Video art 20th century
Marc Adrian is an Austrian conceptual artist and filmmaker.
Adrian studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, from 1953 he became interested in cinema, kinetics, rhythmic interference, problems of optical structures, etc. Adrian is considered one of the pioneers of film-oriented media art. He specialized in kinetic objects, anti-cinema and computer art.
Marc Adrian has taught at various universities in Europe and lectured to American students.
Alexandre Arrechea is a Cuban visual artist. His work involves concepts of power and its network of hierarchies, surveillance, control, prohibitions, and subjection.
For twelve years he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July 2003 to continue his career as a solo artist. His public art The spectator's participation in the work adds to his contemplation. The work arises out of human actions and reactions in the face of contemporary versions of the worldview already described by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The eye of power watches everything and everyone, and everyone watches everyone else and themselves.
Guillaume Bruère is a French painter, drawer, sculptor and performer. He lives and works in Berlin.
Guillaume Bruère graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (DNSEP) in 1999, then from the Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l'Image in Poitiers in 2003.
Fascinated by the major artists of art history (Holbein, Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Van Gogh, Giacometti, Picasso, Bacon), Guillaume Bruère has been working since 2009 in many museums and prestigious institutions (e.g. Kunsthaus Zürich, Musée Picasso Paris, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles) to reinterpret their works, notably through drawing.
From his confrontation with the art of the past (Egyptian, Greek, Mexican, heraldic art, etc.), a singular, dense universe of extraordinary vitality emerges through the use of colour, the expressiveness of his gesture, the sureness of his line, and collage, which can be found in many of his drawings, but also in his painting, sculpture and performances.
Peter Coffin is an American artist. He is known for his conceptual and interdisciplinary works that explore the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Coffin's work often incorporates a range of media, including sculpture, painting, photography, video, and performance. He frequently engages with scientific and philosophical concepts, such as the nature of perception and the relationship between humans and animals.
Coffin's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
He has received numerous awards and grants for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. Coffin's work is noted for its ability to bridge the gap between art and science, and to encourage viewers to think critically about their place in the world.
Peter Coffin lives and works in London.
Antonio Manuel Lima Dias was a Brazilian artist and graphic designer. He was a prominent figure in concrete art. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro.
Antonio Lima Dias has undertaken study trips around the world since 1965, travelling to Paris, Milan, Berlin, New York and Nepal. Diaz's artistic style was characterised by a bold and confrontational approach. He used a combination of figurative and abstract elements, bright colours, strong lines and dynamic compositions.
In 1992 he became a professor at the Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria, and the following year at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany.One of his characteristics is his use of handmade paper, combining texture and colour in his work. One of his main characteristics is his use of handmade paper, combining texture and colour in his works.
Eva & Adele are an artistic couple who claim to have "landed their time machines" in Berlin after the Wall fell in 1989, claiming to be "hermaphrodite twins from the future". Both refuse to tell their real name or age. They are famous mainly for sharing an invented gender, which is neither male nor female.
They are also known for their performance art, they have been represented by an art gallery since 1997, as they make paintings, video art, photography and costume design. They also have their own perfume line and a watch with Swatch.
They have been recognized as the world's longest running performance art duo and are often photographed as fashion icons at art events, like Art Basel Miami Beach and the Venice Biennale.
Daniel Firman is a French visual artist and sculptor.
In his sculptures, Firman seeks to construct the presence of such amorphous concepts as time, balance, weight, action, and gravity.
Always focused on the body, Firman has also explored performance art — including choreographed works in which he constructs enclosures around himself — and crafted immersive, overwhelming sound installations of 'Drone Music.'
Firman's work is included in major collections worldwide. The artist lives and works in Bordeaux and New York.
Sylvie Fleury is a Swiss contemporary pop artist known for her installations, sculpture, and mixed media. Her work generally depicts objects with sentimental and aesthetic attachments in consumer culture, as well as the paradigm of the new age, with much of her work specifically addressing issues of gendered consumption and the fetishistic relationships to consumer objects and art history.
Nicolás García Uriburu was an Argentine contemporary artist, landscape architect, and ecologist. His work in land art was aimed at raising consciousness about environmental issues such as water pollution.
Jochen Gerz is a German conceptual artist who lived in France from 1966 to 2007. His work involves the relationship between art and life, history and memory, and deals with concepts such as culture, society, public space, participation and public authorship. After beginning his career in the literary field, Gerz has in the meantime explored various artistic disciplines and diverse media. Whether he works with text, photography, video, artist books, installation, performance, or on public authorship pieces and processes, at the heart of Gerz's practice is the search for an art form that can contribute to the res publica and to democracy. Gerz lives in Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland, since 2007.
