Two former directors of Dutch museums died in the fall of 2005. Edy de Wilde, born in 1919, headed the Stedelijk Museum from 1963 to 1985 and Rudi Oxenaar, born in 1925, the Kröller-Müller Museum from…
The work of the British artist Mark Wallinger (1959) is very diverse. Though trained as a painter, he also employs the media of photography, video, performance, sculpture and installations. In…
The American artist Dan Graham (Urbana, Ill., 1942) is particularly known for his Pavilions , the first of which were produced during the early 1980s. These are architectural constructions of glass…
The Canadian artist Stan Douglas (Vancouver, 1960) is one of the most prominent video artists today. His work has been shown at, among other events, the Documentas IX and X in Kassel and at the…
Joep van Lieshout (Ravenstein 1963) prefers to operate on the fringes. Is he, after all, an artist or a clever entrepreneur? With his sinister installation SlaveCity he also pushes at the boundaries —…
Westkunstmodelle 1:1 The Westkunstmodelle provide the basis for the extremely diverse oeuvre of the German artist Thomas Schütte (Oldenburg, 1954), whose body of work ranges from steel, bronze and…