Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist and a social activist. His work encompasses diverse fields including fine arts, curating, architecture and social criticism. Born in Beijing in 1957 as son of the famous poet and activist Ai Quing. The … Continued

Julian Schnabel

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Julian Schnabel, born 1951 in Brooklyn, New York is a painter and filmmaker (i.a.Basquiat). Julian Schnabel’s first solo exhibition was held at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1976. However, his rise to prominence occurred a few years later following … Continued

Cindy Sherman

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Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954. In the late 1970s, Sherman began a series of black and white photographs, which she named Untitled Film Stills, (1977 to 1980), and were first exhibited at the Contemporary … Continued

Thomas Ruff

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Thomas Ruff, born 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Schwarzwald, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Walker Evans, Eugène Atget, Karl Blossfeldt, Stephen Shore and William … Continued

A.P. Astra

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Art Production Astra, in short A.P. Astra, is an alias of an European artist (1949) and his fellows. They take care on everyday themes, lead discourses and translate them in a contemporary and popular way. Despite the range of variants … Continued