The Collection as a Character

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Actors (190)

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  Koka Ramishvili

  Koka (Akaki) Ramishvili (°1956) lives and works in Geneva. He is one of the many Georgian artists whose work has been strongly influenced by

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  Hamlet Hovsepian

  Hamlet Hovsepian is one of the most significant figures of the Armenian contemporary art scene and a pioneer in video art in the Caucasian ar

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  Babi Badalov

  Babi Badalov (°1959) was born in the Azerbaijan city of Lerik. After completing his studies at the Art Academy, he moves to Leningrad, today'

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  Azat Sargsyan

  Azat Sargsyan's art plays with how history is constructed and deconstructed and how this is related to our personal and collective memory.

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  Vyacheslav Akhunov

  The oeuvre of artist, writer and philosopher Vyacheslav Akhunov comprises abstract paintings, installation, performance and video art, as wel

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  Rustam Khalfin

  Rustam Khalfin (1949 - 2008) is considered a pioneer of Kazakhstan’s contemporary art scene. After graduating from the Moscow Architecture In

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  Toon Tersas

  Toon Tersas (1924–1995, Belgium) is the artist name of the ‘self-taught’ and ‘non-professional’ Antoon Keersmakers, who supports a large fami

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  Vito Acconci

  Vito Acconci (°1940) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a poet and started at the beginning of the 1960s making art works using a s

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  Daniel Buren

  Daniel Buren is a system analytical essentialist. Characteristic for Buren's work is his constant use of vertical stripes. These stripes are

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  Marinus Boezem

  Marinus Boezem exhibited a stretch of polder as a ready-made in 1960. This is not untypical of his monumental-but-modest œuvre, largely based

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  James Lee Byars

  James Lee Byars was born in 1932 in Detroit. He was a highly visible and contradictory figure in the art of the 1970s and 1980s, and remained

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  Leo Copers

  Leo Copers has built up a varied oeuvre of sculptural work, installations and performances since the late sixties. The starting point is an e

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  Thierry De Cordier

  Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954) creates depth in his paintings through the use of dark tones. Yet also as a sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, w

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  Luc Deleu

  Luc Deleu (°1944) calls Antwerp his home. In 1970, just after having graduated from his architectural studies, he founds the T.O.P. office (T

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  Denmark

  Denmark, whose real name is Marc Robbroeckx, was born in Antwerp in 1950 and studied art history at the University of Ghent from 1968 to 1972

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  Daniël Dewaele

  "Daniël Dewaele has been an active member of the Belgian arts scene since at least the early seventies, and quite early on became involved, o

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  Michael Druks

  The Israeli-born British artist Michael Druks enjoyed a brief period of international fame during the late sixties and early seventies as a m

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  Pieter Engels

  Pieter Engels was born in Amsterdam in 1938 and has been an active participant in the Dutch conceptual art scene since the late sixties, when

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  Jan Fabre

  The Antwerp visual artist and theatre maker Jan Fabre (b. 1958) is a multidisciplinary artistic phenomenon. He is an energetic performer who

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  Jochen Gerz

  From the 1960s Jochen Gerz, like so many other artists of his generation, has been searching for a way to integrate text and image. He was st

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  Marie-Jo Lafontaine

  Marie-Jo Lafontaine photographs, paints and sculpts. She creates tapestries, paintings, sculptures and photo- and video installations. In her

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  Bernd Lohaus

  Bernd Lohaus was born in Düsseldorf in 1940; in his twenties, he enrolled at the highly regarded local art academy when Joseph Beuys was a pr

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  Léa Lublin

  Argentine artist Léa Lublin belongs to a long list of cultural producers and intellectuals who, for most of the sixties and seventies, decide

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  Danny Matthys

  Danny Matthys’s oeuvre comprises diverse media such as photography, installation, video, painting, assemblage and sculpture. In his works he

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  Maurizio Nannucci

  Maurizio Nannucci has since the 1960s been investigating – in a most ingenious and experimental manner – the complex relationship between wor

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  Antoni Muntadas

  Antonio Muntadas subjects images from the mass media to critical sociological research. He does so by studying various information channels f

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  Bruce Nauman

  Bruce Nauman (°1941) is often referred to as one of the founding figures of contemporary art. He is the eternal novice, leaping from one type

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  Maria Nordman

  Maria Nordman began working on city streets, in neighborhoods, and in public parks beginning in 1967. Her work, which emphasizes site and tim