Rineke Dijkstra prefers to work in series, which allow the differences and similarities among the portrait subjects and their cultural backgrounds to emerge in a subtle manner. The time-consuming…
Serra is best known for his enormous steel sculptures. Such works are made of massive slabs of steel that can have a somewhat intimidating presence. Yet it is the very combination of actual…
Studio Visit consists of images taken in the studio of a Moroccan artist who is known locally as 'the artist who doesn't want to sell any work'. His work is difficult to recognize as work. It is made…
Catherine’s Room is a private view into the room of a solitary woman who goes about a series of daily rituals from morning until night. The woman’s actions are simple and purposeful, and appear…
In many presentations of Michel François the relationship between the work and the space, between the sculpture and the architecture, plays an emphatic role. The link that he establishes between the…
In Japan Charlotte Dumas has photographed Hokkaido, Yonaguni, Miyako and Misaki horses that roam freely in their natural environment. They derive their right to exist from their use as working…
In this large installation, Horn has meticulously created ‘placing’ potential for the viewer, not by means of a natural landscape but rather through formalization. The work consists of eighteen…
For the short video Eulogy for a Black Mass , the American artist Aria Dean (1993) compiled memes she found on social media. They vary from viral dances and hip-hop moves to fragments of concerts and…
For his 2013 exhibition at the Guggenheim, Turrell created a major installation entitled Aten Reign , radically transforming the museum in the tradition of his most sweeping, large-scale projects. For…
The bands of color in the immense painting Regenboog (Rainbow) merge indiscernibly with each other; it is impossible to tell where the one color ends and the other begins. The painting came about in…