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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

Willie Cole

* 1955 in Sommerville, New Jersey, USA lives in Mine Hill, New Jersey, USA Willie Cole attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. His artistic breakthrough came in the late 1980s during a stay at the Studio Museum in Harlem: “The iron took over”. Today, Cole is known far beyond the borders of New Jersey

Peter Halley

* 1953 in New York City, USA lives in New York, USA 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

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

Erwin Wurm

*1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria lives 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,

Takesada Matsutani

* 1937 Osaka, Japan lives in Paris, France From the early 1960s until the 1970s, Takesada Matsutani was a member of the Japanese Gutai group. Matsutani’s key solo exhibitions include ‘Confluence’ at Manggha Museum, Krakow (2018); ‘Currents’ at Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya (2015); ‘A Matrix’ at Hauser & Wirth, London (2013); ‘Stream’, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura

FLATZ

* 1952 Dornbirn, Austria lives in Munich, Germany FLATZ (Wolfgang Flatz) is performance artist, stage designer, musician, and composer. After an education in gold and silversmithing in Feldkirch / Austria (1967-1971) he studied metal design at the HTBL in Graz / Austria (1971-1974) and goldsmithing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1975-1981

Katja Strunz

* 1970 in Ottweiler, Germany, lives in Berlin Katja Strunz is best known for her sculptures, room-sized installations and collages. After studying philosophy, history and art history, she studied painting and graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In her artistic work she devotes herself to complex questions inspired by philosophical, scientific

Via Lewandowsky

* 1963 in Dresden, Germany lives in Berlin, Germany Via Lewandowksy studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 1982 to 1987. Between 1985 and 1989 he organized subversive performances with the avant-garde group of “Autoperforationsartisten”, which subverted the official art scene of the GDR. In 1989 Lewandowski left the GDR shortly before reunification

Achim Freyer

* 1934 in Berlin, Germany lives in Berlin Achim Freyer, changed his career after an apprenticeship as a painter to become engaged in theatre where he became a student of Bertolt Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble. In his early years, he was working as a set and costume designer until he moved to

Wolfgang Stiller

*1961 in Wiesbaden, Germany lives in Berlin, Germany Wolfgang Stiller studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1984 to 1989. Between 2000 and 2007 he lived in New York and from 2007 to 2008 in China, where he taught as a visiting professor at New York University in Shanghai. Stiller is especially known for

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.