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Andreas Angelidakis

Santiago Sierra

* 1966 in Madrid, Spain, livest in Madrid After graduating in Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University, Santiago Sierra completed his artistic training in Hamburg, where he studied under professors F. E. Walter, S. Brown and B. J. Blume. His beginnings are linked to alternative art circuits in the capital of

Alan Sonfist

*1946 in New York City, USAlives in New York City, USA Alan Sonfist is a painter, photographer and Land Art artist and is considered one of the pioneers of the Earth Art movement. After growing up in the South Bronx of NYC near Hemlock Forest, which later became a major inspiration for his art, Sonfist

Sigrún Ólafsdóttir

* 1963 in Reykjavík, Iceland lives in Saarbrücken, Germany Sigrún Ólafsdóttir studied sculpture at the Myndlista og Handíðaskóli Íslands in Reykjavík, Iceland and continued her studies in Fine Arts/Sculpture with Wolfgang Nestler at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken. The artist’s main media are drawing and sculpture; pimary motifs are the dynamics and

Shaarbek Amankul

* 1959 in Bishkek, Kyrgystan; lives and works in Bishkek Shaarbek Amankul is one of the leading Kyrgyz artist behind the current emergence of Central Asian contemporary art, and this in a variety of media. His artistic work combines conceptual approaches with deep connections to traditional, local customs and practices the he is able to

A. Laurie Palmer

*1958 in Albany, New York, USA; lives and works in Santa Cruz, CA A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and writer. Her work is concerned with exploring the nature of matters and mineral resources. Her explorations are expressed in public projects, texts, sculptures, installations and research-based projects, with a special focus on questions

Daniel Spoerri

* 1930 in Galati, Romania lives in Vienna, Austria Daniel Spoerri is one of the co-founders of Nouveau Realisme and Eat Art. He is particularly known for his “trap paintings”, which he has been making since 1960 and can be regarded as the beginning of his artistic career. In 1959, Spoerri founded the edition “MAT”

Roland Fischer

* 1958 in Saarbrücken, Germany lives in Munich and Beijing Roland Fischer is one of the key figures of German contemporary photographic art; starting in 1980, he was one of the first young German photographers to experiment with large-format portraits, and, with that, conferred upon photography a new and vivid pictorial quality. His themes are people and