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Kyoko Murase is a Japanese abstraction artist who lives and works in Japan.
She graduated from the University of Fine Arts and Music, Aichi Prefecture, and then studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art.
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. His art work has been housed at the MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Norbert Bisky is a German artist based in Berlin. He is one of the most important representatives of a new figurative painting in the 21st century.
Stephan Geisler is a German painter and draftsman who has exhibited his works nationally, as well as in Azerbaijan, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain. His artistic practice centers around the search for intensity. For Geisler, intensity is expressed through the inspiration, emotion, and empathy of an encounter. In his creative process, he also engages in a dialogue with the resulting imagery, continuously exploring and questioning every step.
Judith Samen is a German photographic artist.
She studied at art academies in Münster and Düsseldorf and her works include photography, spatial installations, drawings, videos and performances.
Judith Samen's art moves between staging and the authenticity of human existence. Her work involves corporeality, food and elements of art history and everyday life. She formulates works between poetry and radicalism in her search for unseen and moving pictorial creations. She combines vulnerability and humor, transience and deep physical awareness with tragedy and comedy, in the process expanding the familiar into the absurd.
Thomas Ruff is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as «a master of edited and reimagined images».
Bernd Schwarzer is a German artist born in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Schwarzer's work deals with the subject of Europe, the reunification of East and West Germany, and human rights.
Hubert Kiecol is a German artist. He was a professor at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Kiecol graduated from the Hamburg Art School in 1971 and from 1975 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. In 1984 he received a Mies van der Rohe grant and in 1985 an Annemarie and Will Grohmann grant. In 1991 he was awarded the Will Grohmann Prize by the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 2000 he received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for contemporary art from the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, particularly the wounded child, scarred physically and emotionally from within. His works often reference taboo and controversial issues from recent history, especially the Nazi rule and the horror of the Holocaust. As a result, his work is often considered provocative and controversial.
Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
His work is concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues and political topics. His subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, particularly the wounded child, scarred physically and emotionally from within. His works often reference taboo and controversial issues from recent history, especially the Nazi rule and the horror of the Holocaust. As a result, his work is often considered provocative and controversial.