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A political activist as well as an artist, Jenny Holzer’s aim is to disrupt the passive reception of information from damaging sources. …

The Neoavantgarde of the 1960s and 1970s is characterized by its radical breaks with tradition, by redefinitions of creative approaches and artistic …

Tetsugo Hyakutake works with contemporary issues in relation to their historical contexts. Through his artwork, he creates what he calls his own …

Jackson Pollock was the leading force behind the Abstract Expressionist Movement in the art world. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame …

Raquel van Haver works on burlap, often combining oil paint, charcoal, resin, hair, paper, tar and ash in heavily textured compositions. She …

Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg have worked together as an artistic duo since 1996, creating a wide variety of works. Their repertoire …

The exhibition “Signal or Noise-The Photographic II” is the second part of a diptych exhibition in spread over two years and is …

Despite his undeniably pivotal position in the international film and television world, David Lynch’s work as a visual artist is much less …

Within Paulina Olowska’s practice, industry, leisure, and socialist symbolism occupy the same visual and cultural space. Her realist paintings, drawings, and collages …

Robert Rauschenberg grew up in Texas and Louisiana, and was very influenced by Southern art and culture, from its quilting traditions to …

Having left their countries to live and produce elsewhere, Juan Goytisolo* and Tezer Özlü perceived themselves at times as travelers and at …

David Ostrowski’s work is characterized by the use of a reduced color palette on vast, nearly empty fields covered with occasional gestures …

Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …

The Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho make work that addresses elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic, …

Despite the considerable attention in recent years to Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the situation in Algeria often …

In his work the Chypriot artist Theodoulos Gregoriou often uses geometrical shapes such as spheres, cones and cubes, on which he projects …

Often associated with the Pop Art Movement, Alex Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954, and since that time he has produced …

In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artist’s books, prints, and films that …

Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …

Anna-Eva Bergman is regarded as one of the best Norwegian painters of the 20th Century, she was long overshadowed by her husband, …

A preeminent artist of the 20th Century, Alberto Giacometti investigated the human figure for more than forty years. Giacometti was born in …

Do Ho Suh is known worldwide for his almost weightless transparent spaces made of fabric, accurate and full-size renditions of the homes …