Yoko Ono
Absalon
After cutting short his military service in Israel, Absalon dropped out and lived in a wooden hut on the beach in Tel Aviv, before finally emigrating ...
read more 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 Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe’s works typically present themselves as complex systems that are shaped by and bring together a wide range of life forms, objects and diverse ...
read more Harald Klingelhöller
Although minimalism has reduced sculpture to basic aesthetic figures, the symbolism removed from the object has been re-inscribed in the form of the sculpture’s ...
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 David Hammons (digital)
Digital exhibition:
David HammonsBliz-aard Ball Sale, 1983Black and white photographiesCooper Square, New YorkNew York University, Special collections© ...
read more Mirosław Bałka
You see what you see, almost nothing, that is, or merely a piece of wall, its surface a bit rough, slightly dirty here and there. A wall that people have ...
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 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 Stephan Huber
The artist Stephan Huber calls himself a modern allegorist inspired by the traditions of the southern German baroque and Latin Catholicism, with a strong ...
read more Alfonso Hüppi
A prominent representative of object art, Alfonso Hüppi is concerned with an aesthetic analysis of form, while also focusing on the usability of everyday ...
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 Reiner Maria Matysik
Reiner Maria Matysik focuses his artistic work on the dialogue between science and the visual arts. He draws on an extensive repertoire of various materials ...
read more Nam June Paik
“Nam June Paik’s Zen for Film (1962–64) is a typical Fluxus work devised in the spirit of concretism. It consists solely of clear film leader of the type ...
read more Thomas Rentmeister
With its monolithic and erratic appearance, the object assembly Taint created by the sculptor and installation artist Thomas Rentmeister transfixes the ...
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 Gregor Schneider
Gregor Schneider has been working since the mid-1980s with built and deconstructed spaces, voids and imperfections. At the heart of his artistic work ...
read more Nina Schuiki
The slide projection Notes on Duration invokes light silhouettes of building openings such as windows and doors, casting them onto the walls and floors ...
read more George Segal
Disappointed by the possibilities offered by painting, George Segal developed a new kind of visual language in the 1960s by producing human figures – ...
read more James Turrell
In the 1960s, inspired by the bright sunlight of the California coast, artists like James Turrell, Lita Albuquerque and John McCracken found their way ...
read more Ceal Floyer
The Pakistani-born artist Ceal Floyer focuses on the true, radical implementation of her motifs into the media form she uses. She reduces the amount of ...
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 Astrid Klein
Astrid Klein uses photography and sculpture to address and question the “specific recognition of reality. Moreover, in her [...] paintings, she has staged ...
read more Inge Mahn
The sculptress Inge Mahn takes objects, both large and small, from our everyday lives – including towers, curtains, cupboards, chairs, tables, flags and ...
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 Raimund Kummer
In a physical act repeated countless times, Raimund Kummer etched the sentence “Ich werde blind” (“I am going blind”, 1973) on a copper plate, then “blindly” ...
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: ...
read more Ray Johnson
“We all dance in John Cage shoes” was what Ray Johnson – pioneer of mail art and one of the most famous unknown artists in New York (New York Times) – ...
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