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Centro De Artes Visuales Helga De Alvear
Helga de Alvear ( Müller Schätzel, 1936 – 2 February 2025) was a German-Spanish art collector and dealer of contemporary art. Living in Madrid from 1959, where she had personal contact to the art scene, she began to collect contemporary art by Spanish and international artists in 1967, over decades more than 3000 works by more than 500 artists. She opened her own gallery, Galería Helga de Alvear, in 1995. In 2006, she began to share her collection with the public in a foundation with the Government of Extremadura. A museum in a house in the historic district of Cáceres opened in 2010. A new annex expanding it was built from 2015 and opened in 2021. The museum, then called Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear, displays around 5% of her collection. Background Helga Müller Schätzel was born in Kirn, Germany (now in Rhineland-Palatinate), in 1936. She attended the Salem boarding school near Lake Constance, and subsequently studied in Lausanne and Geneva to learn Frenc ...
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Kirn
Kirn () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Kirner Land. Kirn is a Central place theory, middle centre serving an area on the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe and in the Hunsrück. Geography Location Kirn lies in a landscape characterized by the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe valley and the valley of the Hahnenbach, cut deeply into the Lützelsoon, roughly 10 km northeast of Idar-Oberstein and 30 km west of Bad Kreuznach. The valley floors are heavily settled in places, whereas the steep slopes in the higher areas are mostly bare of buildings and decked with forest. Rising up above the woodland canopy in many places are freestanding quartzite crags. Particularly striking among these are the Oberhauser Felsen, the Kallenfels and the Wehlenfelsen north of the town. Flowing through the unhurried inner town is the Hahnenbach, which rises in the Hunsrück, and not too much f ...
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Thomas Demand
Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. He makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces,Thomas Demand, 6 June - 20 August 2006
Serpentine Gallery.
often sites loaded with social and political meanings.Thomas Demand: The Dailies, April 14 – May 19, 2012, Sprüth Magers London. Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process.Lucy Davies (March 15, 2011)

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Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Early life and career Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was born in Jamaica, New York, of Irish Catholic descent, and was sent to Catholic schools.Paul Levy (February 3, 2006)A radiant Dan Flavin retrospective''The Wall Street Journal''. He was named after his father, D. Nicholas Flavin. Dan Flavin studied for the priesthood at the Immaculate Conception Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn between 1947 and 1952 before leaving to join his twin brother, David John Flavin, and enlist in the United States Air Force. During military service in 1954–55, Flavin was trained as an air weather meteorological technician
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Joseph Beuys
Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Robert McDowell, and Enrico Wolleb, Beuys created the Free International University for Creativity & Interdisciplinary Research (FIU). Through his talks and performances, he also formed The Party for Animals and The Organisation for Direct Democracy. He was a member of a Dadaist art movement Fluxus and singularly inspirational in developing of Performance Art, called Kunst Aktionen, alongside Viennese Actionism, Wiener Aktionismus that Allan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann termed Art Happenings. Beuys is known for his "extended definition of art" in which the ideas of social sculpture could potentially reshape society and politics. He frequently held open public debates on a wide range of subjects, including political, environmental, social, and ...
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Josef Albers
Josef Albers ( , , ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and Visual arts education, educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919. In 1920, Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and became a faculty member in 1922, teaching the principles of handicrafts. With the Bauhaus's move to Dessau in 1925, he was promoted to professor and married Anni Albers, a student at the institution and a Textile arts, textile artist. Albers' work in Dessau included designing furniture and working with Glass making, glass, collaborating with established art ...
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Museo De Arte Contemporáneo Helga De Alvear
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear (Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art) is a museum located in Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres, Spain. It is renowned for its extensive collection of contemporary art, and was established by Helga de Alvear, a German-born art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, who was instrumental in promoting contemporary art in Spain. Collection The museum was established in 2010 as the Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear but reopened in its current form in a modernist building designed by Emilio Tuñón in February 2021. The museum contains a collection of over 3000 pieces of art, including paintings, sculptures, videos, photography, installation, and new media, with works by people such as Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra, and Eduardo Chillida. References External links Official website
(in Spanish) Buildings and structures in Cáceres, Spain Museums in Extremadura {{Spain-museum-stub ...
