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24.02.1977–?

Sebastián Marroquín

Sebastián Marroquín, born in Medellín as Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, trained as an architect and works in Buenos Aires. He is the author of the book “Pablo Escobar: My Father” (2014), the subject of the documentary “Sins of My Father”, and a participant in public discussions of the consequences of the drug trade, including with the families of victims.

1980–present

Haris Epaminonda

Haris Epaminonda was born in Nicosia in 1980, studied in London and now lives and works in Berlin. She builds collages, films and spatial installations from found photographs, book pages and objects, and calls many of her works simply “Volume” with a number. In 2007 she represented Cyprus at the Venice Biennale together with Mustafa Hulusi, and in 2019 she won the Silver Lion there.

29.04.1904–14.05.1993

Karin Luts

Karin Luts (1904–1993) studied in Tartu under Konrad Mägi and Ado Vabbe, spent a year in Paris with André Lhote, and worked in Tallinn as a painter, printmaker, illustrator and theatre designer. Her design for a woven wall hanging in the Estonian pavilion at the 1937 World’s Fair won a gold medal. From 1944 she lived in Sweden, where in her mature years she turned to graphic art.

29.10.1957–?

Tiiu Kirsipuu

Tiiu Kirsipuu made the Tartu bench on which bronze figures of Oscar Wilde and Eduard Vilde sit side by side; a copy of the sculpture stands in Galway, Ireland. Her works range in scale from Bank of Estonia coins to the six-metre metal sculpture “Tallinn–Chengdu”. She graduated in 1983, taught, and now works in Tallinn.

20.02.1872–31.10.1942

Elisar von Kupffer

Elisar von Kupffer, who wrote under the name Elisarion, published an anthology of male friendship and same-sex love in world literature in 1900 and then founded the religion of Clarism. For it he built a sanctuary at Minusio, on the Swiss shore of Lake Maggiore, and painted a circular panorama, “The Clear World of the Blessed”, with dozens of nude figures. The panorama is still exhibited on Monte Verità.

20.05.1893–09.12.1982

Ásmundur Sveinsson

Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893–1982) grew up on a farm in western Iceland and studied in Copenhagen, in Stockholm under Carl Milles, and in Paris under Charles Despiau. After returning in 1929 he modelled blacksmiths, washerwomen and water carriers, then moved to almost complete abstraction. He made the gavel of the UN General Assembly; his house in Reykjavík is now a museum.

27.02.1913–25.07.1974

Whanki Kim

At twenty Whanki Kim secretly left for Tokyo to study painting, and in 1935 he won an award at a Tokyo exhibition with the first work he showed there. He lived in Seoul, Busan, Paris and New York, and moved from geometric compositions to canvases covered entirely with small dots. His “Rondo” (1938) is on the register of Korean cultural property.

31.05.1989–19.11.2009

Daul Kim

Daul Kim grew up in Malaysia and Singapore, was spotted by a Singaporean agency at thirteen, and made her runway debut at Paris Fashion Week in 2007. She worked with Chanel, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood, painted, made a short film and kept a blog. In 2008 the Japanese magazine An An named her Model of the Year.

18.07.1979–?

Lee Jai-jin

Lee Jai-jin from Busan got into the group Sechs Kies through a dance crew he formed with a friend in his school years. In the group he is the sub-rapper and one of the main dancers, and with Kim Jae-duck he choreographed most of the music videos. After the group broke up he released three solo albums, then studied in Japan and showed drawings in group exhibitions under the pseudonym Hanzo.

24.07.1949–?

Stasys Eidrigevičius

Stasys Eidrigevičius was born in a Lithuanian village, studied in Kaunas and Vilnius, and has lived in Warsaw since 1980. He illustrated about forty books, mostly for children, and made posters, bookplates, stage designs and performances. In 2024 a museum showing his work opened in Panevėžys.

19.10.1876–09.08.1966

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (1876–1966) painted mostly Lithuanian landscapes, but he is remembered for more than that: he sat on the commission that drafted the flag of Lithuania, assembled a collection of folk art, and collected devils, which grew into a museum of their own in Kaunas. He studied in Warsaw, Paris and Munich, taught for over forty years and left about two thousand works.

21.12.1956–?

Bady Minck

Bady Minck was born in Ettelbruck, studied sculpture and experimental film in Vienna, and went on working between Vienna and Luxembourg. Her short films have been shown since 1989 in Cannes, Rotterdam, Locarno and Berlin, and in 2007 her film “Free Radicals” screened at the Venice Biennale. As a producer she has worked with Jessica Hausner and Dieter Berner.

07.08.1964–?

