Documenta 14 was the fourteenth edition of the art exhibition

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which took place in 2017 in both

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, Germany, its traditional home, and

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, Greece. It was held first in Athens from 8 April to 16 July, and in Kassel from 10 June to 17 September 2017. As part of the concept of the artistic director

Adam Szymczyk Adam Szymczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born in 1970 in Piotrków Trybunalski), is a Polish art critic, art curator, curator, writer and editor. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Between 2003 and 2014, he was the director and chief curator ...

, the exhibition proceeded in both countries with most featured artists working at both locations. The documenta is a series of

contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

exhibitions. It takes place every five years (originally every four years) and lasts 100 days each; It is therefore also referred to as a museum of 100 days. The first documenta was organized in 1955 and went back to the initiative of Arnold Bode. The location of the Documenta is normally

Critics of concept and implementation

At the time of documenta, the

Athens Biennale The Athens Biennale (abbr. AB) is an international cultural event held every two years at various locations in Athens, consisting of a large-scale exhibition and a diverse programme of side events, such as performances, workshops, lectures etc. I ...

took place in parallel in Athens. The program of the biennale, which has been taking place since 2007, was designed as a counter-proposal to the German art show. Many Greek artists questioned the ability of Germans to explain who they were. The documenta is aimed primarily at foreign tourists and not at the residents of Athens. The Athens artist Poka-Yio said that “this exhibition could just as easily have taken place in Zurich, in Basel or anywhere else”.

Participants

2017-06-07 El Hadji Sy by Olaf Kosinsky-3

Gannevik Talks 2015 - Britta Marakatt-Labba

2017-06-07 Documenta 14 Hiwa K by Olaf Kosinsky-12

2017-06-07 Oliver Ressler by Olaf Kosinsky-3

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Abounaddara Abounaddara (translated as "the man with glasses") is a Syrian video art collective best known for its documentation of life in Syria. The collective's members are self-taught and anonymous. At the start of the Syrian popular uprising, Abounadd ...

, Akinbode Akinbiyi,

Nevin Aladağ Nevin may refer to: Surname * Nevin (surname) Given name Popular Turkish feminine name (from "nevîn" in Persian, meaning "newness"). *Nevin Çokay (1930–2012), Turkish painter *Nevin Yanıt (born 1986), Turkish sprinter *Nevin Halıcı (b. 1941 ...

Daniel García Andújar Daniel García Andújar (1966 in Almoradí) is a self-taught, outsider visual media artist, activist, and art theorist from Spain. He lives and works in Barcelona. His work has been exhibited widely, including Manifesta#Overview Artists Manifesta ...

, Danai Anesiadou,

Andreas Angelidakis Andreas () is a name derived from the Greek language, Greek noun ἀνήρ ''anēr'', with genitive ἀνδρός ''andros'', which means "man". See the article on Andrew for more information. The Scandinavian name is earliest attested as antreo ...

, Aristide Antonas,

Rasheed Araeen Rasheed Araeen (; born 15 June 1935) is a Karachi-born, London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator. He graduated in civil engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology in 1962, and has been working ...

Michel Auder Michel Auder (born 1945) is a French and American photographer and filmmaker. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Art career His earliest works are travel logs and endearing portraits of friends including Hannah Wilke, Alice Neel, Annie S ...

* B Alexandra Bachzetsis,

Nairy Baghramian Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist of Armenian ethnicity. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. Using an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials, and forms, Baghramian’s site-responsive sculptur ...

, Sammy Baloji, Arben Basha,

Rebecca Belmore Rebecca Belmore (born March 22, 1960) is a Canadian interdisciplinary Anishinaabekwe artist who is notable for politically conscious and socially aware performance and installation work. She is Ojibwe and a member of Obishikokaang (Lac Seul Fi ...

, Sokol Beqiri, Roger Bernat, Bili Bidjocka, Llambi Blido, Ross Birrell, Nomin Bold,

Pavel Brăila 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 ...

Geta Brătescu Geta Brătescu (4 May 1926 – 19 September 2018) was a Romanian visual artist with works in drawing, collage, photography, performance, illustration and film. In 2008, Brătescu received an honorary doctorate from the Bucharest National ...

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Miriam Cahn Miriam Cahn (born 21 July 1949) is a Swiss painter. Biography Cahn was born on 21 July 1949 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. She studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel in Basel from 1968 to 1973, where she became involved with feminist and Anti- ...