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Mansilla + Tuñón Architects
Mansilla may refer to: *Mansilla (surname), a Spanish surname *Mansilla de la Sierra, a place in Spain *Mansilla de las Mulas, a place in Spain *Mansilla Mayor, a place in Spain *Gobernador Mansilla Gobernador Mansilla is a village and municipality in Entre Ríos Province in north-eastern Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the Li ..., a place in Argentina See also * Mansilla + Tuñón Architects, a Spanish architecture firm {{disambig ...
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Museo De Arte Contemporáneo Helga De Alvear En Cáceres (1)
Museo may refer to: * ''Museum'' (2018 film), Mexican drama heist film *Museo station Museo is a Naples Metro station on Line 1. It opened on 5 April 2001 as the eastern terminus of the section of the line between Vanvitelli and Museo. On 27 March 2002 the line was extended to Dante. The station is located between Materdei and D ...
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Santiago Sierra
Santiago Sierra (born 1966) is a Spanish artist, known for performance art and installation art. Much of his work deals with the topic of social inequities. He lives in Madrid. Career Sierra's most well-known works involve hiring laborers to complete menial tasks. These works are meant to elucidate the nature of the laborer within Capitalist society, how the laborer sells his physical labor and thus his body, political issues such as immigration and continual immigrant poverty in Capitalist countries, the nature of work in Capitalist society, and the isolation of economic classes. He achieves this through a number of techniques that present these themes and also question the nature of the art institution.Margolles, TeresaSantiago Sierra BOMB Magazine, Winter 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2011 While Sierra is critical of capitalism and the institutions which support it, he is also considered a successful artist. He is aware of this contradiction when he says, "self-criticism makes yo ...
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Karin Sander
Karin Sander (born 1957 in Bensberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. Early life and education Sander studied at the Freie Kunstschule Stuttgart and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart with Jürgen Brodwolf and others. In 1989–1990, she received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD-scholarship) for New York, where she attended the Independent Study Program (ISP) of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2000, Sander was part of a group of 15 artists and architects who bought a complex of buildings, where the Prussian army had once manufactured its uniforms, in Berlin's Moabit. Sander’s share is two levels of a three-story building, one on the ground floor and the other on the third floor, with a combined space of about 5,800 square feet. Work Art In her exhibitions, Sander refers to existing situations and addresses their institutional and historical context. Wi ...
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Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel (/i:mi: kno:ʊbəl/) (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel; 31 December 1940) is a German artist. Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," is a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf. Early life and career Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. From 1962 to 1964, he studied at the Darmstadt "Werkkunstschule", in a course based on the ideas of the pre-Bauhaus course taught by Johannes Itten and László Moholy-Nagy. From 1964 to 1971, he studied under Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with fellow students Blinky Palermo (with whom he shared a studio and a love), Jörg Immendorff, Ivo Ringe and Katharina Sieverding. Work Knoebel's work explored the relationship between space, picture support, and color. The style and formal concerns of his painting and sculpture have drawn comparisons with the ...
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Isaac Julien
Sir Isaac Julien (born 21 February 1960Annette Kuhn"Julien, Isaac (1960–)" BFI Screen Online.) is a British installation artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early life Julien was born in the East End of London, one of the five children of his parents, who had migrated to Britain from St Lucia. He graduated in 1985 from Saint Martin's School of Art, where he studied painting and fine art film. He co-founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective in 1983, and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1991. Education In 1980, Julien organized the Sankofa Film and Video Collective with, among others, Martina Attille, Maureen Blackwood, Nadine Marsh-Edwards, which was "dedicated to developing an independent black film culture in the areas of production, exhibition and audience". He received a BA Honours degree in Fine Art Film and Video from Saint Martins School of Art, London (1984), where he worked alongside a ...
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