Raimund Kummer


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 ...
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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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Gotthard Graubner
“It is by lending his body to the world that the painter transforms the world into painting,”1 writes the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The painter ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Mark Tobey
In his picture series White Writings, Mark Tobey creates labyrinthine rhizomatic entanglements out of repetitive, white brushstrokes on dark backgrounds. ...
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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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Roman Opalka, Opalka 1965/1–∞
“Like a mountaineer, stage by stage I climb the rock face of a high mountain from whose summit I hope to discover an unlimited horizon of endless white. ...
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Frank Badur
Frank Badur’s pictures require the viewer to surrender to the beauty of simplicity and the awareness that the subtlest differences in colour, material ...
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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 ...
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Sam Francis
Influenced by American expressionism, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock, as well as by French tachism and Claude Monet’s water-lily pictures, Sam Francis ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly’s inspirations in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the breakthrough of his unique abstract imagery in Paris had a major influence on ...
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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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Piero Manzoni
Nearly half of the entire oeuvre of the Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni consists of the “uncoloured” Achromes, a group of around 600 works. By ...
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Joseph Marioni
Color as presence. Color as image. An object with a logic that makes a congruence of paint and canvas. The canvas itself is the figure; it is vertical. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Thomas Rentmeister
With its monolithic and erratic appearance, the object assembly Taint created by the sculptor and installation artist Thomas Rentmeister transfixes the ...
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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 ...
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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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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 – ...
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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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Inge Mahn
The sculptress Inge Mahn takes objects, both large and small, from our everyday lives – including towers, curtains, cupboards, chairs, tables, flags and ...
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Otto Piene
“Light is the primary condition for all visibility. Light is the sphere of colour. Light is the vital substance of both humans and painting,”1 wrote Otto ...
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Bridget Riley
“White Discs”? The title is somewhat puzzling because the painting consists of black discs on a white ground. The round forms occur in three different ...
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Hanns Schimansky
In the work of the draughtsman Hanns Schimansky, lines, folds and vague forms manifest themselves as antipodes of gestural action, of the illusionism ...
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Robert Ryman
The American painter Robert Ryman (1930–2019) hails from the all over painting tradition and has worked almost exclusively with white color materials ...
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THE COLOUR WHITE
Nothingtoseeness – the state of having seen nothing, allied with words like void / white / silence or immateriality / zero point / emptiness – brushes ...
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