Over the past twenty years Thomas Schütte has worked with techniques and ideas from a variety of disciplines, including architecture and theatre, figurative modelling and life-drawing, in a restless…
Infectiously playful and incredibly versatile: anyone who sees the editions produced by the German artist Sigmar Polke (Oels [Oleśnica], 1941 – Cologne, 2010) can immediately understand why he was…
This spring De Pont will be showing the complex project Carbon by the German born artist Lothar Baumgarten. It is for the first time in many years that work by Baumgarten is being shown again in the…
In collaboration with Modern Art Oxford, The Power Plant, Toronto and Secession, Vienna The work of Angela Bulloch is complex and versatile. She produces light and sound works, drawing machines,…
The young American artist Roxy Paine (New York, 1966) has shown his work in Europe only on a limited scale until now. Aside from a small solo presentation at Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, this has mainly…
Artist and researcher: Jan Andriesse (Jakarta 1950) takes many approaches to the phenomenon of light. As one of the makers of the documentary Hollands Licht (2003) he set out to discover the…
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…