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In the ‘60s, Françoise Grossen rejected the rectilinear loom that constrained contemporary weaving for an intuitive approach to fiber that resulted in the creation of large-scale, suspended rope forms constructed of knots, loops, braids, and twists. At the time, fiber was still associated with utility or ornament rather than fine …
Arshile Gorky’s contribution to the art-world is difficult to estimate. Most people have never even heard of the artist, but within the …
Yayoi Kusama is the most famous artist to emerge from Japan in the period following World War II. Yayoi Kusama has shaped …
Juan Muñoz was the most significant of the first generation of artists to achieve maturity in post-Franco Spain, and one of the …
François Morellet is widely recognised as a key representative of the Concrete Art Movement. Morellet began making art in the mid 1940s, …
In 1965, Yayoi Kusama began utilizing mirrors to transcend the physical limitations of her own productivity and achieve the repetition that is …
Teresita Fernández is best known for her public installations and experiential large-scale sculptures that evoke striking landscapes. Her work, often inspired by …
Adrián Villar Rojas is best known for his site-specific, monumental works in unfired clay and other organic materials. His time-based installations build …
Öyvind Fahlström was one of the most innovative and versatile artists of the 20th century. When he developed a series of paintings …
Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential contemporary artists and is often called the renewer of post-war painting. Richter analysed the …
In 1974, Judy Chicago began her most significant and most controversial work. In her drive to reinstate women’s stories into mainstream historic …
Among the most influential feminist artists working today, Mary Kelly first came to prominence in 1976 with the “Post Partum Document” series, …
As one of the very few contemporary artists equally talented and influential in both still photography and cinema, the work of Sharon …
Mona Hatoum creates discomforting, challenging work that reveals the contradictions and uncertainties of our complex, confounding world. Using domestic and other familiar …
Established in 1990, the aim of Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation is to promote the visual arts and opens up new …
works in a range of mediums and often collaboratively on pieces inspired by the properties of the materials, processes and tools they …
Personal travel and the cult of tourism form the subject of Franz Ackermann’s work, inevitably representing the dichotomous nature of 21st-century global …
“My Bed” is probably the most notorious work in the oeuvre of Tracey Emin. First shown in 1998 at the Toyko’s Sagacho …
Joseph Beuys was active in Antwerp during the ‘60s and ‘70s through his relationship with Wide White Space gallery, for whom he …
Keith Haring was an artist and social activist responding to New York City’s street culture of the ‘80s. His work is about …
In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected …
Idris Khan transforms the conceptual art of appropriation into an elegant and substantial meditation on the act of creativity. Appropriating icons of …
Alex Dordoy’s practice concerns the tension between physical forms and their representation as flat images. He is interested in the interplay between …
Sherrie Levine along with artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, questions how images are culturally constructed and the effects of …
