Sophie Calle’s work from the 1990s often stages works of art missing from museums for various reasons. Her 1991 Last Seen… series, for instance, referenced the theft of works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum…

In his final years, René Auberjonois rose to international fame at the 1948 Venice Biennale and the 1955 Kassel Documenta. His unwavering commitment to figurative art and his strict formalism made him one of the…

A woman is bending over, reaching for something we cannot see, while a dog watches her from a slight distance. The two protagonists seem to be sharing a moment that is hard to situate time-wise,…

Although often associated with the post-minimalist tendency, Richard Tuttle is in fact one of the most disconcerting and hard to pin-down American artists of the last fifty years. He ‘tinkers’ with poor materials such as…

In the 1960s, Günter Brus, a recent Fine Art graduate, joined the Viennese Actionist school, one of the most radical, protest-driven art movements of the latter half of the twentieth century. Like his fellow artists…

Arnulf Rainer created the first of his Übermalungen (overpaintings) in 1952, covering reproductions of art works with paint; to the point of making them in part unrecognisable. He painted over his own canvases and attacked…

Michio Yoshihara was the son of Jirō Yoshihara, the art theorist behind the group Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai (Association for Concrete Art) (1954-1972), which he founded shortly after the Second World War in Ashiya. The group…

Yoshishige Saito, like his contemporary Jirō Yoshihara, played a pivotal role in developing abstract art in Japan. He began painting as a teen, discovering an interest in Western avant-garde movements such as Futurism, Dadaism, and…

Since the 1970s, Pierre Schwerzmann has been exploring the condition of painting as a space of perception rather than as a cultural object. At times his work has focused on the painting’s stretcher, at others…

Dieter Roth made art using whatever came to hand. He enjoyed using materials such as foodstuffs, including chocolate, banana, salami and cheese, that not only produced interesting aesthetic effects like rings of grease, but also…