Signe Baumane

Signe Baumane, born in Auce, grew up in Tukums and on Sakhalin Island, graduated in philosophy from Moscow University and came to animation in 1989. She has lived in New York since 1995. Latvia submitted her feature “Rocks in My Pockets” (2014), about depression haunting three generations of women in her family, for the Oscars; her second feature, “My Love Affair with Marriage”, appeared in 2022.

29.12.1926–03.12.1995

Lautaro Murúa

Lautaro Murúa (1926–1995) was born in Tacna, studied fine arts in Santiago and made his name in Argentina. He appeared in more than sixty films and directed “Shunko”, “Alias Gardelito” and “La Raulito”. After the coup of 1976 he lived in Spain; he died in Madrid in 1995.

07.04.1871–18.04.1928

Epifanio de los Santos

Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) wrote in Spanish, edited revolutionary newspapers, sat in the Malolos Congress, served as governor of Nueva Ecija province and from 1925 headed the Philippine Library and Museum. He gathered nearly two hundred paintings and sculptures and rare documents on the history of his country; after his death the state bought the collection. The main highway of Metro Manila bears his name.

11.08.1944–?

Marko Pogačnik

Marko Pogačnik (born 1944) produced a school paper in Kranj with his friends as a teenager, and the OHO group grew out of that circle. Since 1971 he has lived in Šempas in the Vipava Valley, where he built a network of landscape sculptures and developed “lithopuncture”. He designed Slovenia’s coat of arms in 1991 and has received the Prešeren Fund Award and the Jakopič Award.

17.07.1930–02.01.2015

Arpád Račko

Arpád Račko (1930–2015) was born in Szolnok, Hungary, studied under Jan Lauda at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and worked in Košice for his entire adult life. His best-known piece, “The Marathoner”, appeared in 1959, three years after he finished his studies. He made portraits, reliefs, memorial plaques and sculpture for architecture; in 1988 he was named a National Artist of Czechoslovakia.

24.01.1950–?

Judy Ongg

At nine Judy Ongg joined a children's theatre company in Tokyo, made her film debut in 1961, and in 1979 her song “Miserarete” sold about two million copies and won the main prize of the year in Japan. Alongside this she acted in Taiwan, where she won a Golden Horse award, and from 1975 she made woodblock prints.

05.02.1972–02.2025

Viktor Antonov

Viktor Antonov grew up in Sofia in the 1970s and 1980s and later carried its concrete districts into City 17, the city of Half-Life 2, where he was art director. He then designed Dunwall for Dishonored, worked on the films Renaissance and The Prodigies, published the graphic novel The Colony and consulted for Bethesda studios. He died in Paris in February 2025.

17.03.1886–18.01.1974

Oskar Herman

Oskar Herman studied under Anton Ažbe and at the Munich Academy, then, with a break for the war, lived and exhibited in Munich for many years. In 1933 he returned to Zagreb; during the war he was a Partisan and an internee in a camp in Calabria, and after the war he worked as a curator at the Modern Gallery. He is counted among the four artists of the Munich Circle, but recognition came late.

18.07.1904–24.12.1992

Stella Skopal

Stella Skopal studied under Hinko Juhn in Zagreb and in 1927 made a 165 cm ceramic pair of musicians for the Medulić café, then spent twelve years modelling fireplaces and stoves for Zagreb apartments. In 1938 she became the first in Croatia to make ceramic jewellery, and later designed ceramic bottles for liqueurs. From 1945 to 1965 she taught at the School of Applied Arts.

05.06.1915–18.12.1992

Vojin Bakić

Vojin Bakić (1915–1992) began with female nudes in stone and by the end of the 1950s had arrived at open forms and polished stainless steel. His “Bull” stood beside the Yugoslav pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. Memorials at Kamenska, Dotršćina, Petrova Gora and Kragujevac made his name; in the 1990s part of his work in Croatia was destroyed.

27.01.1925–14.07.2009

Vera Fischer

Vera Fischer (1925–2009) was born into a Jewish family in Zagreb, was interned during the war in Italian-run camps on Rab and at Kupari, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1951. She first showed her work in 1952 and in 2002 held an autobiographical exhibition at the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She also made collages in the 1960s and photographs in the 1970s.

14.02.1867–10.07.1924

Þórarinn B. Þorláksson

Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (1867–1924) held the first exhibition of Icelandic painting in Iceland, in Reykjavík in the summer of 1900. He was the thirteenth of fourteen children of a clergyman, trained as a bookbinder and came to painting as an adult. He painted mostly landscapes, above all Þingvellir, received the first public grant given to a painter in Iceland, and in 1913 joined the committee that designed the Flag of Iceland.