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Ayşe Erkmen

* 1949 in Istanbul, Turkeylives in Berlin und Istanbul Based on the social and physical environment from which they arise , Erkmen’s projects intervene with and transpose an existing structure/situation, often creating ambiguous spaces by intertwining life and art in her works and slightly transposing or re-routing everyday spaces, objects, situations and relationships. Ayşe Erkmen’s

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,

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

Sokari Douglas Camp

* 1958 in Buguma, Nigerialives in London, Great Britain Sokari Douglas Camp studied fine art at Central School of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. She has represented Britain and Nigeria in National exhibitions and has had more than 40 solo shows worldwide. Her public artworks include „Battle Bus: Living

Norbert Radermacher

*1953 in Aachen, Germanylives in Berlin, Germany Nobert Radermacher is a sculptor and became known above all for his works in public spaces. After studying at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf between 1973 and 1979, he received several scholarships, enabling him to spend longer periods in Paris, where he developed work every month in an

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

Beat Zoderer

* 1955 in Zurich, Switzerlandlives in Wettingen, Switzerland, and Genoa, Italy After teaching and working in various architectural offices from 1971 to 1976, Beat Zoderer has been working as a freelance artist since 1977. Zoderer’s work includes installations, sculptures, wall objects, paper projects and collages. His art takes its source from material far removed from art,

Lawrence Weiner

* 1942 New York City, USA † 2021 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 he proclaimed that

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

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

Sean Scully

* 1945 in Dublin, Irelandlives in Königsdorf, Berlin, Germany, Barcelona, Spain, and New York City, USA Comprising several panels, Sean Scully’s large format paintings are characterised by compositions of parallel, offset, horizontal or vertical stripes of varying length. This minimalist motif is consistently executed with various techniques and materials. Along with his oil paintings, he produces

Yves Scherer

* 1987 in Solothurn, Switzerlandlives in New York City, USA Yves Scherer studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London and read cultural studies in Lucerne, Basel and Berlin from 2012 to 2014. In his artistic work, Yves Scherer integrates media and pop cultural phenomena and utilises both analogue and digital techniques in his