Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger is one of the most important contemporary artists in Germany. The oeuvre of the sculptor, born in 1966, is characterized by a medial diversity; it combines painting, sculpture, design, graphics and architecture. Using a wide variety of materials, he creates sculptures, installations, posters, paintings, and entire environments, generating a spectrum of themes ranging from optical illusions and identity games to questions of transience. Often the process of creation itself is the focus of his art. In 2009, he received the Golden Lion for Best Artist for his redesign of the café-bar in the Giardini at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia. Since 2016, his project "24 Stops" has connected two neuralgic points of aesthetics: the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein and the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland.