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JOAN JONAS

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video art. In the early 1960s, she developed her first happenings, in which she used the female body naked or dressed as "sculptural material" in space and used mirrors to scan, fragment, and reflect.

JAKOB STRAUB

At the intersection of graphic design, photography and typography, Jakob Straub creates outstandingly beautiful books.

AUGUST MACKE UND FRANZ MARC

August Macke and Franz Marc were connected by a close friendship, which is one of the special events of the art of the 20th century, not only in human, but also in artistic terms.

GUSTAVE COURBET

No other artist, especially in the prudish 19th century, dared such drastic realism and the associated breaking of taboos as Gustave Coubert. His most famous painting, L'Origine du monde, was for a long time the epitome of an art scandal.

ANNETTE MESSAGER

Since the early 1970s, the French artist has critically examined the role of women in her work. Her personal cosmos of images is as playful as it is profound, as poetic as it is oppressive.

IMRAN QURESHI

Imran Qureshi is considered one of the most important representatives of the art scene in Pakistan. He combines motifs and ornaments of the Mughal tradition with conceptual thinking and contemporary abstract painting.

PETER DOWNSBROUGH

Peter Downsbrough is one of the important personalities of the New York art scene who participated in the development of Conceptual Art from Minimal Art in the late 1960s. He consistently questioned the traditional object-like character of the work, which led him to radically simplified sculptures and spatial interventions.

MATTEO THUN

Matteo Thun is one of Italy's most renowned architects and a style-defining interior and product designer. A typical representative of the Milan School and co-founder of the Memphis Group.

GERT UND UWE TOBIAS

In the works of the twin brothers, who have lived in Germany since 1985, supposedly mythical-folkloric motifs from their homeland Transylvania meet with set pieces of Art Brut and form a cross-over together with ciphers of pop culture and street art.

JIMMIE DURHAM

Jimmie Durham, a descendant of North American Cherokee Indians, was active in the Texas civil rights movement in the 1960s. Since his move to Europe in 1994, his work has focused on nature and culture, religion and architecture. The material stone plays a central role in the work of the artist, writer and former political activist.

JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE B. MILLER

For around two decades, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have succeeded in transporting the viewer into perfectly simulated, emotional spaces of experience. Despite their sometimes strong visuality, even pictorial power, the multimedia works of the artist couple address our sense of hearing in particular.

ROMAN ONDÁK

The starting point of Roman Ondák's subtle, almost poetic conceptual art are everyday situations. Minimal shifts in the everyday are his central stylistic device for shaking up the audience's expectations and questioning conventions - including those of the art business.

HANNAH RYGGEN

Originally trained as a painter, Hannah Ryggens discovered woven murals early on as a form of artistic expression for her social and political involvement.

LAWRENCE WEINER

The American artist has significantly expanded the concept of sculpture with his work. His artistic material is language.

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL

The work of the conceptual artist is often read as a critical commentary on traditional role models of women in society and art. Yet, as her works with and about the animal show, for example, it goes beyond the feminist gesture.

NALINI MALANI

Nalini Malani is a master of visual narration: she raises her voice against religious fundamentalism and destructive delusions of progress with video installations, sculptural spatial stagings and shadow plays.

SIBYLLE BERGMANN

Sibylle Bergemanns Fotos erzählen von Schönem und Ernsthaftem, von Skurrilem, Unverwechselbarem und Eigensinn. Beiläufig wirkende Komposition und ein reportagehafter, nahezu filmischer Charakter zeichnen ihre Ansichten von Ostberlin aus. Nach der Wende begann für Bergemann eine neue Etappe. Das Schwarz-Weiß wich nun der Farbe.

JACQUELINE HASSINK

What do the centers of economic power look like in the post-industrial age? Conceptual artist Jacqueline Hassink explores questions like these. The explorative photographer maps spaces and objects of the global economies so that a topography of economic power becomes visible in artistic aesthetics.

GREGORY CREWDSON

Since the mid-1980s, Gregory Crewdson has been developing photo series of beguiling beauty and fundamental irritation and disturbance. Inexplicable secrets lurk beneath the surface of his complex visual worlds.

KERSTIN DRECHSEL

Kerstin Drechsel's works fascinate and irritate. She shows spaces and scenes of great intimacy, in which a fundamental examination and questioning of norms and boundaries is embedded.

ALEXANDER RODIN

Alexander Rodin's paintings demand patience and imagination from the viewer. He covers his large-scale oil paintings with countless hidden details that come together to form complex, disturbing stories with multiple levels of interpretation.

MONIKA GRZYMALA

Monika Grzymala's exploration of drawing and line follows a long art-philosophical tradition, but in her works of recent years she has impressively taken the line out of two-dimensionality.

HERBERT BRANDL

Herbert Brandl is considered an important innovator of painting. Every brushstroke is a gesture that makes the painting process itself the subject. Even when he creates what appears to be representational, he dissolves the familiar world into clouds and splashes of color.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Brancusi is one of the most important sculptors of Classical Modernism. He took up themes from antiquity and elements of African and Romanian folk art and developed them further in long series of works through consistent abstraction.