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Yves Klein
1928–1962
French
Inventor of 'Klein Blue' (IKB) and Anthropometries: women coated in paint used as living brushes.…
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Artists, movements and creators who inspire OuViePo constraints.
Steve Reich
né en 1936
American
Father of repetitive minimalist music. His phasing technique, two identical loops gradually shifting out of…
Raymond Queneau
1903-1976
French
Writer, poet and co-founder of the OuLiPo. Author of Zazie dans le Métro and Exercices…
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renopointcom
1978-
French
Roman Opalka
1931–2011
Franco-Polish
From 1965 until his death, he painted numbers from 1 to infinity on increasingly white…
Ryan Trecartin
né en 1981
American
His hyperactive videos capture internet aesthetics: overacting, epileptic editing, liquid identities, memes before memes existed.…
Saul Williams
né en 1972
American
Poet, musician and actor whose spoken word is social sculpture. Coded Language fuses hip-hop, political…
Shepard Fairey
1970 -
American
Street artist, graphic designer and activist. Founder of OBEY Giant, he transformed street art into…
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Sol LeWitt
1928–2007
American
Father of conceptual art and instructions as artworks. His Wall Drawings exist only as written…
Sophie Calle
née en 1953
French
Conceptual artist whose practice rests on self-imposed rituals, surveillance and disclosure of intimacy. Her work…
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Surréalisme (mouvement)
fondé en 1924
International (France, Belgium, Spain, Germany...)
Artistic and literary movement founded by André Breton around the Surrealist Manifesto (1924). Surrealism explores…
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Ted Lawson
né en 1975
American
Ghost In The Machine: a robotic arm draws its self-portrait with its own blood. The…
Tehching Hsieh
né en 1950
Taiwanese-American
His 'One Year Performances' (1978-1986) are conceptual marathons: one year locked in a cage, one…
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Tracey Emin
née en 1963
British
YBA (Young British Artist) whose autobiographical work explores trauma, sexuality and vulnerability. Her handwritten neons…
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Valéry Grancher
né en 1967
French
Pioneer of French net art since 1995. His Google Paintings freeze the ephemeral nature of…
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Vito Acconci
1940–2017
American
Pioneer of corporeal performance and conceptual art. Following Piece (1969): follow strangers in the street…
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William Kentridge
né en 1955
South African
His animated films are created through progressive erasure of charcoal on paper; the traces of…
Yoko Ono
née en 1933
Japanese-American
Fluxus artist whose Instruction Paintings (Grapefruit, 1964) are artworks in the form of poetic instructions.…
Piotr Pavlenski
né en 1984
Russian (exiled in France)
His 'Art Subject-Object' uses the body as a political weapon against power. Sewn lips, scrotum…
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Philippe Ramette
né en 1961
French
Sculptor who fabricates frames to photograph himself in physically impossible positions, without any digital tricks.…
Piero Manzoni
1933–1963
Italian
Radical conceptual artist who died at 29. Merda d'Artista: 90 tins sold at the price…
Pierre Schaeffer
1910-1995
French
Composer, engineer and theorist. Inventor of concrete music and founder of the GRM.
Pierre Huyghe
né en 1962
French
Creates ecosystems: spaces where animals, plants, humans and AI coexist by autonomous rules. Untitled (Human…
Philippe Katerine
né en 1968
French
Singer-songwriter, actor and visual artist, founder of 'mignionism'. Preserved approximately 200 excreta in dated Tupperware.…
OuLiPo (mouvement)
fondé en 1960
International
Workshop of Potential Literature. Literary research group founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais,…
ORLAN
née en 1947
French
Pioneer of carnal art, she uses cosmetic surgery as performance. Her body is a modified…
On Kawara
1932–2014
Japanese
Conceptual artist whose practice is entirely based on time. Every day since 1966, he painted…
Olivier de Sagazan
né en 1959
French
Biologist turned artist, he covers his face with clay during transfiguration performances that explore the…
Nan Goldin
née en 1953
American
Photographer whose work is a visual intimate journal of her community: drugs, sex, violence, love.…
JR
né en 1983
French
Activist artist who pastes giant portraits in public space. His Inside Out Project invites anyone…
Laurie Anderson
née en 1947
American
Pioneering multimedia artist mixing electronic music, performance, and narrative. O Superman (1981) becomes an unexpected…
Luc Ferrari
1929-2005
French
Contemporary and electroacoustic music composer. Pioneer of anecdotic concrete music.
Man Ray
1890-1976
American
Dadaist and surrealist artist, photographer and filmmaker. Inventor of the rayogram.
