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Jochen Gerz

* 1940 born in Berlin, Germanylives in Derryquin, Ireland Jochen Gerz lived in Paris from 1966 to 2007, and is based today in Ireland. From 1959 to 1963 he studied Literature, Sinology and Prehistory in Cologne, Basel and London. Gerz has been working with new media since the late 1960s. After initial performances in public space,

Liam Gillick

* 1964 in Aylesbury, Great Britain; lives in New York, USA Liam Gillick deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. Examining the aesthetics of the constructed world, Gillick’s work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a

Johann Glas / Matthias Glas

* 1950 in Polling, Germany / * 1986 in Weilheim in OB, Germany; live in Polling Johann Glas was born in Polling in 1950. With the transition of the family business to heating and sanitation in 1977, he broke with nine generations of blacksmith tradition. The preservation of the material from the Polling smithy for

Nathan Randall Green

* 1980 in Houston, Texas, USA; lives in New York Nathan Randall Green’s colorful paintings and murals often explore scientific and cosmological ideas while examining the formal and structural qualities of abstract painting within its rich history. Utilizing line, form, color and texture, Nathan creates deep, painterly landscapes of graphic information that speak to the way

Subodh Gupta

* 1964 in Kagaul, Bihar, Indialives in New-Delhi, India Although Subodh Gupta studied painting at the College of Art in Patna between 1983 and 1988, he works today in a very multidisciplinary manner, using sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, and with numerous found and transformed materials, such as wood, marble or brass. His artistic work

Fiona Hall

* 1953 in Sydneylives in Hobart, Tasmania Fiona Hall has mounted numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, and was the country’s representative at the Australian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with the installation work “Wrong Way Time” (2012–15). Notable exhibitions include “Uneasy” Seasons, National Gallery of

Peter Halley

* 1953 in New York City, USAlives in New York Peter Halley is an American artist and central figure of the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s.His paintings employ the language of geometric abstraction to explore the organization of social space in the digital era. Since the 1990s, Halley has also worked extensively with wall-sized digital

Diango Hernández

*1970 in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba lives in Düsseldorf; Germany Diango Hernández studied industrial design in Havana in the early 1990s. In 1994 he co-founded the artist and designer collective Ordo Amoris Cabinet. In 2003 Hernández went to Europe and finally settled in Düsseldorf. His work is still influenced by his past in communist Cuba. Hernández

Lorena Herrera Rashid & Endy Hupperich

Lorena Herrera Rashid *1972 in Mexico City, lives in Itzamatitlan, MexicoEndy Hupperich *1967 in Kaufbeuren, Germany, lives in Itzamatitlan, Mexico Lorena Herrera Rashid is a sculptor, Endy Hupperich is a painter. They both studied in Munich and have been living and working in Mexico since 2014. Sculpture and painting each speak their own language, and

Gregor Hildebrandt

* 1974 in Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe, Germany, lives in Berlin, Germany Since the end of the 1990’s, already recorded cassettes, video tapes and records have been the focus of Gregor Hildebrandt’s artistic practice and represent his preferred material. Hildebrandt places the analog data carriers loaded with selected texts and songs directly on the canvas

K. H. Hödicke

* 1938 in Nürnberg, Germany† 2024 in Berlin, Germany K. H. Hödicke was a representative of New Figuration and is regarded as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism. In 1945 he fled with his family to Wien and moved to Berlin in 1975, where, after a semester of architecture at the Technische Hochschule für Architektur, he

Yorgos Sapountzis

* 1976 in Athens, Greecelives in Berlin Yorgos Sapountzis’ multi-media work engages both public and private spaces, often taking as a starting point public monuments and everyday images, objects that represent some aspect of collective and personal memory. At the core of most of his works are sculptural installations using such materials as aluminium sheets