María Magdalena Campos Pons María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born July 22, 1959) is a Cuban-born artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban arti ...

and Neil Leonard,

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins ( ;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. ; ; born October 25, 1938) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomen ...

Banu Cennetoğlu Banu Cennetoğlu (b. Ankara, 1970) is a visual artist based in Istanbul. She uses photography, installation, and printed matter to explore the classification, appropriation and distribution of data and knowledge. Her work deals with listings, coll ...

, Panos Charalambous,

Nikhil Chopra Nikhil Chopra (born 19 August 1973) is a retired Indian cricketer. He played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. A One Day International (ODI) specialist, he was part of the Indian team at the 1999 Cricket World Cup ...

, Ciudad Abierta, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci * D Anna Daučíková,

Moyra Davey Moyra Davey (born 1958, Toronto, ON) is an artist known for her experimental films that take root in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that pair photography and language. She works across photography, video, and writing, and has b ...

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 ...

, Yael Davids,

Manthia Diawara Manthia Diawara (born December 19, 1953) is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. He holds the title of University Professor at New York University (NYU), where he is Director of the Institute of Afro-America ...

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Maria Eichhorn Maria Eichhorn (born 19 November 1962, in Bamberg) is a German artist based in Berlin. She is best known for site-specific works and installations that investigate political and economic systems, often revealing their intrinsic absurdity or the ...

, Hans Eijkelboom,

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, Bonita Ely, Theo Eshetu * F Aboubakar Fofana, Peter Friedl * G

Guillermo Galindo Guillermo Galindo is a Mexican composer, performer, and artist. Early life Composer Guillermo Galindo was born in Mexico City. As a young adult, he was trained in musical composition at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City, while comple ...

Regina José Galindo Regina José Galindo (born August 27, 1974 Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan artist who specializes in performance art. She is currently one of the main artists working in this medium in Latin America, and is also a poet. Her work is characterized b ...

Israel Galván Israel Galván Reyes (born 1973 in Seville) is a Spanish flamenco dancer (''bailaor'') and choreographer. He grew up learning and dancing with his father, the dancer José Galván, and his mother, Eugenia Reyes. He became a celebrity in flamenc ...

Pélagie Gbaguidi Pélagie Gbaguidi (born 1965) is a Beninese multi-media artist who lives and works in Brussels. Gbaguidi self-identifies as a contemporary griot, using her artistic mediums to create pieces related to colonial and post-colonial history, trauma, a ...

, Apostolos Georgiou, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi,

Gauri Gill Gauri Gill (born 1970) is an Indian contemporary photographer who lives in New Delhi. She has been called "one of India's most respected photographers" by the New York Times and one of "the most thoughtful photographers active in India today" in ...

, Marina Gioti,

Beatriz González Beatriz González (born 16 November 1938) is a Colombian painter, sculptor, critic, curator and art historian. González is often associated with the Pop Art movement. She is best known for her bright and colorful paintings depicting life in Co ...

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

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Hans Haacke Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of institutional critique, and is considered to be the most harsh and consistent critic of museums among t ...

, Hiwa K, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Irena Haiduk, Ganesh Haloi,

Anna Halprin Anna Halprin (born Hannah Dorothy Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 24, 2021) was an American choreographer and dancer. She helped redefine dance in postwar America and pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to her ...

, Dale Harding, David Harding, Maria Hassabi, Edi Hila,

Susan Hiller Susan Hiller (March 7, 1940–January 28, 2019) was a US-born, British conceptual artist who lived in London, United Kingdom. Her practice spanned a broad range of media, including installation, video, photography, painting, sculpture, per ...

, Olaf Holzapfel, Gordon Hookey * I iQhiya Collective,

Sanja Iveković Sanja Iveković (born 1949 in Zagreb) is a Croatian photographer, performer, sculptor and installation artist. Her work is known to tackle such issues as female identity, media, consumerism, and political strife. Considered to be one of the leading ...

* K

Amar Kanwar Amar Kanwar (born 1964) is an Indian filmmaker. His work challenges the limits of the medium in order to create complex narratives traversing several terrains such as labour and indigenous rights, gender, religious fundamentalism and ecology. E ...

Romuald Karmakar Romuald Karmakar (born February 15, 1965) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of an Indian father of Bengali descent and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He has ...

