Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, microphones, and photo-electric cells to create a work based on feedback loops and responsiveness to its environment. For Schöffer, cybernetics enabled a crucial artistic exploration of the boundary between the living and the technological. This important reevaluation of Schöffer’s work features sculptures, paintings, and drawings, including unpublished pieces from the artist’s studio and archive, as well as documentation of his interdisciplinary and experimental collaborations with architects, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and industrialists. Particular attention is paid to the innovative work he created between 1945 and 1975, which takes on particular resonance in our current, digitally saturated world.

Nicolas Schöffer: Space, Light, Time

Arts & Photography

Pierre, Arnauld

Delot, Sébastien

Mari, Pauline

Trudel, Dominique

History & Criticism

Mercatorfonds

Known for his monumental painting and installations, the internationally celebrated artist Anselm Kiefer's works are marked by a constant questioning of history and collective memory. Born in Germany two months before the Nazi capitulation in 1945, Kiefer's reflections on postwar identity, loss, and shared experience, nourished by myths and literature, create an unparalleled breadth of imagery. The use of photography as both practice and source material is a little-known aspect of Kiefer's art that has played a central role throughout his career. In the Beginning presents over 130 works charting the artist's relationship with photography and his investigations into what images reveal.

In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography

BASTIAN, Heiner

Weikop, Christian

DE LOISY, JEAN

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Pierre Seinturier : I want to believe

Charbau, Gaël

Fage Editions

Nicolas Schöffer

MERCATOR

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