Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi, About this sound English pronunciation (help·info); born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father’s (Ai Qing) original surname was written Jiang (蔣).[1][2][3] Ai collaborated with Swiss

Nam June Paik

The native form of this personal name is Paik Nam June. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.The native form of this personal name is Paik Nam June. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.Paik Nam

Ronald Ventura

Ronald Ventura (Filipino, born 1973) Ronald Ventura (Filipino, b.1973) was born in Manila, Philippines. In 1993, the artist earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Santo Tomas. After graduating, he worked at the university as an instructor. Ventura

Robert Irwin

Beginnings Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California, to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin. After serving in the United States Army from 1946 to 1947, he attended several art institutes: Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial

Kuzgun Acar

Abdülahet Kuzgun Çetin Acar (28 February 1928 – 4 February 1976) was a Turkish sculptor[1] from Kuzguncuk in Üsküdar, Istanbul well known for his works in metal. He is best known for his abstract sculpture and is considered one of

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b] (UK: /ˈpæbloʊ pɪˈkæsoʊ/, US: /ˈpɑːbloʊ pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæs-/,[2][3][4] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded

Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist.[1] He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina to Italian

Donald Judd

Untitled, 1980

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan 7 March 1872 Amersfoort, Netherlands Died 1 February 1944 (aged 71) Manhattan, New York, U.S. Nationality Dutch Education Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Known for Painting Notable work Evening; Red Tree, Gray Tree, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Victory Boogie Woogie Movement

Anish Kapoor

Jeff Koons

Yayoi Kusama

Takashi Murakami

Hermann Obrist

Hermann Obrist (23 May 1862 at Kilchberg (near Zürich), Switzerland – 26 February 1927, Munich, Germany)[1] was a German sculptor of the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) movement. He studied Botany and History in his youth; the influence of those subjects is

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.[2] She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay “Notes on ‘Camp’”, in

Chris Burden

Refik Anadol

Media Artist refikanadol.com graduated from UCLA Media Arts Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department

Sol LeWitt

Solomon “Sol” LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.[1] LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and “structures” (a term he

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the

Richard Serra

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.[1] Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪt͡s kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for long somewhat neglected in the

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist.[1] Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as “you”, “your”, “I”,

Najla El Zein

Larry Bell

Larry Bell (born 1939) is an American contemporary artist and sculptor. He is best known for his glass boxes and large-scaled illusionistic sculptures. He is a grant recipient from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his artworks are found in

Marieke van den Heuvel

co-founder of Mann Office Marieke van den Heuvel graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1999 during the early days of Lidewij Edelkoort’s directorship, when the school adapted its more practical, product driven design approach towards a more conceptual informed

Stephan Petermann

co-founder of Mann Office previously Associate at OMA Stephan Petermann holds a Master’s degree in the History of Architecture and the Theory of Building Preservation from the University of Utrecht (2001-2007) and studied Architecture at the Technical University of Eindhoven

Tudor Vlăsceanu

founder of unulaunu and Tegmark Tudor was born in 1981 Brasov, Romania. Tudor studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest and at TU Delft. Since 2007, he worked for several architecture offices: OMA/Rem Koolhaas

Felice Grodin

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (1999) (The Ninth Hour, depicting Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite), Him (2001), and Love Lasts

Cindy Sherman

Erwin Hauer

Erwin Hauer (January 18, 1926, Vienna, Austria – December 22, 2017, Branford, Connecticut) was an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna’s Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale.[1] Hauer was an early proponent of

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. He is best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close friends. His abstracted

Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor. His films are known for their distinctive visual and narrative styles.[1] Anderson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg (1968).jpg Rauschenberg in 1968 Born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg October 22, 1925 Port Arthur, Texas Died May 12, 2008 (aged 82) Captiva, Florida Education Kansas City Art Institute Académie Julian Black Mountain College Art Students League of

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] (About this soundlisten); 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)[1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.

