Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.
Harald Szeemann was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator. It is believed that Szeemann elevated curating to a legitimate art form itself.
Serge Spitzer was a Romanian-born American artist, known for his site-specific installations, sculpture, photographs and video.
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Allen Ruppersberg is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles and New York City.
Luciano Castelli is a Swiss painter, graphic artist, photographer, sculptor and musician.
Balthasar Burkhard was a Swiss photographer who received international recognition for his large-format monochromatic photographic series.
Kaldor Public Art Projects is an Australian non-profit arts organisation established in 1969 by John Kaldor. The organisation collaborates with international artists to create site-specific art projects in public spaces in Australia.
Bill Bollinger was an American artist. In the late 1960s, he was one of the foremost sculptors of his time, routinely mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Richard Serra. His work can be categorized as minimalist or postminimalist art.
The Rostock Art Gallery was opened on 15 May 1969 as a museum of contemporary art in Rostock in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is in the grounds of the park around the Schwanenteich lake in the quarter of Reutershagen.
Fondazione Prada, co-chaired by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli since 1995, is an institution dedicated to contemporary art and culture. From 1993 to 2010, the Fondazione has organised 24 solo shows at its exhibition spaces in Milan, conceived as dialogues with acclaimed contemporary artists. In 2015, the Fondazione Prada opened a new, permanent facility in Milan.
Gary Kuehn is an American artist who pioneered the Postminimal and Process Art movements of the 1960s.
iLiana Fokianaki is the director of Kunsthalle Bern. She is a Greek curator, writer, theorist, educator and former journalist based in Bern, and occasionally Athens and Rotterdam.
Pier Paolo Calzolari is an Italian artist who was originally associated with Arte Povera. He currently lives in Lisbon (Portugal).
L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, known as "L'Arc de Triomphe Empaqueté" in French, was a temporary art installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude where the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was wrapped in a silver-blue fabric and red rope for two weeks in 2021.
Wrapped Coast was a 1969 environmental artwork in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped a portion of Sydney's Little Bay in plastic fabric. It was funded by John Kaldor AO through Kaldor Public Art Projects.
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980–83 was a 1983 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude surrounded an island archipelago in Miami with pink fabric.
Jan van der Marck was a Dutch-born American museum administrator, art historian, and curator, focused on modern and contemporary art. Van der Marck authored and published many essays, articles and books about artists and art.
Jean-Christophe Ammann was a Swiss art historian and curator.
Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form was an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern curated by the Swiss curator, Harald Szeemann, in 1969. The show is considered a groundbreaking landmark for Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which, according to the New York Times, was "arguably the most famous exhibition of new art of the postwar era."
