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20.03.1968–?
Huang Hong-cheng
Between 2010 and 2015 Huang Hong-cheng changed his name three times at the Taiwanese household registry, until it became the longest in the country: fifteen characters. He rode around the island on a tricycle collecting soil for a map of Taiwan, and since 2010 he has run in elections in Chiayi and elsewhere. He stages his appearances before voters as performance.06.11.1964–?
Michael Lin
Michael Lin (born 1964) transfers patterns from Taiwanese pillowcases onto the walls, floors and façades of museums, so that viewers can sit or lie down on the “painting” itself. He represented Taiwan at the 2001 Venice Biennale and painted floors at the Palais de Tokyo, at Museo Jumex in Mexico City and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives and works in Brussels and Taipei.19.09.1877–03.09.1950
Zhang Renjie
Zhang Renjie (Zhang Jingjiang, 1877–1950) grew up in a family of wealthy silk and salt merchants from Nanxun, and in Paris opened the Ton-ying Company, with a gallery near Place de la Madeleine, trading in Chinese tea, silk and antiques. He put the profits into the revolution: he helped Sun Yat-sen, financed an anarchist journal and backed the young Chiang Kai-shek. He died in exile in New York.1960–present
An-My Lê
An-My Lê was born in Saigon in 1960, left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and first studied biology at Stanford. She later became a photographer: she photographed re-enactments of the Vietnam War, Marine Corps training bases and US Navy ships. She teaches at Bard College and received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2012.20.02.1987–?
Vũ Tú
Vũ Tú (b. 1987) graduated from the physics department of Hồng Đức University as the top student of his year, then turned to stone carving. He taught himself sculpture, later refining his skills in Ho Chi Minh City, Huế and the village of Non Nước near Da Nang. He works directly in a block of natural stone, without intermediate models: Buddha statues, bonsai pots, water basins, altars.1925–24.03.2012
Katy Stephanides
Katy Stephanides (born Fasouliotis) studied in Athens under Yiannis Moralis and then in London, and after returning to Cyprus in 1961 she taught art at a secondary school for twenty-five years. Her first solo exhibition, in Nicosia in 1972, showed geometric abstractions. After 1974 female figures and references to Greek history entered her work. She exhibited until 2003.19.01.1984–?
Masayu Anastasia
Masayu Anastasia (born in Jakarta in 1984) began her career at fifteen by taking second place in a cover girl contest run by the magazine “Aneka Yess!”, and went on to appear in films and television series. Her work includes the films “Buruan Cium Gue” (2004) and “Selamanya” (2007) and the series “Setetes Embun”, “Laila” and “Cinta Merah Jambu”. She also appeared in music videos for the band Peterpan and the singer Ressa Herlambang.1915–1999
Ida Bagus Made
Ida Bagus Made (1915–1999) grew up in Tebesaya near Ubud in a Brahman family of Balinese painters and at twenty-one joined the Pitamaha artists’ guild. His works were bought by museums in Amsterdam and Leiden, and Sukarno’s collection included his paintings. He disliked selling, however, and after 1945 hardly exhibited at all.30.08.1927–04.1995
Rivai Apin
Rivai Apin (1927–1995) entered Indonesian literature as one of the three authors of the collection “Tiga Menguak Takdir” (“Three Against Fate”, 1950), published together with Chairil Anwar and Asrul Sani. He edited magazines, from 1959 to 1965 served in the leadership of the organisation Lekra, and after the events of 30 September 1965 spent about fourteen years in detention on Buru Island.14.11.1951–?
Nyoman Nuarta
Nyoman Nuarta, a Balinese from Tabanan, won the competition for a monument to Indonesia's proclamation of independence while still a student at the Bandung Institute of Technology. He later made the Jalesveva Jayamahe Monument in Surabaya and the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue in Bali, 121 metres tall. In Bandung he has his own studio and a sculpture park.30.08.1986–10.2020
Kawira Mwirichia
Kawira Mwirichia (1986–2020) of Kenya set out to make kangas for all 196 countries of the world, each based on the struggle for LGBT rights in a particular country. Her project “To Revolutionary Type Love” was shown in Nairobi, Braunschweig and Bayreuth. She also worked as a curator, painted, drew and made sculpture.30.11.1967–?
