The collection XXVII — East of 4°24'
Actors (26)
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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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Oleg Kulik
The work of Ukrainian artist Oleg Kulik may be said to revolve centrally around the topic of ‘transparency’: according to Kulik, art must be
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Sergey Maslov
Sergey Maslov is known as “the mythmaker” of contemporary art in Kazakhstan. Maslov was born into the nomenklatura, the privileged and politi
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Vahram Aghasyan
Armenian artist Vahram Aghasyan focuses on cultural and historical processes taking place in his homeland. With photos, videos and installati
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Gulnara Kasmalieva & Mura...
The artists, curators and educators Gulnara Kasmalieva (°1960, Bishkek) and Muratbek Djumaliev (°1965, Bishkek) research in their work the ef
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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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Koka Ramishvili
Koka (Akaki) Ramishvili (°1956) lives and works in Geneva. He is one of the many Georgian artists whose work has been strongly influenced by
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Hamlet Hovsepian
Hamlet Hovsepian is one of the most significant figures of the Armenian contemporary art scene and a pioneer in video art in the Caucasian ar
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Babi Badalov
Babi Badalov (°1959) was born in the Azerbaijan city of Lerik. After completing his studies at the Art Academy, he moves to Leningrad, today'
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Vyacheslav Akhunov
The oeuvre of artist, writer and philosopher Vyacheslav Akhunov comprises abstract paintings, installation, performance and video art, as wel
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Rustam Khalfin
Rustam Khalfin (1949 - 2008) is considered a pioneer of Kazakhstan’s contemporary art scene. After graduating from the Moscow Architecture In
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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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Khaled Hafez
Khaled Hafez was born and raised in the metropolis Cairo. There he lived through Egypt’s shift from closed socialism to capitalism, with all
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Boran Hansda
Boran Hansda (Handsa) belongs to the Santhal community and lives in a village near Santiniketan where he received his artistic training. He m
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Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor...
Yelena Vorobyeva (°1959, Nebit-Dag, Turkmenistan) and Viktor Vorobyev (°1959, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan) have been working together as artists, wr
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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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Hiwa K
Hiwa K (°1975) was born in Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan, and has been living as a political refugee in Berlin since 2002. His artistic wor
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Amal Kenawy
Amal Kenawy’s divergent oeuvre includes videos, performances, installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and drawings. Together with h
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Liang Yue
Liang Yue is a video artist and photographer. She grew up under Deng Xiaoping’s relatively stable (and prosperous) China in the ‘80s and ‘90s
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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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C K Rajan
C K Rajan is a member of the Radical Group in the 1980s, a group that takes form at the University of Baroda, from where it fights both the s
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Xu Zhen
Xu Zhen is considered to be one of the most radical Chinese conceptual artists. In 2005 he participated in the Venice biennial and in 2007 in
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Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong [°1971, Beijing] is one of the most important contemporary Chinese artists. At the end of the 1990s, after training as a painter,
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Yang Zhenzhong
Yang Zhenzhong (°1968) began studying textile and painting in 1995 with photography and video. One of his first mature works was Lucky Family
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Anish Kapoor
'I don’t wish to make a sculpture about form… I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience, that is outside of m
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Kerala Radicals
The Kerala Radicals [which at different times included artists Anita Dube, C.K. Rajan, K.R. Karunakaran, Alex Mathew, Reghunadhan K., Jyothi