The Collection
Actors (59)
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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are ex-Soviet, American-based artists who collaborated on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those
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Ivan Kožarić
Ivan Kožarić (1921-2020) was born in Petrinja, Croatia. Having graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1947, he receives a grant
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Paul De Vree
Paul De Vree was a pioneer of European concrete poetry and a visual artist. He founded literary journals such as 'De Tafel Ronde' in Belgium
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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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Jef Geys
Jef Geys (1934 - 2018) graduated from the Antwerp Art Academy and settled in Balen, in the Kempen region, where he worked as an art teacher a
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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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Robert Filliou
"L’art est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l’art" - Robert Filliou Robert Filliou was a French neo-Dadaist also involved in the
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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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Panamarenko
The Belgian artist Panamarenko (pseudonym of Henri Van Herwegen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1955 to 1960 but just as
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Anatoly Osmolovsky
Anatoly Osmolovsky is not only an artist, yet also theoretician, curator, publisher and performance activist. Another aspect of Osmolovsk
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Almagul Menlibayeva
Almagul Menlibayeva (°1969) was born in Almaty (Kazakhstan). Trained as a painter, Menlibayeva exhibited with ‘Zelyonyi triugolok’ (Green Tri
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Erbossyn Meldibekov
Erbossyn Meldibekov refers to himself as a political artist. He produces conceptually conceived multimedia installations that comment on the
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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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Thierry De Cordier
Thierry De Cordier (b. 1954) creates depth in his paintings through the use of dark tones. Yet also as a sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, w
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Luc Deleu
Luc Deleu (°1944) calls Antwerp his home. In 1970, just after having graduated from his architectural studies, he founds the T.O.P. office (T
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Jan Fabre
The Antwerp visual artist and theatre maker Jan Fabre (b. 1958) is a multidisciplinary artistic phenomenon. He is an energetic performer who
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Bernd Lohaus
Bernd Lohaus was born in Düsseldorf in 1940; in his twenties, he enrolled at the highly regarded local art academy when Joseph Beuys was a pr
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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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Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium. He lives in Antwerp. After studying painting and art history in Brussels and Antwerp he eme
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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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Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was one of the sons of the famous Chilean surrealist Roberto Echaurren Matta. After studying architecture in N
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Charif Benhelima
Charif Benhelima was born in Brussels in 1967. He studied photography at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, HISK in Antwerp and the Interna
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N S Harsha
N S Harsha (°1969) is born in 1969 in Mysore in the state of Karnataka, India, where he still lives. Harsha trains as a painter in his home c
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Peng Yu
Chinese artist Peng Yu (b.1974, Heilongjiang Province) is a performance and video artist. Her inspiration is life in the city of Beijing, wh
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Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street,
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Koen van den Broek
In his paintings, Koen Van den Broek investigates the human experience of the environment. His paintings are readily recognizable. They are d
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di