The Collection as a Character
Actors (190)
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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto is associated with Arte Povera. In the 1960s, he defines a new kind of monumentality by combining rags and 'worthless
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Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff was taught by the influential photographer couple Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Academy and in their home studio. The
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Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925, Belgium, lives in Antwerp) co-founded the G58 group in Antwerp, which organises a series of exhibitions at the Hess
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Jan Vercruysse
From the mid-1970s, Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) takes to the museum space with abstract collages, installations and assemblages that primarily
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Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner is a very Transatlantic artist, who lives in Amsterdam and worked all over Europe. He exhibited at M HKA with Liam Gillick in
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Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was one of the sons of the famous Chilean surrealist Roberto Echaurren Matta. After studying architecture in N
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Charif Benhelima
Charif Benhelima was born in Brussels in 1967. He studied photography at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, HISK in Antwerp and the Interna
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Khaled Hafez
Khaled Hafez was born and raised in the metropolis Cairo. There he lived through Egypt’s shift from closed socialism to capitalism, with all
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Boran Hansda
Boran Hansda (Handsa) belongs to the Santhal community and lives in a village near Santiniketan where he received his artistic training. He m
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Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor...
Yelena Vorobyeva (°1959, Nebit-Dag, Turkmenistan) and Viktor Vorobyev (°1959, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan) have been working together as artists, wr
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N S Harsha
N S Harsha (°1969) is born in 1969 in Mysore in the state of Karnataka, India, where he still lives. Harsha trains as a painter in his home c
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Hiwa K
Hiwa K (°1975) was born in Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, and has been living as a political refugee in Berlin since 2002. His artistic wor
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Amal Kenawy
Amal Kenawy’s divergent oeuvre includes videos, performances, installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and drawings. Together with h
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Liang Yue
Liang Yue is a video artist and photographer. She grew up under Deng Xiaoping’s relatively stable (and prosperous) China in the ‘80s and ‘90s
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Peng Yu
Chinese artist Peng Yu (b.1974, Heilongjiang Province) is a performance and video artist. Her inspiration is life in the city of Beijing, wh
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C K Rajan
C K Rajan is a member of the Radical Group in the 1980s, a group that takes form at the University of Baroda, from where it fights both the s
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Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street,
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Guy Rombouts
Guy Rombouts (°1949) receives an education as a printer/typographer, and since the seventies he has been working on alternative communication
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Philippe Van Snick
Philippe Van Snick (1946 - 2019) makes work that is characterised by an extremely simple visual language, akin to minimalism, and the repeate
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Xu Zhen
Xu Zhen is considered to be one of the most radical Chinese conceptual artists. In 2005 he participated in the Venice biennial and in 2007 in
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Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong [°1971, Beijing] is one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists. At the end of the 1990s, after training as a painter,
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Yang Zhenzhong
Yang Zhenzhong (°1968) began studying textile and painting in 1995 with photography and video. One of his first mature works was Lucky Family
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Koen van den Broek
In his paintings, Koen Van den Broek investigates the human experience of the environment. His paintings are readily recognizable. They are d
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Anish Kapoor
'I don’t wish to make a sculpture about form… I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience, that is outside of m
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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David Lamelas
The Argentinian artist David Lamelas (°1946, Buenos Aires) is one of the pioneers of the innovations of the 60s and 70s, whereby the status o
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Nicolás Uriburu
In the late 1960s, Nicolás Uriburu started to question his own practice and its impact on society. Trained as an architect and celebrated as
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Carla Arocha
Carla Arocha (°1961, Caracas, Venezuela) has been living in Antwerp with her husband Luc Tuymans for many years now. She has been working wit