Yoshitomo Nara, Life Is Only One!, 2007, Acrylic on wood, 194 x 410 cm, Private Collection, © Yoshitomo Nara, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

PRESENTATION:Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara’s multidisciplinary practice often features a recurring figure who is quietly vulnerable yet resolute, embodying isolation, emotional self-reliance and inward resistance. His solitary protagonists, set against spare backdrops, meet viewers with a fragile intensity that invites empathy without offering easy reassurance. Drawing on folk music, punk subculture and postwar …

George Maciunas

George Maciunas (8/11/1931-9/5/1978)

George Maciunas (8/11/1931-9/5/1978) was a Lithuanian-American artist and the founder of the Fluxus movement, which challenged traditional definitions of art by merging performance, music, humour and everyday activities. His practice embraced collaboration, experimentation and interdisciplinary expression, often through unconventional events, publications and multiples. Advocating an accessible, anti-commercial approach, Maciunas sought …

Giulio Paolini

Giulio Paolini (5/11/1940- )

Often linked to the Arte Povera movement , Giulio Paolini Giulio Paolini (5/11/1940- ) is best known for an artistic practice that …

ARCHITECTURE: Wang Shu

“Architecture as mountains” is how the Chinese architect, Wang Shu (4/11/1963- ) describes his design for the Ningbo Historic Museum. His buildings …

Rosalie Gascoigne, Feathered chairs, 1978, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2026, © Rosalie Gascoigne/Copyright Agency

PRESENTATION: Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne is best known for her distinctive and poetic assemblages of mostly found materials: wood, iron, wire, feathers, and yellow and …

Richard Serra (2/11/1939-26/3/2024)

The American minimalist sculptor Richard Serra, (2/11/1939-26/3/2024), is best known for his large-scale abstract steel sculptures, which emphasizes materiality and an engagement …

Kara Walker, A Sublime Landscape with No One In It, 2025, Udo und Anette Brandhorst Sammlung, © Kara Walker. Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers. Foto: Timo Ohler

PRESENTATION: In My Head

Featuring eight contemporary artists, the exhibition “In My Head” explores how reality is re-imagined and transformed into art within the creative mind. …

Left: Anu Pōder, Pasunaga Lasnamäelt (Roosa lind) ) / With a Trumpet from Lasnamäe (Pink Bird), 1988 Photo: Hedi Jaansoo. Courtesy of Art Museum of Estonia © The Anu Põder Estate 2026  Right: Anu Põder, Kompositsioon mehe peaga (Mehe pea lipuga)/Composition With Man’s Head (Man’s Head with Flag), 1984. Photo: Stanislav Stepaško/Art Museum of Estonia, © The Anu Põder Estate 2026

PRESENTATION: Anu Põder

The Estonian artist Anu Põder explored the fragility and complexity of life and the body in her sculptures. Anu Põder (17/11/1947-17/1/2013) worked …

ARCHITECTURE: Zaha Hadid

The Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, born in Bagdad (31/10/1950-31/3/2016), is a representative of the school of deconstruction. She read mathematics at the …

ARCHITECTURE: Kazuyo Sejima

Kazuyo Sejima (29/10/56- ) was born in Japan and after studying at Japan Women’s University and working at the office of Toyo …

Jeff Brouws, Coaling tower #19 (looking east), 2015, Pigment ink print, © Jeff Brouws, Courtesy the artist and Robert Mann Gallery

PHOTO: Jeff Brouws-Silent Monoliths

Over a career spanning more than three decades, photographer Jeff Brouws has operated as a self-described “visual anthropologist,” constructing a rigorous catalog …