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Beginning in the early 1960s, Peter Saul began to incorporate imagery borrowed from a range of pop-cultural sources into his exuberant, brightly colored paintings, adopting a style that has proven to be far ahead of its time. His work developed independently from concurrent art historical movements like Pop art, with …
“I like to laugh, but I like to laugh in the Russian way. Like the women in Chekhov’s plays. They always laugh …
In a world marked by the still-present memory of the Second World War, and in the context of the Cold War and …
In this video architect Liz Diller talks about the New York park ‘The High Line’, a project that she has been part …
Adrián Villar Rojas was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1980. He lives and works nomadically. Villar Rojas is best known for his large-scale, …
“We are stressing the earth in very dramatic, unnecessary ways, and so it makes more sense to say: Oh no, I am …
The exhibition “Mapping the Collection” takes a new look at two influential decades in American (art) history: the 1960s and 1970s. The …
“I feel that a lot of the problems we have in today’s world have come because of that wrong notion that time …
Would you like to explore the world-making capacities of creative research? Today, artists are innovators not simply as individual producers but also …
Evoking notions of utopia and dystopia, Jules de Balincourt’s paintings investigate public and private spaces and suggest an ever-changing landscape – both …
Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable portraits of menacing figures reflect the artist’s …
“All of a sudden we find the human in her because there’s a dog eared remote control manual on her bedside table.” …
Tiffany Chung’s work often takes the form of participatory workshops in which the artist uses maps and cartography as a medium for …
The INHABIT Artist-in-Residence Program of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics invites artists from various disciplines to collaborate with our team …
“We now know that first, we form the cities, but then the cities form us.” Meet the 81-year-old Danish architect Jan Gehl, …
Remarking on the film industry in the U.S., Neshat feels that roughly 90 per cent has narratives created by men, because they …
“Doing architecture is listening.” Some of the greatest architects of our time – from Peter Zumthor to Jean Nouvel and Diébédo Francis …
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures …
Curious about art dealing with media and technologies? Do you want to discover more about interactive art, virtual environments, physical computing and …
Born in Eberswalde, Germany in 1944, Candida Höfer attended the Kunstacademie Düsseldorf from 1973 to 1982. Whilst there she studied film with …
Aaron Curry makes sculptures and paintings whose relationship to modernism is productively fraught. Incorporating a wealth of elements from popular culture––science fiction, …
“I believe the most effective use of art, or poetry – art of any kind – is to change somebody’s perspective. I …
Suellen Rocca enjoyed a long and distinguished artistic career, which began in the 1960s as a member of the Chicago-based group Hairy …
German artist Carsten Höller is widely praised for his experimental approach to art, with playful – often interactive – installations that include …
