13.11.1979–?
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26.03.1908–1993
Saridjah Niung
Saridjah Niung, known as Ibu Sud, first appeared on the radio in 1927 and wrote songs for children in Indonesian at a time when almost only Dutch was heard on the air and in schools. She wrote more than two hundred songs, among them “Tik Tik Bunyi Hujan” and the patriotic hymns “Tanah Airku” and “Berkibarlah Benderaku”. She also made batik and wrote for the theatre.1966–present
Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan was born in Sumatra, grew up in Melbourne and has lived in Europe since 1984. She works with photography, film and video installation; in 2009 she represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale with the project “Disorient”. In 2025 the Rijksmuseum for the first time asked a contemporary artist to organise its summer exhibition from its own collection, and it was she.27.06.1941–11.04.2018
Danarto
Danarto studied painting in Yogyakarta but became known for short stories with Sufi and Javanese motifs. In 1973 he staged an exhibition in Jakarta, “Empty Canvas”, that showed only white canvases, and in 1988 he received the S.E.A. Write Award. He also worked as a theatre designer and taught at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts.28.07.1974–?
Nadya Hutagalung
Nadya Hutagalung began modelling in Tokyo at twelve, and in 1995 became one of the first presenters on MTV Asia, which broadcast from Singapore. She hosted the first two cycles of Asia's Next Top Model, appeared in films and documentaries, works on environmental causes and sells jewellery under the OSEL label.1976–present
Ragnar Kjartansson
Ragnar Kjartansson makes musicians, and himself, repeat the same thing for hours and months: a song 99 times in a row, one phrase for seven hours, a portrait of a man in swimming trunks for half a year in the Icelandic pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Born in Reykjavík to a family of actors, he played in the band Trabant. His video installation “The Visitors” (2012) has been shown in many museums around the world.10.08.1962–?
Ragna Sigurðardóttir
Ragna Sigurðardóttir, born in Reykjavík in 1962, studied fine art in Iceland, the Netherlands and France, but became known as a prose writer. Her first book, a collection of stories and poems, “Stefnumót”, appeared in 1987, and her novel “Borg” (1993) was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize. She worked as an art critic and translated into Icelandic from several languages.11.04.1928–17.05.1975
Gerður Helgadóttir
Gerður Helgadóttir (1928–1975) became known in the 1960s for geometric iron sculptures, regarded as among the first three-dimensional abstract works made in Iceland. She designed stained glass for churches, among them Skálholt Cathedral, and a huge mosaic on the Customs House in Reykjavík. She had to study in several countries, and she worked mostly in Paris.20.09.1942–?
Sigurður Guðmundsson
Sigurður Guðmundsson (born 1942) was born in Reykjavík, studied in Iceland and in Haarlem, and from 1970 lived in the Netherlands. In the 1960s he was close to Fluxus; in the 1970s he made visual poetry, photography and performance “situations”, and since 1980 he has worked mainly as a sculptor. His granite composition “The Red Secret” stands in Groningen.31.07.1889–1966
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir
Júlíana Sveinsdóttir (1889–1966) was born in the Westman Islands, studied in Copenhagen and spent almost her whole life in Denmark, painting Icelandic landscapes every summer. One of them won her the Eckersberg Medal in 1947. Her abstract rug designs won a gold medal at the Milan Triennale in 1951.24.10.1995–?
May Hong
May Hong was born in Seoul, moved to the United States with her family at six and grew up in Flushing, Queens. She graduated in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, began modelling for her friends at the label Eckhaus Latta, and later became an actress. In 2025 she voiced Mira in Netflix's animated film “KPop Demon Hunters”.17.02.1957–?
Vidmantas Plečkaitis
Vidmantas Plečkaitis (born 1957) was born in Klaipėda and trained as a mechanical engineer. He paints seascapes and has belonged to the Samogitian Artists' Union since 2006. Alongside this he worked in Klaipėda's municipal politics: from 2000 to 2007 he was deputy mayor, then secretary of the city council.1895–05.09.1975
Antonietta Raphael
Antonietta Raphael, a rabbi’s daughter from Kaunas, first trained as a pianist in London and came to painting only in Rome, already past thirty, then took up sculpture in Paris in 1930. Her apartment on Via Cavour became a meeting place for Roman artists and poets, and after the war carving stone became her main work.01.06.1948–20.11.2007
Ona Baliukonė
Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007) made her debut in verse at twenty and published nine poetry collections, from “Wild Rainbows” (1971) to “Akmuva” (2003). She worked on Lithuanian editorial staffs, compiled the “Spring of Poetry” almanacs and translated the talks of the Bulgarian teacher Beinsa Duno. In 2000 and 2001 she showed her paintings in exhibitions, and in 2004 she received the National Prize of Lithuania.11.09.1958–?
