The Collection as a Character

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Actors (190)

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  Hermann Pitz

  The work of Hermann Pitz has been a defining point of reference in the German art scene since its appearance in the early eighties; it encomp

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  Ettore Spalletti

  The work of Italian artist Ettore Spalletti treads a fine balance between painting – monochrome, purist, rooted in a decidedly Mediterranean

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  Elly Strik

  Elly Strik works with charcoal, graphite, chalk, ink, oil paint and lacquer. She makes impressively large drawings, of around two by three me

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  Marthe Wéry

  Marthe Wéry is undoubtedly one of the major Belgian artists of the second half of the 20th century. In 2001, following a retrospective at Boz

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  Tony Cragg

  Anthony Cragg was born near Liverpool in 1949. His father was an electrical engineer, and partly owing to his influence the artist has always

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  Michel François

  Since 1980, Michel François has developed a hybrid and fluid oeuvre, escaping any categorisation of style and genre. While he claims to be a

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  Keith Haring

  The work of Keith Haring finds its origin in the alternative New York street culture at the end of the 1970s. At that time Haring was a stree

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  Chantal Akerman

  'I won't say I'm a feminist film-maker ... I'm not making women's films, I'm making Chantal Akerman's films'. (London, 1979) The longtime

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  Eran Schaerf

  Eran Schaerf's work only features a few constant factors, but textiles and cloth are almost always present as material. Apart from that, subj

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  Franz West

  Franz West is a key figure in the revival of the once so influential Viennese art scene. In his work, that is at once impressive and light-fo

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  Aglaia Konrad

  Originally born in Austria, Aglaia Konrad has long been a prominent member of the Brussels arts scene. Her research-based photographic practi

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  Francis Alÿs

  Francis Alÿs is a native of Antwerp, but since the end of the 1980s Mexico City has been his home. The artist offers his vision on the world

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  Sven 't Jolle

  Sven 't Jolle was born in 1966 in Antwerp, where he studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1986 to 1990. Although his first exhib

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  Hassan Darsi

  Together with a small group of like-minded Moroccan artists, Hassan Darsi founded “La Source du lion” in Casablanca in 1995, an organisation

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  Buky Schwartz

  Buky Schwartz explores our viewing and thinking habits through his sculptures, paintings and video constructions. During the 1960s and 1970s,

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  Rong Rong

  Rong Rong is born as Li Zhirong in Zhangzhou, in the southeastern province of Fujian. In the early 1990s, he moves to Beijing to develop a ca

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  Tiong Ang & Roy Villevoye

  Tiong Ang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia in 1961; Roy Villevoye in Maastricht in 1960. Both artists studied painting in Amsterdam, where the

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  Fabrice Hyber

  When pressured to disclose the sources of his idiosyncratic work, French artist Fabrice Hyber likes to invoke what he calls “the enormous res

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  Suchan Kinoshita

  Suchan Kinoshita (°1960) is born in Tokyo into a Japanese-German family. In the early eighties she studies music in Cologne. Throughout the e

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  François Curlet

  François Curlet (°1967) is born in Paris and lives in Paris, Brussels and the French village Piacé. Since the late eighties he has developed

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  Frank Theys

  Frank Theys (°1963) studies fine art at the Brussels Academy of Art and philosophy at Brussels University. Theys, together with his brother K

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  Marijke van Warmerdam

  Originally, Marijke van Warmerdam made sculptures using various materials like wood, plaster, metal, glass, textiles and rubber. Later she ev

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  Douglas Gordon

  Douglas Gordon (°1966) is a video artist and photographer, who also does performances, actions and makes installations. Gordon creates art wi

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  Mark Lewis

  London-based Canadian artist Mark Lewis has long been associated with the Vancouver art scene, and his formation in that milieu clearly influ

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  Wilhelm Sasnal

  Wilhelm Sasnal uses a wide variety of media to picture his country and its surroundings. He paints, takes photographs, makes videos and insta

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  Cameron Jamie

  "All of my projects, whether documentary, fiction, or whatever, are all somehow linked and connected like little planets to one another. Some

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  Tony Oursler

  American artist Tony Oursler is primarily known for his experimental work in the twilight zone between sculpture and the projected image, whi

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  Christian Boltanski

  During WWII, Boltanski’s Catholic mother hid his father (to be) under the floorboards of her house. He himself was born on the same day that