Raimund Girke

Enrico Castellani
In 1959, using a regular, geometric arrangement of hazelnuts across which he stretched a monochrome canvas, Enrico Castellani established the fundamental ...
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Oskar Holweck
Bending, creasing, crumpling, folding, pressing, squeezing, stretching, scoring, tearing, slitting, cutting, sawing, singeing, burning – using various ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Katharina Grosse
Katharina Grosse’s paintings need neither place nor frame nor canvas. Detached from the painting support, her pictures flow over forms, grow out of granular ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Bernd Koberling
… I became a painter in order to be able to express myself with painting, and not just to celebrate painting ...
My Überspannungen came about starting ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jan J. Schoonhoven
Zero is not geared to geometry. Although this should be clear in itself, it becomes unmistakable when you compare Zero products with truly geometric objects. ...
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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 ...
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Hans Haacke
The German conceptual artist Hans Haacke developed an activist and critical artistic stance that has an ongoing relationship with its specific political ...
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Astrid Klein
Astrid Klein uses photography and sculpture to address and question the “specific recognition of reality. Moreover, in her [...] paintings, she has staged ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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