Wilkes’s installations explore a multiplicity of meanings, both personal and universal. The highly charged arrangements of common place items and personal artefacts seem to stop time. The Chipped, discoloured, worn thin, broken, and often encrusted objects have a strong psychological pull, requiring a particular form of dedication, because Wilkes’s work is very unorthodox. This embrace of soiled items is an honest confrontation with reality that grime is tied to life, no matter how much of our lives we might spend keeping uncleanliness at bay. 

She invites us to think, helping us to fill another’s shoes whether we identify with the scene or not. Her objects inhabit the same space as our own dismissing typical framing and supports, inviting viewers to wander through her work. This helps us ask the question of ‘what is happening here?’. Wilkes’s work is clearly about marginalization, about the everyday situations of the downtrodden, the voiceless, and the dispossessed. On a personal note, I feel a great sense of compassion for Wilkes, her work moves me to tears.

https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/cathy-wilkes

He explored the conceptual and physical boundaries of landscape and is best known for his earthworks Spiral Jetty (1970 Great Salt Lake, Utah), Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971, Emmen, The Netherlands), and Amarillo Ramp (1973, Amarillo, Texas). Prior to this earthwork trilogy, Smithson created temporal earthworks, made to have a finite life rather than transform over long periods of time. The short lived earthworks Asphalt Rundown (1969, Rome), Glue Pour (1969, Vancouver), Concrete Pour (1969, Chicago), and Partially Buried Woodshed (1970, Kent State) speak to issues of time and the human condition. 

At age thirty-five, while photographing Amarillo Ramp, Smithson died in a small airplane accident, along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. Nancy Holt, Richard Serra and Tony Shafrazi completed Amarillo Ramp one month after his passing. 

Smithson’s writings on art, western culture, graphic texts, and interviews are published in The Writings of Robert Smithson, edited by Nancy Holt (1979, New York University Press, with an expanded version edited by Jack Flam published in 1998 by University of California Press). His works are held in numerous museum collections, including: Art Institute of Chicago; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington DC; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

From 1973 Nancy Holt cared for the Estate of Robert Smithson, whom she married in 1963. In 2014 she willed Holt/Smithson Foundation into being, which strives to continue the creative legacies of both Holt and Smithson.

Edouard Manet’s ‘The Battle of Kearsarge and the Alabama’ is one of the main highlights of the Museum among many others such as ‘Sunflowers’ by Van Gogh, ‘Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand’ by Pierre-Aguste Renoir and an attempted motion painting by Marcel Duchamp.

Robert Smithson features in this museum with his Red Sandstone Corner Piece, made in 1968 with mirrors and sandstone. It is 121.9cm x 121.9cm x 121.9cm. However, this piece is currently not on view in the museum.

 https://philamuseum.org/

Considered one of Germanys most important and influential artists she focuses on the legacies of constructivism and minimalism and often involves an open critical dialogue with modernist architecture and contemporary visual and material culture. One of her most famous works is Rose(1993) it is a public sculpture of a singular long stemmed rose. Its made from enamelled stainless steel and towers eight feet above Leipzigs museum district. Later she went on to make Rose II. 

https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2784-isa-genzken

Much of his early performance work he did the performances by himself but more recently he has employed others to be the protagonists in his performances. For example When faith moves mountains(2002) and The silence of Ani(2015).One of his most iconic artworks is Paradox of Praxis where he pushes a large block of ice around a city for nine hours until it melted. This functioned as performance art that engaged with minimalism and current concerns about city life. 

The aim of Centre Pompidou is to demonstrate the profoundly interdisciplinary dimension of modernity through its exhibitions and publications. Centre Pompidou proposes ambitious monographic or thematic exhibitions to its partners, covering all areas of 20th and 21st century art and creation.

Some notable works include; 

-Vassily Kandinsky,

mit dem schwarzen bogen (avec l'arc noir) 

1912

-Marcel Duchamp

fontaine

1917/1964

-Robert Delaunay

manège de cochons

1922

-Otto Dix

bildnis der journalistin sylvia von harden (portrait de la journaliste sylvia von harden) 

1926

The current director is Laurent le Bon (born 2 April 1969) an art historian who presbyopia was the director from 2005 to 2014. In 2014 he left to take over the musée Picasso. In 2021 he returned to Centre Pompidou replacing Serge Lasvignes. 

Francis Alys, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Sol le Witt and Lucio Fontana all have work displayed in The Centre Pompidou 

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/

 Black is interested in creating art that comes to life and draws on a variety of creative traditions like performance, land art and formalism. Materials we use daily such as soap, toothpaste and cotton are investigated with the more traditional art materials such as Paint, plaster and pigment which express the far limits sculptures can achieve. She has quoted about her work being a place she calls  ‘almost painting, almost installation, almost performance art.’ when spoken about her work as being full of unsureness. she uses a variety of different materials such as cellophane, polythene and paper which hangs from ribbon or tape above a larger floor made from chalk powder, soil and plaster. She has her own solo exhibitions in places such as the Institute of Contemporary Art is Philadelphia(2013), the Migros Museum in Zurich(2009 and the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow(2012), she also has her works being displayed in reputable collections like The Hammer Museum in LA and tate and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. She was nominated for for the Turner prize ans she also represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale in the same year of 2011. Another achievement of hers is being in the ‘GENERATION: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland’.

https://www.capitainpetzel.de/artists/33-karla-black/biography/

Neto often uses transparent and stretchy materials along with styrofoam pellets and intense spices within his soft biomorphic sculptures. many of his sculptural environments are designed purposefully for a specific exhibition or space, using crocheted nets and cocoons that are sewed with nylon and often carry substances such as spices, candies, sand and colourful styrofoam, which creates pendulous sculptures that look as though they are dripping from the ceiling.
https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/brazil/articles/the-art-of-ernesto-neto-a-trip-into-the-ludic/ 

The article said Mr. Durham was neither “enrolled nor eligible for citizenship in any of the three federally recognized and historical Cherokee Tribes.” It went on to dismiss his being Cherokee in any “cultural sense,” either.

 Durham never directly addressed these accusations but 

Durham died in Berlin 17 November 2021 at the age of 81.
-Jack