The collection XXIX — Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986
Actors (42)
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Lili Dujourie
Lili Dujourie (° 1941) studies both painting and sculpture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but without graduating. Dujouri
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Guy Mees
Guy Mees (1935-2003) emerges as a painter in Antwerp in the late fifties, when post-war avant-garde art from the US was just beginning to fin
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Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely (1908–1997, Hungary/France) moves to Paris in 1930 to work as a graphic designer and begins painting abstract geometric works
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Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin is a fundamental figure of Minimal Art, famous for constellations of standard-issue neon lamps, usually Untitled (but dedicated in
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René Heyvaert
René Heyvaert (1929-1984, Ghent, Belgium) studied architecture at the Ghent Saint Lucas Institute where his graduating project was a design f
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John Baldessari
[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (1931, US, lives in Los Angeles) seeks to reconcile his city’s surf-and-sex aesthetic with New
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Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers (1924, Brussels – 1976, Cologne) is one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century. Since his death many have
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Marinus Boezem
Marinus Boezem exhibited a stretch of polder as a ready-made in 1960. This is not untypical of his monumental-but-modest œuvre, largely based
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James Lee Byars
James Lee Byars was born in 1932 in Detroit. He was a highly visible and contradictory figure in the art of the 1970s and 1980s, and remained
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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michelangelo Pistoletto is associated with Arte Povera. In the 1960s, he defines a new kind of monumentality by combining rags and 'worthless
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Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha (1937, US) is considered one of the leading painters of our times. He had a Catholic upbringing in Oklahoma and moved to Los An
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Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925, Belgium, lives in Antwerp) co-founded the G58 group in Antwerp, which organises a series of exhibitions at the Hess
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Jan Vercruysse
From the mid-1970s, Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) takes to the museum space with abstract collages, installations and assemblages that primarily
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Grupo Artistas de Vanguar...
Grupo de Artistas de Vanguardia is a 1960s avant-garde collective in Argentina. It gathers artists, journalists, and sociologists in Rosario
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Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (1943, US, lives in New York) combines conceptual art with social critique and political activism. In her installations, collag
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Carl Andre
[Carl Andre](http://www.carlandre.net) (1935, US, lives in New York) is an iconic representative of Minimal Art, a sculptor working with natu
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Cildo Meireles
Cildo Meireles (1948, Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro) emerges early as artist, with a series of projects in 1969 that investigated the notio
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Jan J. Schoonhoven
Jan Schoonhoven (1914–1994, the Netherlands) started as a draughtsman, inspired by Paul Klee’s poetic expressionism. From the mid-1950s he em
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Gerhard Richter
[Gerhard Richter](http://www.gerhard-richter.com/) (1932, Germany, lives in Cologne) was educated in East Germany as a mural painter in the s
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928–1987, US) is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. For him fame itself was an art form. Starting as a commerc
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On Kawara
On Kawara (b.1932-2014) grows up in Kiriya and Tokyo, where he experiences as an adolescent how his people try to process the national trauma
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Stanley Brouwn
Stanley Brouwn (1935, Suriname, lives in Amsterdam) moved to the Netherlands in 1957. A representative earlier work is the now famous This Wa
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Lucio Fontana
The Argentine-Italian visual artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) has broadened and deepened the avant-garde of the mid-twentieth century with ne
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Yves Klein
The Yves Klein of 1959 already had an extreme reputation on the art scene. He had swept the table clear of arguments about form and color wit
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Piero Manzoni
[Piero Manzoni](http://www.pieromanzoni.org) (1933–1963, Italy) was a precocious painter and writer of manifestos, notably Per una pittura or
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Donald Judd
Donald Judd (1928–1994, US) studies painting and philosophy and makes a great impact on post-war art as a sculptor, printmaker and critic as
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Robert Morris
Robert Morris (1931, US, lives in New York) starts as a painter with a strong interest in dance and improvisational theatre. The performative
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Frank Stella
Frank Stella (1936, US, lives in New York) studied painting and art history. The paintings from the seven years after his graduation in 1958