PRESENTATION, Page 81
Isaac Julien examines the black and Asian diasporas since the Thatcher years through his favoured medium, film. In 1983 he cofounded the British Sankofa Film and Video Collective. In 1995 he made a documentary series for television, The Question of Equality, about the history of the gay and lesbian movement …
David Salle is known for his vivid works that deconstruct existing imagery. Since the ‘70s, he’s referenced and combined everything from Impressionism …
Joe Andoe’s paintings are instantly recognizable. Best known for his reductive depictions of mundane subjects, such as horns, wreaths, horses, and dogs, …
Dorothea Tanning explored the disciplines of painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage, design, soft sculpture, installation and writing throughout her career. As a young …
El Anatsui transforms simple, everyday materials into striking large-scale installations. His work raises questions about ethnic identity by combining traditional African techniques …
Renato Garza Cervera’s body of work reflects on contemporary culture, politics, and social and environmental issues. Working with a variety of mediums …
One of the most important figures in contemporary art, Matthew Barney became known to a wide public through his cycle of five …
From the late 1970s onwards, Ricardo Brey’s practice, which spans drawing, sculpture, and installation, has focused on his research into the origins …
Renato Garza Cervera’s body of work reflects on contemporary culture, politics, and social and environmental issues. Working with a variety of mediums …
Helen Dowling works through a multi-disciplinary practice which engages with the capacity to transfer empathy and emotion within the medium of video. …
Zao Wou-Ki (who adopted the name Zao after 1947) is among the most recognized Chinese artists in the world. Born in Beijing, …
Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) was one of the most influential curators of the recent past, his work was highly complex and cannot be …
Franz West, one of the key figures of the international art scene, was first influenced by the generation of Actionists and Performance …
Among the artists of Conceptual art’s first wave and one of its most rigorous and inventive figures, Allen Ruppersberg has since the …
Christian Kosmas Mayer is an artist whose exhibitions and projects engage questions of memory, preservation and rediscovery. He is concerned with testing …
Light, space and movement are at the center of the work of Dieter Jung, who has been dealing with the visual effects …
Through the construction of light-hearted yet strikingly direct images that refer to socio-political issues relevant to post-colonial, globalized and consumerist societies, Joana …
Across her career Rosemarie Castoro attempted and experimented with almost every mode of art imaginable. She developed her oeuvre in the Minimalist, …
For more than 50 years, Phyllida Barlow has taken inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at once …
The exhibition “Planet 58-Absolvent_innen der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2018” features new works by graduates of the Düsseldorf Art Academy. All of the participating …
Zilia Sánchez’s work is characterized by her distinctive approach to formal abstraction through the use of undulating silhouettes, muted color palettes, and …
Destruction, preservation, reconstruction: the work of the artist Cyprien Gaillard sheds light on our ambivalent relationship with ruination and decay. As a …
The body of work of young Swiss artist Rebekka Steiger is an exceptional discovery in the way that the artist both embodies …
Florence Lazar is an artist, filmmaker and photographer. In her work, she seeks to reveal the emergence of a way of speaking, …
