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Joep van Liefland

* 1966 in Utrecht, The Netherlands, lives in Berlin Joep van Liefland studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht and the University of Kansas in Lawrence from 1989 to 1995. In 2001, together with Maik Schierloh, he founded the Autocenter, one of the most progressive exhibition spaces in Berlin, which existed until 2016.

Joana Vasconcelos

* 1971 in Paris, Francelives in Lisboa, Portugal Joana Vasconcelos has exhibited regularly since the mid-1990s. Her work became known internationally after her participation in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, with the work A Noiva [The Bride] (2001-05). She was the first woman and the youngest artist to exhibit at the Palace of Versailles,

Walter Vopava

* 1948 in Vienna, Austrialives in Vienna, and Kamp Austria Walter Vopava is one of the most important practitioners of Austria’s new abstract painting. An alumnus of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, Vopava initially embraced figurative references in the 1980s, only to develop atmospheric abstract painting from the 1990s onwards. His paintings are characterised

Hannsjörg Voth

* 1940 in Bad Harzburg, Germany; lives in Munich, Germany Hannsjörg Voth is one of the pioneers of conceptual art and land art in Germany. After training as a commercial artist, he began his artistic work with screen printing and painting. In the mid-1970s, he produced his first landscape-based projects, which discussed myths, archaism and

Lawrence Weiner

* 1942 in New York, USA† 2021 in New York Lawrence Weiner is considered, alongside Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Douglas Hueber and Joseph Kosuth, as one of the central figures of conceptual art, which arose out of the minimalist movement in the 1960s. His legendary “ Statement of Intent“ was published in 1968: in it

Erwin Wurm

* 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austrialives in Vienna and Limburg, Austria Erwin Wurm studied art history, German literature and art education in Graz and Salzburg from 1974. From 1979 to 1982 he studied design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Wurm became known in the 1990s with his “One Minute Sculptures”. Today,

Bernd Zimmer

* 1948 in Planegg, Germany lives in Polling/Oberbayern Bernd Zimmer completed his education in business management and publishing in Munich from 1968 to 1970. In 1973 he moved to Berlin, where he studied philosophy and religious studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Zimmer began painting in 1976, and he soon met Salomé and Helmut Middendorf,

Tony Cragg

* 1949 born in Liverpool, Great Britain lives in Wuppertal, Germany[2nd construction phase] In 1969 Tony Cragg started his artistic career and exhibited his first works. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and has lived in Wuppertal since 1977. Cragg participated in documenta 7 and documenta 8, and in 1988 he represented