Joe Goode is an American artist associated with the Pop Art and Light and Space movements. Goode's work often incorporates images of the American West, such as clouds, mountains, and sunsets, as well as everyday objects like milk bottles and newspapers.
Goode studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He began his career as a painter in the 1950s and 1960s, creating works that combined abstraction and figuration. In the 1960s, he became associated with the Pop Art movement and began incorporating images of everyday objects and popular culture into his work.
In the 1970s, Goode began exploring the potential of light and color as mediums, creating installations and sculptures that played with the ways in which light interacts with different materials and surfaces. He was also associated with the Light and Space movement, which sought to create immersive, sensory experiences through the use of light and space.
Goode has exhibited his work extensively in the United States and Europe, and his work is represented in numerous public and private collections. He has also taught at several art schools, including the University of California, Los Angeles.
Goode continues to work and exhibit his art today, and his innovative approach to painting, sculpture, and installation has made him one of the most important artists of the Pop Art and Light and Space movements.
Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s and 1980s, he in fact began working in metal sculpture in the late 1960s. Today he is best known for internationally exhibited installations and performance art, concerned as much with innovative language as with technology, and for continuing work in a broad range of media. His longtime work with intermedia explores an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity. The recipient of many awards, his influential work has been exhibited in most major contemporary art museums worldwide.
Dennis Oppenheim was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the nature of art, the making of art and the definition of art: a meta-art that arose when strategies of the Minimalists were expanded to focus on site and context. As well as an aesthetic agenda, the work progressed from perceptions of the physical properties of the gallery to the social and political context, largely taking the form of permanent public sculpture in the last two decades of a highly prolific career, whose diversity could exasperate his critics.
Nam June Paik (Korean: 백남준) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were a Swiss artist duo that collaborated beginning in 1979. Their best-known work is the film Der Lauf der Dinge (1987), described by The Guardian as being "post apocalyptic", as it concerned chain reactions and the ways in which objects flew, crashed and exploded across the studio in which it was shot.
Wang Qingsong is a Chinese photographer. He studied at the Sichuan Academy of Art. He began his career as an oil painter, then moved on to photography. Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. His photographs, appearing at first humorous and ironic, have a much deeper message.
Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art.
Rist's work is known for its multi-sensory qualities, with overlapping projected imagery that is highly saturated with color, paired with sound components that are part of a larger environment with spaces for viewers to rest or lounge. Rist's work often transforms the architecture or environment of a white cube gallery into a more tactile, auditory and visual experience.
Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.
Karin Sander is a member of Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists), in 2007, she was elected to the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, particularly in Europe and the United States.
Nicolas Schöffer (Hungarian: Schöffer Miklós) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist.
He built his artworks on cybernetic theories of contol and feedback primarily based on the ideas of Norbert Wiener. Wiener's work suggested to Schöffer an artistic process in terms of the circular causality of feedback loops that he used on a wide range of art genres. His career spans painting, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, film, theatre, television and music. The quest for dematerialisation of the artwork and the pursuit of movement and dynamics became the central themes of his work. He worked with the immaterial media space, time, light, sound and climate that he called the five topologies.
Anna Tretter is a contemporary German media artist.
Anna Tretter became known for her installations in which she considered space using classical sculptural materials as well as painting, mirrors, light and darkness. She intervenes in the geometry of places, giving them different structures, creating connections and penetrations of architecture and space. In the 1990s her work expands to create a symbiosis of sculptural and acoustic spatial experience, image and dance, colour and the visual power of language and signs in ever new contexts. In the video installations, the experience of time is reflected in changing perspectives and media.
Bill Viola is an American contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.
Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University since 2015.
Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today.
Andreas von Weizsäcker is a German artist. He comes from a prominent family in Germany, with his father being the former President of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker.
Andreas von Weizsäcker's work focuses on the intersection of art and technology, and he is particularly interested in exploring the use of light and sound in his installations. He often incorporates technology such as computers, sensors, and video projections into his works to create immersive experiences for viewers.
Some of his notable installations include "Sound and Space" at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, and "Platon's Cave" at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He has also exhibited his work at various galleries and museums throughout Europe and the United States.
In addition to his work as an artist, Andreas von Weizsäcker is also a professor of Media Art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
