The Situation is Fluid
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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are ex-Soviet, American-based artists who collaborated on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those
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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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Panamarenko
The Belgian artist Panamarenko (pseudonym of Henri Van Herwegen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1955 to 1960 but just as
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Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers (1924, Brussels – 1976, Cologne) is one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century. Since his death many have
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Léa Lublin
Argentine artist Léa Lublin belongs to a long list of cultural producers and intellectuals who, for most of the sixties and seventies, decide
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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto is associated with Arte Povera. In the 1960s, he defines a new kind of monumentality by combining rags and 'worthless
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Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium. He lives in Antwerp. After studying painting and art history in Brussels and Antwerp he eme
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Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was one of the sons of the famous Chilean surrealist Roberto Echaurren Matta. After studying architecture in N
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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David Claerbout
David Claerbout is fascinated by the way we observe the world and by the function of our visual memory. He raises questions about how we perc
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Marlene Dumas
'I am an artist who uses second-hand images and first-hand emotions'. - Marlene Dumas, 1989 Marlene Dumas (°1953) grows up in Cape Town,
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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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Anna Bella Geiger
Anna Bella Geiger is multi-disciplinary artist and a pioneer in the field of video art, both within and outside of Brazil. Frequent trips to
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Marina Abramović & Ulay
Marina Abramović (°1946, Belgrade, Serbia) and Ulay [Uwe Laysiepen’s pseudonym] (°1943, Solingen, Germany - †2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia) met e
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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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Chantal Akerman
'I won't say I'm a feminist film-maker ... I'm not making women's films, I'm making Chantal Akerman's films'. (London, 1979) The longtime
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Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (1926–2009, US) is a leading pioneer of feminist art and a member of the group Women Artists’ Revolution. From the 1960s her most
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Craigie Horsfield
With social projects and with work in different media including video, photography, sound, drawings, performance and installation, Craigie Ho
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Andrea Fraser
Since the 1980s, Andrea Fraser has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social and cultural structures with humour and pathos, a
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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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Ayman Ramadan
Ayman Ramadan moved to Cairo from the countryside when he was 16. He found a job as a security agent and would sleep in the minibuses and car
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Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
The Turkish artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007) studied aesthetics, sociology, and art history at the universities of Ankara and Paris.
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Taus Makhacheva
Between 2002 and 2013 Taus Makhacheva (°1983) follows different education cycles in arts, communication and economy, both in Russia and in En
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Otobong Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She obtained her
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Nikita Kadan / Нікіта Кадан
Nikita Kadan: the beating heart of history (cross-section) Nikita Kadan embarked on an artistic quest from his native Kyiv, charting the
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Evgeny Antufiev
Evgeny Antufiev was raised in the Siberian republic of Tuva. Inspired by the region’s lingering traces of shamanic practice, Antufiev crafts
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Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost has developed a highly idiosyncratic and humorously philosophical practice, typically using video, sound, installation, painti