Šarūnas Sauka
Šarūnas Sauka (born 1958) received the Lithuanian National Prize for the diptych “The Battle of Grunwald” (1987), painted soon after his studies in Vilnius. In his pictures hell happens on earth: decaying flesh looks like precious stones, marble and church velvet, and victim and executioner often share one face, the artist’s own. He works in Dusetos.14.11.1890–13.06.1961
Vytautas Kairiūkštis
In 1923 Vytautas Kairiūkštis, together with Władysław Strzemiński, organised the New Art Exhibition in Vilnius, with Cubist, Constructivist and Suprematist works. He studied in Vilnius and Moscow, belonged to the Polish avant-garde group Blok, and wrote about Čiurlionis and the watercolourist Kajetonas Šklėrius. His later painting became more realistic.23.11.1824–31.01.1913
Bolesław Rusiecki
Bolesław Rusiecki (1824–1913) was born in Rome into a painter's family, studied under Karl Bryullov and Fyodor Bruni in St Petersburg and was named an Academician for an allegorical canvas on the meeting of the Viliya and the Neman. He painted portraits, landscapes and church pictures, lived for many years in Vilna, taught drawing and collected art. He left his library, archive and collection to the Society of the Friends of Science in Vilna.26.07.1908–24.04.2002
Lucien Wercollier
Lucien Wercollier (1908–2002) refused to join the Nazi Reichskulturkammer, was arrested after the 1942 strike and passed through the camps at Hinzert and Lublin. After the war he moved from figurative to abstract sculpture. His bronzes and marbles stand in Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Lausanne and on the grounds of the former Hinzert camp.11.04.1963–?
François Besch
The Luxembourgish photographer François Besch has staged exhibitions of pictures taken on an iPhone with the Hipstamatic app since 2011. In December 2013 the Luxembourg post office issued a series of five stamps with his portraits of mushrooms, and in 2017 he was awarded the Monika von Boch Prize for photography. He has also photographed other photographers, among them Lucien Clergue and David Hamilton.21.04.1858–26.10.1934
Frantz Seimetz
Frantz Seimetz (1858–1934) began as a house painter and decorator in Grevenmacher, then studied in Brussels, Munich and Paris with the support of the industrialist Antoine Pescatore. He made more than a thousand oils, watercolours and sketches, worked much in Echternach, and travelled to Canada, the West Indies and Mexico. After 1932 he gave up painting and wrote his memoirs, “Der Feuersalamander”.14.10.1809–30.08.1892
Nicolas Liez
Nicolas Liez (1809–1892) was born in the French Vosges, the son of a cobbler, grew up in Luxembourg and became the country's most prominent graphic artist of the 19th century. He published the lithograph album “Voyage pittoresque à travers le Grand Duché de Luxembourg” (1834), worked for many years as an engraver at a ceramics factory, and in 1870 moved to Dresden as artistic director of the Villeroy & Boch factory.1611–04.12.1654
Francesco Noletti
Francesco Noletti, known in Rome as Francesco Maltese, painted still lifes with richly woven oriental carpets, vases, flowers and musical instruments. His works found their way into museums across Europe, but for many years they were attributed to a non-existent “Francesco Fieravino”. The painter’s real name was established only in the early 2000s.07.04.1929–16.07.2018
Gabriel Caruana
Gabriel Caruana (1929–2018) studied sculpture in Malta, then ceramics in Perugia, Detroit and Faenza. From 1971 to 1990 he taught ceramics at the School of Arts and Crafts in Mosta, and after retiring he and his wife opened an arts and crafts centre in the Ta’ Ganu windmill. His works are held by the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza and by museums in Manchester and Malta.25.07.1979–?