, Andreas Ragnar Kassapis, Anton Kats, Bouchra Khalili, Daniel Knorr * L

Katalin Ladik Katalin Ladik (born Újvidék, 25 October 1942) is a Hungarian poet, performance artist and actress. She was born in Újvidék, Kingdom of Hungary (today Novi Sad, Serbia), and in the last 20 years she has lived and worked alternately in Novi ...

, David Lamelas, Rick Lowe,

Alvin Lucier Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American experimental composer and sound artist. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Ar ...

, Gym Lumbera * M Ibrahim Mahama, Narimane Mari, Hans Ragnar Mathisen/Keviselie Mata Aho Collective (with Bridget Reweti, Sarah Hudson,

Terri Te Tau Terri Te Tau is a New Zealand contemporary artist and writer. She is a member of the Mata Aho Collective. In 2017, the collective represented New Zealand at documenta, a quinquennial contemporary-art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany. This w ...

, Erena Baker),

Mattin Mattin is a musician from Bilbao working primarily with noise and improvisation. Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software, and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed ''Sakada'' with Eddie Prévost and Ro ...

with Dafni Krazoudi, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris and Eleni Zervou,

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 ...

, Angela Melitopoulos,

Phia Ménard Phia Ménard (born 11 February 1971) is a French juggler, performance artist, and director. Biography Phia Ménard came out as a transgender woman in 2008. Upset by the show ''Extraballe'' performed by Jérôme Thomas (juggler), Jérôme Thoma ...

Lala Meredith-Vula Lala Meredith-Vula (born 1966) is an English and Albanian artist and photographer. In 1988 she was included in the Damien Hirst-led Freeze (art exhibition), Freeze exhibition. Lala is a professor at De Montfort University, Leicester. Life and wor ...

, Gernot Minke,

Marta Minujín Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentines, Argentine conceptual art, conceptual and performance artist. Life and work Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her mother ...

Naeem Mohaiemen Naeem Mohaiemen (born 1969) uses film, photography, installation, and essays to research South Asia's postcolonial markers (the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971). His projects on the 1970s revolutionary ...

Danny Matthys Danny Matthys (born 1947 in Zottegem) is a Flemish - Belgian visual artist, which was originally known as conceptual artist of international reputation. In the beginning of his career in the 1960s, he was a pioneer in Polaroid art and Video ar ...

* N Joar Nango, Mari Narimane,

Otobong Nkanga Otobong Nkanga (born 1974) is a Nigerian-born visual artist, tapestry maker and performance artist, based in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2015, she won the Yanghyun Prize. In her work she explores the social and topographical changes of her environmen ...

, Kettly Noël, Hasan Nallbani, Rosalind Nashashibi and Nashashibi/Skaer,

Negros Tou Moria Negros (, , ) is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of . The coastal zone of the southern part of Negros is identified as a site of highest marine biodiversity importance in the Coral Tr ...

(Kevin Zans Ansong) * O

Emeka Ogboh Emeka Ogboh (born May 14, 1977) is a Nigerian sound and installation artist best known for his soundscapes of life in Lagos. Trained as an artist, he began working with sounds that characterize cities following an Egyptian multimedia art progr ...

Olu Oguibe Olu Oguibe (born 14 October 1964) is a Nigerian-born American artist and academic.. Retrieved 29 June 2006. Professor of Art and African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center ...

, Rainer Oldendorf,

Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...

Joaquín Orellana Mejía Joaquín or Joaquin is a male given name, the Spanish version of Joachim. Given name * Joaquín (footballer, born 1956) (Joaquín Alonso González), Spanish football midfielder * Joaquín (footballer, born 1981) (Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez), ...

* P Christos Papoulias,

Véréna Paravel Véréna Paravel (born 21 April 1971 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is a French anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Verena Paravel was born in 1971. She is an anthropologist, artist and filmmaker who work ...

and

Lucien Castaing-Taylor Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966, Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at Cambridge University and his PhD at t ...

Dan Peterman Dan Peterman is an internationally known artist who is recognized for his work with ecologically themed installation art. Additionally, he is employed as associate professor of art at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Work Peterman's work is an ...

, Angelo Plessas, Nathan Pohio, William Pope.L,

Postcommodity Postcommodity, a Southwest Native American Artist collective, was founded in 2007 by Kade L. Twist, Kade Twist and Steven Yazzie. Their name refers to the "commodity era" of Native American art trading in the late 1800s and 1900s, with the "post" ...

