Artists Contemporary Art

ANSELM KIEFER

Born at the end of the war, Anselm Kiefer has been pursuing the goal of raising awareness since the 1970s, in an intensive examination of German history and an ambiguous treatment of taboo content.

TIM BURTON

He is considered the "master of the fantastic scary trip, the surreal screen spectacle". The films of the American director Tim Burton have cult status, but his visual work is still largely to be discovered.

SEAN SCULLY

Sean Scully is considered one of the most important painters of our time, who drove the discussion of abstract painting of the present like no other artist.

ADRIAN GHENIE

Within just a few years, Adrian Ghenie has made it to the forefront of the international art world. His special interest is the gap between great, "objective" history and subjective memory. The paintings are of great tactile and material appeal: painting becomes visible as painting.

IMRAN QURESHI

Imran Qureshi is considered one of the most important representatives of the art scene in Pakistan. He combines motifs and ornaments of the Mughal tradition with conceptual thinking and contemporary abstract painting.

PETER DOWNSBROUGH

Peter Downsbrough is one of the important personalities of the New York art scene who participated in the development of Conceptual Art from Minimal Art in the late 1960s. He consistently questioned the traditional object-like character of the work, which led him to radically simplified sculptures and spatial interventions.

JIMMIE DURHAM

Jimmie Durham, a descendant of North American Cherokee Indians, was active in the Texas civil rights movement in the 1960s. Since his move to Europe in 1994, his work has focused on nature and culture, religion and architecture. The material stone plays a central role in the work of the artist, writer and former political activist.

JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE B. MILLER

For around two decades, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have succeeded in transporting the viewer into perfectly simulated, emotional spaces of experience. Despite their sometimes strong visuality, even pictorial power, the multimedia works of the artist couple address our sense of hearing in particular.

ROMAN ONDÁK

The starting point of Roman Ondák's subtle, almost poetic conceptual art are everyday situations. Minimal shifts in the everyday are his central stylistic device for shaking up the audience's expectations and questioning conventions - including those of the art business.

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL

The work of the conceptual artist is often read as a critical commentary on traditional role models of women in society and art. Yet, as her works with and about the animal show, for example, it goes beyond the feminist gesture.

LAWRENCE WEINER

The American artist has significantly expanded the concept of sculpture with his work. His artistic material is language.

NALINI MALANI

Nalini Malani is a master of visual narration: she raises her voice against religious fundamentalism and destructive delusions of progress with video installations, sculptural spatial stagings and shadow plays.

JACQUELINE HASSINK

What do the centers of economic power look like in the post-industrial age? Conceptual artist Jacqueline Hassink explores questions like these. The explorative photographer maps spaces and objects of the global economies so that a topography of economic power becomes visible in artistic aesthetics.

KERSTIN DRECHSEL

Kerstin Drechsel's works fascinate and irritate. She shows spaces and scenes of great intimacy, in which a fundamental examination and questioning of norms and boundaries is embedded.

GORAN DJUROVIC

The mostly small-format paintings by Belgrade-born artist Goran Djurovic are often enigmatically ironically broken and whimsically pointed. With almost psychoanalytical persistence, they revolve around self-deception, social maladjustment, and character deformation.

MONIKA GRZYMALA

Monika Grzymala's exploration of drawing and line follows a long art-philosophical tradition, but in her works of recent years she has impressively taken the line out of two-dimensionality.

GERHARD RICHTER

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of our time. His fascinating oeuvre oscillates between chance and calculation and is characterized by a unique originality and quality in which abstraction and figuration merge.

CARSTEN HÖLLER

It is almost impossible to escape the works of German artist and biologist Carsten Höller - his art invites interaction and self-experimentation. The phenomenon of human sensory perception and the construction of one's own self makes up the special character of his works.

MARIKO MORI

The art world of Japanese multi-media artist Mariko Mori is a mix of art, technology, performance, music, architecture, nature and spirituality. Not infrequently, she herself is part of her artificial landscapes and sculptures, in which universal themes collide with cyber-pop.

DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch is the cult director of bizarre, often disturbing films. But the ingenious filmmaker has another passion besides cinema, which he says has "influenced him more than cinema" - art.

KARIN KNEFFEL

The suggestive pull emanating from Karin Kneffel's hyper-realistic mode of representation is followed by an unmistakable call to distrust the character of the image. It is the extreme details, the meticulous attention to detail, that reveal Kneffel's conceptuality at second glance.

MICHAËL BORREMANS

Belgian Michaël Borremans is hailed as the new star of young figurative painting. Originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, he has made an international name for himself with his somber drawings and enigmatic paintings.

ANTON HENNING

Anton Henning moves away from common art trends and expectations. In his subversive march through art history, he repeatedly combines an abstract, ornamental formal language with figurative motifs, places avantgarde and design, trash and salon art in a dialectical relationship.

PHILIP TAAFFE

The New York-based painter Philip Taaffe makes use of various ethnic motifs. His postmodern access to already existing forms, however, is only the external approach to a decorative ornamentation. His works are a critical-reflexive examination of abstraction.