Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan (24/6/1936- )

The painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan  (24/6/1936- ), who came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the major theoretical and practical proponents of the avant-garde Mono-ha (Object School) group. The Mono-ha school of thought was Japan’s first contemporary art movement to gain international recognition. It …

Sylvie Fleury

Sylvie Fleury (24/6/1961- )

The contemporary Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury (24/6/1961- ), is known for her mises-en-scène of glamour, fashion and luxury products. Although at first …

Liang Hao, Orchid, 2026, 40 × 60 cm, 78 3/4 × 78 3/4 inches, Oil on linen, © Liang Hao, Courtesy the artist and Massimodecarlo Gallery

ART CITIES: Paris-Liang Hao

Liang Hao’s paintings stage a drama of the hand—its hesitations, its tests, its suspended intentions. What emerges is not a narrative of …

Marilou Schultz weaving Geo XX Diné Computer Chip Weaving, 2026, Photo Credit: Gabby Usinger

ART CITIES: Basel-Labouring Bodies

In the history of industrial modernity, the relationship between humans and machines has often been narrated through the image of the male …

Chloe Wise, Extrasensory, Exhibition view, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, 2026, Photo: Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G

ART CITIES: Basel-Chloe Wise

Chloe Wise’s work is grounded in an interest in the history of portraiture and examines the multiple channels through which the Self …

Alejandro Aravena

ARCHITECTURE: Alejandro Aravena

The Chilean Architect Alejandro Aravena (22/6/1967- ) is the winner of the 2016 Pritzker Prize. Highlighting his dedication to improve urban environments …

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija (21/6/1961- )

Even though his diverse artistic production eludes classification, Rirkrit Tiravanija (21/6/1961- )  has accurately described it as “relational”: a body of work …

Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist (21/6/1962- )

Pipilotti (Elisabeth) Rist (21/6/1962 – ). She is best known for creating experimential video art and installations that often portrays self-portraits and …

Melike Kara, Whispers, Installation view, Kunsthaus Hamburg-Hamburg, 2026, Photo: Jaewong Kim, Courtesy the artist and Kunsthaus Hamburg

PRESENTATION: Melike Kara-Whispers

Melike Kara is a contemporary German artist of Kurdish-Alevi heritage, born in 1985 in Bensberg near Cologne, Germany. Working across painting, installation, …

Tetsuya Ishida, Recalled, 1998, Acrylic on board, 57 3/8 x 81 1/8 inches (145.6 x 206 cm), © Tetsuya Ishida Estate, Photo : Robert McKeever, Courtesy Gagosian

PRESENTATION: Tetsuya-Ishida

In the brief span of a decade, Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) created one of the most unsettling and prophetic bodies of …

Anish Kapoor, Tsunami, 2025. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026. Photo: Dave Morgan

ART CITIES: London-Anish Kapoor

Few contemporary artists have challenged our understanding of space, materiality and perception as profoundly as Anish Kapoor. Over the course of four …