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Magdalena Jetelová

* 1946 in Semily, Czech Republiclives in Munich, Duesseldorf, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic Magdalena Jetelová works as a sculptor, photographer, illustrator, and with various new media. After studying at the Academy of Art in Prague and the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Jetelová became famous for her monumental wooden sculptures of chairs, tables and stairs

Dani Karavan

* 1930 in Tel Aviv, Israel † 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel Dani Karavan was born in Tel Aviv in 1930, son of Abraham and Zehava Karavan, both pioneers who immigrated to Israel in 1920. Abraham was the chief landscape architect of the city of Tel Aviv from the early ‘40s to the late ‘60s.

Osman Khan

* 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan lives in Detroit und Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Osman Khan was born in Pakistan and grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University in New York and at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 2004. Since 2009 he has taught at the Penny

Thomas Kilpper

* 1956 in Stuttgart in Germany; lives in Berlin, Germany Thomas Kilpper studied Arts at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Nuremberg, Duesseldorf and Frankfurt a.M.; he lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Bergen, Norway. Kilpper prefers to work site-specific and with a wide range of media – installation, sculpture, graphics, photography, video. Kilpper’s art projects

Jürgen Klauke

*1943 in Kliding bei Cochem an der Mosel, Germany;lives in Köln Jürgen Klauke is considered one of the most important photographers in Germany and is regarded as a forerunner of staged photography as well as a pioneer of body art. After studying graphics, he began to work with photography; since 1970 he has been drawing

Karin Kneffel

* 1957 in Marl, Germanylives in Düsseldorf, Germany Karin Kneffel is one of the most important representatives of Neorealism. Kneffel studied philosophy and German literature at University Münster and Universität Duisburg-Essen, followed by studies at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Norbert Tadeusz and Johannes Brus and was a pupil of Gerhard Richter. Her photorealistic images

Brigitte Kowanz

* 1957 in Vienna, Austria † 2022 in Vienna, Austria Brigitte Kowanz worked in the field of light art, spatial art and textual works. From 1975 to 1980, she studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her artistic practice, she experimented with the dissolution of the notion of image and worked through the use

Alicja Kwade

* 1979 in Katowice, Poland, lives in Berlin, Germany Alicja Kwade’s work investigates and questions the structures of our reality and society and reflects on our perceptual habits in our everyday life. Her diverse practice is based around concepts of space, time, science and philosophy, takes shape in sculptural objects, public installations, video and even

Nikolaus Lang

* 1941 in Oberammergau, Germany † 2022 in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany Nikolaus Lang belongs to the group of so-called „Spurensicherer“ (trackers). After training at the carving school in Oberammergau, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1960 onwards. A scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) took him to

Lee, Kuei-Chih

* 1979 Tuku Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan; lives in Taiwan Lee, Kuei-Chih, who studied fine arts at the Department of the National Taiwan University of the Arts, is a land artist. With his landscape installations he explores the relationship, cycles, dependencies, structures and connections between man and nature. For his large-format installations, he collects material on

Jens Lehmann

* 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland lebt in Offenbach am Main Jens Lehmann studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, graduating in 1997 as master pupil of Per Kirkeby. Especially influenced by the German figurative painting of the 1980s, which in the 1990s could neither be followed nor emulated, Lehmann searched for new possibilities

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