, Prinz Gholam * Q R. H. Quaytman * R

Oliver Ressler Oliver Ressler (born 1970 in Knittelfeld in Austria) is an artist who lives and works in Vienna. He produces theme-specific exhibitions, projects in the public space and videos on issues such as global capitalism, forms of resistance, social alter ...

, Pedro G. Romero, Ben Russell,

Abel Rodríguez Abel Rodríguez Ramírez (1 January 1971 – 15 October 2021) was a Cuban actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the tra ...

, Tracey Rose,

Roee Rosen Roee Rosen (; born 1963) is an Israelis, Israeli multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker. Biography Roee Rosen (born 1963 in Rehovot) studied philosophy and comparative literature studies in Tel Aviv University until 1984 and graduated ...

, Lala Rukh, Arin Rungjang * S Georgia Sagri, Sámi Artist Group (

Britta Marakatt-Labba Britta Margareta Marakatt-Labba (born 18 September 1951 in Idivuoma, Karesuando, Sweden) is a Swedish Sámi textile artist, painter, graphic artist, and a member of the Máze Group. Early life and education Marakatt-Labba is one of nine childre ...

, Keviselie/ Hans Ragnar Mathisen,

Synnøve Persen Synnøve Persen (born 22 February 1950) is a Norwegian Sámi artist, author, and activist who has played an influential role in bringing Sámi identity to contemporary art. She has been twice nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for ...

), Khvay Samnang,

Máret Ánne Sara Máret Ánne Sara (born 1983) is a Sámi- Norwegian artist and author. Her work explores political and ecological issues affecting the Sámi and Indigenous communities of northern Norway. Career Sara's art focuses on Sámi identity and liveli ...

, Ashley Hans Scheirl,

Marilou Schultz Marilou Schultz (born November 6, 1954) is a Navajo weaver, artist, and educator. She has exhibited her weavings nationally and internationally, including at the documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. Schultz is a math teacher as well as an artist, and ...

David Schutter,

Algirdas Šeškus Algirdas (; , ; – May 1377) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377. With the help of his brother Kęstutis (who defended the western border of the Duchy) he created an empire stretching from the present Baltic states to the Bla ...

Nilima Sheikh Nilima Sheikh (born 18 November 1945) is a visual artist based in Baroda, India. Since the mid-80s, Sheikh has done extensive research about traditional art forms in India, advocated for the sustainability of the practice of traditional painte ...

Ahlam Shibli Ahlam Shibli (, born 1970) is a Palestinian photographer, and was born in Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam, Israel. Her work explores themes of home and belonging and documents the life of Arabs in villages unrecognized by Israel in the Negev and northern ...

, Zef Shoshi, So Crates,

Mounira Al Solh Mounira Al Solh, also known as Mounira al-Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist. Life and education Mounira Al Solh was born to Lebanese parents. In 1989, during the Lebanese Civil War, her family left Beirut and emigrat ...

Annie Sprinkle Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Citing: Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, fe ...

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Beth Stephens Elizabeth M. "Beth" Stephens (born November 18, 1960) is an American filmmaker, artist, sculptor, photographer, professor and two time Chair of the Art Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz. Stephens, who describes he ...

, Eva Stefani,

K. G. Subramanyan Kalpathi Ganpathi "K.G." Subramanyan (5 February 1924 29 June 2016) was an Indian artist. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012. Life Subramanyan was born in Tamil Brahmin family on 5th February, 1924 in Kuthuparamba in Kerala, India ...

Vivian Suter Vivian Suter (born 1949) is an Argentine-Swiss painter. Early life Suter was born in Buenos Aires. Her mother, Elisabeth Wild, was a noted collage artist. At the age of 12, Suter moved to Basel, Switzerland with her family. Career In the 1970s ...

, El Hadji Sy * T Ariuntugs Tserenpil,

Terre Thaemlitz Terre Thaemlitz is an American musician, composer, owner of the record label Comatonse Recordings, and a public speaker. Thaemlitz's work critically combines themes of identity politics – including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnici ...

, Kidlat Tahimik * U

Piotr Uklański Piotr Uklański (born 1968) is a Polish-American contemporary artist, director and photographer who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliché, and tropes of modern art. Many of his pieces and projects ...

