Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger, born in 1926 Nuremburg Germany is renowned for creating the Auto Destructive Art Movement. He continues to be politically engaged and has most recently initaited a campaign addressing excessive travel issues related to the art world. View Profile

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Joseph Beuys

Date: 17 November 2008

7000 Oaks. In 1982, Joseph Beuys inaugurated a monumental sculptural work in Kassel for Documenta 7. It consisted in the sowing of 7000 oak trees paired with four foot high basalt columns within the city of Kassel. More...

SIMPARCH

Date: 01 November 2008

Out on the weekend
SIMPARCH are an American artist collective that founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. Presently this group is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett. Their practice involves large-scale, usually interactive installations and works that, as the group's name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may be salvaged, recycled or generally brought together with a kind of d.i.y. attitude. Out on the weekend is a work that was commissioned in 2007. More...

Henrik Hakansson

Date: 21 October 2008

Sweden's Henrik Håkansson travels the boundaries between culture and nature, addressing the loss of a species, the loss of art, and issues of collecting and theft in the natural world. The RSA Art and Ecology Centre will be publishing information about his artwork here in the near future. More...

Amy Balkin

Date: 01 October 2008

San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin has been developing a series of research-based projects questioning human interaction with the public domain and its impact. Her cross-disciplinary practice looks at private and public land ownership and use, pointing also to problems of waste management and atmospheric pollution, using legal tools from property and copyright law and other sectors’ legal strategies. More...

Learning Site

Date: 01 July 2008

Learning Site is a collaborative artistic practice whose members are Rikke Luther (DK) and Cecilia Wendt (S), in discussion with Julio Castro (MEX), Brett Bloom (US) and a shifting number of collaborators. More...