Adem Yilmaz
Adem Yilmaz is born 1955 in Yerköy, Turkey. From 1974 to 1977 he studied chemistry in Turkey. Since 1977 the artist lives in Cologne. In 1983 he finished his studies of free painting at University of applied arts Cologne. He … Continued
A.R. Penck
A.R. Penck, alias of Ralf Winkler born 1939 in Dresden, Germany; he died in 2017. Penck is a neo-expressionist painter, sculptor, and jazz drummer A.R. Penck died 2017. Penck never formally studied art, but learned from the art masters. In … Continued
Dorothy Iannone
Dorothy Iannone, born 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a storyteller and self-taught artist based n Berlin. She has been making vibrantly subversive work for over five decades. She is known for her colorful, whimsical depictions of emotionally and themes of … Continued
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan, and died by suicide 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Mike Kelley’s oeuvre works against art’s hierarchical history as it expands its breadth. His conceptual work is dealing with psychology, philosophy, and … Continued
Francesco Clemente
Acting as a dark shaman of the post-modern era while reacting against the dominance of increasing abstraction in preceding generations, Clemente helped reinvigorate painting by using recognizable human figures as his primary subject. In idiosyncratic and arresting images, he uses … Continued
Tauba Auerbach
Tauba Auerbach, born 1981in San Francisco, is a visual artist working across many disciplines including painting, artists’ books, photography, and sculpture. Her work operates in the gap between conceptual art, abstraction and graphic art. She lives and works in New … Continued
Seung-Koo Lee
Seung-Koo Lee studied Free Sculpting at Seoul’s Chung-Ang University. Then he continued studying art in Kiel and Stuttgart,Germany, starting in 2003. There, he met his Chinese wife. The couple moved to her native Beijing five years later. His sculptures and … Continued
Valerio Adami
Valerio Adami, born in 1935 in Bologna, is an Italian painter and printmaker, renowned exponent of Pop Art and one of the few continental artists to receive critical acclaim in this genre of contemporary art. On recommendation of Oskar Kokoschka … Continued
Angelos (Panagiotou)
Angelos (Panagiotou) born 1943 in Farkadona,Trikala (middle Greece). He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of Athens with Georgios Mavroidis as his main teacher (1962-1967). He continued his education by making multiple trips to museums of Europe and … Continued
Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero was born 1932 in Medelín, in the department of Antioquia, Colombia. . Growing up he became a huge fan of bullfights, which is a popular sport in Colombia, stemming from Spanish settlers. From the age of 13, he … Continued