Budynek Muzeum Konstrukcji w Procesie Lodz

''Construction in Process'' () was a series of international global exhibitions organized by artists in the 1980s and 1990s. The originator of this project was Polish artist

Ryszard Wasko Ryszard Wasko (Waśko) (born February 21, 1947, in Nysa) is a Polish artist, who has worked in multimedia, including photography, film, video, installation, painting, and drawing. He is also known as a curator and organizer of art events. He l ...

. Artists who were invited to participate in "Construction in Process" invite in turn, another group of participants, giving the project a dynamic, open character. Another original idea was to spur the artists to create their works on site.

Construction in Process I

The first CiP was titled, "The Community That Came?" (1981), curated by Anna Saciuk-Gąsowska and Aleksandra Jach and took place in

Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. It was symbolic as the birth of the Polish

Solidarity movement Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single issue politics ...

. ''Participants'' *

Carl Andre Carl Andre (September 16, 1935 – January 24, 2024) was an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as ''Stone Field Sculpture'', 1977, in ...

* Patrick Ireland * Richard Nonas * Hartmut Boehm * Servie Janssen *

Roman Opałka Roman Opałka (Polish: ; 27 August 1931 – 6 August 2011) was a French-born Polish painter, whose works are mostly associated with conceptual art. Opałka was born on 27 August 1939 in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The ...

Michael Craig-Martin Sir Michael Craig-Martin (born 28 August 1941) is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is known for fostering and adopting the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, '' An Oak ...

Kazuo Katase Kazuo (カズオ, かずお) is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible spellings It has several written forms, and the meaning depends on the characters used (usually kanji, but sometimes hiragana). Common forms include: * 一雄: first son, ...

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the na ...

* Ad Dekkers * Stanislav Kolibal *

David Rabinowitch David Rabinowitch (born March 6, 1943) is a Canadian visual artist who exhibits internationally and is best known for his non-representational steel constructionsA Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 ( ...

* Ger Dekkers * Tomasz Konart * Jozef Robakowski *

Jan Dibbets Jan Dibbets (born 9 May 1941, in Weert) is an Amsterdam-based Dutch conceptual artist. His work is influenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography. Life and career In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at ...

* Attila Kovacs *

Ed Ruscha Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the anti- pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating s ...

* Norman Dilworth *

Pawel Kwiek Paweł Kwiek (16 March 1951 – 13 March 2022) was a Polish contemporary visual artist, photographer, cinematographer, and lighting director. Kwiek worked with film, painting, photographic cycles and artistic actions. He was a participant in a w ...

* Reiner Ruthenbeck *

Peter Downsborough Peter Downsborough (13 September 1943 – 26 September 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Career A centre forward as a schoolboy, he transferred into the role of goalkeeper after deputising for an injured te ...

Les Levine Les Levine (born 1935) is a naturalized American Irish artist known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with communication media. In 1967, Levine won first prize for sculpture in the Canadian Sculpture Biennial. He coll ...

Fred Sandback Fred Sandback (August 29, 1943 – June 23, 2003) was an American minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. His estate is represented by David Zwirner. Life and work Frederick Lane Sandback was b ...

* David Dye *

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

Richard Serra Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale Abstract art, abstract sculptures made for Site-specific art, site-specific landscape, urban, and Architecture, architectural settings, a ...

* Ivan Galeta * Richard Long *

Paul Sharits Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado—July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York) was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, al ...

* Tibor Gayor * Peter Lowe * Yoshio Shirakawa * Gerhard V. Graevenitz * Kenneth Martin *

Robert Smithson Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and mu ...

Dan Graham Daniel Graham (March 31, 1942 – February 19, 2022) was an American visual artist, writer, and curator in the writer-artist tradition. In addition to his visual works, he published a large array of critical and speculative writing that spanned ...

Dóra Maurer Dóra Maurer (born 1937) is a Hungarian visual artist whose work has spanned a 50-year career. She works in almost every medium, from film and photography, to painting, performance, and sculpture. Principally achieving recognition in the 1970s w ...

