Artists

Restless nomad, carefree border crosser, charismatic self-promoter - Michael Buthe (1944-1994) is one of the most colourful artistic personalities of the late 20th century. His work is anarchic and multifaceted. His work is anarchic and multi-layered: it draws on the cultures of the world, juggles with kitsch and clichés, interweaves calculation with sensuality, seeks the magical in the everyday, celebrates poetry and spirituality in a technologised present. Buthe's art of "individual mythology" was already recognised at the important Documenta 5 (1972), and his unconventional, vital work continues to fascinate today.

Dora García lives and works in Oslo. She often works with film, performance, and theater. Her research focuses on contemporary history, ethics, and politics.

Gerhard Hoehme's paintings often give the impression of looking at something from a bird's eye view - a reminiscence of his earlier enthusiasm for flying. However, the most important theme of his art from an early stage was colour, whose unfolding into space fascinated him, while surface and form were only of secondary importance to him and always had to be subordinate to the flow of colour. At first, Hoehme, the colour researcher and interpreter, met with incomprehension and resistance, and his series of black paintings in particular caused the public to shake their heads. But for Gerhard Hoehme, black was "the sum of all colours" and thus the logical starting point for his years of research into the essence of colour. He later overcame the boundaries of two-dimensional painting and introduced sculptural elements such as nylon cords that led out of the picture into the room.

The practice of Channa Horwitz (1932-2013, California, USA) was characterised by experiments with number sequences, the exploration of systems and the application of self-formulated rules. In the late 1960s on the US West Coast, she developed an artistic language that, by deliberately limiting herself to a few simple rules, gave her the freedom to realise spatio-temporal relationships in drawings, paintings and multimedia sculptures in infinite variation. Since then, each of her hand-drawn algorithms has been based on the numbers one to eight, with each number often being assigned a specific colour code. These minimalist graphic notations enable the conceptual and performance artist to visualise the time, rhythm and movement of bodies, objects and instruments and form the basis for multimedia performances.