Kim Yong-man
Kim Yong-man made his debut in 1991, winning the grand prize at a college comedy contest run by the broadcaster KBS. In the 1990s he performed as a double act with Kim Gook-jin, and from 2002 to 2005 he hosted the programme “Brain Survivor”. Today he is a presenter of entertainment shows and one of the founders of the agency Matched Project.03.05.1955–?
Hailji
Hailji (born 1955) made his debut with the novel “The Road to Racetracks” in 1990 and over the next three years published four more books about the “racetrack”, ending up at the centre of a dispute with conservative critics. He studied in Seoul and in France and wrote poetry in Korean, English and French. Films and plays were made from his novels.27.05.1919–29.01.1987
Emvin Cremona
Emvin Cremona (1919–1987) studied in Malta, Rome, London and Paris, and painted and decorated with mosaics a number of Maltese churches, among them the Ta’ Pinu sanctuary. From 1957 to 1980 he designed 62 issues of Maltese stamps, including the first stamps of independent Malta in 1964. In 1970 he designed the Maltese pavilion for Expo ’70 in Osaka.04.06.1973–?
Abdulnasser Gharem
Abdulnasser Gharem was born in Khamis Mushait in 1973 and serves as an officer in the Saudi army, where he has risen to lieutenant colonel. He has no formal art training: in 2003 he worked at the Al-Meftaha Arts Village in Abha. His works made with rubber stamps, a collapsed bridge and an invasive tree have been shown at the Venice Biennale, the British Museum and LACMA.26.09.1926–24.04.2014
Bogdan Borčić
Bogdan Borčić (1926–2014) was taken to the Dachau concentration camp at seventeen, and later devoted a series of paintings and his last portfolio of prints to it. He taught printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and is known for his prints of shells; his impressions are held by European museums, including the Albertina in Vienna. In 2005 he received the Prešeren Award, Slovenia’s highest cultural prize.04.03.1948–?
Vinko Bogataj
Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj crashed at a ski flying competition in Oberstdorf in 1970. The American broadcaster ABC filmed the fall and used it in the opening of Wide World of Sports, under the words about “the agony of defeat”. After competing he coached jumpers and painted; his paintings have won awards and been shown in Europe and the United States.15.05.1935–25.03.2009
Zvest Apollonio
Zvest Apollonio (1935–2009) grew up in Istria in a bilingual family, with an Italian father and a Slovenian mother, studied at the Ljubljana Academy under Gabrijel Stupica and taught printmaking there from 1973 to 1989. He worked in painting, printmaking, illustration, stage design and design, and received the Jakopič Award (1984). He lived near Koper until his death.31.07.1966–?
Vuk Ćosić
In 1996 Vuk Ćosić (born 1966) organized an informal meeting of net artists in Trieste that helped spread the term net.art. He is known for works made of ASCII characters, such as History of Art for Airports and ASCII History of Moving Images. In 1997 he copied the website of documenta X and republished it on a server in Ljubljana.03.12.1964–?
Tomaz Lavrič
The Slovene artist Tomaž Lavrič, who also signs himself TBC, has drawn the satirical comic strip “Diareja” for the Ljubljana magazine Mladina since 1988. He studied painting, made political cartoons and albums, some of which were published in France and Italy. In 2010 the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana mounted a survey exhibition of his work, and in 2017 he received the Prešeren Fund Award.02.06.1925–17.09.2015
Stojan Batič
Stojan Batič (1925–2015) grew up in the mining town of Trbovlje, worked in a coal mine as a teenager and fought with the partisans, and after the war was among the first to enrol in the sculpture department of the academy in Ljubljana. He made about forty monuments, among them the monument to the peasant rebels at Ljubljana Castle. In 1960 he received the Prešeren Award for the cycle “Miners”.26.07.1922–09.03.2019
Albert Marenčin
Albert Marenčin (1922–2019) spent twenty-three years at the Czechoslovak state film studio in Bratislava, where Štefan Uher, Juraj Jakubisko and Dušan Hanák made their debuts under his dramaturgical guidance. He wrote prose and poetry, translated Alfred Jarry and André Breton from French, made collages and belonged to the group of Czech and Slovak surrealists.1950–present