* Peter Struycken * Noriyuki Haraguchi * Rune Mields * Gunter Uecker *

Tim Head Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. A painter, photographer and sculptor, he employs mixed media. Biography Born in London, Head was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969. There the ...

* Antoni Mikolajczyk * Ken Unsworth * Anthony Hill *

Manfred Mohr Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981. Life and career Mohr started his career as an action painting, acti ...

Bernar Venet Bernar Venet (born 20 April 1941) is a French conceptual artist. He was the 2016 recipient of the International Sculpture Center's Lifetime Achievement Award. Early life Bernar Venet was born to Jean-Marie Venet, a school teacher and chemist ...

Nancy Holt Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film and photog ...

François Morellet François Morellet (30 April 1926 – 10 May 2016) was a French contemporary abstract painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrica ...

* Taka Iimura *

Maurizio Nannucci Maurizio Nannucci (born 1939, in Florence, Italy) is an Italian contemporary artist. Lives and works in Florence and South Baden, Germany. Nannucci's work includes: photography, video, neon installations, sound installation, artist's books, and edi ...

Ryszard Winiarski Ryszard Winiarski (March 2, 1936 – December 4, 2006) was a Polish painter and set designer best known for his monochromatic abstract geometric compositions and spatial forms. He has been associated with Conceptualist tendencies in Poland duri ...

Process und Konstruktion - Construction in Process II

The second edition took place in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

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in 1985, organized by Ryszard Wasko. It was created in response to the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...

, to form a cultural bridge between east and west. ''Participants'' * Norman Dilworth * Sjoerd Buisman *

Rebecca Horn Rebecca Horn (24 March 1944 – 6 September 2024) was a German visual artist best known for her installation art, film directing and body modifications such as ''Einhorn'' (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from ...

* Didier Vermeiren * Kazuo Katase *

Yutaka Matsuzawa was a pioneer conceptual artist. He was active from the 1950s until his death in central Japan. Life and education Matsuzawa was born on February 2, 1922, in Shimosuwa in mountainous central Japan. His impressionable years were spent during J ...

Ben Vautier Benjamin Vautier (; 18 July 1935 – 5 June 2024), also known mononymously as Ben, was a French visual artist. Early life Benjamin Vautier was born on 18 July 1935 in Naples, Italy, to a French family. He was the great-grandson of the Swiss p ...

* Tomasz Konart * Janusz Baldyga * Erika Kiffl *

Vito Acconci Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an American performance art, performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His performan ...

* Roger Welch *

* Charles Gaines *

Pat Steir Pat Steir (born 1938) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she sta ...

* Rune Mields *

Gunter Demnig Gunter Demnig (born 27 October 1947) is a German artist. He is best known for his ''Stolperstein'' ("stumbling block") memorials to the victims of Nazi persecution, including Jews, homosexuals, Romani people, Romani and the disabled. The project ...

* Michael Witlatschil * Antoni Mikolajczyk * Halina Jaworski * Ansgar Nierhoff *

Joseph Kosuth Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945) is a Hungarian-American conceptual artist, who lives in New York and Venice,

* Massimo Nannucci * Richard Nonas * Tom Bills * Hanne Tierney * Roman Opalka *

Robert Ryman Robert Ryman (May 30, 1930February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York ...

Joel Shapiro Joel Elias Shapiro (September 27, 1941 – June 14, 2025) was an American sculptor renowned for his dynamic work composed of simple rectangular shapes. The artist is classified as a Minimalist as demonstrated in his works, which were mostly defi ...

Daniel Buren Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for ...

* Paul Gees *

* Steven Keister *

* Ugo Dossi *

Daniel Spoerri Daniel Spoerri (; 27 March 1930 – 6 November 2024) was a Romanian-born Swiss visual artist and writer. He is considered to be an important figure among the artists within the so-called "second wave" of the Pop art movement. Spoerri is best kno ...

Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Charles Weiner (February 10, 1942December 2, 2021) was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a scu ...

Albert Mertz Albert Axel Tonndorff Mertz (31 January 1920 – 30 December 1990) was a Danish painter. He was one of the leading artists in the Linien II artists association, working in a Constructivism (art), Constructivist style in a limited number of stron ...

* Ryszard Winiarski * Hartmut Bohm * Ewerdt Hilgemann

International Artists' Museum

In 1989, the International Artists' Museum with an international artists' board and

Emmett Williams Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist. He was married to British visual artist Ann Noël. Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1 ...

as president has been established in Poland, and other countries around the world. The

Łódź Biennale The Łódź Biennale (English: ''Lodz Biennale'') was an international art exhibition that was founded by Ryszard Wasko in 2004 in Łódź, and is managed and supervised by the International Artists' Museum. The biennale is based upon ideas develop ...

is an international art celebration that is managed and supervised by the International Artists' Museum, the event was founded in 2004 and based on ideas developed during ''Construction in Process'' events.

Back in Łódź - Construction in Process III

The third edition was organized in 1990 in Łódź. ''Participants'' * Marcela Anselmetti * Rolf Julius * Daniel Reynolds *

Ilan Averbuch Ilan Averbuch (; born 1953, Israel) is a sculptor living and working in Long Island City, New York. Averbuch creates large-scale monumental artworks and installations for gallery and museum exhibitions in addition to outdoor public spaces. Biog ...

* Wolf Kahlen * Rafael Rheinsberg * Janusz Baldyga * Elzbieta Kalinowska * Jozef Robakowski * Reiner Barzen * Andromahi Kefalos * Ingrid Roscheck * Terry Berkowitz * Edmund Kieselbach * Nicolas Rowan * Tom Bills * Marek Kijewski * Karin Sander *

Monika Brandmeier Monika Brandmeier (January 19, 1959 in Kamen) is a German sculpture, sculptor. Life and work Monika Brandmeier first studied visual communication at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences from 1977 to 1982 and then at the Braunschweig Univ ...

* Adam Klimczak * Anthony Sansotta * Jean Pierre Brigaudiot * Svetlana Kopystiansky * Igor Kopystiansky * Eva Maria Schon * Wojciech Bruszewski * Philip Smith * Hartmut Boehm * Anna Kutera * Mikolaj Smoczynski * Peter D'Adostino * Romuald Kutera * Eric Snell * Jacqueline Dauriac * Emma J. Lawton *

Michael Snow Michael James Aleck Snow (December 10, 1928 – January 5, 2023) was a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are ''Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Rég ...

* Barco Dimitrijevic *

Edward Łazikowski Edward Łazikowski (born January 22, 1939, in Bąków Górny Poland) is a Polish artist whose work includes drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art and art theory. Life Łazikowski graduated from the Strzemi� ...

Pawel Sobczak Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given ...

* Marek Sobczyk * Kristian Dubbick *

* Ann Thulin * Bernd Eickhorst * Emilio Lopez-Menchero * Hanne Tierney * Wendy Elliott * Milovan Destil Markovic *

Sissel Tolaas Sissel Tolaas is a Norwegian artist and researcher known for her work with smell. Early life Sissel Tolaas was born in 1961 in Stavanger, Norway and is now based in Berlin. Tolaas has a background in chemistry, mathematics, linguistics, lan ...

* Lilli Engel *

Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas (; ; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals world ...

* Francesc Torres * Gene Flores * Rune Mields *

Tout A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a '' solicitor'' or '' barker'' in American English, or a '' spruiker'' in Australian English). An example would be a person w ...

* Michael Galasso * Antoni Mikolajczyk * Endre Tot * Klaus Geldmacher * Teresa Murak * Dagmar Uhde *

Jochen Gerz Jochen Gerz (born 4 April 1940) 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, parti ...

* Giovanni Nicolini *

Micha Ullman Micha Ullman (; born 11 October 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art. Biography Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The Forward. Apri ...