Einar Thorsteinn

Einar Thorsteinn , Icelandic Einar Þorsteinn Ásgeirsson (* 17th June 1942 in Reykjavik , † 28. April 2015 ibid) [1] , was an Icelandic architect , theorist and pioneer of academic research on geometric structures. Thorsteinn was scientifically influenced by

Filippo Bolognese

https://www.filippobolognese.ch

Ivan Kliun

Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, or Klyun, born Klyunkov (Russian:Иван Васильевич Клюн; 1 September 1873, Bolshiye Gorky, Petushinsky District – 13 December 1943, Moscow) was a Russian Avant-Garde painter, sculptor and art theorist, associated with the Suprematist movement. BiographyHis father was a carpenter. In 1881, seeking to improve their economic condition, the

Beatriz Colomina

Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University,[1] the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate studies (PhD

Constant Nieuwenhuys

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician. Early periodConstant was born in Amsterdam on 21 July 1920 as the first son of Pieter Nieuwenhuijs and Maria Cornelissen.

Klaus Peter Brehmer

K.P. Brehmer, in full, Klaus Peter Brehmer (12 September 1938 in Berlin, Germany – December 16, 1997 in Hamburg, Germany), was a German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker. From 1971 to 1997 he was professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.Most of his

Jackson Pollock

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer (born 1944) is a land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process.

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer (born 1944) is a land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A

Pelin Derviş

Architect, Researcher pelindervis.com Architect. Lives and works in Istanbul as an independent researcher, writer and editor. Her research and related activities focus mainly on 20th century architecture and design in Turkey.  Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, completed her master’s degree

Madelon Vriesendorp

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German

Fiction Studio

founders Christopher Malheiros, Giuseppe Bonavita, Romain Pouchet, Jones Teckel

Christopher Malheiros

founder of Fiction Studio

Robota

https://www.robota.fr/

Tegmark

http://tegmark.net/

Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic and author based in New York. She is the architecture critic for Curbed, and has bylines published The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Metropolis, Architect magazine, Architectural Digest; Architectural

Iwan Baan

Iwan Baan (born February 8, 1975 in Alkmaar)[1] is a Dutch photographer. He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment,[2] trying “to produce more of

Zeynep Tumertekin

She was born in 1991 in Istanbul. Between 2005-2010, she studied at Saint-Michel French High School. In 2011 she moved to London. She graduated from Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts) in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in

Zeynep Arolat

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020)[1] was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began

Carsten Höller

Antony Gormley

Giacometti Alberto

Alberto Giacometti (UK: /ˌdʒækəˈmɛti/,[1] US: /ˌdʒɑːk-/,[2][3][4] Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of

Constantin Brancusi

Josef Albers

Mark Rothko

Giorgio de Chirico

Rene Magritte

Marcel Duchamp

Choucair Saloua Raouda

Jeremy Moon

Ron Mueck

Hieronymus Bosch

Alberto Burri

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020)[1] was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his

Brooklyn Digital Foundry

Squint/Opera

Oliver Wainwright

Oliver Wainwright is a British architecture and design critic. He has written for the British newspapers The Guardian[1] and The Times[2] and is the Features Editor for the industry magazine Building Design.[3][4] He trained and worked as an architect before

Jack Self

Jack Self (1987) is an architect based in London. He is Director of REAL and Editor-in-Chief of Real Review. Jack’s architectural work promotes social equality through the design of homes, housing, and domestic space. He specialises in radical new typologies

Defne Koz

Award-winning industrial designer Defne Koz was born in Turkey and raised professionally in Italy. Her idea of design is influenced by her training in Ettore Sottsass’ studio in Milan, by the combination of her Turkish and Italian culture and by

Aziz Sariyer

Born in 1950 in Istanbul, Aziz Sarıyer started to design furniture and interior design professionally after founding Derin Design in 1971. Sarıyer’s interest in the profession and his consistent work placed him in a major position in the world’s design

Atilla Kuzu

Atilla Kuzu was born in 1963. In 1987 he graduated from Marmara University, faculty of Fine Arts of department of Industrial Design, interior design branch of main art. In 1994 he founded Zoom / Tpu (Design Project and Implementation) with

Roberto Matta Echaurren

Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto ˈmata]; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile’s best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. BiographyMatta was of Spanish, Basque and French descent.[1] Born in Santiago, he studied architecture and interior design at

