Wuppertal is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It is regarded as the capital and largest city of the Bergisches Land.
Anya Gallaccio is a British artist, who creates site-specific, minimalist installations and often works with organic matter.
Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929.
Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen was a Danish sculptor and painter. The Danish Robert Award award is named in his honor.
OSGEMEOS are identical twin street artists Otavio Pandolfo and Gustavo Pandolfo. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and their work appears on streets and in galleries across the world.
Horst Gläsker is a German artist. His work is a symbiosis of music, dance, theatre, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and architecture.
Abraham David Christian is a German sculptor.
Bettina Pousttchi is a German artist. She has worked in photography, sculpture, video and site-specific installation.
Ulla Rossek is a German artist.
Driss Ouadahi is a contemporary Algerian painter and architect who trained, works, and lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ouadahi's work features abstracted architectural forms found in real Algerian housing structures. Themes in Ouadahi's works surround politics of class, religion, and ethnicity relating to ideas of boundaries and otherness. Systeme der Abgrenzung , opened at the Heydt Museum in Germany on February 25, 2018
Stephan Huber is a German sculptor and object artist.
Opernhaus Wuppertal is a German theatre in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. It houses mostly performances of operas, but also plays, run by the municipal Wuppertaler Bühnen. The house is also the venue for dance performances by the Tanztheater Wuppertal company created by Pina Bausch.
Bazon Brock is a German art theorist and critic, multi-media generalist and artist. He is considered a member of Fluxus. He was a professor of aesthetics at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Wuppertal.
The Barmer Ruhmeshalle is a historic building in the Barmen district of the German town of Wuppertal, originally built as a hall of fame. It was officially known as the Kaiser Wilhelm- und Friedrich-Ruhmeshalle and later as the Haus der Jugend.
Gerhard von Graevenitz was a German kinetic artist, co-founding member of the Nouvelle Tendance and member of the op-art movement. He also belonged to the international circle of the Zero-Group. He is seen as one of the uncompromising representatives of the constructive-concrete art of the younger generation.
Eduard Freiherr von der Heydt was a German and Swiss banker, art collector and patron.
Helmut Kahlhöfer was a German church musician and academic teacher. He was the founder and for decades the conductor of the choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke.
Michael Knieriem is a German historian and author and was director of the Historisches Zentrum (Wuppertal) museum.
Fox, also known as Blue and Black Fox or Blue Fox, is an oil on canvas painting by Franz Marc, from 1911. It is part of the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal.
Eugen Felix Busmann was a German sculptor and academic teacher.
