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Nancy Spero, Maypole: Take No Prisoners, 2007, Handprinting on aluminum, ribbon, steel chain, and aluminum pole with steel base, Dimensions variable, approximately 30 x 30 x 35 feet Installation view: Capilla de Santa Ana, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, 2009, © The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York

ART-PRESENTATION: Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero is regarded as a pioneering feminist artist whose work confronts social and political injustice with artistic ingenuity. Unapologetically feminist, anarchic …

Joseph Beuys, Zwei Frauen, 1955, Pencil, watercolour, gouache and iron chloride on paper, 21 x 29,5 cm, © Joseph Beuys Estate/DACS-London 2017, Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:London-Joseph Beuys

Through a multi-faceted practice that incorporated drawing, sculpture, installations and political activism, Joseph Beuys radically re-conceived the role of theartist, aspiring to …

Roni Horn, The Selected Gifts, (1974 – 2015), 2015-16, Ink jet prints on Hahnemuehle paper, 67 parts, 13 x 13 in (18 images); 13 x 14 in (3 images); 13 x 16 in (31images); , 13 x 18 in (9 images); 13 x 19 in (6 images), Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

PRESENTATION: Roni Horn

For more than 30 years, Roni Horn has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, often exploring issues of …

ART PRESENTATION: Carol Rama-Antibodies

Ignored for decades by official art history, Carol Rama is now recognised as essential for understanding developments within contemporary art.Born in 1918 …

Rakuko Naito, Untitled, 2014, Japanese paper, 43.2 x 43.2 x 8.6 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe-Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo

ART-PRESENTATION: Systemic Paper

In 1966 Laurence Alloway organized “Systemic Painting”, a landmark survey of geometric abstraction, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. …

Brian Calvin, Looking (In and Out), 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 101,6 x 76,2 cm each, © Brian Calvin, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Brian Calvin-States

Since the ‘90s, Brian Calvin has developed a body of highly stylized flattened paintings, rendering his figures in light-soaked portraits that retain …

Left: Thilo Heinzmann, O.T. 2017, Oil and pigment on canvas, plexiglass cover, 148 × 138 × 8.5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Perrotin. Right: Thilo Heinzmann, O.T. 2017, Oil and pigment on canvas, plexiglass cover, 116 × 106 × 8.5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Perrotin

ART-PREVIEW:Thilo Heinzmann

Thilo Heinzmann works primarily in the field of painting, taking its classic concern, the production of expressive pictures, and making it his …

Fiona Tan, Ascent (Film Still), 2016, Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery-London and Wako Works of Art-Tokyo

ART-PRESENTATION: Fiona-Tan Ascent

Fiona Tan works within the contested territory of representation: how we represent ourselves and the mechanisms that determine how we interpret the …

Imran Qureshi

ART-PRESENTATION: Imran Qureshi

Imran Qureshi became known to a broader public with a large-scale site-specific work on the Roof Garden at The Metropolitan Museum of …

Robert Therrien, No title (room, panic doors), 2013-14, Wood, brass, fluorescent light fixture and mixed media, 307.3 × 272.4 × 518.2 cm, © Robert Therrien, Photo: Brian Fitzsimmons, Courtesy Gagosian

ART-PREVIEW:Robert Therrien

Robert Therrien enjoys creating unexpected, surreal, and dreamy worlds out of simple, familiar objects and does so by manipulating their size, color, …

ART-PREVIEW:Michael Williams

Over the last 10 years, Michael Williams has created paintings known for their layered imagery, eye-popping color, and use of techniques such …