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Cecilia Vicuña Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) is a Chilean poet and artist based in New York and Santiago, Chile. Her work is noted for themes of language, memory, dissolution, extinction and exile. Critics also note the relevance of her work to the politics of e ...

, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), Antonio Vega Macotela * W Wang Bing, Lois Weinberger,

Elisabeth Wild Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist. Early life and education Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938. Wild studied painting at the Acade ...

Stanley Whitney Stanley Whitney (born 1946) is an American artist who primarily works in abstract painting and printmaking. Biography Stanley Whitney was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on November 11, 1946. The third of four children, his father was a real ...

, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt,

Ulrich Wüst Ulrich () is a Germanic given name derived from Old High German ''Uodalrich'', ''Odalric''. It is composed of the elements '' uodal-'' meaning "heritage" and ''-rih'' meaning "king, ruler". Attested from the 8th century as the name of Alamannic nobi ...

* X Zafos Xagoraris * Z Sergio Zevallos, Mary Zygouri, Artur Żmijewski

Deceased artists or defunct groups whose works were included

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Stephen Antonakos Stephen Antonakos (; November 1, 1926 in Agios Nikolaos, Laconia, Greece – August 17, 2013 in New York City) was a Greek-American sculptor most well known for his abstract sculptures often incorporating neon. Life and works Antonakos moved wit ...

(1926–2013),

Arseny Avraamov Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov () (1884, Novocherkassk, Russian Empire - 1944, Moscow, USSR) was an avant-garde Russian composer and music theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition less ...

(1886–1944) * B

Étienne Baudet Étienne Baudet, an eminent French engraving, engraver, was born at Vineuil, Loir-et-Cher, Vineuil, in the department of Loir-et-Cher, about 1636. He was a pupil of Sébastien Bourdon and Cornelis Bloemaert, and afterwards went to Rome, and appea ...

(c. 1638–1711),

Franz Boas Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the mov ...

(1858–1942),

Lorenza Böttner Lorenza Böttner (6 March 1959 – 13 January 1994) was a Chilean–German disabled transgender multidisciplinary visual artist. Born in Chile, she moved to Germany following the amputation of both of her arms as a child, where she studied an ...

(1959–1994),

Lucius Burckhardt Lucius Burckhardt (March 12, 1925 in Davos – August 26, 2003 in Basel) was a Swiss sociologist and economist. He was an important thinker in Architectural theory and Design theory Design theory is a subfield of design research concerned w ...

(1925–2003) &

Annemarie Burckhardt Annemarie (or Annamarie, Annmarie) is a Danish, Dutch and German feminine given name. It is a merging of the names Anne and Marie. Notable people named Annemarie * Annemarie Biechl (born 1949), German politician * Annemarie Bischofberger (born 1 ...

(1930–2012), Abdurrahim Buza (1905–1986) * C Vlassis Caniaris (1928–2011), Sotir Capo (1934–2012),

Cornelius Cardew Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental mu ...

(1936–1981),

Ulises Carrión Ulises Carrión (1941, San Andres Tuxtla, Mexico – 1989, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), considered as "perhaps Mexico’s most important conceptual artist",de la Torre, Monica. (2013 Winter)Ulises Carrión's The Poet's Tongue ''BOMB.'' Issue 12 ...

(1941–1989),

Agim Çavdarbasha Agim Çavdarbasha () (24 March 1944 – 20 October 1999) was a Kosovo Albanian sculptor. Çavdarbasha was a major influence on contemporary sculpture in Kosovo. Born in Peć, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (modern-day Peja, Kosovo), he gradu ...

(1944–1999),

Jani Christou Jani Christou (, ''Giánnīs Chrī́stou''; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer. Biography There is some disagreement about Christou's birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 January; while others stat ...

(1926–1970),

Chryssa Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture, known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acry ...

(1933–2013), Andre du Colombier (1952–2003) * D Bia Davou (1932–1996), Ioannis Despotopoulos (1903–1992),

Beau Dick Beau Dick (November 23, 1955 – March 27, 2017) was a Kwakwaka'wakw Northwest Coast artist and Chief who lived and worked in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. He was a contemporary artist, activist, and hereditary Chief from the Namgis Firs ...

(1955–2017), Thomas Dick (1877–1927) * E

Maria Ender Maria Vladimirovna Ender (1897, St. Petersburg - 1942, Leningrad) was a Russian artist and researcher. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ender came from a family with German roots. She was sister to also artists Ksenia Ender, Boris Ender, and Yuri ...

