The German duo Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta collaborate in 2004 for the making of a series of unique images, entitled «Life Before Death», launched in Germany. Terrified by death, the German photographer Walter Schels, born in 1936, decided to realize this minimal series of portraits of people, before and after their death. His partner, the journalist Beate Lakotta, born…

Humourous, captivating, disturbing and heavily engaged urban frescoes adorn the walls of cities worldwide. However, with street art's increasing presence in galleries, many believe that the street-art is “domesticating” itself, and is losing its urban identity. Artsper takes to the streets to find the 10 street artists you simply must know. 

Provocative and playful, Maurizio Cattelan draws inspiration from the world around him and contemporary art criticism to comment on society.

While two exhibitions are taking place simultaneously at the Louvre and Versailles with symbolic artists of that movement, Artsper offers you to focus on Arte Povera, artistic movement born a little less than a century ago in Italy. “Attitude” more than a real artistic movement, Arte Povera was born in September 1967 when art critic Germano Celant chose to present…

In 1988, an exhibition named “Freeze” is organized in the Docklands district, South London. This exhibition shows the works of sixteen students from the Goldsmiths College of Art, an londoner art school. Since no gallery wanted to expose their works, they took the decision to create their own exhibition. ©  Angus Fairhurs In this small group we can find Angus Fairhust,…

Today Artsper is meeting Baudoin Lebon, founder and director of the Baudoin Lebon Gallery in Paris. What is the job of gallery owner? How does it progress and to what new challenges is it today facing? Focus on an evolving and often unknown profession. Artsper: What did you want to do when you were a child and why did you…

Andreas Gursky is one of the most famous photographers in the world. His photographs are the result of an enormous amount of work, of great precision and technical skill.

If you have never heard about the “Bad Painting”, you are certainly familiar with some of its famous representative people’s works. The name of Jean-Michel Basquiat must indeed be familiar to you, especially since the retrospective that the musée d’art moderne de Paris gave him during Spring 2011. Kenny Scharf - Palm Springs Vacation - 1978 What are the characteristics…

We turn our attention to the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the major figures of Pop-Art, exploring 10 anecdotes about his life.

Keith Haring left a mark on the art world. Join us to explore his life and some of the most significant Keith Haring artworks.