Vincent de Rijk

vincentderijk.nl

Filip Dujardin

filipdujardin.be Born: July 14, 1971 (age 48 years), Ghent, Belgium

Mathias Goeritz

Mathias Goeritz (complete name according to Spanish-speaking manner: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner) (April 4, 1915 in Danzig (Gdańsk), Germany (now in Poland)) – August 4, 1990 in Mexico City) was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin. After

Terence Koh

Terence Koh (born 1977 in Beijing, China ) is a Canadian artist who has also worked under the alias “asianpunkboy”.[3] The artist’s work spans a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and the internet. Originally working under the

Shumon Basar

Shumon Basar (born 15 October 1974) is a British writer, editor and curator. Contents 1 Life and education 2 Books 3 Magazines 4 Global Art Forum 5 Format 6 Curating 7 External links 8 Notes Life and education[edit] Basar was born

John Gerrard

born 20th of July 1974 johngerrard.net John Gerrard is an Irish artist, working in Dublin and Vienna, best known for his sculptures, which typically take the form of digital simulations displayed using Real-time computer graphics. Work Western Flag Contents Education

Yılmaz Zenger

Yılmaz Zenger, born in Ankara in 1933, is an architect, sculptor and designer who is known worldwide for his works throughout his life. Having graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture in 1958, Zenger made academic studies in his

Aron Lorinz

http://www.aronlorincz.com/

Enrique Walker

Enrique Walker is an architect. He is Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where he directed the Master of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design from 2008 to 2018. He teaches the lecture course Metropolis, and runs the seminar course and

Thomas Heatherwick

born 17 February 1970 founded Heatherwick Studio heatherwick.com Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE, RDI, HonFREng (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. Since the late 1990s Heatherwick has emerged as one of Britain’s most significant

Nikolai Suetin

Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин, 1897 – 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter. Suetin studied at the Vitebsk Higher Institute of Art, (1918-1922) under Kazimir Malevich, founder of

Kasimir Malevich

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23 [O.S. 11] 1879[1] – May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the

Lazar Khidekel

Lazar Markovich Khidekel (born Vitebsk 1904 – Leningrad 1986) is an artist, designer, visionary architect and theoretician, who is noted for realizing the abstract, avant-garde Suprematist movement through architecture. Contents 1 Early life 2 Contributions 2.1 Suprematism 3 References Early

Yves Klein

Yves Klein (French pronunciation: ​[iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in

Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Haring’s work grew to popularity from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways – chalk outlines

Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman (born 1966) is an American sculptor and fiber artist. Her sculptures have been displayed as public art, often as site-specific installations.[1][2][3] Works include: 1.26, which has been exhibited on five continents; Her Secret Is Patience in downtown Phoenix;

Kutlug Ataman

Palanga Mimarlık ve Sanat Çiftliği Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul Turkey) is an acclaimed Turkish-American[1] contemporary artist and feature filmmaker. Ataman’s films are known for their strong characterization and humanity. His early art works examine the ways in which

Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer and educator. He started as a graphic designer but later focused on architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy.[1] Mau serves as Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute in

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang[a] (Chinese: 蔡国强; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. BiographyCai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was

Peter Saville

Peter Andrew Saville CBE (born 9 October 1955) is an English art director and graphic designer. He came to prominence for the many record sleeves he designed for Factory Records, which he co-founded in 1978 alongside Tony Wilson and Alan

Richard Long

Sir Richard Julian Long, CBE, RA (born 2 June 1945) is an English sculptor and one of the best-known British land artists. Long is the only artist to have been short-listed four times for the Turner Prize. He was nominated

Gordon Matta-Clark

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and

Ilhan Koman

born 17 June 1921. Edirne, Türkiye Death 30 December 1986, Stockholm, İsveç Spouse Melda Kaptana[1] Children Ahmet Koman Education İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Work Akdeniz

Salvador Dali

Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 11 May 1904 Figueres, Catalonia, Spain Died 23 January 1989 Figueres Resting place Crypt at Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres Nationality Spanish Education San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain Known

Alexander Calder

July 22, 1898,