* Leszek Golec * John Nixon * Ken Unsworth * Jerzy Grzegorski * Richard Nonas * Ian Wallace * Ryszard Grzyb * Ann Noel * Maria Wasko * Marcia Hafif *

* Tadashi Hashimoto * Erick Oppenheim *

* Wolfgang Hainke *

Paul Panhuysen Paul Panhuysen (21 August 1934 – 29 January 2015) was a Dutch composer, visual and sound artist. He founded and directed Het Apollohuis, an art space that functioned during the 80's and 90's having artists doing sound installations, sound sculp ...

* Emmet Williams * Marygold Hodkinson * Luigi Pasotelli * Xawery Wolski * Alexander Honory * Beverly Piersol * Brigida Wrobel-Kulik * Peter Hutchinson * Anna Plotnicka *

Marthe Wery Marthe may refer to: *Marthe (given name) a feminine given name *Marthe (novel), ''Marthe'' (novel), an 1876 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans *''Marthe'', an 1877 play by Georges Ohnet *Marthe (film), ''Marthe'' (film), a 1997 film by Gérard Jugnot P ...

* Taka Iimura *

* Sofia Zezmer * Jean Luc Jehan * Margaret Raspe

My Home is Your Home - Construction in Process IV

In 1993, the fourth edition, "My Home is Your Home" took place at the International Artists' Museum in Łódź. ''Participants'' * Peter Akfen * Driss Sans Arcidet * Sam Auinger *

Ay-O Takao Iijima (born May 19, 1931), better known by his art name Ay-O (靉嘔 ''Ai Ō''), is a Japanese avant-garde visual and performance artist who has been associated with Fluxus since its international beginnings in the 1960s. Biography Earl ...

* Su Baker * Iwan Bala *

Krzysztof Bednarski Krzysztof Michał Bednarski (''KMB'') (25 July 1953 in Kraków) is a contemporary Polish-Italian sculptor. Life He was one of three sons of Irena and Jerzy Bednarski. Before the war, his parents lived in Lviv, Lwów on Kulparkowska Street. Bed ...

* Emilie Benes-Brzezinski * Barbara Benish * Tom Bills * Andrea Blum * Hartmut Boehm * Jean-Pierre Brigaudiot * Jurgen Brockmann * Brad Buckley * Lillian Budd * Mimmo Catania * Xang-Jie Chang * Igor Chatskin *

Henning Christiansen Henning Christiansen (28 May 1932 in Copenhagen – 10 December 2008) was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock and Wolf Vostell as well as with his ...

* Krzysztof Cichosz * Jean Clareboudt * Wojciech Czajkowski * Carsten Dane * Marta Deskur *

* Richard Dunn * Daniel Dutrieux * Elena Elagina * Marianne Eigenheer * Andrey Filippow * Dieter Froese * Bernhard Garbert * Jarg Geismar *

Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of th ...

* Janusz Glowacki * Toni Grand *

Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poetry, poet and critic. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches. He ...

* Wenda Gu * Marcia Hafif * Amy Hauft * Robin Hill * Jusuf Hadzifejzofic * Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison * Sibylle Hofter * Tom Homburg * Sharon Horvath * Jean-Luc Jehan * Marek Janiak * Andrzej Janaszewski * Zhu Jinshi * Sven-Ake Johansson *

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s".Wlodzimierz Ksiazek * Harald Kubiczak * Ewa Kulasek * Tilman Kuentzel * Eve Andree Laramee * Emma J. Lawton * Cecile Le Talec * Richard Lerman * Philis Levin *

* LODZ FABRYCZNA GROUP * Marcia Lyons * Russel Lynch *

Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay's work explores connections between sound art, noise music, photography, video art, film and digital animations. A p ...

* Igor Makarevich * Jean-Charles Massera * Vusisizwe Mchunu * Christoph Meier * Harry Miller *

Antoni Muntadas Antoni Muntadas (born 1942 in Barcelona) is a postconceptual multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. His work often addresses social, political and communications issues through different media: such as photography, video, text and ...

