German, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1950.
Painter, lithographer, performance artist, photographer. Artists' books.
Fluxus.
Wolf Adam Bottinelli trained at the art academy in Kassel. He appears to have a very free idea of the act of creation, which has brought him close to the ...
French, 20th century, male.
Active also active in Germany.
Born 1926, in Sauve; died 2 December 1987, in Les Eyzies (Dordogne).
Installation artist, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus, Conceptual Art, Mail Art (forerunner).
The French artist Robert Filliou was closely associated with the Fluxus group, his career embracing French, German and American developments. Having moved to the USA in ...
Installation art is a hybrid of visual art practices including photography, film, video, digital imagery, sound, light, performance, happenings, sculpture, architecture, and painted and drawn surfaces. An installation is essentially site specific, three-dimensional, and completed by the interaction of the observer/participant in real time and space. The point of contention with any definition concerns the site specificity, ephemerality, and consequently ‘collectability’ of the work itself. One view has it that the category installation is presupposed on the transitory and impermanent, the second that an installation can be collected and re-exhibited as a conventional work of art.
In either case installation had its genesis in the environments and happenings devised by artists in the 1950s in New York and Europe (Nouveau Réalisme in France, Arte Povera in Italy). These in turn had antecedents in the architectural/sculptural inventions such as the various Proun rooms of El Lissitzky and the Merzbau of Kurt Schwitters...
Czechoslovak, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Plzen.
Painter, draughtsman, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus.
Between 1948 and 1956, Milan Knizak studied at the Mariánské Lázne school of music, at the academy of fine arts, and at the faculty of mathematics and physics in Prague. He taught at several American universities and art colleges in Germany and Austria. He was appointed rector of the academy of fine arts in Prague in ...
Lithuanian, 20th century, male.
Active and naturalised in the USA.
Born 1931, in Kaunas; died 9 April 1978, in New York.
Happenings artist, performance artist, photographer, mixed media. Artists' books.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus.
George Maciunas was initially an architect and designer, and he opened a gallery in New York....
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1947, in St-Étienne.
Performance artist, installation artist, video installation artist.
Fluxus, Body Art, Electronic Arts.
Orlan was a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon from 1984 to 1998 and began teaching at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Cergy in ...
Korean, 20th century, male.
Active in Germany and the USA.
Born 20 June 1932, in Seoul; died 29 January 2006, in Miami.
Installation artist, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus, Cyber Art.
Paik Nam June’s family fled to Hong Kong, and later to Japan at the onslaught of the Korean War. He studied the history of art and music in Tokyo and continued his musical studies at Munich University and Freiburg Conservatory. During his studies, he was introduced to electronic music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and became friends with John Cage. In ...
Japanese, 20th century, female.
Born 1929, in Sabae-Shi.
Draughtswoman, collage artist, photomontage artist, performance artist. Artists’ books.
Fluxus.
After studying in Japan, Takako Saito went to the USA in 1963 where she made the acquaintance of George Maciunas and completed her education at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. In ...
(b Kastoria, Greece, Sept 14, 1936).
American painter, sculptor and photographer of Greek birth. He immigrated to West New York, NJ, in 1948 and graduated from Rutgers University in 1959. He participated in the earliest Happenings, and he studied art history with Meyer Schapiro and acting at the Stella Adler Studio Theater. In 1960 he created the first of his well-known boxes, for example Box No. 3, 1962–1963 (New York, Whitney). His choice of media ranged from the sensuous to the menacing, and he preferred opulent textures and colours. Tacks, pins and shards of glass encrusted such early works as Book #4 (Dante’s Inferno) (1962; New York, MOMA). Always self-referential, he first secreted a photograph of himself in early boxes and constructions. On moving to New York in 1964 he created another unconventional self-portrait: a gallery installation, Room, inspired by his claustrophobic New Jersey bedroom.
From 1969 Samaras began to produce photographs using his body as subject and metaphor in a series entitled ...
(b Groningen, July 1, 1942).
Dutch conceptual artist, film maker and television actor. He started to experiment with different coloured smoke in 1957. From the 1960s he was active as a Fluxus composer. In 1961 with Ger van Elk and the photographer Bob Wesdorp he founded the Adynamische Groep, which primarily reacted against post-war Expressionism. In 1962 he was given an exhibition at the Fodor Museum, Amsterdam, for which he covered the floor of a room with a 100 mm layer of salt and another with a few tonnes of broken glass. In pursuit of performance art, in 1963 he instigated a happening: he emptied a bottle of lemonade in the sea outside Petten, an action broadcast by Dutch television. In the same year he made a television programme about contemporary art (e.g. Fluxus, Pop art, Zero). Also in 1963 the fire brigade banned the performance of his Economic Concert (1958), which consisted of one single explosion on stage. Two years later he displayed a 5 m high purple chair in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam and organized an exhibition called ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 9 November 1945, in Providence (Rhode Island); died 14 September 2001, in San Francisco.
Sculptor, performance artist, installation artist, video artist, film maker.
Fluxus, Conceptual Art.
Stuart Sherman wrote poems and worked as an actor in the Fluxus group of avant-garde theatre companies in the USA in the 1960s. He was a friend and also later a companion of the writer Carson McCullers. His artistic activity began about ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active from 1955 also active in France and in Spain.
Born 14 October 1932, in Leverkusen; died 3 April 1998, in Berlin.
Painter (mixed media), draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, sculptor of assemblages, performance artist, installation artist, video artist.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus, Affichisme.
Labor Group...
