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Hans Haacke, Grass Grows, 1969, earth, grass seeds, 150 × 300 cm (diameter), exhibition view: Hans Haacke: All Connected, 2019, New Museum © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Dario Lasagni

TRIBUTE: Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke has shaped “polit­ical art” to a greater extent than any other artist of his gener­a­tion. Keen crit­i­cism of insti­tu­tions, polit­ical …

Ellsworth Kelly, Painting in Three Panels, 1956, oil on canvas, three panels, 80 x 139 inches (203 x 353 cm) overall display, © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

TRIBUTE: Ellsworth Kelly at 100

For more than seventy years, Ellsworth Kelly drew inspiration from nature and the world around him to create works that would come …

Vlassis Caniaris, Sliced Cucumber, 1974, Vlassis Caniaris Estate & Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich/Paris, photo: Axel Schneider

TRIBUTE: There Is No There There

In the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, numerous artists from abroad were working in both the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic …

Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024 © Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luis Kürschner

TRIBUTE: Nancy Holt-Circles of Light

In her artistic practice, Nancy Holt reimagined site-specific installations and ways of working with natural and artificial light. She began focusing on …

Louise Bourgeois (25/12/1911-31/5/2010)

TRIBUTE: WOMEN IN ART

All began in New York City on March 8, 1857, when female textile workers marched in protest of unfair working conditions and …

Photo left: Cildo Meireles, Babel, 2001, Finnish National Gallery, Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen. Photo right: Essi Kausalainen, They whistled and walked from room to room, 2024, Finnish National Gallery, Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen

TRIBUTE: Feels Like Home, Part II

The Finnish National Gallery’s contemporary art collection comprises around 8,800 works dating from the 1970s to the present day. Kiasma’s collection exhibitions …

Niina Lehtonen Braun, Syön vain omalta lautaselta (from the series Mother Said), 2010, Finnish National Gallery, Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Sonja Hyytiäinen

TRIBUTE: Feels Like Home, Part I

The Finnish National Gallery’s contemporary art collection comprises around 8,800 works dating from the 1970s to the present day. Kiasma’s collection exhibitions …

John Meade, The Puschelhockers (detail), 2018, fur, steel, acrylic paint, metallic screen, print ink, hairclips, dimensions variable, Photo Andrew Browne

TRIBUTE: John Meade-It’s Personal!

Combining the rigors of geometry with soft organic forms, John Meade works in an intuitive way to materialize his ideas, creating tightly orchestrated pieces that …

Nam June Paik, Klavier Intégral, 1958 / 1963, 136 cm x 140 cm x 65 cm, Fluxus-Klavier präpariert mit verschiedenen Materialien / Fluxus-Piano prepared with different materials, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ehemals Sammlung Hahn / Former Hahn Collection, Köln / Cologne erworben / acquired in 1978, © Nam June Paik Studios

TRIBUTE: On Stage at mumok

Exhibitions in general offer stages on which artists can present their works, and thus form a vital part of their public presence …