* Rune Mields * Robert C. Morgan * Tracy Morris and Paul Brewer * Markus Mussinghoff * Benno Mutter * David Nash * Joshua Neustein * Malgorzata Niedzielko * Ann Noel * Richard Nonas * NOTORIOUS GROUP *

Mordechai Omer Mordechai Omer (; April 1941 - 10 June 2011) was an Israeli art historian and museum administrator who served as Director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Born in Haifa, he was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA Art History, 1961), C ...

* Erik Oppenheim * Sean O'Reilly * Yigal Ozeri *

Mark Palmer Mark Palmer may refer to: *Mark Palmer (cricketer) (born 1967), Australian cricketer *Mark Palmer (diplomat) (1941–2013), American diplomat *Sir Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet (born 1941), British aristocrat {{hndis, Palmer, Mark ...

* Matthew Partridge * Tadeusz Piechura * Vera Pogodina * Joanna Przybyla * R.H. Quaytman * Yufen Qin * Josef Ramaseder * Philip Rantzer * Michal Rovner * Laurenee Laure and Jean-Christophe Royoux * Patricia Ruiz-Bayon * Robert Rumas * Carl Rudiger * Karin Sander * Anthony Sansotta * Gunnar Schmidt *

Buky Schwartz Buky Schwartz ( ; , ; June 16, 1932 – September 1, 2009, Tel Aviv) was an Israeli sculptor and video artist. Biography Moshe (Buky) Schwartz was born in Jerusalem. From 1956 to 1958, he studied sculpture with Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977) a ...

* Roland Schefferski * Glen Seator *

Judith Shea Judith Shea is an American sculptor and artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948. She was awarded a degree in fashion design from the Parsons School of Design in 1969 and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree there in 1975. This dual ...

* Seiji Shimoda * Yuan Shun * Christopher Snee * Ronny Someck * Suzy Sureck * Maciej Toporowicz * Nicholas Tsoutas * Stuart Sherman * Dagmar Uhde * Francesc Torres *

* Ken Unsworth * Hendri van der Putten * Peter Vermeulen * Henk Visch * Gregory Volk * David Wakstein *

* Jenny Watson *

James Welling James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist, photographer and educator living in New York City. He attended Carnegie-Mellon University where he studied drawing with Gandy Brodie and at the University of Pittsburgh where ...

* Kees Wevers * Allan Wexler *

* Ryszard Winiarski * Michael Witlatschil *

Jack Whitten Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American abstract painter and sculptor, who was part of the Black Abstractionism canon. According to the Museum of Modern Art, he "invented art-making techniques that were the first of ...

* Lynne Yamamoto * Adem Yilmaz * Harumi Yonekawa * Sofia Zezmer * Jian-Jun Zhang * Konstantin Zvezdochatov

Co-existence - Construction in Process V

The desert

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was the venue of the fifth CiP in 1995. The name "Co-Existence" or "Dukium" was created to coincide with the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. *

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...

* Yael Amzaleg *

* Josefina Aerza * Sam Bachrach * Amnon Barzel * Sarah Bayliss * Elena Beriollo * Tom Bills * Hannes Boringer * Sarah Birghberg * Marianne Brouwer * Emilie Bennes-Brzezinski * Rana Bishara * Malgorzata Borek * Miriam Tovia Boneh * Hartmut Boehm * Monika Brandmeier * Brad Buckley * Mimmo Catania * Yaacov Chefitz * Charile Citron * Lech Czolnowski * Hayek Dauod * Michael Delmi *

Agnes Denes Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculpt ...