Marcel Duchamp
1887–1968
Franco-American
Inventor of the ready-made and father of conceptual art. He elevated the ordinary object to…
Marina Abramović
née en 1946
Serbian
Pioneer of performance art, she explores the limits of body and endurance. The Artist Is…
Merzbow
né en 1956
Japanese
Masami Akita is the master of Japanese noise. His works are walls of total industrial…
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Miltos Manetas
né en 1964
Greek (lives in Bogotá)
Co-founder of the Neen movement, he paints cables, controllers, and screens to make the digital…
Miss.Tic
1956–2022
French
Pioneer of feminist stencil art in Paris since 1985. She combines the silhouette of a…
Joseph Beuys
1921–1986
German
Central figure of Fluxus and father of the concept of 'social sculpture'. For him, every…
Jonas Mekas
1922–2019
Lithuanian-American
'Filmmaker' rather than cinematographer, he documented his daily life from the 1950s onward. In 2007,…
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
né en 1942
French
Pioneer of urban art in France since 1966. His monumental stencil portraits installed on city…
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David Hammons
né en 1943
American
Conceptual artist whose work addresses race, poverty and the art market. His snowball sales in…
Erwin Wurm
né en 1954
Austrian
Sculptor of absurd everyday life. One Minute Sculptures: passersby become temporary sculptures by holding ridiculous…
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Félix González-Torres
1957–1996
Cuban/American
Minimalist and conceptual artist. His installations, often composed of candy or light bulbs, address love,…
Fluxus (collectif)
fondé en 1960
International
Anti-movement of the avant-garde born in the 1960s around George Maciunas. Performance, event scores and…
George Brecht
1926-2008
American
Fluxus artist, inventor of the event score. His minimal instructions (Water Yam, 1963) are scores…
Georges Perec
1936-1982
French
OuLiPo writer whose formal constraints structure existence itself. La Disparition (300 pages without the letter…
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Insane51
né en 1992
Greek
Inventor of the 'Double Exposure 3D' technique: wall murals in red/cyan reveal two different images…
Invader
né en 1969
French (anonymous)
Anonymous artist who 'invades' cities worldwide with mosaics inspired by Space Invaders. Over 80 cities.…
Jeremy Deller
né en 1966
British
Turner Prize 2004. The Battle of Orgreave (2001): full-scale reenactment of a 1984 battle between…
John Baldessari
1931–2020
American
Father of California conceptualism. The Cremation Project (1970): burns all his paintings and bakes the…
John Cage
1912–1992
American
Experimental composer whose 4'33" (1952), a piece in total silence, redefined what music is. Founder…
Guy Debord
1931-1994
French
Writer, filmmaker and theorist. Founder of the Situationist International, author of The Society of the…
Brian Eno
né en 1948
British
Musician, producer and theorist. Inventor of 'ambient music' and oblique strategies (Oblique Strategies, a card…
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Bob Flanagan
1952–1996
American
Performance artist who turned his cystic fibrosis into art material. His BDSM practice, documented by…
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C215
né en 1973
French
Stencil artist known for his hyper-realistic portraits on the walls of Paris and cities worldwide.…
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Chris Burden
1946–2015
American
Performance artist who pushed his body to extreme limits. Shoot (1971): had a friend shoot…
Vhils
né en 1987
International
Anti-movement of the avant-garde born in the 1960s around George Maciunas. Performance, event scores and…
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Banksy
né vers 1974
British (anonymous)
Anonymous street artist whose subversive stencils comment on capitalism, war and celebrity. In 2018, one…
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Bas Jan Ader
1942–1975 (disparu)
Dutch
His brief work revolves around falling and disappearance as poetic acts. In 1975, he crossed…
Ben Vautier
né en 1935
French (born in Italy)
Fluxus artist from Nice whose 'art of attitude' asserts that any act (sleeping, spitting, singing)…
Blek le Rat
né en 1951
French
'Father of the stencil', he has been pasting rats on the walls of Paris since…
Ryoji Ikeda
né en 1966
British
Musician, producer and theorist. Inventor of 'ambient music' and oblique strategies (Oblique Strategies, a card…
Christian Boltanski
1944–2021
American
Genius of silent film comedy whose body was the primary tool. Impossible stunts, impassive marble…
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Ztohoven
actif depuis 2003
American
Photographer and her own sole model. Untitled Film Stills, 69 self-portraits re-enacting Hollywood clichés from…
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Paul McCarthy
né en 1945
French
Artist and resister, pioneer of queer art and identity performance. Her androgynous self-portraits, created as…
Matthew Barney
né en 1967
Swiss/Romanian
Founder of Tableaux-pièges: meal remnants glued to a table, turned over and hung on a…
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Tino Sehgal
né en 1976
Swiss / German
Multidisciplinary artist, Fluxus figure. Known for works in perishable materials and artist books.
Evan Roth
né en 1978
Austrian
Sculptor of absurd everyday life. One Minute Sculptures: passersby become temporary sculptures by holding ridiculous…
Kara Walker
née en 1969
Spanish
Performer and sound artist, member of the ZAJ group with Juan Hidalgo. Her performances use…
Dieter Roth
1930-1998
Cuban/American
Minimalist and conceptual artist. His installations, often composed of candy or light bulbs, address love,…
Annette Messager
née en 1943
French
Lion d'Or at Venice 2005. Her installations mingle stuffed animals, fragmented bodies, photographs and texts…
Andy Warhol
1928–1987
American
Central figure of Pop Art, the Factory as collective model, Time Capsules as obsessive accumulation.…
Alphonse Mucha
1860–1939
Czech/French
Father of Art Nouveau. His posters for Sarah Bernhardt defined the aesthetics of an era.…
Allan Kaprow
1927-2006
American
Plastic artist, major figure of happening and Fluxus. Pioneer of environmental art and assemblage.
Ai Weiwei
né en 1957
Chinese (exiled)
Dissident artist, detained for 81 days in 2011. Sunflower Seeds (100 million porcelain seeds), Remembering…
Agnès Varda
1928–2019
Franco-Belgian
Filmmaker of the French New Wave turned plastic artist. Her installations (Les Veuves de Noirmoutier,…