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The main theme of Shirin Neshat’s works is the status of women in Islamic culture. She was born in Iran in 1957, but went to America to study in the 1970s. For a long time, she was unable to return h...
Michal Rovner is an Israeli video, photo and cinema artist. She was born in Tel Aviv in 1957 and moved to New York in 1987. Michal Rovner is interested not in the fates of individuals, but in the str...
Gary Hill was born in Santa Monica in California in 1951. He moved to New York in the 1970s and began to work in video art. The artist currently lives and works in Seattle. Gary developed the concept...
Marina Abramovi? was born in Belgrade in Yugoslavia in 1946. A pioneer of the performance genre, she was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her Balkan Baroque performance in 1997. Mar...
Bill Viola was born in the borough of Queens in New York in 1951. One of the world’s most famous video artists, his works are exhibited in such leading museums as the National Gallery in London and t...
Gor Chahal is an Orthodox Christian. While he is not the only one among Russian artists, for many this aspect is merely part of their lives, not influencing their professional activities. For Chahal,...
Peter Fischli and David Weiss are two Swiss artists who collaborated from 1979 until Weiss’s death in 2012. They have worked in diverse media – photography, installations and video. All of their crea...
Dmitry Gutov was born in Moscow in 1960. He graduated from the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Academy of Arts) in St Petersburg in 1992. Gutov is interested in the lite...
Sculptor. Born in the family of Alexei Petrovichev in the town of Kohtla-Järve in Estonia (1953). Studied at the Vladimir Serov School of Art in Leningrad (1974–78). Lives and works in St Petersburg....
Photographer. Born in the family of Alexander Yesipovich in Leningrad (1963). Studied culturology and art expertise at the University of Culture and Arts in St Petersburg and photography under Debora...