of the Skulptur Projekte Münster, Katharina Fritsch exhibited her monochrome yellow Madonna Figure in the centre of Münster, positioning ...
read more Painter of White from the Outset
The work of the painter Raimund Girke might appear rather uniform at first sight. Upon closer inspection, however, his creative life, which spans some ...
read more Eugen Gomringer
Eugen Gomringer, who was hailed by Emmett Williams as the father of concrete poetry, saw the poetic text as “a visual object and utensil: an object of ...
read more Marcia Hafif
Marcia Hafif is one of a group of American artists who pursued a new form of painting in the United States and Europe in the 1970s. This new direction ...
read more Per Kesselmar
Per Kesselmar shows his fascination with light in his works. In his paintings, the Stockholm-based artist mixes different shades of white paint on large ...
read more Yves Klein
“We now reach April 1958 as we prudently and progressively move forward in time. I was preparing for The Pictorial Sensibility in the State of First Matter ...
read more Sara Masüger
For each visitor to an exhibition, there are distinct expectations and charms that accompany the visit: children, experts, art lovers and culture vultures ...
read more David Ostrowski
In the space of only a few years, the Cologne-based painter has developed a body of work that approaches, in an almost uncanny way, the idea of a “degree ...
read more Robert Rauschenberg (digital)
Letter from Robert Rauschenberg to Betty Parsons about his White Paintings, from Black Mountain College, Ashville, NC, postmarked October 18, 1951
Dear ...
read more Karin Sander
The tradition of mural painting goes back to prehistoric times and brings to mind static symbolic positionings and decorative designs created with various ...
read more Ulrich Erben
Ulrich Erben’s group of early “white paintings” (1968–1978) is distinguished by their marginal areas of unpainted canvas, initially more or less unprepped ...
read more Hans Haacke
The German conceptual artist Hans Haacke developed an activist and critical artistic stance that has an ongoing relationship with its specific political ...
read more Günther Uecker
Early on in his career, Mecklenburg-born artist Günther Uecker turned against the predominant art movements of the 1950s: socialist realism in the GDR ...
read more Timm Ulrichs
Two black-and-white photographs – the naked upper body of Timm Ulrichs – one taken from the front, one from the back. Some parts of the body are covered ...
read more Qiu Shihua
At first glance, the paintings of Chinese artist Qiu Shihua seem to be monochrome, completely white canvases. Yet upon closer inspection, vast landscapes ...
read more Jochen Gerz
“...he brings work and the image back to their origin. ‘Weissʼ (‘whiteʼ) is composed of letters: signs. White is only understandable through its opposite: ...
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