The work of Marlene Dumas deals with the tension between watching and being watched - and in fact - with the problem of interpretation. She often works after found images that she collects in a…
The work of Marlene Dumas is often about the tension between looking and being looked at – and, in fact, about the problem of interpretation. She makes frequent use of existing depictions, from…
Darkened Eyebrows Meeting in the Middle Merina Beekman’s tender portraits of swaddled babies, young boys and girls from the Middle and Far East are a compelling combination of hand-stitched embroidery…
The Marlene Dumas exhibition Name no Names has been organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne and is being shown in Tilburg following presentations in Paris and New York. It…
In response to the social realism of the official East German painting with which he grew up, Richter later propagated - along with Sigmar Polke and others - ‘capitalist realism’, which displayed a…
Tränenmeer is a mesmerizing self-portrait from a bird’s-eye perspective. Shot with a drone, it shows the artist in the midst of a spiralling maritime landscape as she stands atop a rock, barefoot, in…
Not only in the sculptures, but in his drawings as well, Therrien managed to give a special magic to the commonplace. The atmosphere in these works is playful and lighthearted, with a touch of humor…
Rineke Dijkstra acquired international fame thanks to her impressive portrait series. In the early 1990s she began with work on the series of Beach Portraits - austere, frontal shots of young people…