Artists Page 2 - Hatje Cantz

LAWRENCE WEINER

The American artist has significantly expanded the concept of sculpture with his work. His artistic material is language.

NALINI MALANI

Nalini Malani is a master of visual narration: she raises her voice against religious fundamentalism and destructive delusions of progress with video installations, sculptural spatial stagings and shadow plays.

JACQUELINE HASSINK

What do the centers of economic power look like in the post-industrial age? Conceptual artist Jacqueline Hassink explores questions like these. The explorative photographer maps spaces and objects of the global economies so that a topography of economic power becomes visible in artistic aesthetics.

GREGORY CREWDSON

Since the mid-1980s, Gregory Crewdson has been developing photo series of beguiling beauty and fundamental irritation and disturbance. Inexplicable secrets lurk beneath the surface of his complex visual worlds.

KERSTIN DRECHSEL

Kerstin Drechsel's works fascinate and irritate. She shows spaces and scenes of great intimacy, in which a fundamental examination and questioning of norms and boundaries is embedded.

ALEXANDER RODIN

Alexander Rodin's paintings demand patience and imagination from the viewer. He covers his large-scale oil paintings with countless hidden details that come together to form complex, disturbing stories with multiple levels of interpretation.

GORAN DJUROVIC

The mostly small-format paintings by Belgrade-born artist Goran Djurovic are often enigmatically ironically broken and whimsically pointed. With almost psychoanalytical persistence, they revolve around self-deception, social maladjustment, and character deformation.

HERBERT BRANDL

Herbert Brandl is considered an important innovator of painting. Every brushstroke is a gesture that makes the painting process itself the subject. Even when he creates what appears to be representational, he dissolves the familiar world into clouds and splashes of color.

MONIKA GRZYMALA

Monika Grzymala's exploration of drawing and line follows a long art-philosophical tradition, but in her works of recent years she has impressively taken the line out of two-dimensionality.

GUSTAV KLIMT

In the field of tension between decadence and avant-garde, Gustav Klimt held up a transfiguring mirror to society and at the same time, as a member of the Secession, championed the breakthrough of modernism.

RICHARD SERRA

With his provocative and innovative works, Richard Serra is one of the most outstanding sculptors of our time. His large-scale sculptures have revolutionized contemporary sculpture.

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI

Brancusi is one of the most important sculptors of Classical Modernism. He took up themes from antiquity and elements of African and Romanian folk art and developed them further in long series of works through consistent abstraction.

GERHARD RICHTER

Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of our time. His fascinating oeuvre oscillates between chance and calculation and is characterized by a unique originality and quality in which abstraction and figuration merge.

JÖRN VANHÖFEN

People appear only sporadically in the quiet images of photographer Jörn Vanhöfen, at least at first glance - but his landscapes are places of human omnipresence in times of globalization.

CARSTEN HÖLLER

It is almost impossible to escape the works of German artist and biologist Carsten Höller - his art invites interaction and self-experimentation. The phenomenon of human sensory perception and the construction of one's own self makes up the special character of his works.

PETER BIALOBRZESKI

Peter Bialobrzeski explores predominantly urban spaces and structures, moving between two poles - between critical documentary and aesthetic beauty, between frightening growth and a glitter and glow.

CHRISTIAN VON STEFFELIN

The massive changes in Berlin's urban space after the fall of the Berlin Wall fascinate Christian von Steffelin. Since 1993, the photographer has documented the various stages of this development. But von Steffelin's images are more than a sober inventory of the architectural changes.

NADAV KANDER

Nadav Kander, who grew up in Johannesburg, discovered his passion for photography at the age of 13. With his portraits of well-known personalities from politics, sports and pop culture, he is now one of the most recognized and successful representatives of his guild.

JUST LOOMIS

Just Loomis began his career as an assistant to Helmut Newton. Successful as a fashion photographer in Milan and New York, Loomis' free works give an honest insight into everyday American life.

MARIKO MORI

The art world of Japanese multi-media artist Mariko Mori is a mix of art, technology, performance, music, architecture, nature and spirituality. Not infrequently, she herself is part of her artificial landscapes and sculptures, in which universal themes collide with cyber-pop.

DAVID LYNCH

David Lynch is the cult director of bizarre, often disturbing films. But the ingenious filmmaker has another passion besides cinema, which he says has "influenced him more than cinema" - art.

KARIN KNEFFEL

The suggestive pull emanating from Karin Kneffel's hyper-realistic mode of representation is followed by an unmistakable call to distrust the character of the image. It is the extreme details, the meticulous attention to detail, that reveal Kneffel's conceptuality at second glance.

NEDKO SOLAKOV

Nedko Solakov is the man of letters among artists. Born in Bulgaria in 1957, the artist plays virtuously with the possibilities of using language in art.

MICHAËL BORREMANS

Belgian Michaël Borremans is hailed as the new star of young figurative painting. Originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, he has made an international name for himself with his somber drawings and enigmatic paintings.