* Owen Drolet * Zbigniew Dudek * Orna Elstein * Betu Simon Fainaru * Dave Fasvoldt * Wojtek Filipczak * David Fagel * Craig Fischer * Regina Frank * Alexandra Funk * Martina Galvin * Tslbi Geva * Gideon Gechtman * Jarg Geismar * David Ginton * Zarmuch Gilad * Isaac Golombeck * Eles De Groot * Wenda Gu * Jerzy Grzegorski * Janusz Glowacki * Marcia Hafif * Paula Halwani * Pawel Hartman * Frederika Holt * Jusuf Hadzifejzovic *

Oliver Herring Oliver Herring (born 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an experimental artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His works include knitting Mylar, participatory performances, styrofoam photo sculptures and video. Biography Herring as born in Heidelber ...

* Jessica Higgins * Henry Philip Israel * Amad Kanaan * Laszlo Kerekes * Daniel Kish * Adam Klimczak * Erika Knerr *

Alison Knowles Alison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge diffe ...

* Hana Kofler * Anette Kovacs * Loraine Kordecki * Wlodzimierz Ksiazek * Piotr Kurka * Eve Andree Laramee * Emme Lawton *

* Arye Bar-Lev * Russel Maltz * Margalit Mannor * Jenny Marketou * Tomasz Matuszak * Agata Michowska * Robert C. Morgan * Solfrid Mortensen * Grzegorz Musial * Markus Mussingfoll * Beno Mutter * Dominique Nahas * Joshua Neustein * Ann Noel * Gideon Ofraf * John O'Mara *

* Yigal Oyeri * Tamar Raban * Lee Ramon * Eli Ran * Philip Rantzer * Talia Rapaport * Revina Regev * Osvaldo Romberg * Ayala Rom * Michel Rovner * Raphael Rubinstein * Jack Sal * Eva-Maria Schoen * Glen Seator * Bucky Schwartz * Joshua Selman * Arik Shapira * Tamar Sharon * Christopher Snee * Gita Snee * Malgorzata Sidor * Ronny Somek * Mariusz Soltysik * Angelika Stepken *

Haim Steinbach Haim Steinbach (; born 1944 in Rehovot, Mandatory Palestine) is an Israeli-American artist, based in New York City. His work consists of arrangements of everyday objects, presented in “Displays” and shelves of his own making. Life and work Si ...

* Levia Stern * Suzy Sureck * Richard R. Thomas * Danny Tisdale * Maciej Toporowicz * Dean Jokanovic-Toumin * Susan Reimer Torn * Dagmar Uhde * Micha Ullman * Vulto * Gregory Volk * Sharif Waked * David Wakstein * Maria wasko * Lucja wasko *

* Alan wexler *

* Richard Wilson * Adam Yilmaz * Sophia Zezmer * Baruch Zilbershats

The Bridge - Construction in Process VI

In 1998, the sixth edition was organized in

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

, Australia. ''Participants'' *

*Marcus Bergner *Wendy Berick * Lauren Berkowitz *Tom Bills *Hartmut Böhm *Montien Boonma *Małgorzata Borek *Joan Brassil *Tim Burns *Karen Casey with Tim Cole *Krzysztof Cichosz *Henning Christensen *Charlie Citron *David Cranswick *Maria Cruz *Nick Curmi *DAMP *Domenico de Clario *

*Cor Dera *Gu Dexin *

Anita Dube Anita Dube (born 28 November 1958) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and art critic, whose work has been widely exhibited. She is known for her mixed media sculpture and installation art. Early life Dube was born on 28 November 1958 in ...

* Avraham Eilat *Martina Galvin * Jårg Geismar *Guillermo Gonzalez *Ann Graham *Jerzy Grzegorski *

Philip Gudthaykudthay Philip Gudthaykudthay (pronounced "g'day, g'day"; 1935 or earlier – October 2022), also known as Pussycat, was an Aboriginal Australian artist. His work is held in many public galleries in Australia and internationally, including the British ...

*Edgar Harris *Paweł Hartman * Romuald Hazoume *Binghui Huangfu *Andrzej Janczewski *

Magdalena Jetelova Magdalena may refer to: * Magdalena (given name), a feminine given name derived from Mary Magdalene (including a list of persons with the name) Entertainment * Magdalena (comics), an American comic book superheroine * ''Magdalena'' (film), a 19 ...