(1897–1942) * F

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad (; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic,* feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32. Ear ...

(1935–1967) * G Tomislav Gotovac (1937–2010) * H

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (; February 26, 1906 – September 3, 1994), also known as Nikos Ghika, was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, ...

(1906–1994), Oskar Hansen (1922–2005), Sedje Hemon (1923–2011) * K Tshibumba Kanda Matulu (1947–1981 disappeared), Kel Kodheli (1918–2006), Spiro Kristo (1936–2011), KSYME-CMRC (founded 1979) * L

Maria Lai Maria Lai (27 September 1919 – 16 April 2013) was an Italian artist from the island of Sardinia. Early life and education She was born in Ulassai, Nuoro, Sardinia, on 27 September 1919. She studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di V ...

(1919–2013), George Lappas (1950–2016) * M

Ernest Mancoba Ernest (Methuen) Mancoba (29 August 1904 – 25 October 2002) was an avant-garde artist, born in Transvaal Colony, who spent the majority of his life in Europe. He was probably South Africa's first professional Black modern artist, and exhibited fr ...

(1904–2002),

Oscar Masotta Oscar Abelardo Masotta (8 January 1930 – 13 September 1979) was an Argentine essayist, artist, teacher, semiotician, art critic, and psychoanalyst. He was associated with the Torcuato di Tella Institute. He translated Jacques Lacan's works int ...

(1930–1979), Pandi Mele (1939–2015),

Benode Behari Mukherjee Benode Behari Mukherjee (7 February 1904 – 11 November 1980) was an Indian artist from West Bengal state. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. He was one of the earliest artists in ...

(1904–1980) * N Krzysztof Niemczyk (1938–1994) * P Benjamin Patterson (1934–2016),

Ivan Peries Ivan Peries (31 July 1921 – 13 February 1988) was a founder member of the Colombo '43 Group of Sri Lankan artists, and became one of its leading painters. Born near Colombo, he spent more than half his life in self-imposed exile in London ...

(1921–1988), David Perlov (1930–2003), André Pierre (1915–2005), Dimitris Pikionis (1887–1968), * R

Anne Charlotte Robertson Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949–2012) was an American filmmaker who pioneered personal Documentary film, documentary-style filmmaking in the mid-1970s. Anne Charlotte Robertson was born on March 27, 1949, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was eleven sh ...

(1949–2012), Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) * S

Scratch Orchestra The Scratch Orchestra was an experimental musical ensemble founded in the spring of 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton. In the draft constitution published in the ''Musical Times'' of June 1969, Cardew defines a scra ...

(1969–1974),

Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (January 15, 1951 – August 10, 2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts. His work frequently focused on large economi ...

(1951–2013), Foto Stamo (1916–1989), Gani Strazimiri (1915–1993),

Władysław Strzemiński Władysław Strzemiński (Polish pronunciation: ; ; 21 November 1893 – 26 December 1952) was a Polish painter, art theoretician, pedagogue, and soldier. He is regarded as a pioneer of Constructivist avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s and the ...

(1893–1952),

Alina Szapocznikow Alina Szapocznikow (; May 16, 1926 – March 2, 1973) was a Polish artist and Holocaust survivor. Recognized as one of the most important Polish sculptors of the post-war era, Szapocznikow utilized diverse and experimental mediums to investigate an ...

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Yannis Tsarouchis Yannis Tsarouchis (; 13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males. Biogra ...

(1910–1989) * W Lionel Wendt (1900–1944),

Basil Wright Basil Charles Wright (12 June 1907 – 14 October 1987) was an English documentary filmmaker, film historian, film critic and teacher. Biography Basil Wright was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1907. After leaving Sherborne School, a well known i ...

(1907–1987), Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957) * X

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and enginee ...

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Androniqi Zengo Antoniu Androniqi Zengo Antoniu (26 May 1913 – 10 February 2000) was an Albanian painter. She is considered to be the first professional woman painter from Albania, along with her sister Sofia Zengo Papadhimitri, and with Vangjush Mijo is credited wi ...

(1913–2000),

Pierre Zucca Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1943–1995)

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Antye Greie Antye Greie, also known as AGF or Poemproducer, is a vocalist, musician, composer, producer, and new media artist. Life Greie was born and raised in East Germany. Her work involves speech combined with electronic music. She works on sound insta ...

