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Michel Majerus (1967- 2002) ranks among the most interesting painters of his generation and left a singular and multifaceted oeuvre that still speaks powerfully to contemporary concerns. His works quote phenomena of everyday culture such as comic strips, advertisements, and videogames as well as sources of inspiration from art history ranging from minimalism to Pop Art. Decontextualizing the different elements of pictures, he integrated them into novel contexts of meaning by, for instance, setting them on a par with art-historical references. Twenty years after his death, a series of exhibitions throughout Germany showcase different periods and aspects of his creative output. Five solo exhibitions at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Michel Majerus Estate, and Galerie neugerriemschneider, Berlin, pay tribute to Michel Majerus's art in unprecedented breadth. Concurrently, thirteen museums mount presentations of works by Michel Majerus from their collections.

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"Diedrich Diederichsen he was a member of the jury of the Federal Cultural Foundation. He has been a member of the advisory board of Texte zur Kunst since 1998. He represented the NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft f� r Bildende Kunst in Berlin) as a member of the board from 2010 to 2014 and has been a member of the artistic advisory board of the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz since 2011. In 2014, he was appointed to the advisory board of the ""Institute for Popular Music"", headed by Hans Nieswandt, at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Bochum. Brigitte Franzen studied art history, European ethnology, German studies and sociology at the universities of Karlsruhe, Vienna and Marburg an der Lahn. From 2005 to 2008, Franzen worked as a curator for contemporary art at the Westf� lisches Landesmuseum in M� nster and founded the Skulptur Projekte Archiv in M� nster at the beginning of her career. In 2009, Franzen moved to Aachen and took over as Director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art. She left her post in mid-2015 after being appointed to the board of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation. Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. At the Stedelijk, Archey cares for the contemporary art and time-based media collections and administrates the contemporary permanent collection display Tomorrow is a Different Day. She has organized major exhibitions of artists Hito Steyerl, Rineke Dijkstra, and Metahaven, as well as the group exhibition Freedom of Movement: the 2018 Municipal Art Acquisitions. For the Stedelijk, Archey has commissioned performance works by Nora Turato, Jennifer Tee, Ann Hirsch, Alicia Frankovich and CFGNY. Cory Arcangel grew up in Buffalo NY and attended Nichols School there. He was impressed by exhibitions of video art at the Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center, including an exhibition by Nam June Paik. He initially studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but then switched to a degree program in music technology, graduating in 2000. At the Oberlin Conservatory of Music he met Paul B. Davis, with whom he founded the Beige Programming Ensemble in 2000. Rirkrit Tiravanija grew up in Thailand and studied in New York, Chicago, Banff and Toronto, Canada. He lives and works in Bangkok, Berlin and New York. Rirkrit Tiravanija became known in the 1990s through actions in which he prepared Thai meals in a ""mobile home"" and served them to art audiences in galleries and museums. He attempts to make direct contact with visitors through temporary architecture and the use of everyday objects. One example is his 2010 Peugeot exhibited at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin entitled Untitled 2010 (All the Days on the Autobahn)."

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