* Wolf Kahlen * Oki Kano *Fassih Keiso *Dok Hi Kim *Adam Klimczak * Maureen Lander *

Mary Longman Mary Longman (born 1964 in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian artist. She is of Saulteaux heritage from the Gordon First Nation. Her Aboriginal name is Aski-Piyesiwiskwew. She is known for her sculptures, drawings, and paintings, whic ...

Rita McBride Rita McBride (born 1960) is an American artist and sculptor. She is based in Los Angeles and Düsseldorf. Alongside her artistic practice, McBride is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and served as its director until 2017. McBride is ...

* Alastair MacLennan *Anna MacLeod *Andrew Margululu *

Dhuwarrwarr Marika Dhuwarrwarr Marika (born 1946), also known as Banuminy, a female contemporary Aboriginal artist. She is a Yolngu artist and community leader from East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. She belongs to the Dhuwa moiety of the R ...

*Tomasz Matuszak *Dominique Mazeaud *Peter Minygulu *Markus Mussinghof *Michael Nicholls *John Nixon *Ann Noël *

Bjørn Nørgaard Bjørn Nørgaard (born 21 May 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Art of Denmark, Danish artist who has been active in a variety of fields. He has significantly influenced the art scene in Denmark both through his "happenings" and his sculptures in Danish ...

*Jittima Pholsawek *Grzegorz Pleszyński * Kerrie Poliness *Kim Power *Josef Ramaseder *Alwin Reamillo *Józef Robakowski *Cameron Robbins *

Lisa Roet Lisa Roet (born 1967) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 2005 she received the McClelland Sculpture Prize. The sculpture, ''White Ape'', is now part of the col ...

*Sabine Russ * Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi *William Seeto *Josh Selman *Paco Simon *Tex Skuthorpe *Christopher Snee *Mariusz Sołtysik *Mark Stoner *Suzy Sureck *Jon Tarry *Neil Taylor *Martine Pascale Tayou * Ken Thaiday Snr *David Hugh Thomas *Dagmar Uhde *

* M. S. Umesh *Albertina Viegas *Laura Vinci *Milos Vojtechovsky *Gregory Volk *Peter Walsh *Maria Wasko *

*Wastijn & Deschuymer *David Waters *Naup Waup *

Lee Wen Lee Wen (; 1957–2019) was a Singapore-based performance artist who shaped the development of performance art in Asia. He worked on the notion of identity, ethnicity, freedom, and the individual's relationship to communities and the environme ...

* Ah Xian *Djalinda Yunupingu

This Earth is a Flower - Construction in Process VII

In 2000, the last ''Construction in Process'' was held at the

Regional Museum, Bydgoszcz The Leon Wyczółkowski Regional Museum () is an ensemble of cultural institutions which have been first created in 1923 in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. Location The seat of the museum is located at 4, Gdańska Street, in downtown district. Th ...

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...

. ''Participants'' *

Maria Thereza Alves Maria Thereza Alves (born 1961) is a Brazilian-born American and German installation artist, video artist, activist, filmmaker, and writer. She lives in Berlin. Early life and education Maria Thereza Alves was born in São Paulo in 1961. When ...

* Katherine Armstrong * John Axon * Siarzuk Baberka * Janusz Baldyga * Barbara Benish * Maricn Berdyszak * Elena Berriolo * Mauro Bianchi * Tom Bills * Vladimir Biritski * Margret Blondal * Hartmut Böhm * Monika Brandmeier * Slawomir Brzoska * Steve Buchanan * Chandrasekaran S. * Yaacov Chefetz * Amarit Chusuwan * Andrzej Ciesielski * Mark Daniel Cohen *

Sylvie Courvoisier Sylvie Courvoisier (born 30 November 1968) is a composer, pianist, improviser and bandleader. She was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland, and has been a resident of New York City since 1998. She won Germany’s International Jazz Piano Pri ...

