The Eightees – A Decade of Extremes
Actors (29)
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Guillaume Bijl
Guillaume Bijl is known for his large-scale installations and visual realism. Since the late 70s, Bijl created realistic decors using found o
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Lili Dujourie
Lili Dujourie (° 1941) studies both painting and sculpture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but without graduating. Dujouri
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Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (°1945) lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She studies visual arts and design in New York and works for several maga
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Thierry De Cordier
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954) creates depth in his paintings through the use of dark tones. Yet also as a sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, w
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Jan Fabre
The Antwerp visual artist and theatre maker Jan Fabre (b. 1958) is a multidisciplinary artistic phenomenon. He is an energetic performer who
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Jan Vercruysse
From the mid-1970s, Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) takes to the museum space with abstract collages, installations and assemblages that primarily
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Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street,
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Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (1943, US, lives in New York) combines conceptual art with social critique and political activism. In her installations, collag
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Walter Swennen
Walter Swennen: an ominous smile on canvas Walter Swennen is a pioneer of the 'new painting' of the 1980s. His paintings are a precise p
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Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz (a pseudonym of Georg Kern, derived from the place Deutschbaselitz in East-Germany where he was born in 1938) was a crucial fa
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René Daniëls
René Daniëls graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1976. In the early eighties Daniëls participates in a numbe
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Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer (1950, US, lives in New York) visualises language as an instrument of political and psychological manipulation. Her use of langu
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Jörg Immendorff
During the 1960s Jörg Immendorff studies at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. After finishing his set design studies, he went on to
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Cady Noland
Cady Noland was born in 1956 in Washington, DC, and is based in New York. Noland was an important representative of the American Gothic Reviv
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Keith Haring
The work of Keith Haring finds its origin in the alternative New York street culture at the end of the 1970s. At that time Haring was a stree
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Franz West
Franz West is a key figure in the revival of the once so influential Viennese art scene. In his work, that is at once impressive and light-fo
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Cindy Sherman
The American photographer and filmmaker Cindy Sherman (°1954) is one of the most important and influential art photographers of the past thir
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Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye is a much talked about and controversial artist. Since the second-half of the 1980s, he’s decorated modern, familiar objects. In
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Allan McCollum
The sculptural practice of American artist Allan McCollum is grounded in a clinical commentary upon one of the great critical quandaries of a
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A. R. Penck
A. R. Penck (the pseudonym of Ralf Winkler) is strongly influenced by the surroundings he grows up in and starts working as an artist. As a r
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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven /...
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK (°1951, Antwerp, Belgium), studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp and has been prolific in
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Rob Scholte
Rob Scholte works with images. The images he collects from the mass media and his personal archive, are reinterpreted, placed in entirely dif
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Hugo Roelandt
The Belgian artist Hugo Roelandt (1950-2015) is one of the pioneers of performance art in Belgium in the seventies and eighties. He conscious
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Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte is a German contemporary artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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Per Kirkeby
Per Kirkeby completed his geology degree and as an artist he has close ties to Neo-Expressionism. In 1973 Kirkeby expanded his practice from
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he studied drawing, painting and sculpture. While experimenting with coll
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David Robilliard
David Robilliard expertly treads the boundary between art and humour. The self-taught, Guernsey-born artist moved to London in the late seven
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Bernaded Dexters
Bernaded Dexters was born in 1958 in Hasselt, Belgium. She studied fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and received her ph