-Ripatti),

Leo Asemota Leo Asemota (born 1967 in Edo State, Nigeria)Leo Asemota (20 October 2005"Leo Asemota: biography" ''TheGuardian.com''. is a contemporary artist living and working in London, England. Asemota employs photography, film and video, performance, sculpt ...

Gilles Aubry The Gilles are the oldest and principal participants in the Carnival of Binche in Belgium. They go out on Shrove Tuesday from 4 a.m. until late hours and dance to traditional songs. Other cities, such as Ressaix, Leval, Buvrinnes, Épinois, ...

* B Younes Baba-Ali, Serge Baghdassarians, Boris Baltschun, Rashad Becker, Gívan Belá,

Ylva Bentancor Ylva (She-wolf, female Wolf) is an old Swedish female given name. It is the female form of the masculine given name Ulf and is one of the earliest names to appear in documents.(soruce does not make such claim) The name has increased in popularit ...

Caroline Bergvall Caroline Bergvall (born 1962) is a French-Norwegian poet who has lived in England since 1989. Her work includes the adaption of Old English and Old Norse texts into audio text and sound art performances. Life and education Born in Hamburg, Germ ...

Nicholas Bussmann Nicholas Bussmann is a composer and performer. He founded the Love Song Competition, which takes place every year in Berlin. Nicholas Bussmann has collaborated with Toshimaru Nakamura ( Alles 3) and Martin Brandlmayr (Kapital band 1) amongst othe ...

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Maria Chavez Maria Chavez is an improviser, curator and sound artist born 1980 in Lima, Peru. Her family moved to Texas when she was two years old. The following year doctors found and released liquid in her ears alleviating what had been a serious impediment t ...

, Michele Ciacciofera, Jace Clayton,

Alvin Curran Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard ...

Charles Curtis Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. An enrolled member of the Kaw Natio ...

Alberto De Campo Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...

* D drog_A_tek (Paranormale, S.T.M.C, Elektroware, Voltnoi Brege & Quetempo) * E Theo Eshetu,

Tim Etchells Tim Etchells (born 1962) is an English artist and writer based in Sheffield and London. Etchells is the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, an experimental performance company founded in 1984. He has published several works of fiction, ...

* F Keir Fraser * G Dani Gal, Christian Galarreta, Sanchayan Ghosh * H Satch Hoyt, Mwangi Hutter * I Islands Songs (Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner) * K

Felix Kubin Felix Kubin (born Felix Knoth; 1969 in Hamburg), is an electronic musician, composer, curator, sound and radio artist. He runs the record label Gagarin Records. Life Kubin began his musical career at the age of eight with piano and electroni ...

* L Brandon LaBelle, Achim Lengerer * M Robert Millis, Mobile Radio ( Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington), Marco Montiel-Soto,

Nástio Mosquito Nástio Mosquito (born 1981) is an Angolan-born multidisciplinary artist. He works in music, sound, video art, performance art, installation art, and spoken word poetry. Mosquito's art deals with topics such as identity and faith, as well as raci ...

* N Olaf Nicolai * O

Ahmet Öğüt Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a Kurdish conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Istanbul. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing, painting and print ...

Aki Onda Aki or AKI may refer to: Places *Aki District, Hiroshima, a district in Hiroshima Prefecture *Aki, Kōchi, a city in Kochi Prefecture * Aki District, Kōchi, a district in Kochi Prefecture *Aki, Ōita, a town in Ōita Prefecture *Aki Province, a f ...

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* R Anna Raimondo, Marina Rosenfeld * S Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag, Soundwalk Collective (Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli & Kamran Sadeghi),

Natascha Sadr Haghighian Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country of origin, date of birth, and place of residence. Her work is primarily concerned with investiga ...

* T Nasan Tur * W Hong-Kai Wang, James Webb, Jan St. Werner * Y

Yan Jun Yan Jun ( 200s–240s), courtesy name Mancai, was an official of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Life Yan Jun was from Pengcheng (), which is present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu. He was known for being very studious ...

Samson Young Samson Young (born 1979) is a Hong Kong artist, working primarily in the mediums of sound performance and installations. Early life and education Samson Young was born in Hong Kong. He received both his BA degree in Music, Philosophy and Gende ...

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