* Witosław Czerwonka * Vlasta Delimar *

* Tomasz Domański * Peter Downsbrough * Jacquie Dunn *

Jimmie Durham Jimmie Bob Durham (July 10, 1940 – November 17, 2021) was an American sculptor, essayist and poet. He was active in the United States in the civil rights movements of African Americans and Native Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, serving on the ...

* Barbara Edelstein * Avram Eilat * Tory Fair * Jens Fånge * Emilio Fantin * Fred Firth * Vadim Fishkin * Gideon Gechtman * John Gian * Aleksandra Gieraga * Matthew Gold * Michael Goldberg * Eugenia Gortchakova * Lorenna Grant * Izabella Gustowska * Anne Graham * Tadashi Hashimoto * Romuald Hazoume * Ulrike Hein * Joanna Hoffmann *

Elżbieta Jabłońska Elżbieta Jabłońska (born 1970) is a Polish contemporary visual artist, and professor. She has served as the Chair of Drawing and has taught art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 1996. Jablonska is known for photography, film, in ...

* Randy Jewart *

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, "a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s".Oki Kano * Fassih Keiso * Sora Kim * Grzegorz Klaman * Piotr Kurka * Konrad Kuzyszyn * Aleh Ladislau * Algis Lankelis * Via Levandovsky * Vitaly Levchenya *

* Alicja Lewicka * Oleg Ladysow * Ivan Macha * Brian Maguire * Vlado Martek * Antoni Maznevski *

Josiah McElheny Josiah McElheny (1966, Boston) is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He li ...

* Shirley Meshulam * Robert C. Morgan *

Ikue Mori (born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022. Biography Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She sa ...

* Florian Mutschler * Anna Myca * Warren Niesluchowski * Ann Noël * Richard Nonas * Jüri Ojaver *

Ben Patterson Benjamin Patterson (May 29, 1934 – June 25, 2016) was an American musician, artist, and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement. Biography Benjamin Patterson was born in Pittsburgh on May 29, 1934. He attended the University of Michigan fr ...

* Dorota Podlaska * Doron Polak * Grzegorz Pleszyński * Steven Rand * Dodi Reifneberg * Daniel Reynolds * Józef Robakowski *

Paul Rodgers Paul Bernard Rodgers (born 17 December 1949) is an English-Canadian singer. He was the lead vocalist of numerous successful rock bands, including Free (band), Free, Bad Company, The Firm (rock band), the Firm and The Law (English band), the L ...

Jon Rose Jonathan Anthony Rose (born 19 February 1951) is an Australian violinist, cellist, composer, and multimedia artist. Rose's work is centered in the experimental music known as free improvisation, where he has created large environmental multimed ...

* Andreas Roth * Sabine Russ * Zygmunt Rytka * Jack Sal * Karin Sander * Annika Carmen Schmidt * William Seeto * Michal Sedaka * Christopher Snee * Paco Simon * Anatol Stepanenko * Jon Tarry * Pascale M. Tayou * Richard Thomas * Maciek Toporowicz * Yvonne Troxler * Dagmar Uhde * M.S. Umesh * R.H. Quaytman * Cedomir Vasic * Albertina Viegas * Richard Vine * Gregory Volk *

Sharif Waked Sharif Waked (; born 1964) is a Palestinian visual artist. Biography Sharif Waked was born in Nazareth to a Palestinian refugee family from Mjedil, a depopulated Palestinian village. He lives and works in Haifa and Nazareth. In 1983-1986, he ...

* Regina Walter *

* Jürgen Weichardt * Lilly Wei * Kirsten Weiner *

* Jeanne Wilkinson * Mike Wodkowski * Gary Woodley * Lynn Yamamoto * Wojciech Zamiara * Jian-Jun Zhang

References

External links

Construction in Process
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Ryszard Wasko

Lodz Biennale 2004
Visual arts exhibitions International artist groups and collectives Artist-run centres